Former CAP official - "didn't help Alito" (now Weekly Standard publisher)

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http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/01/13/news/14253.shtml

Eastland writes he had 'no part' in 1985 decision to hire Alito for Justice Department position

Chanakya Sethi
Princetonian Senior Writer

...But Eastland, who was the editor of CAP's highly controversial magazine, Prospect, before going on to serve in the Justice Department from 1983 to 1988, said that he "played no part in the decision."...

Writing in The Weekly Stanturd, a prominent national conservative magazine of which he is currently publisher, Eastland added: "I didn't know Alito had applied for the job, and ... I didn't know that Alito had gone to Princeton, much less had any association with CAP."

Former CAP board member Andrew Napolitano '72, now a Fox News analyst, said in an interview this week that "by telling Ed Meese he was in CAP, Sam Alito was telling the Justice Department he was a true-blue conservative."...

One of Alito's former roommates also suggested that Alito may have been trying to take advantage of a connection, noting that the mention of CAP seems out of place on a resume that discussed Alito's involvement with more prominent organizations, such as the Federalist Society, a group of conservative lawyers, and the National Review and the American Spectator, two national conservative publications...

[lumpy]

1. Andre Napolitano is former board member

of CAP. Why does this not surprize me. Fits right in with the right wing extremist Fox empire.