Posted on 05/06/2005 3:34:07 PM PDT by SmithL
4.15.05
Robert L. Hutchings, who succeeded Mr. Cohen as head of the intelligence council, said the effects of Mr. Bolton's objections to Mr. Armstrong had lingered as late as last year, when the officer was not included in a briefing team assigned to discuss with other senior officials the result of a new intelligence estimate on Cuba to which Mr. Bolton had objected.
"There was a group of firebrands who we figured would not like the judgment," Mr. Hutchings said in a telephone interview on Friday, making clear that he included Mr. Bolton among that group. "We anticipated that the findings would be unwelcome in some quarters, and we wanted to depersonalize this thing as much as we could, to make clear that it was the assessment of the intelligence community, and not a particular individual." Mr. Hutchings now holds a teaching post at Princeton University.
National Intelligence Council, the CIA director's think tank, which released a report saying that Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of "professionalized" terrorists. NIC Chairman Robert L. Hutchings said that Iraq is "a magnet for international terrorist activity."
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U.S. intelligence officials take look at 2020
The effort, called the National Intelligence Council 2020 Project,
Council Chairman Robert L. Hutchings, in a recent interview at CIA headquarters, said he expects to publish the paper in December 2004, timed between the presidential election and the beginning of either President Bush's second term or a new administration.
I don't know who's on his staff now, but he's been part of the pro-Castro lobby at least since he came into the Senate in the early 1980s. At that time he was vice chairman of the task force on Latin America of the Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus (ACFPC), a lobby rooted in the Vietnam antiwar lobby with links to the Institute for Policy Studies; and was a guest at an IPS anniversary celebration along with numerous veterans of the Vietnam antiwar movement such as Mark Hatfield, Ron Dellums, Tom Harkin (working during that period with John Kerry to support the Sandinistas), et al. Below is a more general summary of his career:
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Christopher J. Dodd
- Also known as: Christopher John Dodd
Dodd's father, Thomas J. Dodd was a U.S. senator from Connecticut. He had once served as a prosecutor for the post-World War II Nuremberg trials in Germany, at which former Nazis were convicted of war crimes. The elder Dodd was censured by his legislative colleagues in 1967, however, for misuse of campaign funds, and lost his next re-election bid. By that time his son, born on May 7, 1944, in Willimantic, Connecticut, had graduated with a degree in English literature from Providence College. He went on to serve in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. Dodd worked on his father's last campaign before enrolling in law school at the University of Louisville. He was admitted to the bar of the state of Connecticut in 1973, and spent a year with a New London law firm.
Dodd formally entered politics with his bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's Second District in 1974. He served three terms there and, in 1980, successfully ran for one of his state's two Senate seats. The junior legislator quickly made a name for himself in the Senate by opposing President Ronald Reagan's support of a right-wing faction in the Central American country of El Salvador. At the time, Reagan and many Republican politicians argued for increased military aid to the Contras, who were battling to oust El Salvador's left-wing Sandinista government. Dodd argued strenuously on the Senate floor against U.S. involvement in the matter. His emphatic stance even earned him some foes within his own party.
Dodd's ardent liberalism sometimes earned him comparisons to a veteran Democratic senator and fellow New Englander, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusettes. The scion of the famous political dynasty served as a mentor to his Connecticut counterpart. "Dodd, in fact, often seems more Kennedyesque than Kennedy," declared Lightman in the New Republic, "always immaculately coiffed and dressed, speaking with his New England flair, delivering quotable quips that sting but never insult."
During his career in the Senate, Dodd has served on the Senate's labor, rules, and banking, housing and urban affairs committees. He has also sat on subcommittees for children and families, education, arts, and humanities. He founded the Senate Children's Caucus in 1983, and co-chaired that body for a time. Later that decade, Dodd sponsored a piece of legislation that gave federal funds to states for use in improving child-care standards. "In an example of the passions aroused by child care, Anti-Feminist Phyllis Schlafly, head of the Eagle Forum, hysterically thunders that the Dodd bill would 'Sovietize the American family by warehousing babies' in day-care centers," remarked Time's George J. Church. Dodd also authored and worked to ensure passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. It required employers to grant their employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to care for a newborn, newly-adopted or foster child in their immediate family; it also provided for similarly protected leave in the event that an employee needed time off to care for a seriously ill child, spouse or parent.
During the two terms of President Bill Clinton, Dodd was a staunch defender of the president through the various troubles his administration weathered. In 1994, when the Senate voted to name a new leader, Dodd lost to Senator Thomas A. Daschle of South Dakota by just one vote. Party officials rewarded Dodd's loyalty the following year when he was named chair of the Democratic National Committee. He served only as general chair, however, while planning for the 1996 convention and daily operations were handled by a party veteran, Donald Fowler.
In May of 2001, Dodd and other Democrats gained a majority in the Senate with the defection of Vermont senator Jim Jeffords from the Republican Party. This brought a new round of Democratic leaders on Senate committees. In the reorganization, Dodd became chair of the Western Hemisphere subcommittee on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He made known his plan to block President George W. Bush's nomination for Assistant Secretary of State,. Otto Reich, over allegations of the Cuban-American nominee's role in the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s. The Connecticut senator has long worked to normalize relations with Cuba, which has been under a U.S. trade embargo for decades. In June of 2000, he called for an amendment to the new defense authorization bill that would establish a commission to study U.S.-Cuba relations.
During the first months of the 107th Congress, Dodd became chair of the Senate Rules Committee, which met in the summer of 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia, to hear voter complaints concerning the last national election. The committee was considering giving federal money to states in order to train poll workers and add new technologies that would lessen the long lines at many polling stations. This might possibly eliminate the punch cards, lever pulls, and paper ballots that caused so many disputed ballots among closer examination in the Florida recount for the 2000 presidential election. Dodd has called for such electoral reform in every state.
Dodd is married to Jackie Clegg, a bank vice president. A frequent guest on the Sunday-morning political talk shows, the senator has made clear his lack of ambition for higher office. "If I had some subplot," Dodd told Lightman in the New Republic, "I probably couldn't do this job as well."
The Dems are borking this guy from all angles...they
have thatt lady from Texas that sas sticking her knife
in Bolton and the media ignored the fact that she
headed the Texas womans group AGAINST BUSH IN THE
PRESIDENTIAL RACE...THIS IS ANOTHER OF THEIR DAMN
Blockages...Dodd is like Biden..they must room together,
Jake
thanks
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