Reply #11: After her performance on C-span today, I must nominate Ms Pletka! [View All]

[acmejack]

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Danielle Pletka (born June 12, 1963 in Melbourne, Australia) is the vice-president for Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Pletka researches topics related to the Middle East, South Asia, terrorism, and weapons proliferation, and is the AEI expert on Iraq. She was a senior professional staff member for Near East and South Asia with the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1992 to 2002 — where she was a chief aide to Sen. Jesse Helms. Prior to working with the Senate committee she was a staff writer for Insight Magazine from 1987 to 1992 and an editorial assistant with the Los Angeles Times and Reuters, working in Jerusalem from 1984 to 1985.<1>

Pletka ranks as one of the early neo-conservatives, and is also an associate of Martin Indyk. Pletka has been at the forefront of the neocon war drumming against Iraq, and she has been a champion for Ahmad Chalabi <2>.

Affiliations
Project for the New American Century – signatory to several PNAC statements
American Enterprise Institute
Committee on the Present Danger – Member <3>
Coalition for Democracy in Iran – Supporter <4>

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Danielle_Pletka

Link to C-span thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1786269

edit: another C-span thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1786564&mesg_id=1786690