Carter's drug doctor still shills for Castro.

Dr. Peter Bourne was back in the news in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, criticizing the U.S. rejection of Fidel Castro's offer to send 1,500 Cuban doctors to aid in the hurricane relief. "Since they are just an hour away, it is a shame that they have not been allowed to join our committed medical corps already," Bourne said.

Dr. Bourne, chairman of the pro-Castro Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC), has been a radical left-wing activist for more than three decades. He served as Jimmy Carter's health adviser, "drug czar," and chief advocate for socialized medicine. He was forced to resign when marijuana activist Keith Stroup revealed that Bourne had snorted cocaine at a Christmas party hosted by NORML (National Organization for the Repeal of Marijuana Laws). Like many of his colleagues in the Carter administration, Bourne was (and has remained) active with projects of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a radical "think tank" that has served as a front for Castro's secret police, the DGI, and the Soviet KGB. In 1986, Bourne wrote Fidel, an adulatory biography of Cuba's Communist dictator, based on unprecedented access to Castro's secret files. In other words, Bourne was a trusted confidant/propagandist--otherwise he wouldn't have been given the privileged treatment. As might be expected, Dr. Bourne has been one of the leading advocates of normalizing U.S. relations with Castro's police state.