This is from the link in the opening post. It is taken from a July 2003 TIME article:
Meeting last month at a sweltering U.S. base outside Doha, Qatar, with his top Iraq commanders, President Bush skipped quickly past the niceties and went straight to his chief political obsession: Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Turning to his Baghdad proconsul, Paul Bremer, Bush asked, 'Are you in charge of finding WMD?' Bremer said no, he was not. Bush then put the same question to his military commander, General Tommy Franks. But Franks said it wasn't his job either. A little exasperated, Bush asked, So who is in charge of finding WMD? After aides conferred for a moment, someone volunteered the name of Stephen Cambone, a littleknown deputy to Donald Rumsfeld, back in Washington. Pause. 'Who?' Bush asked.
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If Bush doesn't know who Cambone is, it is either proof he is out of his own loop or a f***ing liar. From 2/4/03 White House press release:
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The President intends to nominate Stephen A. Cambone of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He currently serves at the Department of Defense as Special Assistant to the Secretary and Director for Program Analysis & Evaluation. Prior to this, he served as Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Earlier in his career, Dr. Cambone served as Director of Research at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. He also served as a Senior Fellow for Political-Military Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 1993, while serving at the Department of Defense as Director of Strategic Defense Policy, he received the Secretary of Defense Award for Outstanding Service. He graduated from Catholic University and went on to earn a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Claremont University Graduate School.
Link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030204-5.htmlAnd another White House press release from 4/23/01:
The President intends to nominate Stephen A. Cambone to be Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Most recently he served as Staff Director for the Commission to Assess U.S. National Security Space Management and Organization while also serving as the Director of Research for the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. Cambone held the position of staff director for the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States in 1998 and was a Senior Fellow of Political-Military Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 1993 to 1998. He is a graduate of the Catholic University and received both a Master's and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School.
Link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/04/20010423-15.html-------------------
Cambone's role in Iraqi intelligence was discussed in this 4/20/03 Washington Post article:
After two years in office, (Rumsfeld) has his own people in top slots across most of the military establishment. He has triumphed in a military success in Iraq that featured an audacious war plan he helped to shape. He also looms large outside the Pentagon, injecting himself far more into intelligence matters than his predecessors and playing an unusually large role in shaping Bush administration foreign policy. He even has turned around a sour relationship with Congress.
He now is in position as never before to reshape the U.S. military along the lines he has talked about since taking office, "transforming" it into a more agile and precise force built not around firepower but around information, and willing to take risks to succeed.
Most notably, he is pushing the Special Operations Command from the sideshow niche it long has occupied to center stage in the "global war on terrorism" and other U.S. military operations. After the Iraq war, which featured one of the biggest missions ever for Special Operations forces, that command "is going to be the flavor of the month," said one defense official.
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The third personnel move may be most significant of all. Last month, Rumsfeld sent one of his closest aides, Stephen Cambone, to the new position of under secretary of defense for intelligence, created to have a single office overseeing the organization, planning and execution of military intelligence missions.
Cambone's new position also oversees assets that used to belong elsewhere, most notably a secret intelligence organization that specializes in large-scale "deep penetration" missions in foreign countries, especially tapping communications and laying the groundwork for overt military operations. This organization, code-named "Gray Fox," now effectively reports to the office of the secretary of defense.
Asked about the transfer of control of Gray Fox, Cambone said, "We won't talk about those things."
Another insider familiar with intelligence matters said that from where he sits, it appears that "Rumsfeld is in a death fight with DCI (the director of Central Intelligence) to get control" of intelligence assets -- and so far is winning.
Link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58343-2003Apr19?language=printer----------------
Cambone is one of the "Project Participants" (authors) of PNAC's September 2000 report, "Rebuilding America's Defenses; Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century."
Link (participants on last page)
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf ----------------
I just saw Novak saying that Cambone will most likely have to resign over the Iraq torture scandal. News of the obedient fall guy from the official White House leak?
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