Vice President Cheney is losing a trusted aide: David Wurmser, Cheney’s chief adviser on Middle East affairs and perhaps the Bush administration’s most radical hawk. According to multiple sources, Wurmser will leave the office of the vice president (OVP) in August for the private sector, where he will start a risk-consulting business.
...In the 1990s, David and Meyrav Wurmser joined Richard Perle and Douglas Feith to author the famous “Clean Break” paper that they presented to Netanyahu, in which they called for strong Israeli action to force regime change in Iraq and Syria and to redraw the map of the Middle East. Before joining the Bush administration in 2001, David Wurmser worked at the American Enterprise Institute and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
In the Bush administration, David Wurmser and a colleague, Michael Maloof, founded the predecessor organization to the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans, where they sought to develop intelligence linking Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to Al Qaeda. That work, carried out under Feith’s supervision, has been widely discredited, and a recent report from the Pentagon’s own inspector general declared that their conclusions were not supported by the underlying intelligence. Wurmser also spent time as an aide to John Bolton at the State Department before joining Cheney’s OVP as his chief Middle East specialist.
PAF says: Sayonara, asshole.
