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RECIPIENT PROFILEwww.centerforsecuritypolicy.org EIN: 52-1601976 Center for Security Policy, Inc.Washington, DC 20036 The Center for Security Policy (CSP) is a right-wing think tank that has been described as "the nerve center of the Star Wars lobby." CSP was founded by Frank Gaffney, who helped formulate the Strategic Defense Initiative while assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration. Gaffney founded the group to respond quickly to current debates, describing CSP's goal to "be the Domino's Pizza of the policy business."
JASON VEST The Men From JINSA and CSPThey want not just a US invasion of Iraq but "total war" against Arab regimesAlmost thirty years ago, a prominent group of neoconservative hawks found an effective vehicle for advocating their views via the Committee on the Present Danger, a group that fervently believed the United States was a hair away from being militarily surpassed by the Soviet Union, and whose raison d'être was strident advocacy of bigger military budgets, near-fanatical opposition to any form of arms control and zealous championing of a Likudnik Israel. Considered a marginal group in its nascent days during the Carter Administration, with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 CPD went from the margins to the center of power. Just as the right-wing defense intellectuals made CPD a cornerstone of a shadow defense establishment during the Carter Administration, so, too, did the right during the Clinton years, in part through two organizations: the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and the Center for Security Policy (CSP). And just as was the case two decades ago, dozens of their members have ascended to powerful government posts, where their advocacy in support of the same agenda continues, abetted by the out-of- government adjuncts from which they came. Industrious and persistent, they've managed to weave a number of issues--support for national missile defense, opposition to arms control treaties, championing of wasteful weapons systems, arms aid to Turkey and American unilateralism in general--into a hard line, with support for the Israeli right at its core On no issue is the JINSA/CSP hard line more evident than in its relentless campaign for war--not just with Iraq, but "total war," as Michael Ledeen, one of the most influential JINSAns in Washington, put it last year. For this crew, "regime change" by any means necessary in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority is an urgent imperative. Anyone who dissents--be it Colin Powell's State Department, the CIA or career military officers--is committing heresy against articles of faith that effectively hold there is no difference between US and Israeli national security interests, and that the only way to assure continued safety and prosperity for both countries is through hegemony in the Middle East--a hegemony achieved with the traditional cold war recipe of feints, force, clientism and covert action... ...Indeed, there are some in military and intelligence circles who have taken to using "axis of evil" in reference to JINSA and CSP, along with venerable repositories of hawkish thinking like the American Enterprise Institute and the Hudson Institute, as well as defense contractors, conservative foundations and public relations entities underwritten by far-right American Zionists (all of which help to underwrite JINSA and CSP)...
Jean Hardisty Some Mid-Year Thoughts on Militarism and the Bush AdministrationIn 1997, concerned that Clinton Administration was not articulating a coherent post-Cold War policy for the U.S. internationally, a think tank called the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) met quietly to formulate a competing doctrine. The resulting 1997 document built on the conclusions of Wolfowitz’s 1990 “think tank.” It called for the U.S. to take its place in history as the dominant global force and achieve greatness by being bold and purposeful. Signers of the statement of principles included Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Elliot Abrams of the Reagan State Department, who repeatedly misled Congress about the abuses of the Salvadoran military during the Contra War in Central America, Jeb Bush, and Frank Gaffney, president of the right-wing Center for Security Policy.. ..Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, Frank Gaffney, James Woolsey, and William Bennett, former Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration, all play prominent roles in domestic suppression of criticism of the War on Terrorism. A group founded by Lynne Cheney, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, recently (2002) released a report titled “Defending Civilization.” It listed 127 “unpatriotic” statements made on U.S. college campuses since September 11. William Bennett created a new organization known as Americans for Victory Over Terrorism (AVOT) to “take to task those groups and individuals who fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the war we are facing,” blasting those who are “attempting to use this opportunity to promulgate their agenda of ‘blame American First.’” Such individuals include former President Jimmy Carter and Lewis Lapham, editor of Harpers magazine. AVOT board members include Frank Gaffney and James Woolsey..."
Mother Jones Center for Security Policy moves into federal government, leads campaign for discredited "Star Wars"The Center for Security Policy, which has received in excess of $3.2 million from the conservative philanthropies since 1988, has taken its advocacy of Star Wars inside the federal government of George W. Bush. At least 17 of its former advisory board members have joined the Bush administration, and it has received at least $200,000 from weapons contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Those same companies have already received more than $17 billion in long-term contracts for missile defense research. Also see:
Navy cancels rudimentary Star Wars program because of operational failures and cost overruns
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The Washington Note Frank Gaffney: Okay to bomb Al-JazeeraGaffney: Whether the best way to do it [neutralize Al-Jazeera] is with bombs or through other means is something we could discuss, but I think it's fair game, under these circumstances, given the way it conducts itself.
MediaMatters.org Two years into leak investigation, Gen. Vallely suddenly claims, in contradictory statements, that Wilson revealed Plame's identity to himNearly two years after the start of special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald's investigation into the alleged leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity, ret. Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely has recently claimed publicly that Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, disclosed her CIA employment in 2002 -- long before syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak outed Plame in his July 14, 2003, column. But Vallely, a Fox News military analyst and chairman of the Military Committee at the Center for Security Policy, has made contradictory statements regarding when and how many times Wilson supposedly mentioned Plame's employment. Vallely initially claimed that Wilson revealed his wife's CIA employment over the course of at least three conversations beginning in spring 2002, but Vallely changed this story days later, saying that Wilson told him about Plame's work only once in the summer or fall of that year.
Jim Lobe Neocon Agenda: Iran, China, Russia, Latin America...An influential foreign-policy neoconservative with long-standing ties to top hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush has laid out what he calls "a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term." The list, which begins with the destruction of Fallujah in Iraq and ends with the development of "appropriate strategies" for dealing with threats posed by China, Russia and "the emergence of a number of aggressively anti-American regimes in Latin America," also calls for "regime change" in Iran and North Korea.
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