Talk:David Wurmser

Re David Wurmser and the American Enterprise Institute


 * David Wurmser, director of the Middle East program at the American Enterprise Institute, November 12, 1997.
 * David Wurmser at AEI, November 1, 2000.
 * After September 11, 2001: "Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and Middle East specialist Harold Rhode recruit David Wurmser, the director of Middle East studies for the American Enterprise Institute, to serve as a Pentagon consultant."
 * September 2002: "David Wurmser will later be relocated to the State Department where he will be the senior advisor to Undersecretary Of State for Arms Control John Bolton."
 * Jim Lobe, "New Cheney Adviser Sets Syria In His Sights," antiwar.com, October 21, 2003: "David Wurmser, who had been working for Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton, joined Cheney's staff under its powerful national security director, I. Lewis Libby, in mid-September [2003], according to Cheney's office."
 * "State Department Source Watch," Blogenlust, July 7, 2005.


 * Anonymous, "The State Department's extreme makeover," Salon, October 4, 2004: "After 9/11, Wolfowitz, Feith and his subordinate, Harold Rhode, recruited David Wurmser as a contractor from the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute to set up what became known internally as the 'Wurmser-Maloof' project. F. Michael Maloof, neocon fellow traveler and former aide to Richard Perle, and Wurmser created a hidden intelligence unit, the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group, under Feith at the Pentagon. The purpose of the group was to end-run the CIA and create the rationale for invading Iraq. The parallel operations model was previously followed by Oliver North at the National Security Council and Elliott Abrams at State in their ill-fated Iran-Contra strategy. It should have come as no surprise that another neocon think-tank insider, Abram Shulsky, an Abrams colleague from their days as staffers to Sen. Henry Scoop Jackson, would end up heading up what became the Office of Special Plans, the secret intelligence unit at the Pentagon under Feith. The weapons of mass destruction disinformation that was fed to the president and to the American public came directly from Shulsky's shop. ... After setting up this operation at the Pentagon for Wolfowitz and Feith, Wurmser, with the help of Perle, was sent in early 2002 to burrow in at State as senior advisor to John Bolton, under secretary for arms control and international security." [emphasis added]


 * "David Wurmser will help run the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group [Shortly after September 11, 2001] through August 2002 and then will be transferred to the State Department to serve as a senior advisor to Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John R. Bolton."