William O. DeWitt, Jr.

William O. DeWitt, Jr., "an Ohio businessman who has raised more than $300,000 for the president’s campaigns," was reappointed by President George W. Bush to be a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board on October 27, 2005, "for a third two-year term on the panel. Originally appointed in 2001, just a few weeks after the 9/11 attacks, DeWitt, who was also a top fund-raiser for Bush’s 2004 Inaugural committee, was a partner with Bush in the Texas Rangers baseball team." 

Upon his second nomination by President Bush to the PFIAB on October 8, 2003, the Cincinnati "Enquirer" wrote:


 * "Cincinnati investor William O. DeWitt Jr. has long been a friend of and fund-raiser for President Bush. Now he will be one of the president's advisers on one of the most important issues of the post 9-11 world: just how good America's intelligence gathering is."

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