Abram Shulsky, a scholar of intelligence issues and student of the political theorist, served as a Pentagon advisor during the George W. Bush presidency, including heading the controversial (OSP) in the lead-up to the Iraq War. The OSP, which was accused of distorting intelligence on Iraq, was conceived by and began its work soon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Since leaving government, Abrams has written infrequently on U.S. Foreign policy as a senior fellow at the neoconservative. In a May 2010 Wall Street Journal editorial co-written with the controversial Bush-era Pentagon official, Shulsky argued that the Barack Obama administration’s arms control efforts, “rest on other-worldly assumptions.” Pointing to the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, the authors claimed that Obama’s nuclear posture was delusional because it required world peace as a precondition.

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Shulsky and Feith teamed up on an earlier Wall Street Journal op-ed, published in August 2009, that criticized President Obama’s efforts to negotiate a new START treaty with Russia, making the alarmist argument that cutbacks in U.S. Investment in its nuclear arsenal could spur some U.S. Allies to develop their own arsenals. Abrams and Feith wrote, “If the U.S.

Fails to ensure the continuing safety and reliability of its arsenal, it could cause the collapse of the U.S. Nuclear umbrella. Countries such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, and others might decide that their security requires them to acquire their own nuclear arsenals, rather than rely indefinitely on the U.S. The world could reach a tipping point, with cascading nuclear proliferation.” In a 2003 New Yorker article, Seymour Hersh wrote, “Shulsky has been quietly working on intelligence and foreign-policy issues for three decades; he was on the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the early 1980s and served in the Pentagon under Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Reagan administration, after which he joined the Rand Corporation. The Office of Special Plans is overseen by Under-Secretary of Defense, a retired Navy captain.” Retired Air Force Lt. Karen Kwiatkowski, who worked in the Near East South Asia directorate at the Department of Defense, and who “observed firsthand the formation of the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans,” wrote that she “had a clear sense that Abe [Shulsky] ranked high in the organization, although ostensibly he was under Luti.

Shulsky’s real boss was somebody like Douglas Feith or higher.” According to Hersh, the OSP “brought about a crucial change of direction in the American intelligence community. These advisers and analystshave produced a skein of intelligence reviews that have helped to shape public opinion and American policy toward Iraq. They relied on data gathered by other intelligence agencies and also on information provided by the Iraqi National Congress, or I.N.C., the exile group headed by.” By late 2002, says Hersh, the OSP had overshadowed the CIA and the Pentagon’s own Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and become Bush’s main intelligence source on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and Hussein’s alleged al-Qaida connections. In 2006, as many neoconservatives and other foreign policy hawks were shifting their attention from Iraq to Iran, Shulsky reportedly began work at a newly created “Iranian Directorate” within the Pentagon. Crack cubase 5 synsoacc.dll. According to journalist Larisa Alexandrovna, the directorate was created “as a counterpart to the State Department’s new,” and reportedly employs several OSP veterans in addition to Shulsky, including Ladan Archin and John Trigilio. A Pentagon spokesman said that the directorate falls “within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs,” and that, “Mr. Shulsky continues in his position as Senior Adviser to the USD (P) [Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, ], focusing on Mid-East regional issues and the [global war on terror].” National Public Radio’s Mary Louise Kelly reported in 2006, “To understand the Pentagon Iran desk and its ability to rile people here in Washington, you do have to go back a few years to the Office of Special Plans at its height.