Aside from Soros, the most noteworthy attendee was Morton H. Halperin. Soros had hired Halperin in February 2002, to head the Washington office of his tax-exempt Open Society Institute
Halperin's about one degree removed from Joe Wilson (cf. 26 Former U.S. Officials Oppose Bush, Post 40), so that fits some things together.
To: kcvlMore on that and more of the usual suspects:
Governor Howard Dean
Foreign Policy Advisers
Exclusive advisers: Benjamin Barber, Ivo Daalder, Morton Halperin, Elisa Harris, General Joseph Hoar (USMC, Ret.), Major General Randy Jayne (USAF, Ret.), Franklin Kramer, Anthony Lake, General Merrill McPeak (USAF, Ret.), Clyde Prestowitz, Susan Rice, Jeffrey Sachs, Danny Sebright, Admiral Stansfield Turner (USN, Ret.), William Woodward
Several of these folks also show up with Robert McNamara and Joseph Wilson among others at:
Secure America
[http://www.secureamerica.us/html/about_advisers.html]40 posted on 06/13/2004 10:02:00 PM PDT by Fedora