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Right Web Profiles — Individuals
“Tracking militarists’ efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy.”
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A “Lebanese-American” investment banker closely tied to many neoconservative figures, Abdelnour wants the United States or Israel to “annihilate” Hezbollah. …
-Ziad K Abdelnour 21 Whitson St; Forest Hills, NY 11375-6851 (212) 452-0743 [45-49 / Karl M Abdelnour, Nada Abdelnour, Mark Abdelnour]
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-Elliott E Abrams 10607 Dogwood Farm Ln; Great Falls, VA 22066-2937 (703) 757-2877 [60-64 / Rachel D Abrams, Joseph Abrams, Sarah Abrams]
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Vitriolic right-wing blogger Rachel Abrams, who comes from a well-established neoconservative family, is notorious for her vindictive, inflated, and sometimes childish rhetoric. / …the scion of a tight-knit neoconservative clan and outspoken supporter of militarist “pro-Israel” policies, recently drew attention when she became a director of a new inside-the-beltway advocacy group called the Emergency Committee for Israel. …
–Rachel D Abrams 10607 Dogwood Farm Ln; Great Falls, VA 22066-2937 (703) 757-2877 [60-64 / Elliott E Abrams, Joseph Abrams, Sarah Abrams]
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-David S Addington 103 W Maple St; Alexandria, VA 22301-2605 (703) 519-9673 [50-54 / Cynthia M Addington]
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Carol Adelman, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, is a specialist in international aid and health issues. She is director of Hudson’s Center for Global Prosperity …
-Kenneth L Adelman 4018 27th St N; Arlington, VA 22207-5207 (703) 525-0106 [60-64 / Carol L Adelman, Jessica C Adelman]
-Ken Adelman
501 W Smuggler St; Aspen, CO 81611-1260 (970) 920-4404 [
Carol Adelman]
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A longtime Washington insider closely aligned with neoconservatives, Ken Adelman has served several Republican administrations since the mid-1970s and was a vocal proponent of the invasion of Iraq. …
-Kenneth L Adelman
4018 27th St N; Arlington, VA 22207-5207 (703) 525-0106 [60-64 / Carol L Adelman, Jessica C Adelman]
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-Ken Adelman
501 W Smuggler St; Aspen, CO 81611-1260 (970) 920-4404 [
Carol Adelman]
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-Sheldon G Adelson 8908 Players Club Dr; Las Vegas, NV 89134-6353 [65+]
-Miriam Adelson 100 Dudley Rd; Newton Center, MA 02459-2827 (617) 527-4900 [60-64 / Sheldon G Adelson]
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Harold Agnew is a nuclear physicist who worked on both the creation of the first atomic weapons and on the project to build the hydrogen bomb. As a young member of the Manhattan Project, Agnew flew as a scientific observer on a plane tailing the Enola Gay as it dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima. …
-Harold M Agnew 322 Punta Baja Dr; Solana Beach, CA 92075-1720 (858) 481-8908 [65+ / Beverly J Agnew]
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Akins, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and advisor to the hawkish Iran Policy Committee, helped play a role forging elite Middle East consensus over Israel during the 1970s and foresaw the popular backlash in the region over U.S. policies. …
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As Donald Rumsfeld’s undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics from May 2001 to May 2003, Edward C. “Pete” Aldridge Jr. held the purse strings at the Pentagon, overseeing the Department of Defense’s contract decision-making process. …
-Edward C Aldridge Jr 4308 Lorcom Ln; Arlington, VA 22207-3308 (703) 516-7511 [Joanne K Aldridge, Jodi Aldridge]
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Ensconced at the conservative Hoover Institution, this former member of Donald Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board now seems to spend much of his time distressing over President Obama and venerating the memory of Ronald Reagan…
-?>Richard Allen 1309 Staples St NE; Washington, DC 20002-3925 (202) 399-3042 [65+]
-?>Richard Allen 5018 Sherier Pl NW; Washington, DC 20016-3328 (202) 363-2286
-?>Richard Allen 322 10th St NE; Washington, DC 20002-6204
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-Morris J Amitay
3710 Prince William Dr; Fairfax, VA 22031-3865 (703) 934-5497 [65+ /
Martha K Amitay]
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Anderson is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and a veteran foreign policy hawk whose career has included serving four Republican presidents. An economist known for his espousal of the philosophy of conservative author Ayn Rand [
Alyssa Rosenbaum], etc. | Spouse: Annelise Graebner.
-Annelise G Anderson 121 Degas Rd; Portola Valley, CA 94028-7708 [65+ / Martin C Anderson]
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The new owner of neocon mouthpiece the Weekly Standard is an Evangelical [
jewish] business tycoon whose media holdings provide a powerful voice for his rightwing views on taxes, national security, and “family” values. |
Christian Anschutz – son;
Nancy Anschutz – spouse;
Susan Anschutz-Rodgers - sister.
-Philip F Anschutz 9 Polo Club Dr; Denver, CO 80209-3309
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Anschutz Corp, Chairman of the Board
555 17th St, Ste 2400; Denver, CO 80202-3941 (303) 298-1000
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Journalist and former American Enterprise Institute Fellow Anne Applebaum writes a column for the Washington Post in which she has revealed an on-again-off-again affinity for U.S. military interventions. …
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John David Ashcroft, a former Republican governor and senator from Missouri and high-profile member of the conservative judicial group
Federalist Society, served as U.S. attorney general during George W. Bush’s first term in the White House. … | Spouse: Janet Ashcroft.
-John D Ashcroft 1586 Colonial Ter; Arlington, VA 22209-1406 [65+ / Janet E Ashcroft, Joan D Ashcroft]
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1399 New York Ave NW, Ste 950; Washington, DC 20005-4762 (202) 942-0202
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A self-styled member of the Iranian student dissident movement, Akbar Atri has, since fleeing Iran in 2005, become a favorite of the neoconservative faction in the United States, where he has vigorously promoted Iran regime-change strategies. …
-Akbar Atri 5116 Manning Dr; Bethesda, MD 20814-1227 [Mariam I Memarsadeghi] Prior: Washington, DC (2010)
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A former Lockheed Martin CEO and board member at the Center for a New American Security, Augustine recently led a defense acquisitions task force organized by Business Executives for National Security, a group that aims to help government do national security “faster,” “better,” and “cheaper.”
-Norman R Augustine 9826 Sorrel Ave; Potomac, MD 20854-4743 [65+ / Margareta E Augustine]
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is a right-wing evangelical congresswoman and former GOP presidential candidate who believes the United States must support Israel because of the Bible. | Husband: Marcus.
-Marcus D Bachmann 13505 4th St N; Stillwater, MN 55082-1921 [50-54 / Michele M Bachmann, Lucas B Bachmann, H Bachmann, Senator M Bachmann]
-Marcus D Bachmann
8669 Eagle Point Blvd; Lake Elmo, MN 55042 Send email [50-54]
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Kathleen Bailey is a senior associate at the
National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank founded in the early 1980s by hawkish nuclear strategist
Keith Payne that promotes aggressive U.S. strategic policies. …
-?>Kathleen C Bailey 25 Highland Dr; Millersville, MD 21108-2107 (410) 923-4028 [45-49 / Steven L Bailey]
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Attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, William Barr has been a prominent conservative activist for decades. … | Spouse: Christine.
-William P Barr 1200 Daleview Dr; Mc Lean, VA 22102-1539[ Christine M Barr]
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jewish] ”Christian Zionist” leader and former presidential candidate has been busy founding militarist pressure groups that attacking President Obama and other Democrats for being soft on terrorism and not sufficiently supportive of Israel. … |
Carol Hoke Bauer – spouse.
-Gary L Bauer 9001 Glenbrook Ct; Fairfax, VA 22031-3132 (703) 978-3210 [60-64 / Carol H Bauer, Betty J Bauer, Elyse A Bauer, Sarah Bauer]
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A Canadian international human rights law scholar, Anne Bayefsky is closely associated with the pro-Israel Right in the United States and internationally. Her writing, which often appears in rightist and neoconservative journals like the
Weekly Standard and the
National Review, often focuses on issues such as the “moral depravity” of the United Nations and the need to take a hardline stance against “enemy” states in the Middle East like Iran and Syria. …
-Anne Bayefsky 315 Central Park W, Apt 12W; New York, NY 10025-7658 (212) 799-2750 [Michelle Bayefsky]
-UN schools, Senior Editor
90 Broad St, Ste 2003; New York, NY 10004-2680 (212) 232-8720
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Becker, the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics, is a conservative writer and economist based at the University of Chicago and Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. … Becker, who served on the Defense Policy Board in the
Donald Rumsfeld Pentagon, has also championed an aggressive “war on terror” and the use of preemptive force against suspected terrorist targets. …
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-Jeffrey L Bell 8602 Ordinary Way; Annandale, VA 22003-4500 [65+ / Nicholas Bell]
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Eleana Benador is a Peruvian-born public relations entrepreneur whose firm
Benador Associates helped publicize the work of neoconservatives and hawkish policy wonks during the George W. Bush presidency. Benador now directs
Benador Public Relations, the successor to her Benador Associates. / A former publicist for
Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum and associate of the hawkish
U.S. Committee to Free Lebanon, Benador once claimed credit for the rise of neoconservatism in the United States in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. …
-Eleana Benador 40 E 78th St, Apt 11B; New York, NY 10075-1830 [55-59 / Emmanuel Benador]
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Gabriel Benador is the associate director of Benador Public Relations, the successor firm to Benador Associates, a public relations company that served as a key promoter of neoconservative ideologues after the 9/11 attacks and during the run up to the invasion of Iraq. ..Benador clients have included many of the more vocal proponents of the invasion of Iraq and an expansive “war on terror,” such as
Rachel Ehrenfeld,
Hillel Fradkin,
Charles Krauthammer,
Richard Perle,
Dennis Prager,
James Woolsey, and
Meyrav Wurmser. …
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William Bennett was for decades a key right-wing player in U.S. politics and is now a “conservative” radio talk show host. The one-time self-appointed moral compass for America, etc., etc.,
etc. | Spouse: Elayne Bennett. Children: John Bennett, Joseph Bennett.
-Elayne G Bennett 4 Laurel Pkwy; Chevy Chase, MD 20815-4213 [60-64 / William J Bennett, Joe G Bennett, Mary E Bennett]
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-Jeffrey T Bergner 12941 Centre Park Cir, Apt 216; Herndon, VA 20171-5959 [Jonathan Bergner]
-Jeffrey T Bergner 4430 E Beach Dr; Norfolk, VA 23518-6007 (757) 480-2339 [60-64 / Susan D Bergner, Jessica Bergner, Jonathan D Bergner]
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Ilan Berman, vice president of the
American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC), is a widely cited observer of Middle East affairs who is associated with a string of policy outfits that have played a leading role in pushing an expansive “war on terror” aimed at reshaping the Mideast region. … / Vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, Berman’s preferred strategy for pressuring Iran is to do a replay of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, a cornerstone of neoconservative advocacy during the early 1970s which threatened trade relations with the Soviet Union if it didn’t allow Jewish emigration to Israel. …
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The erstwhile media mogul and conservative writer, Black was recently released from prison—after serving just over two years of his six-year sentence for fraud convictions—as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limited the effect of a federal fraud law…that had been used to prosecute corruption cases against business executives like Black and Jeffrey Skilling, the former CEO of Enron Corporation. …
-?>Conrad M Black 1930 S Ocean Blvd; Palm Beach, FL 33480-5100 (561) 833-7139
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Block, a former AIPAC spokesperson who defines himself as a progressive “pro-Israel” Democrat, has collaborated with neoconservatives and other hardliners to marginalize critics of Israel in the Democratic Party, in part by attempting to smear them as “anti-Semitic.” …
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The controversial former ambassador to the UN and long-standing uberhawk, Bolton seems to fashion himself presidential material. …endorses Israeli use of nuclear weapons against Iran. … | Spouse: Gretchen Bolton. Daughter: Jennifer Sarah Bolton.
-John R Bolton 9107 Fernwood Rd; Bethesda, MD 20817-3019 (301) 469-8725 [Gretchen S Bolton]
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Bonazzi is the executive director of the neoconservative-aligned European Foundation for Democracy, based in Brussels. …
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Vets For Freedom, Board of Directors
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Bork, a project director at the Foreign Policy Initiative and the daughter of former Supreme Court justice nominee Robert Bork, has used her perch at FPI to continue the time-honored neoconservative tactic of organizing elite public sign-on letters to pressure public figures. / Ellen Bork, daughter of “conservative” icon and former Supreme Court justice nominee Robert Bork, is the acting executive director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). This is likely not too time-consuming, as PNAC has been inactive since late 2005. …
-O ST., 1201, No. 1A; Washington, D.C. (202) 462-4224 [Joseph H. Wilson to Ellen E. Bork, $341,200 - 2004].
-Ellen E Bork 6520 Ridge St; Mc Lean, VA 22101-2237 (703) 288-1174 [45-49 / Robert H Bork, Mary E Bork]
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Conservative legal scholar and former Supreme Court nominee, Robert Bork is a long-time rightwing activist who has supported the work of several advocacy groups, including the neoconservative Hudson Institute. …
-Robert H Bork Sr 6520 Ridge St; Mc Lean, VA 22101-2237 (703) 288-1174 [65+ / Mary E Bork, Ellen E Bork]
-Robert H Bork Jr 7105 Country Meadow Ct; Mc Lean, VA 22101-1573 (703) 821-8877 [50-54 / Diana C Bork]
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Henry Morgenstern
is the president of
Security Solutions International (SSI), a Miami-based company founded in 2004 , that bills itself as a frontline defense against the threat of “radical Islam” and prime provider of “homeland security training” to a range of clients, including local police forces, corporations, and federal agencies. …According to Bradman’s bio on the SSI website, he formerly managed “Diplomat Trading, a multi-million dollar exporter of Electronic Equipment specializing in Central America, South America and the Caribbean. … Business: Security Solutions International: CEO.
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-Lewis P Bremer III
5208 Dorset Ave; Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6632 (301) 951-0755 [
Frances W Bremer]
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-Linton F Brooks
9920 Chase Hill Ct; Vienna, VA 22182-1426 (703) 759-4714 [65+ / Barbara J Brooks, Kathryn Brooks]
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A frontrunner to replace Katherine Sibelius as governor of Kansas, Brownback has been one of the Senate’s leading domestic conservatives and foreign policy hawks. …
-?>Samuel S Brownback 4826 SW Urish Rd; Topeka, KS 66610-9760 [was or is ->:] (785) 478-9383 [50-54 / Mary S Brownback, Abby C Brownback, Andy Brownback]
-?>Sam Brownback 612 S Kansas Ave; Topeka, KS 66603-3856 (785) 233-2503
-?>6149 SW BROOKFIELD CIR; TOPEKA, KS 66614
-?>4846 URISH RD SW; TOPEKA, KS 66610
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Shoshana Bryen, a director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (CHUTZPAH), served as JINSA’s executive director from 1981 to 1991 after taking over from her husband, Stephen Bryen, …
-Stephen D Bryen 9525
Clement Rd; Silver Spring, MD 20910-1604 (301) 589-9297 [65+ /
Shoshana S Bryen]
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Stephen D. Bryen is a longtime Washington insider. He is president of the defense contractor Finmeccanica, Inc., which is the U.S. branch of the Italian arms maker that maintains close ties to many Republican Party elites. Bryen is also closely connected to various high-profile neoconservatives like
Richard Perle, under whom Bryen served when Perle was President Ronald Reagan’s assistant secretary of defense, and has supported the work of a number of hardline pro-Israel groups like the
Center for Security Policy (CSP) and the
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). …
-Stephen D Bryen 9525
Clement Rd; Silver Spring, MD 20910-1604 (301) 589-9297 [65+ /
Shoshana S Bryen]
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Herman Cain, a former GOP presidential nomination, has expressed a number of hawkish foreign policy positions, even if he tends to be rather hazy on the details. …
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In November 2007, Stephen Cambone, the controversial undersecretary of defense for intelligence in the Donald Rumsfeld-led Pentagon, became vice president for strategy of QinetiQ North America, a subsidiary of the United Kingdom-based defense contractor QinetiQ (Washington Technology, November 12, 2007). … |
Project for a New American Century (PNAC) – Abramowitz to Gershman – Spouse Margaret.
-Stephen A Cambone
1809 Barbee St; Mc Lean, VA 22101-5213 (703) 848-0754 [
Margaret T Cambone]
-Qinetiq North America Operations, Senior Vice President 7918 Jones Branch Dr, Ste 350; Mc Lean, VA 22102-3361 (703) 752-9595
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-Frank C Carlucci III 1207 Crest Ln; Mc Lean, VA 22101-1837 (703) 524-0366 and/or (703) 524-5156 [Marcia M Carlucci, Kristin L Carlucci, Louise K Carlucci]
-Frank Carlucci Sr 112 Long Hill Dr; Stamford, CT 06902-1426
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6509 Deidre Ter; Mc Lean, VA 22101-1605 (703) 790-5113 [45-49 /
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The conservative Democrat from Pennsylvania who served two terms in Congress now works for the same defense contractor—BAE Systems—that he assisted in gaining Pentagon contracts while in office. …
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A favorite of the neocon crowd, Chalabi has recently been accused of unjustly marginalizing political opponents in Iraq while at the same time courting Iran. …
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The former secretary of labor has returned to the Heritage Foundation, where she worked before being tapped by George W. Bush in 2001…
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George W. Bush’s first choice for labor secretary, Linda Chavez is a right-wing pundit, anti-union demagogue, and foreign policy hawk. She has supported or worked for a string of rightist outfits, including the Manhattan Institute, the Independent Women’s Forum, and the Center for Equal Opportunity. She signed an April 2002 letter from the
Project for the New American Century urging President Bush to remove Saddam Hussein from power and to aid Israel … | Spouse: “former Bush Administration official”
Christopher Gersten. Children: David, Pablo, and Rudy.
-Christopher C Gersten 11400 Academy Ridge Rd NE; Albuquerque, NM 87111-6890 [Linda Chavez, William B Hancock]
-Christopher Gersten
1585 N Main St; Hillsville, VA 24343-1140 (276) 728-7794 [
Linda L Gersten]
-Christopher C Gersten 3605 Moorhead Ave; Boulder, CO 80305-5535 (303) 499-5838 [Jerome W Gersten, Rhoda Gersten, Linda C Chavez, Madeline L Gersten]
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A standard-bearer for her father’s militarist agenda, Liz Cheney and her group Keep America Safe have resorted to McCarthy-esque tactics in attacking the Obama administration. …
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Lynne Cheney, the wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has been a high-profile supporter of rightist causes for decades, including from her current perch as senior fellow at the
American Enterprise Institute (AEI). During the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush years, Cheney was an influential and controversial voice on education policy; more recently, she was an avid booster of George W. Bush’s “war on terror.” …
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-Michael Chertoff, 15 Olde Town Ct; Bernardsville, NJ (<<<purchased, it appears, in August 2003 - and the city still shows as current>>>)
-Son>Philip Chertoff 858 E 26th St; Brooklyn, NY 11210-2824 (718) 252-2334 [Leonora Chertoff]
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In a recent paper for the “pro-Israel” WINEP, Clawson argues for cautious measures in approaching Iranian factions about that country’s nuclear program. …
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-Eliot A Cohen 300 Lamberton Dr; Silver Spring, MD 20902-1621 [50-54 / Judith R Cohen, Rebecca H Cohen, Nathan Cohen, Michal Cohen, Raphael S Cohen]
-The Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Director 1619 Massachusetts Ave NW; Washington, DC 20036-2209 (202) 663-5886
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The former director of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative and a key right-wing opponent of Obama administration arms control initiatives, Cooper was recently given the “Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Award” by the Department of Defense’s Strategic Defense Initiative. …
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Cowan, a Fox News contributor and former military intelligence officer, is a member of the military committee of the Iran Policy Committee. …
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-Seth Cropsey 5404 Norton St NW; Washington, DC 20016-2576 (202) 686-7061 [50-54]
-Seth Cropsey 5906 Overlea Rd; Bethesda, MD 20816-2456 (301) 320-4756 [Mihaela Cropsey]
-Seth Cropsey 253 Perkins Rd; Rupert, West Pawlett, VT 05775-9651 (802) 645-9434
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J.D. Crouch II is a former deputy national security adviser and assistant to President George W. Bush who resigned in early May 2007. Regarded as one of the administration’s staunchest foreign policy hawks, …
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D’Souza, recently appointed president of the Evangelical Christian King’s College in New York City, has made a splash with his new book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, which makes the peculiar argument that the anti-colonialism espoused by Obama’s father is behind the president’s purportedly radical policies. …
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The former Costa Rican ambassador to the United States, Jaime Daremblum now works as a rightwing pundit at the Hudson Institute, where he pushes the notion that Iran is using countries like Venezuela to threaten the United States. …
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Midge [Rosenthal] Decter is best known as a member of a leading neoconservative family, the Podhoretz clan. Her second husband, Norman Podhoretz, was editor of the neoconservative flagship magazine Commentary…
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DeMuth served as president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a key intellectual recruiting ground for the George W. Bush presidency and a preeminent think tank of neoconservatism, for more than 20 years. …
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A neoconservative media consultant and former AIPAC spokesperson, Toby Dershowitz is vice president of the Likud-linked Foundation for Defense of Democracies. …
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Since Diehl took over as the Washington Post’s deputy editorial page editor in 2001, the newspaper’s editorial slant has become increasingly hawkish and conservative. …
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Dobriansky was the undersecretary of state for democracy and global affairs during the presidency of George W. Bush. A long-standing Washington political figure with ties to neoconservative organizations, Dobriansky was a vocal proponent of the Bush administration’s democracy agenda in the Middle East and more generally of its “Freedom Agenda.” She supported the work of groups like the
Hudson Institute and the
Project for the New American Century (PNAC) before joining the administration in 2001. Dobriansky also worked in Ronald Reagan’s National Security Council and served as associate director of the U.S. Information Agency in the George H.W. Bush administration. …
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A major figure in U.S. organized labor, Donahue was an ardent “anti-communist” during the [
phony] Cold War. …
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Donnelly, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a former deputy director of the now-defunct Project for the New American Century (PNAC), writes frequently on defense and security issues and has been one of the key neoconservative promoters of a long-term U.S. military engagement in Iraq. …
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A former Bush administration foreign policy adviser, Doran is a promoter of “soft power” strategies for overthrowing the Iranian government. …
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Eberstadt, a long-standing participant in hawkish U.S. advocacy groups dating back to the early 1980s, is an Asia scholar and demographer associated with the American Enterprise Institute…
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A longtime defense industry executive, Stanley Ebner has also supported the hawkish Center for Security Policy. …
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Like other armed service secretaries originally appointed by George W. Bush—including James Roche and Thomas White—Gordon England arrived at the Pentagon fresh from duties as an executive of a major corporation, in this case the Pentagon contractor General Dynamics. Gordon, along with his boss
Donald Rumsfeld, is a champion of military transformation. …
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The idiosyncratic social theorist and founder of the Communitarian Network thinks the United States should bomb Iran and “unshackle” the troops in Afghanistan. …
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Michael D. Evans embraces Menachem Begin, the terrorist leader of the Irgun who became prime minister of Israel in 1977. Begin’s Likud government talked peace while it planned terror atrocities like 9-11 and the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
http://www.bollyn.com/note-on-las-vegas-radio-show-ehud-baraks-us-visit | Evans [
jewish] is a prominent Christian evangelical author whose works promote a hardline Christian Zionist view of Middle East peace issues in which defending Israel is seen as a Christian duty…
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Falcoff, a Latin American expert at the American Enterprise Institute, was an active supporter in the 1980s of the Nicaraguan Contras and supported the work of PRODEMCA, a purported pro-democracy outfit that channeled U.S. aid to anti-Sandinista political forces. …
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Described by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), where she served on the board, as “a prominent Republican Party activist,” Finley worked for many years as a Washington, D.C.-based Republican Party organizer and fundraiser, including as finance co-chair of the Bush-Cheney ’04 reelection team. …
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Fly, a former adviser to the George W. Bush administration, is the executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and blogs for the Weekly Standard, two premier neoconservative institutions. …
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A retired U.S. Air Force general and defense industry executive, Fogleman has been a long time government adviser on defense and security policy. …
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Forstmann, a high-powered business executive who is considered a pioneer of modern corporate buyouts, has supported the work of various neoconservative groups. …
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Fort, a former corporate officer with Goldman Sachs and program director at TRW’s space and defense groups, served as assistant secretary for intelligence and research in the State Department during the second term of George W. Bush’s presidency. …
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Foster is a distinguished scientist whose career working in the U.S. weapons complex dates back to the early years of the atomic era. Closely affiliated with a long line of hardline policy initiatives, Foster was a member of two hawkish advocacy outfits—the 1970s incarnation of the
Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) and the
American Security Council. He collaborated on the controversial
Team B exercise and led a congressionally appointed panel (the so-called Foster Panel), which played a role in pushing for new nuclear weapons production. …
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Adrienne Sirken, who lives in Princeton, NJ with her husband, Dr. Aaron Friedberg. | Following a brief stint as Dick Cheney’s deputy national security advisor, Friedberg returned to Princeton, where he specializes in East Asian security issues. …
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One of the most well-known U.S. academics due in large measure to his famous “end of history” thesis, Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist based at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), an inside-the-Beltway graduate institute that has served as home base for a number of Fukuyama’s neoconservative associates, including
Eliot Cohen,
Paul Wolfowitz, and
Gary Schmitt. … | Married to a jewess named Holmgren.
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Mossad’s “Atlas Shrugged” Pamela Geller. | Gabriel has made a post-9/11 career out of roundly denouncing Islam, decrying “political correctness,” and promoting the concept of an existential clash of cultures. She founded American Congress for Truth (ACT) in October 2003, a nonprofit organization that describes itself as “dedicated to educating millions of uninformed Americans about the threat of radical Islam to world peace and national security.” …
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Devon Gaffney Cross, a longstanding neoconservative activist, has reemerged as a supporter of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s presidential campaign and member of the heavily criticized advocacy group Secure America Now. …
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Geller. | Gaffney is a leading anti-Islam pundit in the United States who has helped foster a discriminatory discourse in the country aimed at marginalizing Muslims and outlawing the practice of their faith. … |
http://fedupusa.wordpress.com/center-for-security-policy/ - ..worked for Richard Perle during the Reagan administration. Wife Marisol.
-Frank J Gaffney Jr
5415 Hawthorne Pl NW; Washington, DC 20016-2666 [55-59 /
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Garner, the erstwhile “mayor of Baghdad,” has capitalized on his experiences in Iraq to pursue oil deals in Kurdish areas of the country. …
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Gershman is the longtime head of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and a former leading figure in U.S. sectarian politics, dating back to the mid-1970s when he was head of the
Social Democrats-USA (SD-USA). …
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Gerson, author of the 1996 book The Neoconservative Vision, an oft-cited sycophantic book about the roots and trajectory of the political faction, is CEO of Gerson Lehrman Group, a consulting firm of global
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Rabbi Gingrich. | Gingrich’s shrill claims about threats from “Islamofascists” and the purported fallacy of the “Palestinian people” seem to be in lockstep with the views of his “pro-Israel” backers, including the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson …
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Gompert, a former vice president of the RAND Corporation known for his hawkish views on defense, served briefly as President Barack Obama’s acting director of national intelligence before becoming a director at Pentagon contractor Global Integrated Security. …
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J.D. Gordon, a former Navy spokesperson and Pentagon PR officer, is a right-wing beltway lobbyist who served as foreign policy adviser to the Herman Cain campaign. …
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Gouré, a close associate of a number of George W. Bush administration hardline foreign policy figures and frequent commentator on defense issues, is vice president of the
Lexington Institute …
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Graham, a former science adviser to Ronald Reagan and an executive at a number of high-tech defense contractors, has been a key member of the missile defense lobby during the past two decades. …
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Hannah, a political pundit and former Dick Cheney advisor closely associated with the hawkish “pro-Israel” lobby, is now a senior fellow at the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies. …
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A Hoover Institution fellow…A syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services, Hanson’s articles are regularly published by rightist outlets, including the
National Review and
Bill Kristol’s
Weekly Standard. …
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Before his death on October 24, 2007, Norman Hascoe served as president of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a neoconservative-aligned advocacy outfit that strives to link the security of the United States to that of Israel. …
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Hiatt, the Washington Post’s “liberal hawk” editorial page editor, says that he is opposed to the efforts of some of his contributors—like neoconservative pundit Jennifer Rubin—to demonize opponents by referring to their “mental health,” but he apparently sees no reason to “censor” them. …
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Hill is a former diplomat who has used his Foreign Service experience to craft a worldview friendly to neoconservatives. …
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Hirsi Ali, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who has a made a career denouncing Islam, argues that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood may be more dangerous than Al Qaeda precisely because it has given up armed struggle. …
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Horner is a senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute, where he specializes in China, international science and technology relations, and international treaties, particularly the the international sea treaty. He is closely associated with such right web organizations as the Madison Center and
Center for Security Policy, where he is a member of the national advisory council. …
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Horowitz, the wife of longtime AFL-CIO principal Thomas Donahue, was a leader of the hawkish wing of the Socialist Party USA that splintered off from the party in 1972 to become
Social Democrats-USA. SD-USA members followed a similar trajectory of the early neoconservatives, gradually abandoning their leftist ideas to embrace the hawkish wing of the Democratic Party (led by Sen.
Henry “Scoop” Jackson), and then going on to form an integral part of the rightwing structure that matured during the Reagan presidency. …
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Huntsman, the millionaire scion of the Huntsman chemical empire, is a former Utah governor who served as President Obama’s first ambassador to China and was a candidate for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. …
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Iklé, a distinguished scholar at the Washington, DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a former defense undersecretary, is an erstwhile Cold Warrior who has worked for several Republican administrations dating back to Richard Nixon. …
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A former military intelligence officer and defense industry executive with a track record of advancing hawkish U.S. defense policies and supporting neoconservative campaigns, Jackson now advocates reevaluating the former Soviet republics’ integration into NATO and Europe. …
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Jasser, a physician and devout Muslim connected to various neoconservative groups, is the founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, which touts itself as “a leading voice for liberty-minded Muslims in America in the war on terror”…
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After a nearly 40-year career in the U.S. Navy, Adm. David E. Jeremiah retired and now serves on a long list of boards of defense-related companies and supports the work of a key right-wing pro-Israel group, the
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. At the same time, he is still advising the U.S. government. …
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Joseph, a controversial Bush administration arms control official, now peddles diatribes on the Obama administration’s efforts to reform strategic policies from his perch at the National Institute for Public Policy. …
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Joyce, who passed away in early 2006, was once described by neoconservative guru Irving Kristol as the “godfather of modern philanthropy.” Joyce was a key financial booster of the modern conservative movement as the head of a number of right-leaning foundations, including the
Bradley,
Olin, and Goldseker foundations. Joyce also engineered several right-wing policy campaigns and supported various neoconservative advocacy groups, including the
Project for the New American Century (PNAC), founded in 1997 by neocon scions
William Kristol and
Robert Kagan….
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A founder of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Lawrence Kadish has been a prominent backer of a number of neoconservative and right-wing “pro-Israel” groups. …
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Donald Kagan, the father of neoconservative writers Robert and Frederick Kagan, is a historian and classics scholar at Yale University. Kagan, along with Victor Davis Hanson, serves as a sort of in-house classicist of the neocon faction. …
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In a recently published book, Kagan, a neoconservative writer at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that the United States must remain committed to fighting “Long Wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan. …
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A military historian, Kimberly Kagan heads the Institute for the Study of War, where she promotes the continuation of U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. …
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From his perch at the Brookings Institution and the Washington Post, this veteran neoconservative writer has championed the new START Treaty, warned against cuts in defense spending, and called for a U.S. foreign policy based on idealism and not pragmatism. …
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Kaminsky, a longtime Republican insider who has served a number of administrations, is associated with the hawkish Center for Security Policy and Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.. …
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Kampelman is a retired diplomat and Cold War-era arms control negotiator who has supported the work of several neoconservative-led advocacy groups that have been instrumental in pushing militarist U.S. policies as part of the “war on terror.” Such groups include the
Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, and the
Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Highly regarded for his past work in trying to forge arms control agreements (despite his support for several hardline anticommunist groups in the 1970s and 1980s), he participated in a study that promoted the idea of new U.S. nuclear weapons, yet he has more recently pushed for global nuclear disarmament [
riiiiight: disarmament for everyone but the jews]. …
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Kansteiner is a long-standing Republican Party operative active in international business and policy initiatives. …
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Karako is a visiting professor at Kenyon College, a fellow at the Claremont Institute, and a senior adviser for Americans for Victory over Terrorism. …
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A decorated former general credited with helping conceive the Iraq “surge,” Jack Keane has used his military experience to promote long-term U.S. engagements abroad—and to turn a profit in the private sector. …
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Kemble, an influential organizer of an array of neoconservative-led causes for more than three decades who refused to join his ideological ilk in their move from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the 1970s, died in October 2005 of brain cancer at the age of 64. …
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A former congressman and standout NFL quarterback who was associated with the hawkish wing of the Republican Party, Jack Kemp croaked and went to hell in early May 2009…
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Kennedy is the president of the Claremont Institute and senior adviser to the Bill Bennett-founded Americans for Victory over Terrorism. …
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A fellow at the Hudson Institute, Keyworth’s record includes working as an executive for defense contractors and serving as President Reagan’s science advisor, during which time he advocated for “Star Wars” missile defense. …
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The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the Bush presidency, Khalilzad is president of the international consulting firm Khalilzad Associates and an outspoken supporter of aggressive U.S. support for toppling Mideast regimes caught up in the “Arab Spring” as part of an effort to contain Iran. …
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Based at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, James Kirchick has helped lead efforts by neoconservatives to sideline libertarian, antiwar Republicans like presidential candidate Ron Paul. …
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Because of his close ties to the “Israel lobby,” this Republican Senator from Illinois has been dubbed “AIPAC’s Million Dollar Baby.” …
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The first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and an important intellectual leader of the neoconservative political faction, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick passed away on December 7, 2006….
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In December 2002, the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an influential Beltway think tank whose plank of neoconservative ideologues filled many high-level administration posts after George W. Bush became president, voted to make Bruce Kovner its chairman. One of the richest men in the United States, according to
Forbes, Kovner is chairman of Caxton Associates, a powerful hedge funds firm that trades in currency, interest-rate, petroleum, and equity markets. …
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Kramer is a Russia hawk who has served as the executive director of Freedom House, a U.S. government-funded democracy advocacy group that has been closely associated with neoconservative advocacy for decades. …
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Krauthammer, a psychiatrist-turned-award-winning-columnist who writes for the Washington Post, has been an important architect of the neoconservative foreign policy agenda and promoter of U.S. military intervention in the Middle East. …
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Kupperman, a longtime defense contracting executive, has been associated with a number of influential militarist think tanks and institutions including the Center for Security Policy…
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The former secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan and a member of the 9/11 Commission, John F. Lehman is chairman of the private equity firm J.F. Lehman & Company and an advisor to Sen.
John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. A long-standing supporter of militarist U.S. foreign policies dating back to the 1970s, Lehman was a member of the 1970s incarnation of the
Committee on the Present Danger, etc. …
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The former head of AmeriCorps and a long-time philanthropic supporter of neoconservatism, Lenkowksy accuses Obama of pushing policies that will hurt charitable giving…
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Lewis, the renowned historian of the Middle East who celebrated his 90th birthday in 2006, has provided much of the ideological ammunition for the Bush administration policy of Middle East transformation and global war on terror. …
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Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff who was convicted in connection to the PlameGate affair is now senior vice president of the Hudson Institute. …
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Livingston is a former congressman from Louisiana who heads the lobbying firm the Livingston Group, and has served as a advisor to the neoconservative Center for Security Policy. …
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Loewenberg heads the quixotic Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, the Jerusalem-based right-wing think tank notorious for its more-hawkish-than-Likud take on Middle East peace. …
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A former consultant to the Donald Rumsfeld-led Pentagon, Mario Loyola is a visiting fellow at the neoconservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), …
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A fellow at the “pro-Israel” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Makovsky has authored a number of books on Mideast policy, including the 2009 book cowritten with Dennis Ross,
Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction in the Middle East.
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The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Makovsky thinks that for President Obama to peacefully resolve the impasse over Iran’s nuclear program he may have to go to war. … AIPAC, etc.
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Marshall, cofounder of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and head of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), has been a leading figure in the effort to push the Democratic Party toward aggressive foreign policy, in particular in the “war on terror.” …
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Head of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, May regards as “cruel” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s [
phony] efforts to push Israel to respect Palestinians’ “legitimate aspirations” and work toward a “comprehensive peace.”
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McCaffrey, a retired general and the top ‘anti-’drug official during the Bill Clinton administration, is a prominent military commentator for MSNBC and NBC’s Nightly News …
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The National Review writer and former federal prosecutor thinks that Islamists, both peaceful and violent, intend to overthrow the U.S. government. …
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Tightly connected to military contractors and to several militarist advocacy groups, this retired general argues that President Obama is naïve about the threat from “radical Islam” and should increase troops in Afghanistan. …
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McKivergan, former deputy director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), is a policy analyst and writer closely associated with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), for whom he has served as…
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The Reagan-era Cold Warrior recently re-emerged on the national scene when he cowrote an op-ed for the right-wing
Washington Times that called for a return to the principles of “peace through strength” and warned that America’s very existence was in jeopardy because of a dizzying array of purported threats, including insecure borders, Shariah law, and unlawful combatants. …
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Meleagrou-Hitchens, a terrorism scholar based at London’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, thinks that even “soft” Islamism can lead to terrorism. …
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Scaife, owner of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and chairman of the Scaife Foundations, has been a key financier of the American Right for decades. …
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Merrill, a minor media mogul and former president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, was found dead in the Chesapeake Bay in late June 2006, apparently the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot…
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Retired General Thomas Moorman has represented defense industry interests at the same time as he served on government boards promoting weapons programs. …
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Muravchik, a neoconserviative ideologue based at the School of Advanced International Studies, has long pushed for a U.S. attack on Iran, including back in 2006, when he argued in Foreign Policy that Bush would have to bomb the country “before leaving office.” …
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Murawiec is a senior fellow at the rightist Hudson Institute, a member of the Committee on the Present Danger, a former analyst for the Rand Corporation, and the ex-editor of the
Executive Intelligence Review, a magazine founded by
Lyndon LaRouche, the controversial conspiracist and serial campaigner for the presidency. …
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Murdoch [
Mordechai], the head of News Corp and a long-time supporter of neoconservative campaigns, has been embroiled in scandal as former executives of his company are alleged to have hacked the voicemail of hundreds of politicians and celebrities, bribed British police, and attempted to illegally obtain the phone records of deceased 9/11 victims. …
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One of the foremost U.S. experts on counterinsurgency, Nagl is president of the Center for a New American Security, an influential inside-the-beltway think tank with close ties to the Obama administration and neoconservatives…
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Nash is a Fox News analyst, executive for military contractors, and advisor to several rightwing advocacy organizations, including the Center for Security Policy. …
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”Father Richard,” as he was called by President George W. Bush and others, was a Catholic priest and the president of the neoconservative-aligned Institute on Religion and Public Life…
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O’Hanlon, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, has a knack for getting invited on military-sponsored tours of war zones and then promoting the views of the generals in op-eds for major newspapers. …
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A former diplomat and longstanding democracy promoter who has supported the work of several neoconservative advocacy groups, Palmer has been a vociferous critic of the Obama administration’s track record in supporting internet freedom in China and Iran. …
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Payne, a longtime advocate of Strangelovian nuclear war-fighting strategies and missile defense, founded his National Institute for Public Policy in the early 1980s. In 2002, Payne was tapped to serve as assistant secretary of defense for forces and policy, a position he left in June 2003. …
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Congressman Steve Pearce (R-NM) is serving his first term in Congress. Shortly after being elected, Pearce joined a short list of other freshman members to be tapped as an assistant majority whip. …
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Rick Perry, George W. Bush’s successor as Texas governor who unsuccessfully campaigned for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has argued that his support for Israel is based on his Christian faith and pushed for U.S. military intervention in Mexico. …
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Richard Pipes, a historian of Russia and Communism at Harvard University, was a key anti-Soviet crusader in the 1970s and 1980s. He served as a consultant to Washington State Democratic Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson [
crypto jew] …
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Pletka established herself as a foreign policy hawk while working as a reporter for Insight Magazine during the George H.W. Bush administration, and later as member of the professional staff for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the Clinton administration, serving as the committee’s Middle East specialist. In 2002, when some 20 associates of the
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) joined the George W. Bush administration, Pletka moved from her government position to AEI, where she is vice president for foreign and defense policy studies. …
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…has been a leading writer and ideologue of the neoconservative political faction since the group began to emerge in the late 1960s. Along with Irving Kristol, Podhoretz is widely regarded as one of the group’s trailblazers….
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Before there was Palin there was Quayle. The former vice president and long-standing supporter of various neoconservative groups is now an investment banker. …
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Rhode, a controversial former Pentagon adviser now based at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, thinks that while Turkey and Iran battle each other for the hearts and minds of the Arab street they are “working together against the non-Muslim world.” …
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The former secretary of state has returned to Stanford, where she was provost before joining the Bush administration, to teach political science and work as a fellow at the hawkish Hoover Institution…
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Rodman, who ran out of gas August 2, 2008, was an assistant secretary of defense for international security under Donald Rumsfeld in the George W. Bush administration; he joined the Brookings.
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The former Massachusetts governor and leading Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney has emerged as one of the main war-with-Iran campaigners among the GOP candidates, claiming that if President Obama gets re-elected, “Iran will have a nuclear weapon,” but if he is elected “Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.” …
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Supported in part by rightwing donors from the “Israel Lobby,” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) has used her perch as chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to push hawkish policies in the Middle East and Latin America. …
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Now based at the right-wing Middle East Forum, Rosen is a former pioneering AIPAC lobbyist who was indicted for passing Pentagon secrets to the Israeli government. …
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Since stepping down from his NSC post and returning to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Ross has written on a number of issues close to his heart, like getting tough on Iran. ….
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George Bush Senior’s assistant secretary of defense, Rowen is a fellow emeritus at the Hoover Institution, where he focuses on U.S and Asian security and development issues. …
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Rubin, a “scholar” at the American Enterprise Institute who has attacked what he call’s Right Web’s “fake, conspiracy riddled biographies,” views the revolt in Egypt through the lens of Iran’s Islamic revolution. …
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Largely quiet since his untimely resignation from the Bush administration, Rumsfeld has reemerged of late to defend his track record, as well as the decision to torture terror suspects. …
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A presumptive GOP presidential candidate, former Senator Rick Santorum uses his perches at Fox News and at the neocon Ethics and Public Policy Center to hype fears that the United States is under dire threat from a heady assortment of enemies. …
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The former defense secretary thinks that the United States should consider extending its “nuclear umbrella” to the Middle East in order to keep other countries in the region from going nuclear in the event Iran develops the bomb. …
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A resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and author of numerous texts on intelligence reform and national security, Gary Schmitt helped found and direct the Project for the New American Century. …
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Schneider is a well-known media personality based at CNN; he has been described as “one of the country’s leading political commentators” (by his employer, CNN), “the nation’s election-meister” (
Washington Times), and “the Aristotle of American politics” (
Boston Globe). Schneider has been affiliated with several hardline policy institutes, including the neoconservative-led
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Stanford-based
Hoover Institution. …
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William Schneider Jr., a longtime proponent of controversial weapons programs and hardline advocacy groups like the Center for Security Policy (CSP), has worked as a defense adviser to the George W. Bush administration. ….
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Schulz is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute, where he serves as editor of AEI’s in-house magazine The American. …
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A high-powered Republican Party donor and real estate magnate, Sembler has supported a number of hawkish advocacy groups, including most recently Liz Cheney’s Keep America Safe. …
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Cindy Katz Sharon. | Ilan Sharon, executive director of Minnesotans Against Terrorism and a member of the advisory board of the Clarion Fund, frequently lectures on the rise of radical Islam. …
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Shea, a longtime supporter of interventionist U.S. policies dating back to the Contra wars in Nicaragua, is vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (CIRF).
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A well regarded expert on military history who is not typically associated with rightist political causes, Dennis Showalter has advised the neoconservative-led Institute for the Study of War and Center for Security Policy. …
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A former Pentagon advisor and well known Leo Strauss scholar, Shulsky uses his perch at the neocon Hudson Institute to criticize Obama’s arms control efforts.
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Silberman is a senior U.S. circuit court judge in the District of Columbia, regarded as one of the most important courts in the country, second only to the Supreme Court. He is also a longtime affiliate of a number of rightist organizations, including the
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the
Federalist Society, and a close associate of
Dick Cheney and
Donald Rumsfeld, dating back to their time working together in the Nixon and Ford administrations. …
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Smith, a writer at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, is perhaps best known for accusing critics of hardline Israeli policies—and U.S. support for them—of being “Jew-baiters.” …
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As a principle at the rightist William Rosenwald Family Fund and a board member for a host of neoconservative and “pro-Israel” outfits, David Steinmann has worked for decades to channel money to right-wing pressure groups. …
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…is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a former editor of the neoconservative flagship magazine Commentary. A rising media figure who promotes aggressive U.S. policies in the Middle East and militarist Israeli security policies … The neoconservative editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page apparently thinks that President Obama is too stupid to be a neocon.
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Sarah Stern is the founder and president Endowment for Middle East Truth
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Tancredo, the former House Republican notorious for his anti-immigrant activism, has become a leading promoter of Islamophobic rhetoric in the United States.
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Tanter, founder of the hawkish Iran Policy Committee, recently revived his arguments for why the U.S. should support the People’s Mujahedin Organization (MEK), an Iranian opposition group classified as a terrorist organization by the State Department. …
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Some kind of crazy, fake ’white-nationalist’ GMAN, as far as I can tell (I don’t have time).
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A speechwriter for President George W. Bush who is now a columnist at the Washington Post and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Thiessen is an enthusiastic defender of “enhanced interrogation techniques” and the “war on terror.” …
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Failed 2008 presidential candidate and Iraq war booster Fred Thompson has become one of the latest GOP notables to endorse Newt Gingrich for president in 2012.
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Conservative author and sometime congressional candidate Kenneth Timmerman has a long history of pushing regime change in Iran and, more recently, a “clash of civilizations” narrative between Christendom and the Muslim Middle East. …
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Tkacik is a Heritage Foundation China scholar and a signatory to the Project for the New American Century’s 2002 letter to President Bush on Hong Kong, …
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Van Cleave is a former Pentagon official who has been closely associated with hawkish advocacy campaigns for decades, including efforts to derail the Obama administration’s passage of a new START Treaty with Russia. …
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A long-time China hawk, Arthur Waldron claims that the United States must be willing to rollback Chinese influence in Asia or be prepared to sacrifice allies and its reputation. …
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Waller, a neoconservative academic at the Institute of World Politics, uses his blogs to hype purported threats about sharia law and to promote the argument that the United States should “snatch” the founder of WikiLeaks and pursue espionage charges against him.
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Retired Sen. Malcolm Wallop (R-WY) is an old-school Cold Warrior who continues to promote rightwing defense and foreign policy initiatives as chair of Frontiers of Freedom. | Thank Gawd, he’s dead.
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The former U.S. “Drug Czar,” John Walters continues to [pretend to] worry about “narcoterrorism” from his perch as an executive at the Hudson Institute.
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Walworth is TV producer who served as executive producer of Ideas in Action, a weekly TV program hosted by James Glassman and produced by the George W. Bush Institute and Grace Creek Media.
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Wattenberg, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and moderator of PBS’s Think Tank, was a member of a core group of Democratic Party hawks who, in the 1970s, shifted to the “right” … Like a number of his neoconservative contemporaries, including
Richard Perle and
Frank Gaffney, Wattenberg served on the staff of the hawkish pro-Israel Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-WA) before joining the Ronald Reagan administration in the early 1980s. …
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Wedgwood is an international law expert specializing in human rights who is based at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She is a former member of ex-Pentagon chief
Donald Rumsfeld‘s Defense Policy Board, which was previously headed by
Richard Perle. Closely associated with a number of neoconservative and rightist pro-Israel groups—including
Freedom House,
UN Watch, and
Benador Associates (a neocon-dominated public relations firm)—Wedgwood has been a vocal advocate of the “war on terror” and a supporter of many of the policies and practices put in place by the George W. Bush administration since 9/11.
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A former adviser to President George W. Bush, Wehner has used his perch at the neoconservative Ethics and Public Policy Center to promote militarist U.S. foreign policies and a conservative Christian domestic agenda. …
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Called by some critics a “Catholic neocon” or a “theocon,” George Weigel is a Catholic theologian based at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) and a charter signatory of the neoconservative
Project for the New American Century (PNAC). …
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Since losing his bid for reelection while under investigation for his ties to an arms contractor, former Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) has been able to lobby more openly for defense industry interests, including in Libya. …
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Weyrich, a key strategist of the New Right, passed away on December 18, 2008. He was 66 years old. Sometimes referred to as a “pillar of the modern conservative movement,”…
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After series of high-profile clashes with Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz over Iraq planning and army modernization issues, White resigned from his post as army secretary in early 2003. …
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Described as Donald Rumsfeld’s “right-hand man” in the early years of the George W. Bush administration by the Weekly Standard’s William Kristol and Robert Kagan …
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Wilson has represented the 1st Congressional District of New Mexico since June 23, 1998. . Wilson is the first woman veteran in U.S. history to serve in Congress…
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Pete Wilson, the former governor of California and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, has been an important Republican Party figure for more than three decades, having also served as a U.S. senator, the mayor of San Diego, and a California state representative. …
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Wittmann is a Washington insider who has worked for two of the Senate’s more hawkish figures: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), for whom Wittmann currently serves as communications director,…
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Woolsey, a former CIA director who views the “War on Terror” as the “Long War,” is board chairman of the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and chair of Woolsey Partners LLC. …
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Wurmser, a scholar with strong ties to a number of neoconservative policy institutes, served as Mideast adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney from 2003 to mid-2007. Previously, Wurmser had worked as an aide to then-Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
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Meyrav Wurmser, the director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the neoconservative-aligned Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, and a contributing expert at the Israel-based Ariel Center, is a longtime proponent of hardline Likud Party policies in the Middle East and, along with her husband
David Wurmser (an adviser on Mideast issues to Vice President
Dick Cheney), a member of an elite clique of policy wonks who helped shape ideas that seem to have heavily influenced the George W. Bush administration’s response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. …
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Yoo, the former deputy assistant attorney general who is known for his extreme views on executive wartime powers and for helping author the infamous “torture memos,” is one of many former Bush figures who has cited the death of Osama bin Laden as vindication of their support for “enhance interrogation techniques.”
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A vice president with the global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, Dov Zakheim has spent more than two decades working in the defense industry, in both governmental and private capacities. A regular supporter of hawkish defense policy, Zakheim has been associated with a string of neoconservative-led groups, including the
Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and the
Center for Security Policy, where he serves on the advisory council. …
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Zinsmeister, a former fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and correspondent for the right-wing magazine National Review, was named head of President George W. Bush’s Domestic Policy Council (DPC) during Bush’s second term. …
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Despite having a reputation as a non-ideological operator, World Bank head Robert Zoellick’s aggressive promotion of U.S. trade interests has at times mirrored his support for militarist U.S. foreign policies.
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The Iran-Contra veteran is a well-known neoconservative ideologue who works as a senior fellow on Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. … | Wife: Rachel Decter, the stepdaughter of Norman Podhoretz … three children: Jacob, Sarah and Joseph.
Amitay, an influential Washington lobbyist and longtime legislative assistant in Congress, is the former head of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and former vice chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a Likud-aligned organization based in Washington, DC. …
A Council on Foreign Relations in-house neocon, Boot’s inflated rhetoric about the need for a strong U.S. military has led one observer to argue that Boot hopes to keep the United States in a state of “permanent mobilization”. …Boot would have the United States bomb Iran even while admitting that such a policy would ultimately fail. … | “Boot was born in 1969 in Moscow. Boot and his family currently live in New York City.”
Bremer, a career Foreign Service diplomat, served as presidential envoy to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq from May 2003 to June 2004 … Bremer currently serves as advisory board chairman of Global Secure Corporation, whose mission is “to secure the homeland with integrated products and services for the critical incident response community worldwide, focusing on prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery.” … | http://www.bollyn.com/the-occupation-of-iraq-is-the-war-in-iraq | Wife: Frances Winfield (“Francie”, author). Son: Paul (salesman). Daughter: Leila (psychologist).
http://74.54.143.3/~versar/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=76 | Hoeber, an advisor to the Frank Gaffney-run Center for Security Policy, runs a small Maryland-based defense consultancy firm. Hoeber is a former Reagan-era defense official who has been closely aligned with militarist factions in U.S. politics since the 1970s, when she served on the board of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), a hawkish anti-Soviet group that was led in part by neoconservatives like Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hoeber joined the most recent incarnation of the CPD, which pushes hardline U.S. policies in the “war on terror” and is supported by several congressional figures and former government officials, including honorary CPD co-chairmen Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), and former CIA head James Woolsey. …
Morgenstern is the president of Security Solutions International (SSI), a Miami-based company founded in 2004 that bills itself as a frontline defense against the threat of “radical Islam” and prime provider of “homeland security training” to a range of clients, including local police forces, corporations, and federal agencies. … | http://www.linkedin.com/pub/henry-morgenstern/5/5bb/ab1 - Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area.
