Word: woolsey
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...Pentagon's civilian hawks did, indeed, try and prove Mylroie's thesis. Former CIA director James Woolsey, a fervent advocate of pursuing Mylroie's thesis was sent abroad by Wolfowitz to collect evidence to support her claims, and returned empty-handed...
...have said enough to make those outside the U.S. believe that Washington wants to change more regimes than just Iraq's and that it is happy, if necessary, to go its own merry way, ignoring the interests and concerns of others. In the most notorious of such comments, James Woolsey, a member of the Pentagon's advisory Defense Policy Board and former director of the CIA, claimed the U.S. was now engaged in "World War IV" against not only Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq but also the mullahs of Iran and Syria's "fascists." On NBC's Meet...
...post-war plan, which makes some sense in the short term: the U.S. military is the only institution that can restore order to Iraq. But it seems plain that an extended military occupation--and, particularly, an interim government run by a retired American general with interim ministers including James Woolsey, a former director of the CIA, and other assorted neoconservative bravos--will further alienate our allies and lead much of the world to suspect that imperialism was our purpose all along...
...with other officials, started voicing suspicions that Iraq might somehow have been involved. Within hours, he was lobbying Cheney on the topic, arguing--a central plank of the neoconservative analysis--that Iraq was also somehow behind the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. Within days, James Woolsey, once Clinton's head of the CIA but who had joined the neoconservatives on Iraq, was dispatched by the Pentagon to find proof that Iraq was linked to al-Qaeda...
Jackson then keynoted a rally at Woolsey Hall where he joined with prominent local figures—including New Haven mayor John DeStefano, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., as well as other religious figures and the labor leadership—in denouncing Yale’s labor practices...