Neoconservative historian and writer Michael Ledeen has left the American Enterprise Institute, his intellectual base for almost two decades, Mother Jones has learned. The decision for Ledeen, a veteran of the Iran contra affair, and AEI to part ways “has been in the works for a while” an associate who confirmed the recent departure describes. (Ledeen is no longer listed among the think tank’s scholars).
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Why was Langley cut out of clandestine meetings with Iranian informants?
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 6:20 PM ET May 8, 2008
The Senate Intelligence Committee is about to release a report that sheds new light on “inappropriate” back-channel contacts between Pentagon officials and a group of Iranian informants—including a key figure from the Iran-contra affair.
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Yesterday, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton announced on Fox News his belief that “the use of military force” against Iranian training camps “is really the most prudent thing to do.” Responding to a Telegraph report on his comments today, American Enterprise Institute scholar Michael Ledeen declared that Bolton is “right.” Adding that he’s “been proposing this for years,” Ledeen also said that “we should do the same thing to the Syrian camps as well.”
April 7, 2005
By Katherine Yurica
Would you be surprised to find that a man who was deeply involved in the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan Administration, a man who is the darling of the Bush White House and is an adviser to Karl Rove, a man who loves Machiavelli and studies him, a neo-conservative who has close ties to one of America’s leading “Christian” Dominionists—Pat Robertson, and a man who called Pearl Harbor “lucky” and a providentially inspired event—may be the man who is behind the forging of the Niger documents that convinced America to launch a preemptive strike against Iraq?
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By William O. Beeman, Pacific News Service
Posted on May 8, 2003, Printed on June 10, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/15860/
Editor’s Note: This is a revised and corrected version of this story. The earlier version contained a quote that was erroneously attributed to Michael Ledeen.
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