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Institutional
Affiliations
Project
for the New American Century: Executive Director (1)
U.S.
Committee on NATO: Board of Directors (2)
Committee
for the Liberation of Iraq: Secretary (3)
Consortium
for the Study of Intelligence, National Strategy Information
Center: Coordinator, Working Group on Intelligence Reform,
1996 (1)
Brookings
Institution: Visiting Fellow (1)
The
National Interest: Visiting Fellow (1)
Johns
Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies: Adjunct Professor (1)
American Committee for Peace in Chechnya:
Member
Government
Service
President’s
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board:
Executive Director, 1984-1988 (1)
Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence:
Minority Staff Director, 1982-1984; Member of Professional Staff,
1980-1982 (1)
Department
of Defense:
Consultant (1)
Education
University
of Dallas: B.A. 1974 (1)
University
of Chicago: Ph.D., 1980 (1)
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Highlights
& Quotes
Before
the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Schmitt, the executive director of the
Project for the New
American Century, argued in an article in The Weekly Standard:
“We know [Iraq] has stockpiled mass quantities of anthrax
and has worked hard to make it as potent a weapon of terror as possible.
… We know that Saddam’s Iraq continues to pursue development
of weapons of mass destruction -- nuclear, chemical, and biological
-- believing that these are the ultimate keys to overcoming America’s
military dominance in the region. In short, Iraq is both equipped
with dangerous weapons and out to get the United States.”
(5)
In
a subsequent article after the invasion, Schmitt wrote: “Why
can’t the coalition teams find stocks of weapons today? Probably
because Hussein destroyed them either before the UN inspectors returned
to Iraq last December or … just before the war began. …
The credibility of both President Bush and British Prime Minister
Tony Blair will remain in question until coalition investigators
have not only gotten to the bottom of the missing weapons but also,
and more important, the weapons programs themselves. … Here,
patience is required. … Intelligence products are not gospel,
and they should not be treated as such. … Failure to find
[WMDs] would complicate a president’s ability to rally support
for taking action in similar situations in the future.” (6)
He
is the co-author, with Abram
Shulsky, of Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence
(2002), in which the authors argue that "truth is not the goal"
of intelligence operations, but "victory." (7)
Schmitt
is also the co-author of The Future of U.S. Intelligence,1996; and
co-editor, with Roy Goodson and Ernest May, of U.S. Intelligence
at the Crossroads: Agendas for Reform,1995. (1)
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