David Wurmser
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David Wurmser is the Middle East Adviser to US Vice President Dick Cheney.
Wurmser, a neoconservative, previously served as special assistant to John R. Bolton at the State Department and was a former research fellow on the Middle East at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He has been credited as being one of the main authors of the 1996 A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm report, a paper prepared for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Wurmser played a leading role in the creation of a Pentagon intelligence unit that sought to link the Iraqi regime with Al Qaeda in the months leading up to the US invasion.[1]
On September 4, 2004, the Washington Post reported that FBI counterintelligence investigators had questioned Wurmser, along with Harold Rhode, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith about the passing of classified information to Ahmad Chalabi and/or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. [2]
Wurmser obtained his Ph.D. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University[3]. His wife, Dr. Meyrav Wurmser, was cofounder of the Middle East Media Research Institute MEMRI.
[edit] References
- ^ The assassination of Rafiq Hariri: who benefited? by Bill Van Auken, World Socialist Web Site, February 17, 2005
- ^ Leak Inquiry Includes Iran Experts in Administration by Robin Wright and Dan Eggen, Washtington Post, September 4, 2004
- ^ Right Web profile of David Wurmser, accessed 21 November 2006
