Likudniks still in charge, despite lies exposure

[Moses]

Cheney's mole at State (one of his moles at State), now in charge of ME policy-- was involved in Plame lies, but he and the other Likudniks are still in charge, continuing to use the US/disgrace the US to bring about Israeli hegemony in the Middle East, with US treasury, constitutional government, and people to be sacrificed and destroyed, and without a peep from congress or the media questioning their treasonous conduct:

David Wurmser



Highlights & Quotes

David Wurmser, Dick Cheney's Middle East adviser, is a neocon ideologue who has participated in several key reports outlining the neoconservative agenda in the Middle East. In 1996 he helped write a report for Israel's Likud party that urged Israel to break off then-ongoing peace initiatives. The report, which was titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" and was published by the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (an Israeli- and DC-based think tank) advised then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "to work closely with Turkey and Jordan to contain, destabilize, and roll-back" regional threats, help overthrow Saddam Hussein, and strike "Syrian military targets in Lebanon" and possibly in Syria proper. Coauthors of the report included Richard Perle, Meyrav Wurmser, and Douglas Feith. (6)

In 2000, Wurmser worked on a strategy document published by Daniel Pipe's Middle East Forum and Ziad Abdelnour's U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon that advocated a wider U.S. role in Lebanon. The study, "Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role?" called for the United States to force Syria from Lebanon and to disarm it of its alleged weapons of mass destruction. It also argued that "Syrian rule in Lebanon stands in direct opposition to American ideals" and criticized the United States for engaging rather than confronting the regime. Among the documents signers were several soon-to-be Bush administration figures, including Elliott Abrams, Douglas Feith, Michael Rubin, and Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky. Other signers included Richard Perle, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Michael Ledeen, and Frank Gaffney. (1, 3)

Wurmser is married to Meyrav Wurmser, the director of Middle East studies at the right-wing Hudson Institute.


Office of the Vice President: Middle East Adviser
U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon: Board member
Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies: Former director
American Enterprise Institute: Former fellow


Institutional Affiliations
* U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon: Member of Board of Directors (5)
* American Enterprise Institute: Former Research Fellow and Director of Middle East Studies Program (2)
* Lebanon Study Group Report: Signatory (2000) (3)
* Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies: Director of Research in Strategy and Politics Program (1996) (2, 4)
* Washington Institute for Near East Policy: Director of Institutional Grants (1994-1996) (2)
* Middle East Forum: Member, Lebanon Study Group (3)

Government Posts/Panels/Commissions
* Office of the Vice-President: Middle East Adviser (2003-current) (1)
* U.S. Department of State: Special Adviser to Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security (2001-2003) (1)
* U.S. Institute of Peace: Project Officer (1988-1994) (2)

Education
* Johns Hopkins University: B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (2, 4)


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Sources

(1) Jim Lobe, "The Wurmser Turns," Inter Press Service, October 29, 2003
www.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe4.html

(2) David Wurmser, "U.S. Policymakers Faulted for Saddam Hussein's Resurgence," American Enterprise Institute News and Commentary, February 22, 1999
www.aei.org/news/newsID.15962/news_detail.asp

(3) Middle East Forum: The Lebanon Study Group Report
www.meforum.org/research/lsg.php

(4) American Enterprise Institute: David Wurmser Biography
202.121.129.66/transcend/www.aei.org/scholars/wurmser.htm

(5) U.S. Commission for a Free Lebanon: Board of Directors
freelebanon.org/search-f.htm

(6) A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm
www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm

(7) Jim Lobe, "Attack on Syria Has Neocon Fingerprints"
www.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe1.html

[Moses]

David Wurmser: A professional fabulist, as Raw Story reports:

"Those familiar with information provided to Fitzgerald say that shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Wurmser was handpicked by Harold Rhode, a Foreign Affairs Specialist in the Office of Net Assessment, a Pentagon 'think tank,' and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith to head a top secret Pentagon 'cell' whose job was to comb through CIA intelligence documents and find evidence that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States and its neighbors in the Middle East so a case could be made to launch a preemptive military strike. Wurmser largely invented evidence that Iraq had close ties to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden."

Wurmser culled much of his material from the professional fraudsters of the Iraqi National Congress.

Wurmser is also the primary author of "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for the Realm," a 1996 policy paper prepared for then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "A Clean Break" argued for regime change in Iraq as a means of knocking out Syria and extending Israeli influence throughout the region. Prior to serving on Cheney's staff and as an aide to John Bolton at the State Department, Wurmser was a member of a two-man team, the Counter-Terrorism Evaluation Group, which, last we heard, was being investigated for leaking sensitive U.S. secrets to Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, and thence to the Iranians. The Israelis, too, are involved, as the Washington Post reported a year ago:

"Investigators have specifically asked about a group of neoconservatives involved in defense issues, including Feith, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, Iraq and Iran specialist Harold Rhode and others at the Pentagon. FBI agents also have asked current and former officials about Richard Perle of the defense board and David Wurmser, an Iran specialist and principal deputy assistant for national security affairs in Cheney's office, according to sources familiar with or involved in the case. 'The initial interest was: Do you believe certain people would spy for Israel and pass secret information?' said one source interviewed by the FBI about the defense officials."

--Background to Betrayal by Justin Raimondo