Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Condoleezza Rice

Bush Administration Secretary of State (2005 - )

Rice lead discussions with senior White House officials about water boarding starting in 2002. [source: pubrecord.org]

Monday, October 20, 2008

John Lehman

Secretary of the Navy under Reagan.

Forced the retirement of Hyman Rickover. [source: wikipedia]

Signed the Project for The New American Century's September 20, 2001 letter calling for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. [source:RightWeb]


Advisor to John McCain during McCain's 2008 campaign, and appointed to head McCain's transition team. [source: MotherJones.com]

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Carlos Gutierrez

Bush Administration Secretary of Commerce

CEO of Kellog from 1999 to 2005

Bush Administration

Cabinet

Secretary of State (January 2005 - ) Condoleezza Rice

Secretary of Agriculture (October 2007 - ) Ed Shafer

Secretary of the Interior (May 2006 - )Dirk Kempthorne

Secretary of Commerce (February 2005 - )

Dirk Kempthorne

Bush Administration Secretary of the Interior

Carl Pope of the Sierra Club says that Dirk Kempthorne "has consistently opposed protecting public health and public lands." [source: NYTimes]

"Two of Kempthorne's top three donors for the 2002 campaign were the Coeur D'Alene Mines Corp., which gave $13,922, and the Potlatch Corp., a forest products company, which gave $12,034, according to the non-partisan Institute on Money in State Politics." [source: USAToday]

Americans for Prosperity

Founder David H. Koch.


Spokesperson Ed Schafer

Has opposed increasing taxes to deal with climate change. [source: Lawrence Journal-World]

Ed Schafer

Bush Administration Secretary of Agriculture

As Secretary of Agriculture, Shafer was criticized for not supporting stronger regulation of downed cows. [source]


Spokesperson for Americans for Prosperity



CEO of Extend America