What a shock, Benador represents Laurie Mylroie and Natan Sharansky.Benador Associates
From SourceWatch
Benador Associates is a public relations firm that promotes conservative writers and speakers dealing with U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
About Benador
According to Benador's web site,[1] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/about.php) Benador Associates is a "Public Relations, Media and International Speakers Bureau." Benador was founded by Eleana Benador. Offices are "located in New York City as well as in Paris and London. However, the activities of the firm are expanding throughout the American continent, as well as in Europe and the Middle East."
Jim Lobe describes Benador as follows:
"When historians look back on the United States war in Iraq, they will almost certainly be struck by how a small group of mainly neo-conservative analysts and activists outside the administration were able to shape the US media debate in ways that made the drive to war so much easier than it might have been… But historians would be negligent if they ignored the day-to-day work of one person who, as much as anyone outside the administration, made their media ubiquity possible. Meet Eleana Benador, the Peruvian-born publicist for Perle, Woolsey, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney and a dozen other prominent neo-conservatives whose hawkish opinions proved very hard to avoid for anyone who watched news talk shows or read the op-ed pages of major newspapers over the past 20 months."
— Jim Lobe, The Andean Condor among the Hawks
(http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EH15Aa01.html), Asia Times, August 15, 2003.
Speakers
Benador's Speakers are "a highly qualified cadre of inspiring, knowledgeable speakers who are available to address your group or broadcast audience...Each of our experts is nationally and internationally recognized on issues of the Middle East and national security, among others."
Current
(Listed as Expert - April 28, 2006)
Ali Al-Ahmed [2] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/alahmed.php)
Raphael Israeli [3] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/israeli.php)
Salameh Nematt [4] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/nematt.php)
Ali Ahmed Al-Baghli [5] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/albaghli.php)
Charles Jacobs [6] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/jacobs.php)
Richard Perle [7] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/perle.php)
Nir Boms [8] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/boms.php) George Jonas [9] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/jonas.php)
Walid Phares [10] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/phares.php)
Arnaud de Borchgrave [11] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/borchgrave.php)
Stanley H. Kaplan [12] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/kaplan.php)
Richard Pipes [13] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/pipesrichard.php)
Ismail Cem [14] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/cem.php) Efraim Karsh [15] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/karsh.php)
Dennis Prager [16] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/prager.php)
Leon Charney [17] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/charney.php)
Charles Krauthammer [18] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/krauthammer.php)
David Pryce-Jones [19] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/pryce.php)
Saad Eddin Ibrahim [20] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/eddinibrahim.php)
Herbert I. London [21] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/london.php)
Tom Rose [22] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/rose.php)
Rachel Ehrenfeld [23] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/ehrenfeld.php)
Lord Lamont of Lerwick [24] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/lamont.php)
A.M. Rosenthal [25] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/rosenthal.php)
John Eibner [26] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/eibner.php)
Michael A. Ledeen [27] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/ledeen.php) Jano Rosebiani [28] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/rosebiani.php)
Hillel Fradkin [29] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/fradkin.php)
Kanan Makiya [30] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/makiya.php)
Tashbih Sayyed [31] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/sayyed.php)
David Gelernter [32] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/gelernter.php)
Paul Marshall [33] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/marshall.php)
Natan Sharansky [34] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/sharansky.php)
Dr. Stephen Gullo [35] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/gullo.php)
Andrew C. McCarthy [36] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/mccarthy.php)
Richard O. Spertzel [37] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/spertzel.php)
Michel Gurfinkiel [38] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/gurfinkiel.php)
Hassan Mneimneh [39] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/mneimneh.php)
Amir Taheri [40] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/taheri.php)
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. [41] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/haig.php)
Laurie Mylroie [42] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/mylroie.php)
Paul Vallely [43] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/vallely.php)
Victor Davis Hanson [44] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/hanson.php)
Ayman Nour [45] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/nour.php) Ruth Wedgwood [46] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/wedgwood.php)
Fereydoun Hoveyda [47] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/hoveyda.php)
John O'Sullivan [48] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/osullivan.php)
James Woolsey [49] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/woolsey.php)
Mansoor Ijaz [50] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/ijaz.php) Yossi Olmert [51] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/olmert.php)
Meyrav Wurmser [52] (http://www.benadorassociates.com/wurmser.php)
Former Speakers
Max Boot
Khalid Durán
Frank Gaffney Jr.
Khidhir Hamza
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Martin Kramer
Shaykh Kabbani
Judith Miller
Salameh Nematt
Barry Rubin
Michael Rubin
What others say
So there are these peculiar archipelagoes of opaqueness in the world of news, where journalists are at the mercy of single sources that appear solid. It is very dangerous for the US cable news channels to depend so heavily for analysis of things like Iraq and the war on terror, on retired military officers and on well-connected cyphers like Walid Phares. (Hint to cable news personnel departments: if an academic has a spotty publication record and is at some small place or doesn't have a proper university post, but you get a call pushing him from some rightwing think tank in Washington or from the Benador Agency, be suspicious).
Juan Cole, Psy-Ops and News
(http://www.juancole.com/2004/12/psy-ops-and-news-los-angeles-timess.html), Informed Comment, Dec. 3, 2004.
Contact details
Phone: (917) 626-1266
Email: info AT benadorassociates.com
To contact Eleana Benador: eb AT benadorassociates.com
Website:
www.benadorassociates.com/ www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Benador_Associates