Is the Biden campaign really considering Karen Bass for the VP slot?

Since her name has surfaced in that regard, the MSM focus has been on things like receiving a Profile in Courage award in 2009 for bipartisanship while in the California state assembly, co-founding a group that worked to block liquor stores from setting up shop in crack-infested neighborhoods, and speaking out against "Defund the Police."

But, as should be the case with all politicians, we should want to know as much as possible about the set of core principles that drives her. 

We can get a good look at that, as it turns out:

“In the mid-1970s, California Congresswoman Karen Bass, who is now under consideration to be Joe Biden’s running mate, was an organizer for the Venceremos Brigade… An event blurb in an October 1975 issue of the communist Daily World newspaper describes Bass, then 22, as “leader of the Venceremos Brigade in southern California….As a ‘brigadista’ and then organizer for the Venceremos Brigades, Karen visited Cuba every 6 months.” (Tablet magazine, 7/28.)

The Venceremos Brigades were formed in 1969 by one of the factions of Students for a Democratic Society and the Cuban government. The immediate motivation for its founding was Fidel Castro's exhortation, in his New Year's address that year, for all Cubans to help with the sugar harvest. The members of this particular SDS faction, such as Bernadine Dohrn (in whose living room years later Barack Obama would launch his career),  thought, what a great way to express solidarity with the revolution.   

Shortly after the Brigades' founding, the Soviet Union got, shall we say, very involved:

“The ultimate objective of the DGI (Cuban Intelligence’s) in setting up the Venceremos Brigades “is the recruitment of individuals who are politically oriented and who someday may obtain a position, elective or appointive, somewhere in the U.S. Government, which would provide the Cuban Government with access to political, economic and military intelligence.”

Interestingly, right at about this time, Cuba’s DGI, which had always been mentored by the KGB, come under direct and total control of the KGB. Let’s see the sworn testimony of a high-ranking DGI defector during Congressional hearing titled:  The Role of Cuba in International Terrorism and Subversion, Intelligence Activities of the DGI, Feb. 26, 1982, US Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, Feb. 26, 1982?:   

“Mr. Gerardo Peraza (a high-ranking Cuban intelligence defector)” Between the years 1959 to 1970 there was close cooperation between Cuba and the KGB. But by beginning of 1970, the intelligence service of Cuba was placed under the DIRECT ORDERS of KGB Colonel Simonov.” 

Peraza's testimony in that hearing provided us some juicy dots to connect:

“Sen. Denton:  “(Julian Torres) Rizo was at the DGI (Cuba’s KGB-controlled intelligence service) Station chief in New York for 3 years, as I understand it. 

“Mr. PERAZA. “Yes.  He was also an active DGI agent in the Venceremos Brigade camps. 

“Mr. PERAZA. Yes. This was his first intelligence job. His first intelligence job was to recruit members of the Venceremos Brigade. He had also connections with many North Americans, preparing himself to come to the United States. And he continued directing the work of these agents in the United States.”

And wouldn’t you know it?  In another apparent publicity pic from one of her red-carpet trips to Stalinist, Terror-Sponsoring Cuba we find an (apparently) enchanted Karen Bass accompanied by an old Venceremos Brigadista comrade named Gail Reed who is married to Julian Torres Rizo!

None of the possible picks the Biden team is looking at would be good for human freedom, just as Biden himself would be bad for human freedom, but Bass would be egregiously bad.