Michael Makovsky
Former defense department advisor Michael Makovsky is a prominent neoconservative[1] and an expert on neocon icon Winston Churchill. He is the younger brother of David Makovsky,[1] a senior WINEP fellow and former executive editor of the pro-Likud Jerusalem Post.[2] Both brothers took up Israeli citizenship after finishing their education in the US.[3]He was part of Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith's intelligence shop, Office of Special Plans,[4] that manufactured the defective intelligence used to sell the invasion of Iraq.[5]
Role in the US War on Iraq
Makovsky served as a consultant to the controversial Pentagon office set up in the run-up to the Iraq War to find evidence of operational ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein as a justification for the invasion.[1]
Ties with Israel
In addition to reportedly obtaining Israeli citizenship,[3] Makovsky is also believed to have lived in an illegal Israeli settlement and was a friend of Yigal Amir who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.[6]
Affiliations
- Office of Special Plans[6]
- Claremont Institute - Former Fellow[7]
- Bipartisan Policy Center - Foreign Policy Director[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jim Lobe, "Stirrings of a New Push for Military Option on Iran", IPS, 9 July 2010
- ↑ WINEP, "David Makovsky", Washington Institute for Near East Policy, accessed on 26 November 2010
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jack Herman, "a whole new ballgame overseas", St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri), 20 February 1989
- ↑ Justin Raimondo, "The Worms in the Apple", Antiwar.com, 18 September 2009
- ↑ Jim Lobe, Pentagon Office Home to Neo-Con Network, Antiwar.com, 7 August 2003
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Justin Raimondo, "The Worms in the Apple", Antiwar.com, 18 September 2009
- ↑ Claremont Institute, "2006 Lincoln Fellows", Claremont Institute, 28 June 2006, accessed on 26 November 2010
- ↑ Bipartisan Policy Center, "Staff", Bipartisan Policy Center, accessed on 26 November 2010
