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Republican Party insiders dominate FDD's board and staff. FDD's three board members are Steve Forbes, Jack Kemp, and Jeane Kirkpatrick. Its two "distinguished advisers" are Newt Gingrich and James Woolsey, while other advisers include Gary Bauer, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Walid Phares, Charles Krauthammer, and Frank Gaffney—all prominent neoconservative figures with multiple links to the Defense Policy Board, Center For Security Policy, American Enterprise Institute, Weekly Standard, and Project For The New American Century. Among FDD's advisers are also several prominent Democrats associated with the Democratic Leadership Council and the Progressive Policy Institute, including Donna Brazzile, a close associate of Sen. Joseph Lieberman; and Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA).
Right WebRepublican Party insiders dominate FDD's board and staff. FDD's three board members are Steve Forbes, Jack Kemp, and Jeane Kirkpatrick. Its two "distinguished advisers" are Newt Gingrich and James Woolsey, while other advisers include Gary Bauer, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Walid Phares, Charles Krauthammer, and Frank Gaffney—all prominent neoconservative figures with multiple links to the Defense Policy Board, Center For Security Policy, American Enterprise Institute, Weekly Standard, and Project For The New American Century. Among FDD's advisers are also several prominent Democrats associated with the Democratic Leadership Council and the Progressive Policy Institute, including Donna Brazzile, a close associate of Sen. Joseph Lieberman; and Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA).
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Branson Tri-Lakes news
April 14, 2018
Forbes serves on the boards of The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, and The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is on the board of overseers of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and on the board of visitors for the School of Public Policy of ...
Forward
April 8, 2018
Another included leaders from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the American Jewish Committee. ... and George Nader were shelling out millions of UAE dollars to fund two conferences held by the hawkish think tanks the Hudson Group and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
Washington Examiner
April 6, 2018
Turkey, a NATO ally of the U.S., will follow through with a deal to purchase anti-aircraft defenses from Russia, which could pose a significant international relations challenge to the Trump administration. "Our President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made it perfectly clear that the agreement between Turkey ...
The National Interest Online
April 6, 2018
Pompeo, for what it's worth, has also treated his approval as near-assured, even before getting the nomination feeling out allies for jobs in Foggy Bottom, including Juan Zarate of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the Financial Integrity Network, as I've reported. Mr. Zarate could also soon ...
Center for Research on Globalization
April 2, 2018
... the CIA from 1993 to 1995 under the Clinton administration and Chair of the Board at Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) who basically told The Jerusalem Post in November 2017 that the U.S. should destroy the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps infrastructure and Iran's nuclear facilities.
TIME
March 25, 2018
During the event, Republican Congressman Ed Royce of California, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced he was introducing .... The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a think tank that hosted the conference, said Broidy had approached it about organizing the event.
Haaretz
March 22, 2018
... the deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee — was pushing the White House to remove Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, ... at two Washington think tanks, the Hudson Institute and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, that featured heavy criticism of Qatar and the ...
MyAJC
March 22, 2018
Broidy, 60, a longtime Republican donor and a vice chairman of the inaugural fundraising committee, got his start in business as an accountant and then as ... Hudson Institute policies prohibit donations from foreign governments that are not democracies, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies ...
Al-Monitor
March 20, 2018
In January 2017, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, “The virtual board of directors of al-Qaeda settled ... Based on these documents — some of which were pre-released to the anti-Iran Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) — it was claimed ...
Kurdistan24
February 13, 2018
... Tayyip Erdogan “wants to boost his popularity” ahead of next year's elections, she said at a seminar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), ... Amberin Zaman, a journalist who serves on the board of advisers for the FDD's Turkey Program, described an increasing polarization within the country, which ...
OneNewsNow
February 12, 2018
... Schanzer of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies contends that Obama set out to attack those who opposed his pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel ... Shortly after the Marcuses and Z Street board members expressed anxiety over being audited forever, the IRS ended up settling the lawsuit on Feb. 1.
Yahoo Finance
January 28, 2018
... a former U.S. Treasury Department official who is now the vice president of research the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), said at a recent event about the case. “And with dry-erase boards, starts to just sketch out the entire scheme — all the different banks, the companies, the individuals.
FederalNewsRadio.com
October 26, 2017
He served as both a clandestine operations officer in U.S. intelligence and as a special agent for the Department of Treasury. He is considered an expert in anti-money laundering and terrorist financing. He currently serves on the board of advisors of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' Center ...
Washington Examiner
October 19, 2017
CIA Director Mike Pompeo warned former agency workers who are now "talking heads on TV" not to leak and said Thursday that WikiLeaks represents "an enormous threat" that the agency is "working to take down." Pompeo made the remarks during a discussion of international affairs and domestic policy ...
The Cipher Brief
August 15, 2017
If the U.S. Department of Defense were an economy unto itself, it would be the 20th largest in the world. Like any other advanced modern economy, it is deeply integrated with the entire globe, its supply chains often stretching into countries with whom the United States has adversarial relations. The open ...
The Atlantic
June 29, 2017
Its former policy director, David Adesnik, recently joined the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and fellow Jamie Kirchick's move to the Brookings Institution was announced this week. Sources said that no more than a handful of staff are left at the think tank. FPI's board of directors includes some of ...
The Intercept
June 3, 2017
The email account of one of Washington's most connected and influential foreign operatives has been hacked. A small tranche of those emails was sent this week to media outlets, including The Intercept, HuffPost and The Daily Beast, with the hacker promising to release a trove publicly. The hotmail ...
Slate Magazine
August 19, 2015
11 attacks, May broadened the group's mission and changed its name to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. As he explained in a supplement to the IRS, the group's board of directors decided to focus on “develop[ing] educational materials on the eradication of terrorism everywhere in the world.”.
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