Jews in the Bush Administration

• Paul Dundes Wolfowitz - Deputy Secretary, Department of Defense
• Richard Perle - Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy.
• Ari Fleischer - White House Press Secretary
• Josh Bolten - Deputy Chief of Staff
• Ken Melman - White House Political Director
• Jay Lefkowitz - Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council
• David Frum - Speechwriter
• Brad Blakeman - White House Director of Scheduling
• Dov Zakheim - Undersecretary of Defense (Controller)
• I. Lewis Libby - Chief of Staff to the Vice President
• Adam Goldman - White House Liaison to the Jewish Community
• Chris Gersten - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families at HHS
• Elliott Abrams - Director of the National Security Council's Office for Democracy, Human Rights ( !!! ) and International Operations
• Mark D. Weinberg - Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs
• Douglas Feith - Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
• Michael Chertoff - Head of the Justice Department's criminal division
• Daniel Kurtzer - Ambassador to Israel ( !!! )
• Cliff Sobel - Ambassador to the Netherlands
• Stuart Bernstein - Ambassador to Denmark
• Nancy Brinker - Ambassador to Hungary
• Frank Lavin - Ambassador to Singapore
• Ron Weiser - Ambassador to Slovakia
• Mel Sembler - Ambassador to Italy
• Martin Silverstein - Ambassador to Uruguay

 

Assistant Secretary of Defense: Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense under former President Bush, former ambassador to Indonesia, a member of Rockefeller’s Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a member of the Aspen Institute’s Strategy Group, reportedly attended the 2000 Bilderberg meeting in Belgium, and was a member of Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission as of 2000.

White House Press Secretary: Ari Fleischer, former 2000 Bush campaign spokesman, and previously was communications director for Elizabeth Dole's 2000 campaign. He was also the Presidential Transition Spokesperson 2000-2001.

Deputy Chief of Staff: Joshua B. Bolten, policy director for the 2000 Bush campaign.

Chief Counsel: Jay Lefkowitz, former law partner of Kenneth W. Starr.

Deputy Assistant to the President for Appointments and Scheduling: Brad Blakeman, who spent two years as Lead Advance Representative for Bush/Cheney 2000 and also worked in the same capacity for the Bush/Quayle campaigns in 1988 & 1992. From 1980-1993, he was a consultant to the offices of the President and Vice President of the United States.

Undersecretary of Defense & Comptroller: Dov S. Zakheim, CEO of System Planning Corporation International and a member of Rockefeller’s Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Chief of Staff for the Vice President: I. Lewis Libby, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, and a former lawyer for Mark Rich, whom Clinton pardoned. Libby is a member of Rockefeller’s Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs: Mark D. Weinberg, the Director of issues Management for The McGraw-Hill Companies and was Manager for Marketing Communications and Special Events for the U.S. Postal Service 1994-1999. He served as Director of Public Affairs in the Office of Former President Bush 1989-1991 and as Special Assistant to the President and Assistant Press Secretary for President Reagan 1981-1989.

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy: Douglas Jay Feith, formerly with Feith and Zell, P.C., in Washington, D.C. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy, 1984-1986 and was Special Counsel to Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Peale 1982-1984. Feith is a graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown University Law Center and is a member of Rockefellers’s Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division: Michael Chertoff, a Partner with Latham and Watkins in Newark, NJ. He was the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey 1990-1994 and is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School. He also advised Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-NY) during the Whitewater investigation