- Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14 1954) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. Rice is the first African American woman, second African American (after Colin Powell, who served before her from 2001 - 2005), and second woman (after Madeleine Albright who served from 1997 to 2001, before Colin Powell) to serve as Secretary of State.
- Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest (43 years old) and the oldest (74 years old) person to have held the position, as well as the only person to have held the position for two non-consecutive terms, and the second longest serving, …
- Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator in New York City, first at the Manhattan firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and then at the litigation firm he founded, Greenwald, Christoph. Greenwald litigated numerous high-profile and significant constitutional cases in federal and state courts around the country, including multiple First Amendment challenges.
- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee
- Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang is an American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She is a social and political conservative who makes frequent guest appearances on national syndicated radio programs and on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN. As well as her written blog, she posts regular video blogs.
- Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann (born January 27, 1959) is an American news anchor, commentator and radio sportscaster. He currently hosts "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on MSNBC, an hour-long nightly newscast that reviews the top news stories of the day along with political commentary by Olbermann. He also appears on "The Dan Patrick Show" on ESPN radio during the 2-3 PM EST hour.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(born October 28, 1956) is the 6th and current president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He became president on 6 August 2005 after winning the 2005 presidential election. Ahmadinejad's current term will end in August, 2009, but he will be eligible to run for one more term in office in 2009 presidential elections. Before becoming president, he was the Mayor of Tehran. He is the highest directly elected official in the country, but, …
- Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28 , 1953 ) is an American economist . Krugman is currently a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University . He is also an author and a columnist for The New York Times , writing a twice-weekly op-ed for the newspaper since 2000.
- Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs (born September 24 1945) is the anchor and managing editor of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight", an editorial columnist, and host of a syndicated radio show. "Lou Dobbs Tonight" attracts CNN's second-largest audience after "Larry King Live", with about 800,000 viewers per night. Dobbs also lectures widely.
- Marjorie Cohn
Marjorie Cohn is Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Sand Diego, California and president of the National Lawyers Guild. She is mostly known for her columns commenting on legal issues involving the Bush administration. Her weekly columns appear in AlterNet, Counterpunch, CommonDreams, After Downing Street, ZNet, and GlobalResearch. Beyond that she is a commentator for the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR and Pacifica Radio.
- David Horsey
David Horsey (born 1951) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist in the United States. His cartoons appear in the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" and are syndicated to newspapers nationwide. Horsey was born in Evansville, Indiana and moved to Seattle, Washington at age 3. He began perfecting his craft as a cartoonist in the "Cascade", the school newspaper at Ingraham High School.
- Max Cleland
Joseph Maxwell Cleland (born August 24, 1942) is an American politician from Georgia. Cleland, a Democrat, is a former U.S. Senator, disabled US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, and a critic of the Bush Administration. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, a presidentially appointed position.
- Maher Arar
Maher Arar (born 1970 in Syria) is a Canadian software engineer who is perhaps the most well-known victim of the United States policy of extraordinary rendition, a process where detainees are transferred from one country to another, with the expectation that they may be tortured in the country to which they are rendered.
- Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff contributes regularly to Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal . Among other publications in which his work has appeared are The New York Times , The New Republic , Commonwealth , The Atlantic , and The New Yorker , where he was a staff writer for more than 25 years.
- David Iglesias
David Iglesias was appointed by President George W. Bush as the United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico in August 2001 and confirmed by the US Senate in October 2001. He was one of eight U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration in 2006 for "performance-related issues" under a controversial clause of the PATRIOT Act (see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy). Iglesias had received a positive performance review before he was fired.
- Armstrong Williams
Armstrong Williams (born February 5, 1959) is a political commentator who writes a conservative newspaper column, hosts a nationally syndicated TV program called "The Right Side", and co-hosts a daily radio program with Sam Greenfield, broadcast on WWRL 1600, the Air America Radio affiliate in New York City. In 2003 he launched his own company, The Right Side Productions, …
- Fred Kaplan
Fred Kaplan is a journalist and contributor to "Slate" magazine. His "War Stories" column covers international relations and US foreign policy, with a particular focus on the Bush Administration and major related geopolitical issues.
- James A. Baker
James A. Baker is an American government official at the Department of Justice, serving as Counsel for the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review. James A. Baker is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and received a J.D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan. He joined the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice as a federal prosecutor during the Clinton administration.
- Ana Marie Cox
Ana Marie Cox (born September 23 1972, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an American author and blogger, who was the founding editor of the political blog Wonkette, and widely considered synonymous with the title.
- Tariq Aziz
Mikhail Yuhanna, later and more popularly known as Tariq Aziz or Tareq Aziz was the Foreign Minister (1983 – 1991) and Deputy Prime Minister (1979 – 2003) of Iraq, and a close advisor of former President Saddam Hussein for decades. Their association began in the 1950s, when both were Ba'ath party activists, while the party was still officially banned. Since Saddam Hussein was both Prime Minister and President of Iraq, …
- Jonathan Chait
Jonathan Chait (b. 1972) is a senior editor at "The New Republic" and a former assistant editor of "The American Prospect". He also writes a periodic column in the "Los Angeles Times". A graduate of the University of Michigan, he wrote for The "Michigan Daily" while in college. He began working at The New Republic in 1995. A liberal hawk, Chait supported the invasion of Iraq, but is a vocal critic of the Bush administration, …
- Harry Belafonte
Harold George Belafonete, Jr. (born March 1, 1927 in New York, New York, United States) is a musician, actor and social activist of Jamaican ancestry. One of the most successful Jamaican musicians in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style in the 1950s. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O".
- Michael Kelly
Michael Kelly was an editor-at-large of the "Atlantic Monthly" and a columnist for the "Washington Post". He died in 2003 covering the invasion of Iraq. Prior to his employment at "Atlantic", he was the editor of "The New Republic", from 1996 to 1997. Considering that the fraudulent writer, Stephen Glass, was a major contributor under his editorship, Kelly later felt ashamed that he was fooled by Glass' false stories.
- Cofer Black
J. (Joseph) Cofer Black was the United States Department of State Coordinator for Counterterrorism with the rank of Ambassador at Large from December 2002 to November 2004. The point man for the U.S. government's international counterterrorism policy in the first term of the Bush administration, he resigned shortly after George W. Bush was elected to a second presidential term. Since February 2005, Black has been Vice Chairman of Blackwater USA, …
- Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich is a former US Army Colonel and is now a Professor of International Relations at Boston University. He says that a dangerous obsession has taken hold of Americans; it's a marriage of idealism and awesome military strength, and this has led to the belief that the military is the short and simple solution to the World's problems. His book is called "The New American Militarism, How Americans are seduced by War".
- Walter Russell Mead
Walter Russell Mead (born 12 June, 1952, Columbia, South Carolina) is the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the country's leading students of American foreign policy. Mead's father was an Episcopal priest and he grew up in several places in the South. He received his B.A. in English Literature from Yale University, but never went to graduate school, …
- Jed Babbin
Jed Babbin was a deputy undersecretary of defense during the first Bush administration in the United States, and the author of the political book "Inside the Asylum" as well as "Showdown" and "In The Words Of Our Enemies." He is a conservative commentator, a contributing editor to "The American Spectator", and a contributor to "National Review Online". Mr. Babbin is also a frequent guest host on Talk Radio WMET in Washington, …
- Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a London-born author and political scientist specializing in interdisciplinary security studies. He teaches International Relations at the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, where he is currently engaged in Doctoral research on European imperial genocides from the 15th to the 19th centuries.
- Shaha Riza
Shaha Ali Riza, (born 1953 or 1954), is a World Bank staffer who is currently on external assignment. She was forced to leave her position as Senior Communications Officer (and acting manager of external affairs) for the Middle East and North Africa Regional Office at the World Bank when Paul Wolfowitz was brought in as President.
- Philip Cooney
Philip Cooney is the former chief of staff for President George W. Bush's Council on Environmental Quality and a former energy industry lobbyist (American Petroleum Institute). In a position that may be viewed as requiring scientific training, Cooney is a lawyer and holds a bachelors degree in economics. Prior to working for the Bush Administration, Cooney was a lawyer and lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute, a petroleum and gas lobbying organization which has, …
- John E. McLaughlin
John Edward McLaughlin (born June 15, 1942 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania) is the former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and former Acting Director of Central Intelligence. He was sworn in as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence on October 19, 2000, to serve under DCI George Tenet. After Tenet's resignation on June 3, 2004, the Bush Administration announced that McLaughlin would serve as Acting Director after Tenet's departure on July 11, 2004.
- Larry Klayman
Larry Klayman is the chairman of Judicial Watch and, as a sought-after speaker on the topic of ethics and the need for honest government, is a frequent guest on the Fox News Network and such programs as CNN's Crossfire and ABC's Prime Time Live.
- Neal Katyal
Neal Kumar Katyal is the John Carroll Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law School and was the lead counsel in the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay "violate both the UCMJ and the four Geneva Conventions." Katyal was born in America to immigrant parents. His mother is a pediatrician and his father was an engineer.
- Andrew Rosenthal
Andrew Rosenthal (born 1956 in New Delhi, India is an American journalist and editorial page editor of "The New York Times". Rosnethal is in charge of the paper's opinion pages, both in the newspaper and online. He oversees the editorial board, the Letters and Op-Ed departments, as well as the Editorial, Op-Ed and TimesSelect sections of NYTimes.com.
- Steve Kurtz
Steve Kurtz is a member of the performance art group, Critical Art Ensemble. He is primarily known for his work in Bio-art, and because of his arrest by the FBI in May 2004. Because Kurtz's work often deals with social criticism, many see his treatment by authorities as a form of censorship by the federal government.
- Charlotte Beers
Charlotte Beers was the only executive in the advertising industry to have served as Chairman of two of the top-ten worldwide advertising agencies: J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather. In 1999, Mrs. Beers was Chairman of J. Walter Thompson Worldwide. She was Chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather from 1992-1997.
- Michael Collins Piper
Michael Collins Piper is a political writer for the "American Free Press" and talk radio host living in Washington D.C.. He is the author of books such as "The High Priests of War", in which he discusses the Neoconservatives in the Bush administration, and "Final Judgment" where he describes his theory that the Israeli Mossad was responsible for the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.
- Iyman Faris
Iyman Faris aka Mohammad Rauf (b. on 4 June, 1969 in Kashmir) is a former truck driver from Columbus, Ohio who was convicted of providing material support to Al Qaeda, for his role in a plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge. His name has mistakenly been reported as Lyman Harris. On 22 June, 2003, the United States Department of Justice revealed to "Time" that Faris had served as a double agent for the FBI for months.
- Ray Close
Ray Close is a former CIA analyst in the Near East division. He is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) and an outspoken critic of the Iraq War and the Bush Administration.
- Lawrence B. Lindsey
Lawrence B. Lindsey was Director of the National Economic Council (2001-2002), and the Assistant to the President on Economic Policy for the U.S. President George W. Bush. He played a leading role in formulating President Bush's $1.35 billion tax cut plan, convincing candidate Bush that he needed an "insurance policy" against an economic turndown.