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Originally Posted by prospectheightsresident
If her counsel was accepted, considering the foreign policy blunders we've witnessed during the last few decades, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement.
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Madeline Albright is shady as …. She’s an advisor at The Hague when they (The Hague) just announced they were opening an investigation into the Biden White House for the August drone strike that killed 10 civilians during the US evacuation of Afghanistan. Not combat operations but an evacuation. Strange how she’s an advisor to DOD and The Hague at the same time. Any guesses to the outcome of that investigation?
Madeline also openly is compartments with George Soros political efforts to buy up cell towers in Africa. It’s at the tail end of her lengthy bio:
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Following Albright's term as Secretary of State, many speculated that she might pursue a career in Czech politics.[citation needed] Czech President, Václav Havel, spoke openly about the possibility of Albright succeeding him. Albright was reportedly flattered, but denied ever seriously considering the possibility of running for office in her country of origin.[80]
In 2001, Albright was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[81]
Also in 2001, Albright founded the Albright Group, an international strategy consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. that later become the Albright Stonebridge Group.[82] Affiliated with the firm is Albright Capital Management, which was founded in 2005 to engage in private fund management related to emerging markets.[83]
In 2003, Albright accepted a position on the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange.[citation needed] In 2005, she declined to run for re-election to the board in the aftermath of the Richard Grasso compensation scandal, in which Grasso, the chairman of the NYSE Board of Directors, had been granted $187.5 million in compensation, with little governance by the board on which Albright sat.[citation needed] During the tenure of the interim chairman, John S. Reed, Albright served as chairwoman of the NYSE board's nominating and governance committee. Shortly after the appointment of the NYSE board's permanent chairman in 2005, Albright submitted her resignation.[84]
Albright serves on the Council on Foreign Relations Board of directors and on the International Advisory Committee of the Brookings Doha Center.[85] As of 2016, she is the Mortara Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C.[86] Albright serves as chairperson of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and as president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation.[87] She is also the co-chair of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor[88] and was the chairwoman of the Council of Women World Leaders Women's Ministerial Initiative up until November 16, 2007, when she was succeeded by Margot Wallström.[89]
On October 25, 2005, Albright guest starred on the television drama Gilmore Girls as herself.[90] She also made a guest appearance on Parks and Recreation, in the eighth episode of the seventh season.[91]
At the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on November 13, 2007, Albright declared that she and William Cohen would co-chair a new "Genocide Prevention Task Force"[92] created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the United States Institute for Peace. Their appointment was criticized by Harut Sassounian[93] and the Armenian National Committee of America, as both Albright and Cohen had spoken against a Congressional resolution on the Armenian genocide.[94]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets Albright, February 6, 2013
Albright endorsed and supported Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign.[citation needed] Albright has been a close friend of Clinton and has served as an informal advisor on foreign policy matters.[citation needed] On December 1, 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama nominated then-Senator Clinton for Albright's former post of Secretary of State.[95]
Bob Schieffer and Madeleine Albright at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2017
In September 2009, Albright opened an exhibition of her personal jewelry collection at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City, which ran until January 2010.[96] In 2009 Albright also published the book Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box about her pins.[citation needed]
In August 2012, when speaking at an Obama campaign event in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, Albright was asked the question "How long will you blame that previous administration for all of your problems?", to which she replied "Forever".[97][98] In October 2012, Albright appeared in a video on the official Twitter feed for the Democratic Party, responding to then-GOP candidate Mitt Romney's assertion that Russia was the "number-one geopolitical foe" of the United States. According to Albright, Romney's statement was proof that he had "little understanding of what was actually going on in the 21st Century [and] he is not up to date and that is a very dangerous aspect [of his candidacy]".[99]
Albright has described Donald Trump as "the most un-American, anti-democratic leader" in U.S. history.[100][101][102] She has also criticized the Trump Administration for its delay in filling some diplomatic posts as a sign of "disdain for diplomacy".[103][104]
As of 2016, Albright serves as chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a consulting firm,[105] and chair of the advisory council for The Hague Institute for Global Justice, which was founded in 2011 in The Hague.[106] She also serves as an Honorary Chair for the World Justice Project.[107] The World Justice Project works to lead a global, multidisciplinary effort to strengthen the Rule of Law for the development of communities of opportunity and equity.[108]
Investments
Madeleine Albright is a co-investor with Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and George Soros in a $350 million investment vehicle called Helios Towers Africa, which intends to buy or build thousands of mobile phone towers in Africa.[109][110]
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