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After Watergate and the forced resignation of Nixon, Bernstein would turn his attention to the sins of the Central Intelligence Agency, writing a piece for Rolling Stone, the rock-and-roll publication, entitled, "The CIA and the Media." He also spent some time at ABC News trying to expose secret U.S. support for anti-communist fighters in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation.

Getting to the Hillary connection, in his Huffington Post dispatch on "The Question of Hillary Clinton's Guilt-By-Association Tactics," Bernstein wrote about Jessica Mitford, the "muckraking journalist" whose husband Robert Treuhaft, ran the communist law firm where Hillary worked. (web site)

Bernstein said, "In the 1980s, Jessica Mitford visited the Clintons at the governor's mansion in Little Rock. She and Treuhaft had left the communist party in 1958, years after the revelation of Stalin's murderous crimes, but - Jessica Mitford wrote in her memoir, A Fine Old Conflict, she quit 'not primarily over some issue of high principle, but because it had become dull....boring. Rather like London's debutante circuit.'"

He goes on, "When Jessica Mitford died in 1996, Hillary Clinton wrote Bob Treuhaft a lovely condolence letter from the White House..." But does any of this make Hillary a Stalinist, he asked. Or a Communist sympathizer? Of course not, he replies. All of this is just silly, he says. And it's just as silly, he suggests, for Hillary to make an issue of Obama's ties to Bill Ayers.

But wait. In Mitford's 1977 book, A Fine Old Conflict, she writes about how Al Bernstein signed her up as a member of the United Federal Workers Union, which she considered "a step towards finding the Communist Party." The union, she adds, had been publicly denounced by the House Committee on Un-American Activities as Communist-dominated. This charge was "not wide of the mark," she admits.

The afterword of another Mitford book, Poison Penmanship, is written by Bernstein, who praises Mitford for educating the public about how journalism should be a "simple process" of seeking "the best obtainable version of the truth."

They Can't Handle the Truth

If this is the case, then why is Bernstein afraid of pursuing the truth about Obama? Why the outrage over Senator Clinton drawing attention to a well-documented personal connection between Obama and a communist terrorist? Is there something else more damaging that has to be hidden from public view? Does new information have to be discredited in advance as "McCarthyism?"

The information may have to do with Obama's upbringing. Obama says that he was raised by his mother and grandparents. But those aren't the only people who had influence over him during his formative years. His own book, Dreams From My Father, talks about a mysterious "Frank" giving him advice, reading poetry, and telling him not to believe that - expletive deleted - about the American way of life when he went off to college. We know who "Frank" is. He was a member of the Communist Party who started writing for the Honolulu Record at the suggestion of Paul Robeson, another secret member of the CPUSA, and Harry Bridges. His "poetry," like the sermons of Pastor Wright, was laced with anti-American sentiments.

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