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EMP Commission
Last Updated: October 19, 2009
Despite many challenges to its credibility, the work of this Congressional commission continues be cited by hardliners to revive Cold War-era fears of nuclear annihilation and justify aggressive policies toward Iran and North Korea.
1992 Draft Defense Planning Guidance
Last Updated: March 12, 2008
The 1992 draft Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), crafted by then-Defense Department staffers I. Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, and Zalmay Khalilzad, is widely regarded as an early formulation of the...
Office of Special Plans
Last Updated: December 10, 2007
The Office of Special Plans (OSP) was a short-lived outfit in the Pentagon's Policy office that provided the White House with inaccurate, skewed intelligence linking Iraq and al-Qaida that was...
Team B Strategic Objectives Panel
Last Updated: November 01, 2007
Arguably the most notorious attempt by right-wing figures to challenge the authority of the CIA ("Team A") over intelligence—similar to the effort by the Pentagon's Office of...
Rumsfeld Space Commission
Last Updated: November 01, 2007
The Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, frequently called the Rumsfeld Space Commission or simply the Space Commission, was established in 1999 by...
Rumsfeld Missile Commission
Last Updated: November 01, 2007
The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, commonly called the Rumsfeld Commission or the Rumsfeld Missile Commission after its chair Donald Rumsfeld, operated from...
Office of Iranian Affairs
Last Updated: July 25, 2007
The Office of Iranian Affairs (OIA) was created in early 2006 within the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Near East Affairs, apparently as part of an effort to channel funds to groups that could...
Immigration Reform Caucus
Last Updated: March 12, 2007
The Immigration Reform Caucus, established in May 1999 by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), a leading conservative in Congress who promotes a far-right agenda in both domestic and foreign policy, has grown...
U.S.-China Commission
Last Updated: November 29, 2006
Congress established the bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, or U.S.-China Commission as it is commonly known, in October 2000, as part of the 2001 Defense Authorization...
Foster Panel
Last Updated: November 21, 2003
About The so-called Foster Panel--after its head, John S. Foster, Jr.--was established at the urging of Sen. Jon Kyl by the fiscal year 1999 Defense Authorization Act to report on the safety and...
Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel
Last Updated: November 21, 2003
About . The Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel (DCAP) was established by the Bush administration to oversee production of the president's Nuclear Posture Review, which is a classified study...
New Profiles
Keep America Safe
This new rightwing pressure group—led by Liz Cheney and William Kristol—is circulating a petition pushing to keep “Gitmo” open, claiming it is a “safe, secure, and humane” way to keep “terrorists” locked up.
Pipes, Daniel
Pipes recently lauded the racist Dutch politician Geert Wilders, calling him "a charismatic, savvy, principled, and outspoken leader."
Adelson, Sheldon
The Casino magnate and key backer of U.S. and Israeli rightwing groups, Sheldon Adelson's free Israeli daily is at the center of a dispute over the future of the country's print media.
United Against Nuclear Iran
The neoconservative-aligned UANI recently launched a new program aimed at pressuring companies that do business with Iran by threatening legal action if they don’t “fully disclose” business dealings in Iran.
Center for Security Policy
Parroting rightwing media talking points, CSP recently questioned whether the Obama administration was really on the side of the United States.