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*Juliette Kayyem, [http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/28916 "All in the Family: Cheney and Iran,"] ''TPM Cafe'', April 17, 2006. | *Juliette Kayyem, [http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/28916 "All in the Family: Cheney and Iran,"] ''TPM Cafe'', April 17, 2006. | ||
*Robert Dreyfuss, [http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=11540 "The Commissar’s in Town. Very little happens at State regarding the Middle East without the knowledge and approval of Cheney -- not Dick, but Liz, his powerful, secretive daughter,"] ''The American Prospect'', June 6, 2006. | *Robert Dreyfuss, [http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=11540 "The Commissar’s in Town. Very little happens at State regarding the Middle East without the knowledge and approval of Cheney -- not Dick, but Liz, his powerful, secretive daughter,"] ''The American Prospect'', June 6, 2006. | ||
| − | *Robert Dreyfuss, [http://aggravated.blogspot.com/2006/06/liz-cheney-runs-iran-syria-op-group-at.html "Liz Cheney Runs Iran-Syria Group at State Department,"] ''The American Prospect'', June 15, 2006. | + | *Robert Dreyfuss, [http://aggravated.blogspot.com/2006/06/liz-cheney-runs-iran-syria-op-group-at.html "Liz Cheney Runs Iran-Syria Group at State Department,"] ''The American Prospect'', June 15, 2006; [http://www.alternet.org/story/37490/ ''AlterNet''], June 16, 2006. |
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Revision as of 12:48, 16 November 2006
Elizabeth "Liz" Cheney, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiatives, currently heads the Iran-Syria Operations Group.
Cheney is the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney of the American Enterprise Institute.
Contents
Profiles
In May 2005, Liz Cheney left "her senior-level post at the State Department to have a baby," CNN reported May 19, 2005.
"Cheney, 39, has served as the principal deputy assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs since February 2005. In that role, she launched the Middle East Partnership Initiative, an effort to provide funding for programs to advance political and educational reform and women's rights in the region.
"She also worked in the State Department from 2002 to 2003, before leaving to work on her father's re-election campaign.
"Cheney and her husband, Philip Perry, the general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, have four other children, including a son born in the middle of the 2004 campaign," CNN wrote.
External Links
Profiles
- Profile: Elizabeth Cheney, Right Web.
Speeches, Comments by Liz Cheney
- "Liz Cheney: Morocco could be a model for countries of the region," Arabic News, April 14, 2005.
- Remarks by Elizabeth Cheney, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiatives, Foreign Policy Association Annual Dinner, June 14, 2005.
Articles & Commentary
- Maha Akeel, "Correcting Perceptions About America Is My Job: Liz Cheney," Arab News, November 16, 2005: Liz Cheney "said that Syria and Iran are a concern for the United States, that capturing Osama Ben Laden is not a key issue in winning the war on terrorism and that new methods need to be used in this war."
- Robert Dreyfuss, "What 'staying the course' really means," Asia Times, December 1, 2005: "Liz Cheney and other top US officials are already meeting with Chalabi-like Syrian exile leaders to plot 'regime change'."
- Sarah Baxter, "Cheney daughter leads 'cold war' on mullahs," Times Online (UK), March 5, 2006.
- Juliette Kayyem, "All in the Family: Cheney and Iran," TPM Cafe, April 17, 2006.
- Robert Dreyfuss, "The Commissar’s in Town. Very little happens at State regarding the Middle East without the knowledge and approval of Cheney -- not Dick, but Liz, his powerful, secretive daughter," The American Prospect, June 6, 2006.
- Robert Dreyfuss, "Liz Cheney Runs Iran-Syria Group at State Department," The American Prospect, June 15, 2006; AlterNet, June 16, 2006.
