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Paul Wolfowitz - Department of Defense
Paul Wolfowitz is Deputy Secretary of Defense. According to whitehouse.gov: Prior to his current appointment, Paul Wolfowitz was Dean of the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is a veteran... [more]
Paul Wolfowitz is Deputy Secretary of Defense. According to whitehouse.gov: Prior to his current appointment, Paul Wolfowitz was Dean of the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is a veteran of both the Reagan and George H. W. Bush Administrations. At the beginning of the Reagan Administration, he served as Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State and then as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. In 1986, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia. Under President George H. W. Bush, Paul served as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He is a graduate of Cornell University. He received both his Master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Conservative defenders of the Bush administration contend that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was misquoted by Vanity Fair reporter Sam Tanenhaus. In an upcoming profile of Wolfowitz, Tanenhaus quotes him as saying, "For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on" . According to a Defense Department transcript of the original May 9, 2003 interview...
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Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, in Iraq as part of what the New York Times calls a "carefully choreographed visit" to that country to point up the record of brutality compiled by former dictator Saddam Hussein, tells reporters that Iraqi WMD are no longer the "core reason" why the US invaded Iraq, or why it occupies that country. "I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction," he says. "I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its...
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Sir, There is a depressing sense of déjà vu about Paul Wolfowitz's recipe for dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions (" Confront Tehran now in pursuit of a nuclear-free world ", September 28). He fails to give a convincing reason why Iran acquiring ...
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