Naming names:

Who are these people?

• Spencer Abraham
• Steve Forbes
• Francis Fukuyama
• Jack Kemp
• Jeane Kirkpatrick
• Professor Bernard Lewis
• Dennis Ross
• Alan Simpson
  
• Fred Thompson
• R. James Woolsey

They're on the Advisory Committee for the Scooter Libby Defense Trust (scooterlibby.com). It is something of a surprise to see Dennis Ross, Bill Clinton's envoy to the Middle East, on the list. Also, Fukuyama, who is supposed (?) to be distancing himself from the neocon cabal. And finally, adademic Bernard Lewis, who seems to have abandoned any claims to objectivity.

Oh, here's one connection. From the Ross entry in Wikipedia: (emp add)

n 1981, following the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, the newly appointed U.S. National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen was put in charge of putting together the Reagan administrations foreign policy advisory team. Allen offered Paul Wolfowitz the position of Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. In this position Wolfowitz and his newly selected staff, that included Lewis Libby, Francis Fukuyama, Dennis Ross, Alan Keyes, Zalmay Khalizad, Stephen Sestanovich and James Roche, were responsible for defining the Reagan administrations long-term foreign goals.

posted by Quiddity at 2/23/2006 12:10:00 PM