PNAC founding member appointed to Iraq intelligence panel

[starroute]

The story with the names of the last two appointees is over at LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=361470#
But I thought that this particular aspect of it deserved more attention than it seems to be getting.

One of those final appointees is the president of MIT, basically a techie with an interest in national security. But the other is Henry S. Rowen.

Rowen was one of the founding members of PNAC in 1997, a signer of their original Statement of Principles (http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm). He's also a senior fellow emeritus of the Hoover Institution, a conservative hangout whose other fellows include such luminaries as Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld.

In 1998, the Hoover Institution published an article by Rowen titled WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: A CHILLING SURVEY, which included the sentence: "Of particular worry is the prospect that nations such as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea will be able to deliver nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads with cruise or ballistic missiles."

http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/digest/981/rowen.html

On other words, we might have just found the original inventor of the Axis of Evil.

There is something insanely wrong about all of this . . .

[JohnOneillsMemory]

1. Operation: Butt Cover Firmly in Place. Hope the Sen. Intel committee

investigates the Office of Special Plans as Jay Rockefeller(D) has requested and Pat Roberts(R) has agreed to according to this week's TIME magazine cover story.

[SoCalDem]

2. From disinfopedia

Henry S. Rowen
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Henry_S._Rowen&printable=yes


Henry S. Rowen (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/rowen.html) is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a "professor of public policy and management emeritus at the university's Graduate School of Business and a member Stanford University's Asia/Pacific Research Center ... Rowen is an expert on international security, economic development, Asian economics and politics, as well as U.S. institutions and economic performance. His current research focuses on economic growth prospects for the developing world, political and economic change in East Asia, and the tenets of federalism."<1> (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/rowen.html)
Rowen was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the U.S. Department of Defense (1989-1991) and chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1981-1983). Rowen served as President of the RAND Corporation (1967-1972) and was Assistant Director, U.S. Bureau of the Budget (1965-1966). He is a member of the Department of Defense's Defense Policy Board.<2> (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/rowen.html)

Publications include: The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which he coedited (2000); Behind East Asian Growth: The Political and Social Foundations of Prosperity (1998); and Defense Conversion, Economic Reform, and the Outlook for the Russian and Ukrainian Economies (1994), which he co-edited with Hoover fellow Charles Wolf and Jeanne Zlotnick.<3> (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/rowen.html)

Articles include: "The Short March: China's Road to Democracy," National Interest (fall 1996); "Inchon in the Desert: My Rejected Plan," National Interest (summer 1995); "The Tide underneath the 'Third Wave,'" Journal of Democracy (January 1995); and "Vietnam Made Him," National Interest (winter 1995/96). His chapter titled "World Wealth Expanding: Why a Rich, Democratic and (Perhaps) Peaceful Era Is Ahead," was published in Landau, Taylor, and Wright, eds., The Mosaic of Economic Growth (Stanford University Press, 1996).<4> (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/rowen.html)

In 1972, Rowen was appointed professor of public management at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Between 1981 and 1983, he took leave to serve as chairman of the National Intelligence Council.<5> (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/rowen.html)

Rowen returned to Stanford in 1983 as a professor of public management at the Graduate School of Business. At the same time was appointed a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 1986, while continuing as a Hoover fellow, he was appointed to the Edward B. Rust Professorship of Public Policy and Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.<6> (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/rowen.html)

Rowen was responsible for European policy issues as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, a position to which he was appointed in 1961 and served until 1964. In 1960, he became a research associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs. From 1949 to 1950, Rowen was a management intern for the Barnsdall Oil Company and was an economist for the RAND Corporation from 1950 to 1953 and again from 1955 to 1960.<7> (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/rowen.html)

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1925, he earned a bachelor's degree in industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949 and a master's in economics from Oxford University in 1955.<8> (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/rowen.html)

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[Snappy]

3. Too late.

This attempt at a cover-up of The Office of Special Plans by this bogus Commission is too late. The Dems are finally fighting back at the Neo Fascists. It seems that they know that this time being passive won't work. It's all out war.

[starroute]

5. Alan Arkin played him in "The Pentagon Papers"

http://www.jfklancer.com/pentagonpapers/

Rowen was apparently Ellsberg's mentor at the Rand Corporation. And there's even earlier Rand Corporation stuff on Rowen, going back to the Kennedy administration.

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/10/kaplan.htm

In his memo to Bundy, Kissinger said that the Pentagon "should be asked to submit a plan for graduated nuclear response"—using nuclear weapons in some limited way that might avoid both horns of the dilemma. He added, "I have discussed the problem with both Carl Kaysen and Henry Rowen."

<snip>

On July 7, the same day that Kissinger wrote his memo to Bundy about a "graduated" use of nuclear weapons, Bundy passed the suggestion on to Kennedy, saying that he, Kissinger, and Kaysen "all agree that the current strategic war plan is dangerously rigid and ... may leave you very little choice as to how you face the moment of thermonuclear truth."

Six days later Kennedy held an NSC meeting on Berlin. Among the items on the agenda: "steps to prepare war plans which would permit the discriminating use of nuclear weapons in Central Europe and ... against the USSR."

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Kaysen and Rowen finished their first-strike study a few weeks later. On September 5 Kaysen, who had taken over the drafting of the plan, sent General Taylor the resulting thirty-three-page memo, titled "Strategic Air Planning and Berlin." . . . It was a plan straight out of the Rand Corporation, straight out of Dr. Strangelove (except that Stanley Kubrick didn't make that dark satire for another two years). It was a plan to wage rational nuclear war.

[Bozita]

4. Looks like you found the father of "Weapons of Mass Destruction"

Could it be?