CNN TV: Bush nominates Steve Hadley for NSA; Rice for SOS

[Tesibria]

at live press conference on right now....

[Don Claybrook]

1. Steve Hadley...Steve Hadley

This name rings a bell. Which part of the Nazi Party does he belong to? Anyone have background on him?

[Tesibria]

3. the official bio....

at http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/hadleybio.html

[Tesibria]

4. ... and more

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Stephen_J._Hadley

[TahitiNut]

8. Another detestible chickenhawk.

Total reichbot - only "serves" Reichpublicans.

[Richardson08]

11. is this same guy who looked foolish on 60 minutes earlier this year?

[Roland99]

2. Incompetence rules the roost in the Bush White House

Hadley is the one responsible for letting the Niger uranium claim slip into Bush's SotU address.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. This administration proves the Peter Principle.

[sandnsea]

6. Who took responsibility anyway

No thinking person speaks the words "Iraq is seeking nuclear material in Africa", without knowing exactly what that means and all the intelligence that led to that statement.

[sherilocks]

9. Maybe this is his pay-off

for taking the blame. Bush: "jest tellem it was yer fault and I got a good deal fer ya when sleazy gets promoted."

http://www.why-war.com/news/2003/12/24/whitehou.html#Stephen_J._Hadley

[Richardson08]

10. what to happened to plame investigation?

[donkeyotay]

12. The Coup, Part Two

And whatever happened to that FBI investigation into the neocons? It sounded like a big deal to me.

But I may as well ask, "Whatever happened to the elections? Whatever happened to the loyal opposition? Whatever happened to the free press?"

We're in uncharted territory now.

[Roland99]

13. Who the fuck knows?

[lancdem]

15. Hadley was one of those implicated in the Plame case

if I recall.

[glarius]

7. Once again the lie about the "great coalition" of nations helping with the

war....And then Condi repeats the same lie....Why does NOBODY in the media ever mention the fact that the so-called "coalition" of 30 or so (the number keeps changing) countries, are mainly small and their only contribution is lending their name....It's like the elephant in the corner everyone pretends insn't there.....Uuuugghhh!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

14. More on Hadley...

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/hadley/hadley.php

A former member of the Nixon and Bush Sr. administrations, Hadley served on then-candidate George W. Bush’s “Vulcan” team of foreign policy advisers, along with Condoleezza Rice and Richard Perle. (11) He also participated in the National Institute for Public Policy’s study team that produced Rationale and Requirements for U.S. Nuclear Forces and Arms Control, a study that called for the development of “mini”-nuclear weapons and served as a road map for George W. Bush’s Nuclear Posture Review. (10)

Hadley advocates extending the role of nuclear weapons to include deterrence against all so-called weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological weapons. He wrote in the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, “To say that a security policy based on nuclear weapons was ‘irresponsible’ and ‘immoral’ from the outset is to accuse the United States government of pursuing a policy that was irresponsible and immoral. Such a serious and false accusation against a democratic government destroys public confidence in our institutions and our leaders. ... It is often an unstated premise in the current debate that if nuclear weapons are needed at all, they are needed only to deter the nuclear weapons of others. I am not sure this unstated premise is true. As General Horner pointed out, this is not why we got into the nuclear business. In fact, one of the lessons other countries have drawn from the Gulf War is that no nation should even consider a confrontation with the United States military without having a weapon of mass destruction at its disposal, be it nuclear, chemical, or biological. They drew this lesson after observing the overwhelming conventional non-nuclear military capability that General Horner and others so visibly demonstrated on the Gulf War battlefield.” (1)

According to the Center for Public Integrity, Hadley's most recent work before assuming his administration post “was as a board member of ANSER Analytic Services, an Arlington, Va.-based nonprofit research group that specialized in government effectiveness and threat assessment. Its trustees include several former Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency officials as well as corporate officers from defense contractors such as Raytheon and Bellcore.” (15)

Hadley’s other former employer, the law firm of Shea & Gardner, serves a number of major corporate clients, including the defense contractors Boeing and Lockheed Martin. James Woolsey, the former CIA head and current member of the Defense Policy Board, has also worked for the firm. (9)

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He also was the point man on pushing the whole Atta/Saddam connection.

[Charlie Brown]

16. sounds like a pre-emptive strike nut

"In fact, one of the lessons other countries have drawn from the Gulf War is that no nation should even consider a confrontation with the United States military without having a weapon of mass destruction at its disposal, be it nuclear, chemical, or biological. They drew this lesson after observing the overwhelming conventional non-nuclear military capability that General Horner and others so visibly demonstrated on the Gulf War battlefield.”

more "get them before they get us" foreign policy.

[underpants]

18. Hadley is the guy they blamed for the "16 words" in the SOTU speech

Of course he didn't lose his job then and he gets a promotion now.

Nice.

The Brits investigation (this is a RW talking point BTW) cleared W for saying that Iraq SOUGHT yellow cake uranium from Niger. I saw it on the BBC World News and the emphasis on SOUGHT was from the speaker-the deceptive wording cleared them in that reviews eye.

[yellowcanine]

22. That could explain why he "outed" Plame to get at Wilson. Hmm.

Where is Lt. Colombo when you need him? Or did he just specialize in murders?

[Supersedeas]

21. Yellow Cake Hadley adds sweets to State of Union address and 2d Term

[yellowcanine]

17. Wasn't he implicated in treasongate (Plame)?

[olddad56]

19. for all of the former military, doesn't Rice sort of look like SOS?

[Seabiscuit]

20. SOS? Nah... she's a POS

Another POS SOS.