Note: I think this character is interesting enough that he deserves to have a thread of his own so we can keep an eye on him.
The forum participants should feel free to add links whenever he makes the news.
70-s-90-s: Government/Military/Lobbyist revolving door
Defend Democracy
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')e was Director of Central Intelligence in 1993-95. He also served as: Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989-1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977-1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970-73. He was appointed by the President as Delegate at Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), and served in that capacity on a part-time basis in Geneva, 1983-1986. As an officer in the U.S. Army he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969-1970.
PeakOil is You
Woolsey Watch
Woolsey Watch
by pup55 » Mon 27 Jun 2005, 10:56:11
Salon Mag
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')oolsey left the agency (CIA) after a brief tenure and returned to civilian life as a partner at the powerful Washington law firm Shea and Gardner. (Under the terms of the United States' Foreign Agents Registration Act, the firm is registered as a foreign agent for the Iraqi National Congress.)
1999: Predicted peak
BTinternet
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')x-CIA Chief Predicted 'Peak' Oil Crisis
In 1999 CFR Paper
Optimists about world oil reserves, such as the Department of Energy, are getting increasingly lonely. The International Energy Agency now says that world production outside the Middle Eastern Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (opec) will peak in 1999 and world production overall will peak between 2010 and 2020
2002: Formed consulting group to try to profit from “homeland security”
Neocons
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')oolsey, one of the most high-profile hawks in the war against Iraq and a key member of the Pentagon's Defence Policy Board, is a director of the Washington-based private equity firm Paladin Capital. The company was set up three months after the terrorist attacks on New York and sees the events and aftermath of September 11 as a business opportunity which 'offer[s] substantial promise for homeland security investment'
Paladin Capital
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')r. Woolsey has focused on bringing innovative technology into practical application and on the legal and managerial requirements that are necessary to accomplish this
1998-2003: Concerned Citizen/Fearmonger
Time
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')ames Woolsey: I think it will be something between counterproductive and only marginally useful for us merely to attack Saddam's sites that may contain chemical and bacteriological weapons.
Salon Mag
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f the United States finally decides to extend its war on terrorism all the way to Baghdad, it will be thanks in no small part to former CIA Director James Woolsey. While the Bush administration must speak circumspectly about a possible war with Saddam Hussein, Woolsey has become its unofficial point man in the growing war of words with the Iraqi dictator.
Let's turn to Sept. 11. You've spent some time investigating possible Iraqi connections to the hijackers. What is there?
There are yet no smoking guns, but there are indicators that Iraq may well have been involved. First are the meeting or meetings between Mohammed Atta and [Mohammed] al-Ani of Iraqi intelligence in Prague as stated by Czech government.
2003: Concerned Citizen, high dollar talking head, high dollar consultant
Committee on the Present Danger
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Committee on the Present Danger is dedicated to protecting and expanding democracy by winning the global war against terrorism and the movements and ideologies that drive it. We will support policies that use appropriate means--military, economic, political, social--to achieve this goal
