- Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born), was the thirty-ninth President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, and the Nobel Peace laureate of 2002. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate, and was the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Carter's presidency saw the creation of two cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education.
- 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
- Newt Gingrich
Newton Leroy Gingrich (born June 17, 1943), Ph.D., served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 1995, "Time" magazine selected him as the Man of the Year for his role in leading the Republican Revolution in the House, ending 40 years of Democratic Party majorities in that body. During his tenure as Speaker he represented the public face of the Republican opposition to Bill Clinton.
- Janet Reno
Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the first female Attorney General of the United States (1993-2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. She was the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt.
- Sandy Berger
Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger (born October 28, 1945) served as the 19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. In his position, he helped to formulate the foreign policy of the Clinton Administration. During this time he advised the President regarding the Khobar Towers bombing, Operation Desert Fox and other actions against Iraq, the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, …
- James Carville
James Carville (born October 25, 1944), is an American political consultant, commentator, media personality and pundit. Known as the "Ragin' Cajun", Carville gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful 1992 presidential campaign of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. Carville was the co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" until its final broadcast in June 2005. Since its cancellation, he has appeared on CNN's new program, …
- Jamie Gorelick
Jamie S. Gorelick is an American attorney and judicial officer who was Deputy Attorney General of the United States during the Clinton administration. She was also appointed by Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle to serve as a commissioner on the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which sought to investigate the circumstances leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
- Lawrence Summers
From 1982 - 1983, he served on the Reagan administration's Council of Economic Advisors. Then in 1993 in the Clinton administration as under-Treasury secretary for international affairs and as Treasury secretary from 1999 - 2001. Earlier from 1991 - 1993, he was chief economist for the World Bank where he authored a controversial memo stating that "the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that."
- 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.
- 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.
- Al Gore
Former Vice President Al Gore is Vice Chairman of Metropolitan West Financial, LLC, and a member of the firm's executive leadership team. He serves as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. In March 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Apple Computers, Inc. Mr. Gore is a Visiting Professor at two universities in Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University and Fisk University, and at UCLA.
- 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.
- Eleanor Clift
ELEANOR CLIFT Washington power struggles can make for a confusing and opaque world. Eleanor Clift , a contributing editor at Newsweek and lucid writer on national politics and the influence of women in politics, penetrates this murky world to offer startling insights. As somebody who knows this world inside out, Eleanor Clift is often assigned to follow key stories is often assigned to follow key stories, such as presidential nomination and election campaigns.
- 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.
- J. Bradford Delong
James Bradford DeLong (b. June 24 1960, Boston) is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury in the Clinton Administration. He writes a popular blog, "Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal", which covers political, technical, and economic issues as well as criticism of their coverage in the media. He is also the author of a textbook, …
- Bruce Lindsey
Bruce R. Lindsey currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the William J. Clinton Foundation and splits his time between the Foundation's New York and Little Rock offices. He has been a long-time advisor to former President Bill Clinton. During the eight years of the Clinton Administration, he served as an Assistant to the President, Deputy White House Counsel, and Senior Advisor. During 1993, Mr.
- Dee Dee Myers
Dee Dee Myers (born Margaret Jane Myers on 1 September 1961 in Providence, Rhode Island) served as White House Press Secretary for the first two years of the Clinton administration, from January 20, 1993 to December 22, 1994. In the first months of the Clinton Administration she was widely seen as something of a pretender, as Clinton advisor George Stephanopoulos actually conducted the daily press briefings instead of Myers.
- Daniel Benjamin
Daniel Benjamin (born 1961) is a journalist and scholar on international security. From 1994 to 1997 he served on the National Security Council in the Clinton administration; before that he worked as a journalist for "Time Magazine" and the "Wall Street Journal". He was formerly a Senior Fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and he writes a column for "Slate Magazine".
- Robert Baer
Robert "Bob" B. Baer (born July 1, 1952), is an author and former case officer at the Central Intelligence Agency.
- Gary Aldrich
Gary Aldrich founded The Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty in 1997. The Fairfax, Virginia based center is a nonprofit group dedicated to the Constitution and Bill of Rights in memory of Patrick Henry . The Center is universally recognized as an effective supporter of the right of ethical dissent. Mr. Aldrich is known as a champion of free speech.
- Barbara Olson
Barbara Olson (December 27, 1955 - September 11, 2001) was a conservative American television commentator who worked for Fox News Channel, CNN and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Olson was born Barbara Kay Bracher in Houston, Texas.
- Nancy Soderberg
Nancy Soderberg is an American foreign policy strategist who held several senior level positions in the Clinton Administration and and authored the book "The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might (ISBN 0-471-78964-X)". Soderberg was the third highest ranking member of the US Delegation to the United Nations where she served as US Representative for Special Political Affairs.
- Reed Irvine
Reed Irvine (September 29, 1922-November 16, 2004) was an economist turned media watchdog with known conservative sympathies. He founded the conservative Accuracy in Media, and remained its head for 35 years. Notable events were during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, "he accused CNN and its reporter Peter Arnett of airing "Saddam Hussein's version of the truth. There's no way his reporting is helping America win this war".
- Mara Liasson
Mara Liasson (born June 13, 1955 in New York City) is a national political correspondent for National Public Radio, and a regular panelist on "Special Report with Brit Hume" and "Fox News Sunday" on Fox News Channel. She is a graduate of Brown University with a B.A. in American history. During her tenure she has covered four presidential elections -- in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004.
- Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller is an American journalist, and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a monthly columnist for "Fortune", regular contributor to "The New York Times Magazine" and "The Atlantic Monthly", and author of "The Two Percent Solution". Miller also makes regular appearances on television news networks such as CNN and MSNBC.
- David Shipley
David Shipley is an American journalist. He is currently deputy editorial page editor and Op-Ed editor of "The New York Times". Shipley became deputy editorial page editor in January 2007, concurrent with Andrew Rosenthal being promoted from deputy to editorial page editor. Shipley had been Op-Ed editor since January of 2003. Previously, he was the national enterprise editor for The Times since January 2001.
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Laura D'Andrea Tyson (b. June 28, 1947, New Jersey) is an American economist and former Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. She also served as Director of the National Economic Council. She is currently a professor at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley. From 2002 to 2006, Tyson was the first female Dean of the London Business School. From 1998 to 2001, she was Dean of the Haas School of Business.
- Tim Wirth
Timothy E. Wirth (b. September 22, 1939) is a former United States Senator from Colorado. Wirth, a Democrat, was a member of the House from 1975 to 1987 and was elected to the Senate in 1986, serving one term there before stepping down. He was Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs during the Clinton Administration. In the State Department, he worked with Vice President Al Gore on global environmental and population issues, …
- Judith Heumann
As Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) since June 1993, Judith E. Heumann and her 350-person staff manage the Office of Special Education Programs, the Rehabilitation Services Administration, and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, which have a combined budget of over $5.5 billion.
- Sally Katzen
Sally Katzen was a United States government official during the Clinton Administration. She served as Deputy Director for Management in the Office of Management and Budget from 1999 through 2001, as Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council during 1998 and 1999, and as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget from 1993 through 1998.
- Timothy J. Roemer
Mr. Roemer is President of the Center for National Policy, a distinguished fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a Trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
- Kenneth Lieberthal
Kenneth Lieberthal (born September 9, 1943 Asheville, North Carolina) was Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asia at the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration. He is a professor of political science at the University of Michigan, where he is an expert on contemporary Chinese political issues. He is also a Distinguished Professor the of the William Davidson Institute at the Ross School of Business.
- Mark Gearan
Mark Gearan is a politician, lawyer and communications expert. He is the current President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. During the Clinton Administration he served several roles. Gearan was director of the Peace Corps from 1995 to 1999. Prior to his Peace Corps directorship, he was assistant to the President and White House Director of Communications, a position with the title of White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
- Peter R. Orszag
Peter R. Orszag, economist, is the Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. He previously served as the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at Brookings, where he directed the Hamilton Project and the Retirement Security Security Project. He had also previously served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and as Senior Economist and Senior Adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers, …
- Joel Johnson
Joel Johnson is an American businessman and former White House Senior Advisor. He is currently a partner with the Glover Park Group. He served in the Clinton Administration as President Bill Clintons senior advisor for policy and communication. In the early 1990s he served the House Democratic Leadership as Executive Director of the Democratic Study Group and held senior staff positions on the Senate Labor Committee, …
- Edward Luce
Edward Luce is the Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times, London. Earlier he was their South Asia Bureau Chief based at New Delhi. He is the son of the Tory politician Richard Luce (Baron Luce). Luce studied at various boarding schools around Sussex. He graduated in politics, philosophy and economics from the University of Oxford and did his post graduation degree in newspaper journalism from City University, London.
- Karen Kornbluh
Karen Kornbluh (b. 1963) is an American economist, former United States Treasury Department official, and expert on communications policy, international trade and issues affecting working families. She is currently policy director for U.S. Senator Barack Obama. Obama's decision to hire her in 2002 was seen as a sign of his determination to build an unusually strong staff for a freshman Senator.
- Jim Sasser
James Ralph Sasser is an American politician and attorney. A Democrat, Sasser served three terms as a United States Senator from Tennessee (1977–1995) and was Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. From 1995–1999, during the Clinton Administration, he was the United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
- Philip B. Heymann
Philip B. Heymann is a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration and currently a law professor at Harvard Law School. He has been known as an active critic of the George W. Bush administration, particularly on its warrantless domestic spying program. He is also the author of the book "Terrorism and America: A Commonsense Strategy For A Democratic Society" published by MIT Press.
- Peter D. Feaver
Peter D. Feaver is a professor of political science at Duke University and director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies. He is on sabbatical until August 2007 in the Bush administration, as a special advisor for strategic planning and institutional reform on the National Security Council. Feaver earned his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from Lehigh University.