According to a posting at JTA, contrary to a report at Middle East Newsline, Robert Malley is not now, nor has he ever been working for the Obama campaign: Malley's back in town! [Or Not].

It would probably be good if Obama's actual advisers, like Dennis Ross, would refrain from defending his good intentions (stay on message, Dennis...and isn't Sandy Berger a little embarrassed to be attaching his name to anything...I digress). Malley is a Soros-funded production (much like Obama himself), and if he is an adviser in any way, Obama should own him and justify him. This isn't the space to be conducting freelance foreign policy by proxy.

In any case, they continue to declaim any connection, and the report is denied by Malley's people. That's good.

[h/t: Adam Holland]