Someone pointed me to this web page showing Mr. Blackwell credentials. It is from JINSA.org, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, whose mission is "to strengthen support for the U.S. military and its ability to meet future challenges and crises."
If you are prone to ponder deep conspiracies, this will keep you going for quite some time.
The only thing I will say is the fellow has a very curious background.
J. Kenneth Blackwell brings a distinguished record of achievement as an educator, diplomat and finance executive to his current position as the 51st Secretary of State of Ohio. As Secretary of State, he serves as Ohio's chief elections officer and administrator of official records. Mr. Blackwell's public service includes terms as Mayor of Cincinnati, an undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and Treasurer of the State of Ohio. He is currently a vice president of the National Association of Secretaries of State, member of the board of directors of the Campaign Finance Institute in Washington, D.C., a member of the Advisory Panel of the Federal Elections Commission, and a member of the board of directors of the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs (Ashland University).
He is chairman of the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council, a member of the Harvard Policy Group on Network-Enabled Services and Government, and a member of the Advisory Board of The Princeton Review. He currently serves on the board of directors of the International City Management Association/ Retirement Corporation. He served on the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, and in 1998, he co-edited a book with Jack Kemp, titled, IRS v. The People: Time for Real Tax Reform.
A certified government financial manager, Mr. Blackwell has served as the vice chairman of the Working Group on Soft Dollars and Commission Recapture for the U.S. Department of Labor's Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans (E.R.I.S.A.).
Mr. Blackwell has also served on the boards of directors of Physicians for Human Rights, the International Republican Institute and the Congressional Human Rights Foundation. He was a scholar-in-residence at the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. As United States Representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, he led the U.S. delegation to all four of the preparatory meetings for the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the board of directors of the American Council of Young Political Leaders and The National Council of the United Nations Association of the USA. He presently serves on the Board of Governors of the International League for Human Rights and the National Council of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
His international activities have taken him to 53 countries and strengthened his understanding of emerging international markets and the growth of democracy worldwide. Secretary Blackwell has held the nation's highest security clearance.People with real security clearances do NOT mention the fact in public. Most people who claim to have such clearances ususally are lying.
Mr. Blackwell holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Education degrees from Xavier University (OH) where he later served as a vice-president and member of its faculty.
In 1992 he received Xavier's Distinguished Alumnus Award. He has been a Fellow at Harvard University's School of Government, the Aspen Institute, the Salzburg Seminar in Austria and The School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (British-American Project).
In 1998, Secretary Blackwell delivered the Beckett Lecture on Religious Liberty at Oxford University. He has also lectured at Harvard University, the University of Newcastle in England, the Moscow State Institute for International Relations in Russia, and the International Academy of Public Administration in Paris.
Mr. Blackwell, a life member of the NAACP, has twice received the U.S. Department of State's Superior Honor Award for his work in the field of human rights from the Administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton.On edit: added link
http://www.jinsa.org/about/adboard/adboard.html?documentid=1343
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