Newt Gengrich on Elena Kagan

[Guest]

[Woody]

She needs slamming.

[Jeannieb43]

And every word he says on this video is a blatant lie.

Elena Kagan addressed that very issue in her confirmation hearings. The Army [along with all other organizations coming onto the campus for recruitment] had full access to the students at Harvard during her entire deanship there.

I watched this part of her confirmation hearings. Not only did she testify about the open availability for the Army recruiters, but another Harvard Law graduate who is now serving on active duty with the Army also wrote a letter explaining the very same thing, which the chairman of the committee read aloud into the record.

Those radical right-wingers will twist the truth every way possible to try to stir up antagonism for the Administration. I'm ashamed that I ever used to call myself a Republican.

[Guest]

I remember it involving the supreme court because of her. How can you say with a straight face: "It didn't happen"?

Are they really that good at brain washing people these days? I guess so.

And I'm ashamed you ever called yourself a Republican too.

[Woody]

Quote:

The Army [along with all other organizations coming onto the campus for recruitment] had full access to the students at Harvard during her entire deanship there.

That's not what I heard on Fox.

She gave some limited access ... but NOT FULL access.

I was listening to the hearing with my good ear.

[Guest]

Have a read:

Washington Post

Military members hit Kagan on recruiter ban

By Aaron Blake

A trio of military veterans on Thursday laid into Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's record on military recruiters while she was dean of Harvard's law school.

The veterans, testifying as witnesses for the minority at Kagan's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Kagan's decision to bar recruiters from the law school's career services center spoke to a flaw in her character.

"How did we reach the point in this country where we're nominating someone who unapologetically impeded the military in this country?" asked Army National Guard Capt. Pete Hegseth, executive director of the veterans group Vets for Freedom.

Hegseth said he didn't begrudge Kagan her personal views, but called her "intellectually dishonest" for labeling "don't ask, don't tell" a military policy, when it was instituted by Congress.

Hegseth also fought back against a chief argument in defense of Kagan's military recruiter policy -- that the armed forces actually increased the number of recruits from Harvard Law School during her tenure.

"It increased in spite of Ms. Kagan; not because of her," said Hegseth, who is also a graduate student at Harvard.

Retired Air Force Col. Thomas N. Moe suggested Kagan has used her principles only when it suited her purposes.

"Her principles did not seem to come into play in 2007, when President Clinton -- a sponsor of 'don't ask, don't tell' -- spoke at Harvard's commencement," Moe said.

With Kagan wrapping up her testimony Wednesday, the committee on Thursday began hearing from witnesses called by each party to lobby for or against Kagan.

Republican attacks on Kagan have largely centered on Kagan's ban on military recruiters. All three witnesses called by the minority party on the first panel Thursday were veterans critical of Kagan's military recruiter ban.

Kagan has defended herself by pointing out that recruiters could still work through veterans groups on campus.

Retired Army Capt. Flagg Youngblood said Kagan's policy amounted to "separate but equal."

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) engaged the veterans and defended Kagan's intentions, saying she is not antimilitary.

"It was a matter of conscience for her to speak out. I respect that," Durbin said. "She might have done it differently; we all might do things a little differently."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/07/military-members-hit-kagan-on.html?wprss=44

[Guest]

And every word he says on this video is a blatant lie.

The Army [along with all other organizations coming onto the campus for recruitment] had full access to the students at Harvard during her entire deanship there.

Taken from:

http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Elena_Kagan#Military_recruitment

Military recruitment

Given her position as Dean of Harvard Law School, Ms. Kagan commented frequently on the controversy regarding whether to allow military recruiters the same access to students as other employers. As a result of the military’s "don’t-ask-don’t-tell" policy, many universities determined that the military did not comply with their nondiscrimination policies and denied recruiters equal access. In response, Congress passed the Solomon Amendment, which required universities that accepted Federal funds to provide military recruiters with such equal access. Many universities challenged the Solomon Amendment, alleging that it violated the First Amendment right to association. Although the Third Circuit agreed with this argument, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Solomon Amendment and reinstated the funding condition.[34]

After the Third Circuit invalidated the Solomon Amendment, Ms. Kagan prevented the military from recruiting on campus for one semester. After the government threatened to withhold campus funds, Ms. Kagan allowed the military to return to campus the next semester.[35]

Ms. Kagan and many other Harvard Law professors signed an amicus curiae brief filed with the United States Supreme Court. The brief presented a statutory argument; namely, that the Amendment did not require universities to make the military exempt from neutral and generally applicable recruiting rules.[36]

Is everything Newt said still a lie?

Sheesh.....