Paul R. Pillar, former deputy chief of counterterrorism at the CIA under Clinton.
According to Paul R. Pillar of the CIA’s counter terrorism centre, “fewer Americans die from it than drown in bathtubs.”
Paul R. Pillar, former deputy chief of counterterrorism at the CIA under Clinton.
According to Paul R. Pillar of the CIA’s counter terrorism centre, “fewer Americans die from it than drown in bathtubs.”
"nonpartisan" Brookings Institution
Vice President Al Gore delivered a campaign speech at Brookings Institution. The speech, along with campaign banners hung on the walls, was unusual for a tax-exempt and officially nonpartisan think tank.
The current president is Strobe Talbott, who previously was the Deputy Secretary of State in the Clinton administration and an editor at Time Magazine.
Brookings currently has over 140 resident and nonresident scholars. Like Talbott, many of them served in the Carter and Clinton administrations, including Charles L. Schultze, Alice Rivlin, Kenneth Pollack, Robert Litan, Susan Rice, Christopher Foreman, William Galston, and Isabel Sawhill. Some of its notable resident scholars include:
* E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist
* Michael O'Hanlon, expert on terrorism and foreign affairs
* Alice Rivlin, expert on the United States budget process, Clinton Administration
* Stephen Hess, Distinguished Research Professor of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University
Quote, November 4, 2002
Michael O'Hanlon
“The claims of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney that Iraq might join with terrorists to strike the United States at any time are far-fetched. Very little about the historical record or current intelligence lends credence to that view.” Therefore his pursuit of such weapons are aimed merely at deterring US interventionism in the Middle East. The op-ed concluded, “Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld would be more credible and more effective in making their case for threatening force against Mr. Hussein if they cut back on the overdramatizations and stuck to the facts.” [Baltimore Sun, 9/26/02, Los Angeles Times, 11/4/02]
This overeducated twit wrote in Security Management for May 2001, "Is the Terrorist Threat Misunderstood?" The title is autobiographical. He has claimed that terrorism cannot be defeated only controlled. If that is the case, what happened to the Molly Maguires, the Sydney Ducks, the Red Army Brigades, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the SS, etc., etc., etc.