BREAKING NEWS: Obama Accused Of Sexual Harassment!
During Barack
Obama’s tenure as the president of the Harvard Law Review in the late
1980s, at least two male student editors complained to colleagues and
senior university officials about inappropriate behavior by Obama,
ultimately leaving their positions at the journal, multiple sources
confirm to THE KANSAS CITIAN.
The men
complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Obama that made them angry
and uncomfortable, the sources said, and they signed agreements with
the university that gave them financial payouts to leave the journal. The agreements also included language that bars the men from talking about their departures.
In a series of
comments over the past 10 days, Obama and his administration repeatedly
declined to respond directly about whether he ever faced allegations of
sexual harassment at the journal. They have also declined to address
questions about specific reporting confirming that there were financial
settlements in two cases in which men leveled complaints.
THE KANSAS
CITIAN has confirmed the identities of the two male journal editors who
complained about Obama but, for privacy concerns, is not publishing
their names.
White House
spokesman Jay Carney told THE KANSAS CITIAN the president indicated to
White House staff that he was “vaguely familiar” with the charges and
that the university’s general counsel had resolved the matter.
Obama was
president of the Harvard Law Review from late-1988 to mid-1989. THE
KANSAS CITIAN learned of the allegations against him, and over the
course of several weeks, has put together accounts of what happened by
talking to a lengthy roster of former university officials, current and
past students and others familiar with the workings of the journal at
the time Obama was there.
In one case, THE KANSAS CITIAN has seen documentation describing the allegations and showing that the university formally resolved the matter. Both men received separation packages that were in the five-figure range.
On the details of Obama’s allegedly inappropriate behavior with the two men, THE KANSAS CITIAN has a half-dozen sources shedding light on different aspects of the complaints.
The sources —
including the recollections of close associates and
other documentation — describe episodes that left the men upset and
offended. These incidents include conversations allegedly filled with
innuendo or personal questions of a sexually suggestive nature, taking
place at hotels during conferences, at other officially sanctioned
journal events and at the journal’s offices. There were also
descriptions of physical gestures that were not overtly sexual but that
made men who experienced or witnessed them uncomfortable and that they
regarded as improper in a professional relationship.
UPDATE: Third man comes forward to AP.
A third former
editor says he considered filing a workplace complaint over what he
considered aggressive and unwanted behavior by Barack Obama when he
worked under the president in the 1991 at the University of Chicago. He says the behavior included a private invitation to his apartment.
He worked
for the University of Chicago when he was a Visiting Law and Government
Fellow. He told The Associated Press that Obama made sexually suggestive
remarks or gestures about the same time that the two editors of the
Harvard Law Review had settled separate harassment complaints against
him. Theemployee described
situations in which he said Obama told him he had confided to
colleagues how attractive he was and invited him to his apartment
outside work. He spoke on condition of anonymity, saying he feared
retaliation. The White House declined to comment.
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