Here ya go:

There's a connection via Center for Security Policy's National Security Advisory Council.

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=static&page=nsac

Woolsey is an honorary co-chair; Alan Keyes is a committee member.

In light of Klayman's past history of unpleasant litigation, maybe making a $250 contribution to him is kinda like paying protection money.

Thank you, Steve. Until today, Keyes was not on my neoconservative radar screen. Here is what I've found and cursorily verified -- but it does pull the whole thing together:

"[William] Kristol's Harvard graduate school roommate and fellow Straussian was Alan Keyes, later a Reagan State Department official and unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland (Kristol ran Keyes' 1988 campaign against Democrat Paul Sarbanes). His other classmates included Francis Fukuyama, later promoter of the Nietzschean idea of "the end of history," who came to Harvard following undergraduate studies at Cornell, where he was trained by Allan Bloom, another of the inner circle University of Chicago students of Strauss

Oh, I should add that, on Keyes' campaign web site, he's got an endorsement from Jeane Kirkpatrick.

I tend to feel a bit sad when I listen to Allen Keyes speak. He clearly has a great mind, has read much wider than most of his conservative colleagues. He has a marvelous speaking voice and style, and he makes some really interesting historical analogies. Yet, when he makes a speech that starts out so sensible and interesting, and ends with "proof" that the devil supports Obama or some other nonsense, it becomes apparent that he is a twisted genius of sorts. Shame on those conservatives who continue to tote him out because he is a conservative who is African American when it is clear that he is in need of treatment. It has to be obvious to former rommate Bill Kristol that that Keyes is at least slightly mad at this point.

Keyes is clearly following the White House's lead and creating his own reality which the rest of us merely observe.

I think you missed Larry Klayman's greatest claim to fame: founder and chief counsel of Judicial Watch, the group that persecuted Clinton. From Klayman's website:

"This and similar government corruption, in conjunction with his desire to clean up a legal system run amok, led Larry to found Judicial Watch in 1994. As founder, Chairman and General Counsel, of Judicial Watch, Larry led the fight against the abuses of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Larry played a key role in exposing "Filegate", the scandal where the Clinton White House illegally gathered the confidential government files on key Republicans. Long before the media became aware of suspected Communist Chinese Commerce Department spy, Johnny Huang, a friend of the Clintons, Larry was asking the tough questions, and he was responsible for sparking the biggest scandal in American history, "Chinagate". For this and his work defending the women who were smeared by Bill and Hillary Clinton, such as Gennifer Flowers and Dolly Kyle Browning, to name just a few, and bringing forward the Clintons' illegal fundraising through Judicial Watch client, Peter Paul, Larry won much acclaim while at Judicial Watch. Larry was at the top of the Clintons' enemy list and was threatened repeatedly. It is no wonder that Larry was an outspoken and active advocate for the removal of Bill Clinton from the Presidency."

Not sure what this says about Woolsey....

Steve, Klayman was an obnoxious, irrational thorn in the side of everyone who worked in the Clinton White House. He convinced a conservative federal judge to give him deposition powers and then he forced dozens of people, including low and mid-level staff, to pay millions of dollars in personal legal fees. You can find some of the depositions online and see how ridiculous the line of questioning was, and how damaging to our democracy when serving the public comes at such a price. Every time W talks about malpractice, frivolous litigation, and "lawsuit" reform, I wish someone would turn the focus on this bozo and his acolytes.