Really?
https://ballotpedia.org/Ted_Cruz_pre...advisors,_2016
Campaign Chairman: Chad Sweet.
Let's take a look at Chad Sweet, shall we?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadsweet
Ooh, impressive...except:
He worked for the Chertoff Group:
https://publicintelligence.net/the-chertoff-group/
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...After years of advocacy for so-called “body scanners”, an emerging technology which allows for a complete image of a person’s naked body, it was revealed in late 2009 that the Chertoff Group has clients that include manufacturers of the body-scanning systems...
...Chertoff’s advocacy for the technology dates back to his time in the Bush administration. In 2005, Homeland Security ordered the government’s first batch of the scanners — five from California-based Rapiscan Systems...
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Yes, Sweet is all about the NSA. But, you know, Cruz is a "total outsider", despite the fact that he has staff on his campaign that are total establishment.
Moving on, who is his foreign affairs expert? None other than James Woolsey. Who is James Woolsey?
James Woolsey - Profile - Right Web - Institute for Policy Studies
PNAC? What is PNAC?
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The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was established in 1997 by a number of leading neoconservative writers and pundits to advocate aggressive U.S. foreign policies and "rally support for American global leadership." One of the group's founding documents claimed, "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today. But it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next."
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(Read it here if you think the source is "bias":
Statement of Principles )
What else is there to know about Woolsey?
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A long-standing hawk on U.S. Middle East policy, Woolsey has championed President Obama's decision to broaden U.S. involvement in rolling back the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria. In a September 2014 interview, he argued that Obama was "heading in the right direction" on ISIS but that he should call it war instead of counterterrorism. He also said the United States should commit ground troops: "We may not need large military units fighting in a tradition fashion, but Special Forces, SEALs, Army rangers, CIA officers helping put together ways to advise and oversee our allies are all going to be necessary."
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(Alternative link with video, for those who cry about sources they don't like:
James Woolsey: We're At War With ISIS )
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After 9/11, Woolsey was among the first government advisors to call for ousting Hussein, joining Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle in pressing for an expanded war on terror to include regime change in Iraq. According to the Atlantic Monthly's James Fallows, "The very next day, September 12, 2001, James Woolsey, who had been Clinton's first CIA director, told me that no matter who proved to be responsible for this attack, the solution had to include removing Saddam Hussein, because he was so likely to be involved next time."
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That actually turned out to be a really, really stupid idea. And that is Cruz' foreign policy advisor.
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During President George W. Bush's first term, Woolsey was appointed to official panels that advised Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, including the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee (DPB), chaired by Richard Perle at the time of Woolsey's appointment,[38] as well as the Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel.
During Clinton's second term, Woolsey served on the controversial Rumsfeld-chaired Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat, whose final 1998 report issued the alarmist conclusion that several "rogue" countries would be able to target the United States with ballistic missiles in a few short years. Other members of the congressionally mandated commission included William Schneider Jr., Stephen Cambone, and Paul Wolfowitz
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No establishment figures there..../sarc
And let's not forget this:
Woolsey Resigns as CIA Director : Intelligence: Espionage chief was under fire for his handling of the Ames spy case. He lacked strong support in the White House and Congress. - latimes
Who else is on Cruz' foreign policy advisory team? Elliot Abrams. Who is Elliot Abrams?
Elliott Abrams - Profile - Right Web - Institute for Policy Studies
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Elliott Abrams, a well-known neoconservative ideologue, is a senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. A key adviser on Mideast policy at the National Security Council (NSC) during the George W. Bush presidency, Abrams was a leading proponent of pursuing an aggressive "war on terror" after the 9/11 attacks.
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Abrams has served as an adviser to numerous political campaigns. In 2012, he was the foreign policy adviser to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) during the Mitt Romney presidential campaign. During the campaign, Abrams drew attention when he pushed Congress to vote to authorize the president to go to war with Iran.
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Man that sure doesn't sound like an "outsider" with the company that he's keeping. How about some more:
Ted Cruz, A Bush By Another Name | The Daily Caller
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...The Bush-Cruz connection is clear. Ted was George W.’s brain when he ran for president. A top policy adviser, Ted maneuvered for Solicitor General in Bush World but settled for a plum at the Federal Trade Commission. Ted’s a Bush man with deep ties to the political and financial establishment. Ted and wife Heidi brag about being the first “Bush marriage” – they met as Bush staffers. Cruz was an adviser on legal affairs while Heidi was an adviser on economic policy and eventually director for the Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice. Condi helped give us the phony war in Iraq. Heidi then went to the Bush U.S. Trade Representative as a top deputy to U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Zoellick, who wired Heidi’s membership in the Council on Foreign Relations and job at Goldman Sachs. The bailed-out bank then loaned Cruz $1 million secretly to finance his Senate race. Cruz would also borrow an undisclosed $1 million loan from Citicorp.
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Lying Ted is all establishment all the time. Only neocons can't see it.
Bring on the poutrage!
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