by Jerome R. Corsi
Did President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton send a “gay” ambassador to Muslim-majority Libya, where homosexual behavior is a crime punishable by imprisonment?
Believing the “Arab Spring” countries would be encouraged to embrace democracy through left-leaning diplomats dedicated to understanding and dialoguing with Muslim communities, did a State Department under Secretary Clinton that refused to establish rules of engagement providing embassy personnel Marine Corp protection take the additional risk of placing a gay ambassador in Muslim countries?
The question comes amid claims in the diplomatic community that J. Christopher Stevens — the U.S. ambassador to Libya brutally murdered on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — was homosexual.
The question is worth serious exploration, even if Stevens’ sexuality cannot be determined with certainty, because U.S. government Foreign Service agencies are actively recruiting from the homosexual community for diplomatic assignments overseas, including in the Middle East.
The recruitment derives from a larger policy decision Obama and Clinton have made to confront discrimination against homosexuals globally, even in Muslim countries.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration insists on attributing the deadly attack in Libya and the violent protests throughout the Muslim world as solely a reaction to a 14-minute movie trailer posted on the Internet, without acknowledging that the movie, “Innocence of Muslims,” depicts the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, as a pedophile and a homosexual.
Was Stevens gay?
A Washington Post obituary noted Stevens never married and had no children.
On a homosexual-rights blog called The New Civil Rights Movement, Jean Ann Esselink, who describes herself as “a straight friend to the gay community,” explored rumors Stevens was “gay.” She said she had heard the rumors and thought that, if true, Stevens’ story would make a good feature for the website.
She concluded: “But the truth is, I cannot tell you if Chris was gay. I can only tell you that he was a 52-year-old man without wife or child, at least one he claimed in public.”
Esselink noted the phone call Clinton made to inform his next of kin of his death went to his sister, a Seattle doctor.
“I could not find a single statement made by Chris himself, about any LGBT issue,” Esselink wrote. “Upon reflection, I suspect it is the kind of briar patch topic that Foreign Service officials avoid.”
However, Kevin DuJan, the openly homosexual founder of HillBuzz.org, told WND he spoke with two sources in Chicago diplomatic circles who said Stevens was homosexual. He also pointed to Facebook postings by Stevens’ roommate at the University of California at Berkeley, Austin Tichenor, who directed Stevens in musical productions in the 1980s.
On Sept. 12, the day after Stevens was killed, Tichenor posted a tribute on Twitter, calling Stevens an “old friend.” Tichenor’s thumbnail profile picture is a photograph from the 1980s of himself (right) embracing Stevens (left) at a college theme party, as seen in Exhibit 1.
Subsequent postings, on Tichenor’s Facebook page, were more direct.
On Sept. 14, Tichenor changed his profile picture on Facebook to the photo of himself and Stevens from the 1980s.
Also seen in Exhibit 2, a friend, Elizabeth Dennehy, posted a comment: “Brideshead Revisited? It’s so bloody sad” – a reference to the 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel.
DuJan noted that no one corrected Dennehy on her “Brideshead Revisited” posting.
“This is total gay code that, yes, these two had a sexual relationship in the past,” he said.
DuJan, a Chicago-based former gossip columnist who also has presented evidence Barack Obama is hiding a “gay life,” obtained additional confirmation from an employee of the Serbian Consulate in Chicago. The Serb told him it was “widely known” and “not a secret at all” in diplomatic circles and from others in the Chicago theater world that Stevens was “gay” and that he and Tichenor had been lovers.
Michelangelo Signorile, editor at large for the Huffington Post’s Gay Voice’s blog, ridiculed DuJan’s claim that Stevens was homosexual, characterizing DuJan as a “longtime gay conservative blogger and Tea Party smear artist.”
Signorile argued Tichenor is married and has two children, commenting: “I know: Just because a man is married to a woman doesn’t necessarily mean he can’t be in a relationship with another man, but you’d think the right-wing brigade would have mentioned the fact.”
Signorile insisted Stevens’ sexual orientation is irrelevant.
“But even if he were gay, it’s absurd to claim he couldn’t do the job, nor shouldn’t have been sent to Libya, particularly since he’d been working in foreign service in North Africa for most of his working life and doing nothing less than a stellar job according to every news report.”
DuJan countered that sending Stevens to the Muslim Middle East, where some countries punish homosexual behavior with death, is like sending “a dolphin to swim among the sharks.”
“Many on the political left who spend their lives in academia or working for the government live in this utopia,” he said. “A part of political correctness says, ‘Just because Stevens is gay, why wouldn’t we send him there.’ It’s insane not to appreciate the risks we face living in a very hostile world.”
Sarcastically, Signorile said: “It’s encouraging, though, to learn that right-wing bloggers actually do care about the well-being of American gay people. Who knew?”
Tichenor’s biography on the Reduced Shakespeare Co. website also notes he “has two kids (one of each),” although no mention of his wife, Dee Ryan, is made.
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What has been established is that the U.S. State Department under the direction of Hillary Clinton had provided only minimal security for Stevens trip to Beghazi, evidently assuming he was well-loved by the Libyans, given his experience with the region and his dedication to transforming the Arab Spring into genuine democracy for Libya.
Stevens lacked a Marine security detail in Benghazi, in contrast to White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, who appears to have a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week Secret Service detail of five or six agents, including when she vacations on Martha Vineyard, according to Democratic pollster Pat Caddell.
Fox News military analyst Col. David Hunt laid the blame for Stevens’ murder on Hillary Clinton, noting the State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya prohibited Marines from providing security at any American diplomatic installation in country. Local nationals hired as security guards in Benghazi were not authorized to load their weapons with bullets.
On Sept. 15, the London Daily Telegraph reported al-Qaida “meticulously planned” the attack in Libya to occur on the anniversary of 9/11. It was ordered by al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in retaliation for a U.S. drone that killed al-Qaida propaganda chief Sheik Abu Yahya al-Libi in June.
Did President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton send a “gay” ambassador to Muslim-majority Libya, where homosexual behavior is a crime punishable by imprisonment?
Believing the “Arab Spring” countries would be encouraged to embrace democracy through left-leaning diplomats dedicated to understanding and dialoguing with Muslim communities, did a State Department under Secretary Clinton that refused to establish rules of engagement providing embassy personnel Marine Corp protection take the additional risk of placing a gay ambassador in Muslim countries?
The question comes amid claims in the diplomatic community that J. Christopher Stevens — the U.S. ambassador to Libya brutally murdered on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — was homosexual.
The question is worth serious exploration, even if Stevens’ sexuality cannot be determined with certainty, because U.S. government Foreign Service agencies are actively recruiting from the homosexual community for diplomatic assignments overseas, including in the Middle East.
The recruitment derives from a larger policy decision Obama and Clinton have made to confront discrimination against homosexuals globally, even in Muslim countries.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration insists on attributing the deadly attack in Libya and the violent protests throughout the Muslim world as solely a reaction to a 14-minute movie trailer posted on the Internet, without acknowledging that the movie, “Innocence of Muslims,” depicts the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, as a pedophile and a homosexual.
Was Stevens gay?
A Washington Post obituary noted Stevens never married and had no children.
On a homosexual-rights blog called The New Civil Rights Movement, Jean Ann Esselink, who describes herself as “a straight friend to the gay community,” explored rumors Stevens was “gay.” She said she had heard the rumors and thought that, if true, Stevens’ story would make a good feature for the website.
She concluded: “But the truth is, I cannot tell you if Chris was gay. I can only tell you that he was a 52-year-old man without wife or child, at least one he claimed in public.”
Esselink noted the phone call Clinton made to inform his next of kin of his death went to his sister, a Seattle doctor.
“I could not find a single statement made by Chris himself, about any LGBT issue,” Esselink wrote. “Upon reflection, I suspect it is the kind of briar patch topic that Foreign Service officials avoid.”
However, Kevin DuJan, the openly homosexual founder of HillBuzz.org, told WND he spoke with two sources in Chicago diplomatic circles who said Stevens was homosexual. He also pointed to Facebook postings by Stevens’ roommate at the University of California at Berkeley, Austin Tichenor, who directed Stevens in musical productions in the 1980s.
On Sept. 12, the day after Stevens was killed, Tichenor posted a tribute on Twitter, calling Stevens an “old friend.” Tichenor’s thumbnail profile picture is a photograph from the 1980s of himself (right) embracing Stevens (left) at a college theme party, as seen in Exhibit 1.
Subsequent postings, on Tichenor’s Facebook page, were more direct.
On Sept. 14, Tichenor changed his profile picture on Facebook to the photo of himself and Stevens from the 1980s.
Also seen in Exhibit 2, a friend, Elizabeth Dennehy, posted a comment: “Brideshead Revisited? It’s so bloody sad” – a reference to the 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel.
DuJan noted that no one corrected Dennehy on her “Brideshead Revisited” posting.
“This is total gay code that, yes, these two had a sexual relationship in the past,” he said.
DuJan, a Chicago-based former gossip columnist who also has presented evidence Barack Obama is hiding a “gay life,” obtained additional confirmation from an employee of the Serbian Consulate in Chicago. The Serb told him it was “widely known” and “not a secret at all” in diplomatic circles and from others in the Chicago theater world that Stevens was “gay” and that he and Tichenor had been lovers.
Michelangelo Signorile, editor at large for the Huffington Post’s Gay Voice’s blog, ridiculed DuJan’s claim that Stevens was homosexual, characterizing DuJan as a “longtime gay conservative blogger and Tea Party smear artist.”
Signorile argued Tichenor is married and has two children, commenting: “I know: Just because a man is married to a woman doesn’t necessarily mean he can’t be in a relationship with another man, but you’d think the right-wing brigade would have mentioned the fact.”
Signorile insisted Stevens’ sexual orientation is irrelevant.
“But even if he were gay, it’s absurd to claim he couldn’t do the job, nor shouldn’t have been sent to Libya, particularly since he’d been working in foreign service in North Africa for most of his working life and doing nothing less than a stellar job according to every news report.”
DuJan countered that sending Stevens to the Muslim Middle East, where some countries punish homosexual behavior with death, is like sending “a dolphin to swim among the sharks.”
“Many on the political left who spend their lives in academia or working for the government live in this utopia,” he said. “A part of political correctness says, ‘Just because Stevens is gay, why wouldn’t we send him there.’ It’s insane not to appreciate the risks we face living in a very hostile world.”
Sarcastically, Signorile said: “It’s encouraging, though, to learn that right-wing bloggers actually do care about the well-being of American gay people. Who knew?”
Tichenor’s biography on the Reduced Shakespeare Co. website also notes he “has two kids (one of each),” although no mention of his wife, Dee Ryan, is made.
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[Edit for space read complete at: http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/did-obama-send-a-gay-ambassador-to-libya/
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What has been established is that the U.S. State Department under the direction of Hillary Clinton had provided only minimal security for Stevens trip to Beghazi, evidently assuming he was well-loved by the Libyans, given his experience with the region and his dedication to transforming the Arab Spring into genuine democracy for Libya.
Stevens lacked a Marine security detail in Benghazi, in contrast to White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, who appears to have a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week Secret Service detail of five or six agents, including when she vacations on Martha Vineyard, according to Democratic pollster Pat Caddell.
Fox News military analyst Col. David Hunt laid the blame for Stevens’ murder on Hillary Clinton, noting the State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya prohibited Marines from providing security at any American diplomatic installation in country. Local nationals hired as security guards in Benghazi were not authorized to load their weapons with bullets.
On Sept. 15, the London Daily Telegraph reported al-Qaida “meticulously planned” the attack in Libya to occur on the anniversary of 9/11. It was ordered by al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in retaliation for a U.S. drone that killed al-Qaida propaganda chief Sheik Abu Yahya al-Libi in June.
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