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External LinksAbrams bio at Ethics and Public Policy Center MORE LINKSDavid Corn The New York Times, a Massacre, and Bush's Deputy National Security Adviser...the Organization of American States is reopening an investigation into the 1981 massacre at El Mozote, El Salvador...While the basic facts of the El Mozote massacre are beyond dispute, back then the Reagan administration refused to acknowledge that such a horrible event had transpired...On February 8, 1982, [Abrams] testified before Congress and said that the reports of the massacre at el Mozote "were not credible."
Eric Alterman Here's a plan: hire the liarAbrams did not merely “stubbornly defend” the U.S. backed military regime [in El Salvador], he made McCarthyite accusations against diligent reporters who revealed the truth. He then lied, both to reporters and to Congress about his own involvement with illegal activity.
Washington Post Iran-Contra Figure to Lead Democracy Efforts AbroadElliott Abrams, who pleaded guilty in 1991 to withholding information from Congress in the Iran-contra affair, was promoted to deputy national security adviser to President Bush
Philip Weiss Is Elliott Abrams, Bush's N.S.C. Guy, Still Separatist?You have to climb the Strand’s Judaica bookshelves like a ladder to get at a copy of Elliott Abrams’ Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America, but the author - who is now the top White House adviser on Middle Eastern issues - may well hope that few readers will undertake the trip, as the book, which he wrote in 1997, advocates a form of Jewish "separatism."
Jim Lobe The Return Of Elliott AbramsIsrael's Likud Scores Big With White House Appointment Indicted for giving false testimony during the Iran-Contra affair, right-wing Abrams is set to take over one of the most influencial policy positions on the National Security Council.
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PERSON PROFILEElliott AbramsElliott Abrams was assistant secretary of state for Inter-American affairs during the Reagan Administration. As such, he was responsible for the repressive and illegal policies pursued in El Salvador and Nicaragua during the 1980s, and played a key role in the US relationship to Manuel Noriega, and then lied about the whole deal to the US Congress. A book he wrote was underwritten by the Bradley foundation via the Hudson Institute. Abrams was formerly (2000) the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Abrams is/was on the advisory board of the Media Research Center, an organization that opposes any traces of liberalism on TV or in films. Chairman L. Brent Bozell III publishes the newsletter TV, ETC., with an advisory board that includes Abrams, Mona Charen, Pete DuPont, and Rush Limbaugh.
Saul Landau NSC Adviser Abrams reportedly met with Venezuelan Coup plotters before attempt, knew of timing, and called chances of coup's success "excellent"The November 18 car bombing of Danilo Anderson in Caracas brought back vivid memories.... I didn't know Anderson. But like [Orlando] Letelier, he had information on coup plotters, those who tried to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in April 2002. Neither Anderson's nor Letelier's assassination required Sherlock Homes to guide police in their hunt... ...Anderson apparently had also developed a case that linked US agencies to the coup. Otto Reich, then Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, had met repeatedly with the coup plotters before their failed attempt to oust Chavez as had Elliot Abrams, of the National Security Council. Like Reich, Abrams led the ideological charge in the 1980s "dirty wars," in which US policy became linked to Central American death sq uads. The April 21, 2002 Observer, citing OAS sources, states that Abrams and Reich discussed the coup "in some detail, right down to its timing and chances of success, which were deemed to be excellent." Also see: National Endowment for Democracy Funded Venezuelan Coup Perpetrators, and MT's National Endowment for Democracy profile. David Corn Elliott Abrams: It's Back!"The most generous of rehabilitations"Elliott Abrams, "as nasty a policy warrior as Washington had seen in decades," who was convicted of lying to Congress about the Iran-Contra affair - and then pardoned by Bush I - is being installed by Bush II in the National Security Council staff as a senior director for democracy, human rights and international operations. Which is really funny since in his previous incarnation his "specialty was massacre denial." Reflecting on Abrams' credibility, former Republican Senator David Durenburger complained, "I wouldn't trust Elliott any futher than I could throw Ollie North." While spewing his lies defending the murderous Contras in Nicaragua and the Death Squads in El Salvador, Abrams nonetheless called his political foes "vipers" and said that those lawmakers who opposed the illegal Reagan Central American wars would "have blood on their hands." Washington Post No Showdown in Abrams AppointmentThe Democrats' takeover of the Senate may affect the fate of some controversial Bush nominees hoping to get jobs, but it's not going to affect the appointment of former assistant secretary of state Elliott Abrams to a top administration post...[he is] said to be "a lock" to become the National Security Council's senior director for democracy, human rights and international operations. The job doesn't require Senate confirmation. In 1991, Abrams, who headed State's Latin America shop, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of unlawfully withholding information from Congress during its hearings into the Reagan administration's secret campaign to aid the Nicaraguan contra rebels with proceeds from the sale of weapons to Iran. President George Bush pardoned Abrams on Christmas Eve 1992.
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MORE LINKSTom Barry The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Elliott AbramsRight-Wing Zionist as U.S. Middle East Envoy Elliott Abrams, a figure from the Ronald Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal who describes himself as a "neo-conservative and neo-Reaganite," is moving to center-stage in U.S. foreign policy as head of President George W. Bush’s Global Democracy Strategy.
Ari Berman / Daily Outrage Democracy = Criminality?The Washington Post headline was straight out of The Onion: "Iran-Contra Figure to Lead Democracy Efforts Abroad." They were writing about Elliott Abrams. With a straight face. Further proof that under the Bush Administration truth is stranger than fiction. Abrams was convicted in 1991 for lying to Congress about his role in trading profits from illegal arm sales to Iran for aid the Contras...As Ronald Reagan's Latin America hand, Abrams flew to London under the pseudonym "Mr. Kenilworth" to extract $10 million for the Contras from the Sultan of Brunei.
Eric Alterman Abrams and Novak and Rove? Oh My!Abrams has quite legalistically denied any role in "leaking classified information,"... But the last time Abrams pretended ignorance, he was lying. When caught, he found himself celebrated by [Robert] Novak, pardoned by Bush's daddy and given a spanking new career by Bush himself. I think he knows the drill by now.
Washington Post Back in Political ForefrontIran-Contra Figure Plays Key Role on Mideast A cycle of disgrace and redemption has brought one of Washington's most accomplished -- and controversial -- bureaucratic infighters back to the center of U.S. foreign policy decision-making.
NewsHour EXCERPTS FROM TOM BLANTON'S "WHITE HOUSE E-MAIL"Elliott Abrams, criminal, proof: Elliott Abrams to Oliver North: "Where to send the money? (for the contras that he had raised from the Saudis and the Taiwanese)"
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