FLASHBACK: Obama Accused Of Sexual
Harassment While at Harvard Law Review (Multiple Accusers)
by Yo'Adrienne..AFCL Posted February
21, 2013
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KC -- 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.
UPDATE: Third man comes forward to AP.
The 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. The
employee 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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