For Immediate Release: 2/13/2004
Contact: Tarek Rizk or Nathan Richter
People For the American Way
email: media@pfaw.org
phone: 202-467-4999
Laurence Silberman: the Right Man or the Right’s Man?
Is retired federal judge Laurence Silberman the right person to co-chair the Iraq intelligence commission? Those who know him—including onetime Nixon aide and respected author Kevin Phillips, former independent counsel and Eisenhower deputy attorney general Lawrence Walsh, and reformed right-wing hit man David Brock—raise serious concerns about Silberman’s past activities, his temperament, his judgement and his unyielding commitment to right-wing orthodoxy. After reviewing this criticism, along with Silberman’s own statements, it becomes clear that Silberman is ill suited for a role on the intelligence commission.
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