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Mintpress News
March 29, 2018
Another co-author, David Wurmser, also went on to become an advisor to Bolton. The title of the document comes from its suggestion that Israel make a “clean break from the slogan 'comprehensive peace' to a traditional concept of strategy based on the balance of power.” The manifesto states: Israel canÃâà...
PS News
March 28, 2018
The documents consist of a series of emails between State Department and White House officials, as well as outside parties, including former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, conservative activist Barbara Ledeen and the neoconservative David Wurmser, a former adviser to former Vice-President DickÃâà...
TPM
March 19, 2018
A trove of e-mails obtained by House Democrats reveal efforts by top State Department officials — working hand in hand with the White House, outside conservatives and right-wing media — to sideline and demote career civil servants who are seen as disloyal to President Trump. The report on the emailsÃâà...
CBS News
March 16, 2018
The documents, the Democrats said, include communications with conservatives outside government, like former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and David Wurmser, longtime conservative activist Barbara Ledeen and former adviser to Dick Cheney and John Bolton. The White House officials involvedÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
March 15, 2018
... a Democratic loyalist) who asserts that the purge is organized by “a network of conservative outside parties—including former Speaker Newt Gingrich, conservative activist Barbara Ledeen, and former Dick Cheney and John Bolton advisor David Wurmser.” The memo cites an email from Gingrich callingÃâà...
The Hill
March 15, 2018
and David Wurmser, a former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney. In one email forwarded by Gingrich to Trump-appointed officials at the State Department, Wurmser wrote that "a cleaning is in order here," apparently referring to removing career employees believed to be disloyal to Trump.
Politico
March 15, 2018
Barbara Ledeen, a prominent conservative activist, forwarded the story with an “Ugh” in the subject line to a Google Group apparently focused on judicial strategy. David Wurmser, a former Middle East adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, forwarded the Conservative Review story to Gingrich and wrote ofÃâà...
Breaking Israel News
February 25, 2018
“National Security officials are prohibited from developing a factual understanding of Islamic threat doctrines, preferring instead to depend upon 5th column Muslim Brotherhood cultural advisors.” — Richard Higgins, NSC official. At the heart of the problem lies the fantasy that Islam must be very similar toÃâà...
Gatestone Institute
February 24, 2018
31) to David Wurmser of the American Enterprise Institute and his view that: "Westerners attribute too many of the Arab world's problems 'to specific material issues' such as land and wealth. This usually means a tendency 'to belittle belief and strict adherence to principle as genuine and dismiss it as aÃâà...
JNS.org
December 22, 2017
David Wurmser—who also consulted on Israel's gas fields for Noble Energy, and is a former intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserves as well as a former Mideast adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney—said that a “gas pipeline to Europe, about which many exploration and development companiesÃâà...
Valdai Discussion Club
December 14, 2017
On the one hand, Russia was to be cornered, right up to, and onto, its frontiers by NATO; and on the other hand, prominent American neo-conservatives, such as David Wurmser, in the 1990s, were insisting that old 'Soviet puppet states' – the Ba'athist and the secular nationalist Arab states - had to beÃâà...
Consortium News
October 21, 2017
The Likud Party policy preferences on Iran dominated the Bush administration in large part because of the influence of David Wurmser, a Likudist who was a Middle East adviser first to Bolton and later to Vice President Dick Cheney. Wurmser was a co-author, with Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, of AÃâà...
American Free Press
October 20, 2017
Former Army intelligence and CIA agent Philip Giraldi confirmed recently there is indeed a limit to free speech in America—even amongst “conservatives.” When it comes to criticizing neoconservatives' Israel-first policy, repercussions are swift. By Dave Gahary. George Orwell once said, “The further aÃâà...
Consortium News
September 8, 2017
Wolfowitz's thinking was then taken up more explicitly by David Wurmser in his 1996 document, Coping with Crumbling States (following on from his contribution to the infamous Clean Break policy strategy paper written by Richard Pearle for Bibi Netanyahu earlier in the same year). The aim here for bothÃâà...
The American Interest
September 1, 2017
David Wurmser Donald Kagan Douglas Feith Dov Zakheim Eliot Abrams Eliot Cohen Frederick Kagan Henry Kissenger Irving Kristol James Schlesinger John Podhoretz Joshua Bolten Marc Grossman Michael Ledeen Norman Podhoretz Paul Wolfowitz Richard Perle Robert Kagan Scooter Libby StephenÃâà...
Truthdig
April 27, 2017
Several prominent neocons (including former Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, Meyrav Wurmser and Robert Loewenberg) advised Netanyahu's 1996 campaign and urged a new strategy for “securing the realm.” Essentially, the idea was to replace negotiationsÃâà...
The Hill (blog)
December 29, 2016
According to David Wurmser, who served as senior adviser on the Middle East to former Vice President Dick Cheney and is currently an executive at the Dephi Global Analysis Group, which he founded: “To admit the failure of the peace process is tantamount to the West's policy elite's admitting theÃâà...
Vanity Fair
March 5, 2008
One of its critics is David Wurmser, the avowed neoconservative, who resigned as Vice President Dick Cheney's chief Middle East adviser in July 2007, a month after the Gaza coup. Wurmser accuses the Bush administration of “engaging in a dirty war in an effort to provide a corrupt dictatorship [led by Abbas] with victory.
