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PERSON PROFILENewt Gingrich
Currently (2005) Newt Gingrich is simultaneously a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Washington Post GOP's Power PlayGoal of Reforms in House Gives Way To Tough Tactics Party Once Criticized[EXCERPT] ...On the November 1994 night that voters delivered the House into GOP hands, the incoming speaker, Gingrich, declared: "We're going to be dramatically more fair than the Democrats have been in my lifetime." Nonetheless, Republicans routinely write complicated legislation and provide Democrats little time to review it. They frequently prevent the minority party from offering an alternative. Norman Ornstein, a nonpartisan congressional scholar, this week wrote in the newspaper Roll Call that the Democratic "high-handedness" Gingrich lamented was "nothing compared to what House Republicans are doing now..." ...From the start, Gingrich and his top three deputies determined the shape of legislation and how it would move, rather than deferring to committee chairmen. At times Gingrich would personally rewrite legislation, such as the telecommunications act in the mid-'90s... Justin Raimondo Newt Gingrich and the AEI Lied The US Into War[EXCERPT]...In the period leading up to the invasion, as millions marched in the streets hoping to stop the rush to war, Newt Gingrich , the disgraced former Speaker of the House, made at least three trips to CIA headquarters, in Langley, Virginia, to browbeat analysts into projecting a more threatening picture of Iraq's military capabilities. But why, one has to ask, would anyone bother listening to a political has-been and well-known bore? Surely the CIA brass had better things to do. "Mr Gingrich gained access to the CIA headquarters and was listened to," reports Borger [ of The Guardian], "because he was seen as a personal emissary of the Pentagon and, in particular, of the OSP." The key link in an international chain of professional prevaricators, the OSP, or Office of Special Plans, was authorized by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and presided over by a cabal of neoconservative ideologues who "functioned like a shadow government," according to Borger. Bypassing both the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, they "cherry-picked" tidbits of raw intelligence, acting more like lawyers arguing a case than analysts probing for facts, and piped their propaganda directly to the President via Dick Cheney...
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Frank Rich Condit Country or Bust"Newt Gingrich, who, having now married his formerly 20-something Hill paramour, turned up on ABC's "This Week" to opine about Ms. Levy."
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God, Government and Gingrich
