Dick Cheney:

Vice President

·      2000 & 2004 Elected Vice President of the United States of America

1.       January, 2001 President Bush establishes his Energy Task Force under Vice President Cheney's leadership.

2.       April, 2001 Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and John Dingell (D-MI) wrote to the General Accounting Office (GAO), asking it to investigate the Task Force. According to the GAO, "The congressional investigation of the task force was prompted by news reports that the task force had met privately with major campaign contributors, such as Kenneth Lay, the CEO of Enron, to discuss energy policy. According to these reports, major Republican contributors attended private sessions with Vice President Cheney and the task force met secretly with other contributors in formulating the President's National Energy Policy.” In response, Cheney's counsel returned a letter, refusing to disclose whom Cheney and the Task Force had met with and even who was on the Task Force's staff. The GAO made a formal demand for information; Cheney rebuffed it, citing Executive Privilege. It's worth noting that the GAO wasn't even requesting the minutes of the Task Force meetings; it merely wanted to know who the Task Force met with, and when.

3.       May-2001 Cheney reveals the results of months of meetings of his Energy Task Force.  The plan puts a premium on exploring for and extracting more oil, and proposes the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve be used. While it paid lip service to alternative energy sources, its recommendations focused almost exclusively on the need for more "energy supply" -- more oil, more nuclear plants, more coal.

4.       According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, "the Bush plan would provide no short-term relief for Americans struggling to pay their gasoline and electric bills this summer. And, over the long-term, it would increase pollution, despoil the environment, threaten public health and accelerate global warming. Moreover, it would have no impact on energy prices, and no practical effect on U.S. dependence on foreign sources of oil. Who would benefit? The oil, coal and nuclear industries that shoveled millions of dollars into Bush campaign coffers."

·      1995 CEO of Halliburton

·      1978 Wyoming Representative to Congress (reelected 5 times)

·      1975 Cheney appointed President Ford's chief of staff

·      1969 Served as special assistant to Donald Rumsfeld (President George W. Bush's Secretary of Defense) in the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Nixon administration.

Cheney's 2000 income from Halliburton: $36,086,635

Increase in government contracts while Cheney led Halliburton: 91%

Minimum size of "accounting irregularity" that occurred while Cheney was CEO: $100,000,000 (One hundred MILLION dollars)

Number of the seven official US "State Sponsors of Terror" that Halliburton contracted with: 2 out of 7

Pages of Energy Plan documents Cheney refused to give congressional investigators: 13,500

Financial contribution amount energy companies gave the Bush/Cheney presidential campaign: $1,800,000

I. Lewis Libby:

Chief of Staff to the Vice President

·         Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs.

1.       Libby has been named as a prime suspect in providing the illegal leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame (along with Eliot Abrams, PNAC signer, see below)

·         Rand Corporation Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (other PNAC signers who worked for Rand are Zalmay Khalilzad, Francis Fukuyama and Fred C. Ikle see below)

·         1989-1993 Libby again serves as Wolfowitz's assistant (this time at the Pentagon)

·         1982-1985 Department of State Director, Special Projects, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs

·         1981 Department of State Policy Planning Staff, Office of the Secretary

Donald Rumsfeld:

Secretary of Defense

·      January, 2001 Secretary of Defense (again) under George W. Bush

1.       Headed the defense department during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. A remark that led to particular debate was his characterization of the bombing of Baghdad as Shock and Awe, part of the now famous Rumsfeld doctrine.

2.       It has widely been argued that he holds responsibility for war crimes committed during the invasion by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

·      2000 Chairperson of the U.S. Commission to Assess National Security Space Management and Organization

·      1990 – 2001 Member of the Board of Directors for ABB Ltd

1.       While Rumsfeld was on the board of directors of ABB, the global technology group, they issued a press release on January 20, 2000 stating that they had signed contracts to deliver equipment and services for two nuclear power stations at Kumho, on the east coast of North Korea. The deal was part of the 1994 U.S.-North Korea nuclear pact. He has not made any public statements explaining the arrangement.

·         1998 – 1999 Chairperson, Commission on the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States

·      1983 – 1984 President Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle East

1.      December, 1983 He had a 90 minute discussion with Saddam Hussein which did not cover Iraqi production and use of chemical weapons supplied by the United States and used against the Kurds.

·      1982 - 1986 Member of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control

·      1977-1985 Rumsfeld served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and then Chairman of G.D. Searle & Company, a worldwide pharmaceutical company.

1.      Searle received FDA approval for the controversial artificial sweetener, aspartame.

2.      He reduced the number of employees by approximately 60%.

3.      The financial turnaround of the company earned him awards as the Outstanding Chief Executive Officer in the Pharmaceutical Industry from the Wall Street Transcript (1980) and Financial World (1981). Rumsfeld is believed to have earned around US$12 million from the sale of Searle to Monsanto

Ø       Monsanto is the leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed, holding 70%–100% market share for various crops.

·      1975-1977 Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford

1.   During this period he was instrumental in increasing the power of the military within the administration and at the expense of the CIA and Henry Kissinger.

2.   Transferred George H.W. Bush from envoy to China into the position of Director of the CIA

·      Member of the boards of trustees of the Hoover Institution

Paul Wolfowitz:

United States Deputy Secretary of Defense

·      2005 Nominated for President of the World Bank by George W. Bush.

1.   He is currently involved with Shaha Riza, an Arab feminist born in Tunis and brought up in Saudi Arabia who works as a communications adviser in the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa department.

·      2001 United States Deputy Secretary of Defense

1.   Following the terrorist attacks of 9-11, debate began within the White House as to the degree of action to take against Al Qaeda. Certain members of President Bush's cabinet, led by Wolfowitz, advocated preemptive strikes against Iraq alongside those against terror cells in Afghanistan. Out of this came the creation of what would later be dubbed the Bush Doctrine, centering on preemption and a broad-based anti-terrorism campaign.

2.   Wolfowitz estimated that fewer than 10,000 troops would be necessary for post-war control of Iraq. He was equally dismissive of estimates that the cost would be between $65-$95 billion dollars (the cost to date is in excess of $150 billion dollars)

·      1989-1993 He served as under-secretary for defense policy under defense secretary, Dick Cheney

1.   His defense policy team also played a key role in coordinating and reviewing US strategy in the Gulf War, overseeing plans which eventually raised more than $50 Billion in allied financial support for the operation.

·      1986 During the Reagan administration, Dr. Wolfowitz served for three years as U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia.

·      1981 Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.

·      Married to Clare Selgin Wolfowitz

Jeb Bush:

Governor of Florida

·      1998 Bush defeated Democratic opponent Buddy MacKay (55% to 45%) to become governor, after courting moderate voters and Latinos.

1.   He has been the subject of several high-profile controversies.

Ø Among these, the most well-known on a national scale is his involvement in the 2000 presidential election, in which his brother's victory over Democratic candidate Al Gore was secured through a complicated process of recounts and court battles in Florida. Bush has been accused of helping his brother prevail in this process.

2.   An October 2002 report in the Miami Herald details Bush's involvement in a questionable Nigerian deal, where money was allegedly used to bribe government officials for approval of a $74 million water pump sale mainly financed by US foreign aid.

Zalmay Khalilzad:

·      September, 2003 Appointed as Ambassador to Afghanistan

·      May, 2002 L. Paul Bremer is appointed as special envoy to Iraq, making Bremer the senior civilian in charge of rebuilding the country's government and Infrastructure. Zalmay Khalilzad, the White House liaison to former Iraqi opposition groups, follows Bremer to advise him on Iraqi politics and assist in starting a representative government

·      2001-2003 National Security Council: Senior Director for Gulf, Southwest Asia and Other Regional Issues

1.       Chose Hamid Karzai to head the current Afghan government, after which Khalilzad's choice was 'democratically approved' by the members of the Afghan elite, whom he had assembled

·      December, 1997 Zalmay Khalilzad joins UNOCAL officials in Texas.  Khalilzad conducted risk analyses for UNOCAL while working for the Cambridge Energy Research Associates.  The analyses are for a proposed 890-mile, $2-billion, 1.9-billion-cubic-feet-per-day natural gas pipeline project from Turkmenistan to Pakistan.²⁸

·      1993 Former Senior Political Scientist to RAND Corp. (along with PNAC signers Francis Fukuyama and Fred C. Ikle, see below)

·      1991-1992, A senior Defense Department official for policy planning

Elliott Abrams:

Deputy Secretary of State

·      February, 2005 Appointed to the office of the Deputy Secretary of State

·      Member of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya

·      November, 2003 Appointed by Bush: Chief of Middle Eastern affairs at National Security Agency

1.       Abrams has been named as a prime suspect in providing the illegal leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.

·      June, 2002 Appointed to the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the NSC for Near East and North African Affairs

1.       Replaces Zalmay Khalilzad (also PNAC signer, see below)

2.       Abrams is an avowed right-wing Zionist and supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Likud bloc. Before his appointment, he had insisted that the US reject the “land-for-peace” formula that was the basis for previous Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. In a document drafted for the Project on the New American Century, he declared that Washington “should not permit the establishment of a Palestinian state that did not explicitly uphold US policy in the region.”

3.       Abrams is implicated in the abortive coup attempt against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in April 2002.

·      2000 In "Present Dangers," a book produced by the PNAC in 2000, Abrams outlined a new U.S. Mideast policy that called for "regime change" in Iraq and for cracking down on the Palestinian Authority. Foreshadowing the current U.S. policy based on superior military power, Abrams recommended that in the Middle East "our military strength and willingness to use it" should be the "key factor in our ability to promote peace."

·      1996-2002  President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center

·      1992 Bush senior pardoned him together with others convicted in relation to the Iran-Contra conspiracy.

·      October, 1991 pleaded guilty to two counts of withholding information from Congress. He pleaded guilty to unlawfully withholding material information concerning Oliver North's contact with and encouragement of the people supplying the contras from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October 10, 1986. Additionally, he pleaded guilty to unlawfully withholding material information from HPSCI on October 14, 1986, concerning his participation in the Brunei solicitation and his expectation, as of October 14, that the $10 million from the Sultan of Brunei was on its way to the Swiss bank account he had provided.  Abrams entered the plea agreement in order to avoid a felony prosecution and potential jail time.

1.       Working with Lt. Col. Oliver North, who was then a member of the National Security Council, he personally participated in obtaining illegal sources of funding, including making a flight to London and using the alias of “Mr. Kenilworth” to obtain $10 million from the Sultan of Brunei.

·      Reagan named Abrams as director of the State Department’s Office for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. 

1.       He specialized in grossly exaggerating human rights abuses in Nicaragua—most particularly in a trumped-up campaign to portray the Sandinista government as a persecutor of the Miskito Indians—in order to justify support for the contra army, which killed some 10,000 Nicaraguans. When Raymond Bonner of the New York Times and Alma Guillermoprieto of the Washington Post published accounts of the mass killings, Abrams dismissed them as “nothing but communist propaganda.”

Peter W. Rodman:

Assistant Secretary of Defense

·      July, 2001 Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

1.       Principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense on the formulation and coordination of international security strategy and policy, with responsibility for East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Persian Gulf, Africa, and Latin America.

·      1995-2001 Director of National Security Programs at the Nixon Center

·      1987-1990 National Security Council and White House as the Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and NSC Counselor

·      1986-1987 Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

·      1984-1986 Director of Policy Planning Staff for Secretary of State George Schultz

·      1972-77 Department of State as the Special Assistant to Henry Kissinger

1.       Former director of research at Kissinger Associates, Inc

2.       He also worked as a research and editorial assistant to Dr. Kissinger in the preparation of his memoirs.

·      1969 -1977 staff member for the National Security Council

·      Married to Veronique Rodman

1.   She also worked for former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

2.   October, 2003 Bush appointed her to the the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the bipartisan, nine-member board which supervises all U.S. nonmilitary international broadcasting.

Ø       As a television news consultant, she helped launch "Fox News Sunday,” “Fair & Balanced”

Ø       The BBG supervises Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL); Radio Free Asia (RFA); Radio and TV Martí, Radio Sawa and Radio Farda. The services broadcast in 65 languages to over 100 million people around the world in 125 markets.

Aaron Friedberg:

·      May, 2003 Vice President Cheney's Deputy National Security Adviser

Paula Dobriansky:

US Under Secretary of State

·      May, 2001 Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

1.       Works alongside Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Bolton

·      1996 Foreign Policy Coordinator for Bob Dole’s 1996 Presidential Campaign

·      1990-1993 Associate Director for Policy and Programs for the U.S. Information Agency

Henry S. Rowen:

·      2005 U.S. Department of Defense Policy Board Member

·      1989-1991U.S. Department of Defense: Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs 

·      1981-1983 National Intelligence Council

·      1967-1972 President of the RAND Corporation

·      1961-1964 Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

·      1950-1961Economist for the RAND Corporation

·      A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution

Dan Quayle:

·      2000 Republican presidential contender

·      1991 Received the satirical Ig Nobel Prize for "demonstrating, better than anyone else, the need for science education"

·      1989-1993 Vice President of the United States under George HW Bush

Gary Bauer:

President of American Values

·      2005 American Values President: deeply committed to defending life, traditional marriage, and equipping our children with the values necessary to stand against liberal education and cultural forces

·      2000 Republican presidential contender

·      1988 President of the lobbying arm for Focus on the Family. Co-founder of and President for the Family Research Council (FRC)

1.       The other co-founder is James Dobson

·      1987 President Reagan's Chief Domestic Policy Advisor

·      1985 Under Secretary of Education

William J. Bennett:

D.J.

·      2005 Host of Talk Show Morning in America which is broadcast on 115 radio stations including key markets such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Dallas, Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix, San Diego, Minneapolis.

1.       Co-director of Empower America, Chairman and co-founder of the education company K12, Inc. and the Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute. He is also the chairman of Americans for Victory over Terrorism, a project dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public opinion as the war on terrorism moves forward.

·      October, 2004 Congressman George Miller calls for an investigation into two contracts awarded by the Department of Education to companies with close ties to Department officials and which career peer reviewers at the Department counseled against granting.

1.       Citing the importance of adhering to federal requirements in granting taxpayer dollars to private organizations, Miller called on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate a $4.1 million grant to K12, a project run by William Bennet, Education Secretary under President George H. W. Bush

·      1989 President Bush's "Drug Czar"

·      1985 President Reagan’s Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Secretary of Education

Midge Decter AKA Midge Rosenthal

·      Mother-In-Law of Elliott Abrams (also PNAC signer, see above)

·      Wife of Norman Podhoretz (also PNAC signer, see below)

·      Member of the Committee on the Present Danger

The Committee on the Present Danger is dedicated to protecting and expanding democracy by winning the global war against terrorism and the movements and ideologies that drive it. We will support policies that use appropriate means--military, economic, political, social--to achieve this goal.

We are incorporated as a not-for-profit (501(c)(4)) organization. Our membership is limited to those in private life and does not include elected or appointed full-time federal or state officials or candidates for public office. All members serve in their individual capacities and not as official representatives of any other group or organization. We are all independent citizens. As a Committee, we recognize no ties or obligations to any Administration or political party.

Our mission is to educate free people everywhere about the threat posed by global radical Islamist and fascist terrorist movements; to counsel against appeasement of terrorists; and build support for a strategy of victory against this menace to freedom.

·      1981 Member of the Board of Trustees for the Heritage Foundation

·      1981 Executive Director for the Committee For a Free World

·      Hoover Institution Board of Overseers

1.   A public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, economics, and political economy—both domestic and foreign—as well as international affairs.

·      (no date available) Former director for Nicaraguan Freedom Fund

1.   A fundraising group set up in 1985 by the Washington Times, a paper owned by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, to provide funds to the contras

·      (no date available) Executive Director for the Committee For a Free World (no info available on this group)

·      (no date available) Member of the Editorial Board for the Institute on Religion and Public Life

·      (no date available) Member of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya

·      Mother of John Podhoretz:

1.   Five-time Jeopardy! champion

2.   Former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, he later served as special assistant to Drug Czar William Bennett. Podhoretz later penned a hagiography of George W. Bush entitled Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane.

·      Editor at Harper’s Magazine

1.   Commentary

Ø       Routinely publishes works by Aaron Friedberg (PNAC signer, see above)

2.   Midstream

3.   Legacy Books

·      Father-in-law to Elliot Abrams (also PNAC signer, see above)

·      Husband of Midge Decter (also PNAC signer, see above)

·      September, 2004 Published an article in Commentary titled “Enter the Bush Doctrine: The four pillars of the president's strategy for winning World War IV.”

1.       In the article he talks about Elliot Abrams without ever revealing their relationship

·      1981-1987 Served with the U.S. Information Agency

Vin Weber:

Lobbyist

·      2000 the Center for Public Integrity reveals that Weber is “currently registered to lobby for more than fifty-five corporate and special interests, many of them with concerns before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, which McCain chairs."

1.       Weber served as a political adviser for John McCain

·      1994 Founds and is managing partner of Clark & Weinstock

1.       A management consulting firm that specializes in reputation and crisis management, public policy counsel, strategic corporate communications during mergers and other financial transactions, and the development of business ethics and corporate responsibility programs.

Frank Gaffney:

President of the Center for Security Policy

·      Founder and President of the Center for Security Policy since 1988

1.       The advisory council of his Center for Security Policy is dominated by figures with strong ties to defense industries, such as...

Ø       Stanley Ebner is a chief Boeing lobbyist;

Ø       Charles Kupperman is Lockheed Martin’s vice president for space and strategic missiles;

Ø       Douglas Graham is Lockheed’s director of defense systems;

Ø       Amoretta Hoeber is a former TRW executive;

Ø       Robert Livingston is a Raytheon lobbyist;

Ø       George Keyworth is on the board of Hewlett Packard.

·      Columnist  for the The Washington Times

·      Adviser for Americans for Victory over Terrorism

·      1987 Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle (PNAC signer, see above)

·      1987 Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy.

·      1987 High Level Group Chairman for North American Treaty Organization’s senior politico-military committee

·      1981 Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee

Steve Forbes:

Editor in Chief of Forbes Magazine

·      Member of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, whose mission is “to complete President Reagan's unfinished work and to promote the timeless principles he championed: Individual Liberty, Economic Opportunity, Global Democracy, National Pride. These Four Pillars of Freedom guided the President throughout his years of public service and are at the core of all we do.”

·      2000 Republican presidential contender

1.       Primarily running on a campaign to establish a flat income tax. Observers noted that he stood to save substantial amounts in taxes if such a proposal was enacted. Indeed, Forbes himself is quite wealthy, with a net worth upwards of $435 million. In response to this criticism, Forbes promised in his 2000 campaign to exempt himself from the benefits of the flat tax.

·      1996 Republican presidential contender

Francis Fukuyama:

President's Council on Bioethics

·      2004 member of the President's Council on Bioethics.

1.       Also a member of advisory boards for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the Journal of Democracy, and The New America Foundation. As an NED board member, he is responsible for oversight of the Endowment’s Middle East programs. 

2.       Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. (along with Eliot A. Cohen, PNAC signer, see above)

·      1996-2000 Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. 

·      1995-1996 A member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation

·      1989 A member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US State Department as Deputy Director for European political-military affairs. 

·      1983-1989 A member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation

·      1981-1982 A member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US State Department specializing in Middle East affairs.  He was also a member of the US delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy. 

Fred C. Ikle:

Defense Policy Board

·      Member of the Defense Policy Board

1.       30-member, appointed advisory group that consults with the Department of Defense. Established in 1985 to provide the Secretary of Defense, "with independent, informed advice and opinion concerning major matters of defense policy." Members are selected by and report to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, a position currently held by Douglas Feith

·      2001 Served on the board of the Center for Security Policy, and participated in the study group that produced the National Institute for Public Policy's 2001 report Rationale and Requirements for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control, which served as a blueprint for the Bush administration's controversial Nuclear Posture Review.

·      (no date available) Former head of the Social Sciences Department for the RAND Corp.

·      1988  Co-Chairman of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy that published Discriminate Deterrence

Eliot A. Cohen:

Teacher

·      Member of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya

·      A professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Cohen is the director of the Strategic Studies department and has an emphasis on strategic studies, the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq, arms control, and NATO. Cohen has also worked for the Department of Defense and taught at the U.S. Naval War College. He is a member of the Project for the New American Century at the American Enterprise Institute.

Donald Kagan:

Teacher

·      Professor of History and Classics at Yale University

Stephen P. Rosen:

Teacher

·      2005 Director, Olin Institute of Strategic Studies at Harvard University and Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard

1.   Professor Rosen has published articles on ballistic missile defense, the American theory of limited war, and on the strategic implications of the AIDS epidemic.

George Weigel:

Ethics and Public Policy Center

·      1996 Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center

1.   Established in 1976 to clarify and reinforce the bond between the Judeo-Christian moral tradition and the public debate over domestic and foreign policy issues

·      1989-1996 President for the Ethics and Public Policy Center

·      1986-1989 Founding President of James Madison Foundation

1.   The foundation received funding from the federal government's U.S. Institute for Peace to monitor what it called "peace groups."

·      1977-1984 Scholar-in-Residence for the World Without War Council