Bush administration: Project for the New American Century

The following are Project for the New American Century (PNAC) personnel who are either members of or close to the Bush administration:

• Elliot Abrams is a senior member of the National Security Council, who pled guilty to the charge of lying to Congress in the Iran/Contra scandal. He is an original signer of the PNAC statement of principles.

• Kenneth Adelman is a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. He is not an original signer of the PNAC statement of principles, but has signed one of its position papers sent as a letter to president George W. Bush in 2002.

• Richard V. Allen is a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the National Security Advisory Group.

• John R. Bolton, currently Bush's nominee as ambassador to the United Nations, served as Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs. He is not an original signer of the PNAC statement of principles, but has signed at least five PNAC position papers sent as letters to presidents and members of congress advocating military aggression abroad.

• Stephen Cambone is Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.

• Dick Cheney is Vice President and an original signer of the PNAC statement of principles.

• Seth Cropsey is Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau.

• Devon Gaffney Cross is a member of the Defense Policy Board and Donors Forum on International Affairs.

• Paula Dobriansky is Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs.

• Aaron Friedberg is the Vice President's Deputy National Security Advisor and the Vice President's Director of Policy Planning.

• Francis Fukuyama is a member of the Cloning Panel, President's Council on Bioethics.

• Daniel Goure is a member of the 2001 DoD Transition Team.

• Fred C. Ikle is a member of the Defense Policy Board.

• Zalmay Khalilzad was appointed in December 2002 as the president's "special envoy and ambassador at large for free Iraqis." According to the White House announcement, Khalilzad would "serve as the focal point for contacts and coordination among free Iraqis for the U.S. government and for preparations for a post-Saddam Iraq." Khalilzad's qualifications include not only advocating Saddam's ouster since the 1980s, but also his proven prowess in orchestrating the installation of the Hamid Karzai regime in Afghanistan after being appointed special U.S. envoy to Afghanistan in December 2001. He is an original signer of the PNAC statement of principles.

• Jeane J. Kirkpatrick is the U.S. Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

• John F. Lehman is a member of the National Commission to Investigate Attacks on the U.S. (9-11 Commission).

• I. Lewis Scooter Libby is Chief of Staff and the Vice President's Assistant for National Security Affairs to Dick Cheney and an original signer of the PNAC statement of principles.

• Richard N. Perle became chairman of the 30-member Defense Policy Board in July 2001, which meets regularly with Rumsfeld. The board's meetings are classified and members are allowed access to top-secret intelligence reports. He resigned in early 2003 upon allegations that he was essentially profiting from insider trading with classified defense intelligence. Perle is not an original signer of the PNAC statement of principles, but has signed at least eight PNAC position papers sent as letters to presidents and members of congress advocating military aggression abroad.

• J. Danforth Quayle is a member of the Defense Policy Board.

• Peter W. Rodman is Asst. Defense Secretary for International Security Affairs.

• Henry S. Rowen is a member of the Defense Policy Board.

• Donald Rumsfeld is US Secretary of Defense and an original signer of the PNAC statement of principles in 1997.

• William Schneider, Jr. is Chairman of the Defense Science Board.

• Abram Shulsky is Director of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans.

• Chris Williams is a member of the Defense Policy Board and Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel, as well as Special Assistant to Rumsfeld on Policy, 2001.

• Paul Dundes Wolfowitz is Deputy Secretary of Defense and an original signer of the PNAC statement of principles.

• R. James Woolsey, Jr. served as director of Central Intelligence for the CIA from 1993-95, and was ambassador to the negotiation on conventional armed forces in Europe from 1989-91. Woolsey went to Geneva as delegate at large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks from 1983-86. He was also Under Secretary of the Navy and advised the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Woolsey, one of the most high-profile hawks in the war against Iraq and a key member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, is a director of the Washington-based private equity firm Paladin Capital. The company was set up three months after the terrorist attacks on New York and sees the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001 as a business opportunity which 'offer[s] substantial promise for homeland security investment'. He is not an original signer of the PNAC statement of principles, but has signed at least seven of its position papers sent as letters to presidents and members of congress advocating military aggression abroad. According to RightWeb, Woolsey is a member of the Defense Policy Board, the Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel, and a special envoy of Rumsfeld to investigate the Czech-al Qaeda connection (?).[1]

• Dov S. Zakheim is DoD Comptroller.

• Robert Bruce Zoellick was appointed United States Trade Representative.

Information gleaned from RightWeb has been incorporated into this article.[2]

External links

• Arundhati Roy, "The New American Century," The Nation, January 22, 2004: "From Cancun we learned the importance of globalizing resistance. ... No individual nation can stand up to the project of corporate globalization on its own."