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Danielle Pletka (born
June 12,
1963 in
Melbourne,
Australia) is vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the
American Enterprise Institute. Pletka researches topics related to the
Middle East,
South Asia,
terrorism, and weapons proliferation, and is an
American Enterprise Institute expert on
Iraq. Pletka is also involved in various other projects such as the
Committee on the Present Danger.
Formerly, she was a senior professional staff member for Near East and South Asia with the
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1992 to 2002 . She was a staff writer for
Insight Magazine from 1987 to 1992 and an editorial assistant with the
Los Angeles Times and
Reuters, working in
Jerusalem from 1984 to 1985 .
Pletka was a strong supporter of Iraqi opposition leader,
Ahmed Chalabi, even after it emerged he was being investigated by the US authorities as an Iranian spy. Pletka defended Mr Chalabi saying that he'd been "shoddily" treated and that C.I.A. and US
State Department people had been fighting "a rear guard" action against him.
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On the use of
torture, she told the
BBC, "I'm not a big fan of torture. Unfortunately, there are times in war when it's necessary to do things in a way that's absolutely and completely abhorrent to most good, decent people. I don't want to say that the United States has engaged routinely in such practices, because I don't think that it's routine by any standard. But that said, if it's absolutely imperative to find something out at that moment, then it's imperative to find something out at that moment, and Club Med isn't the place to do it."
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Pletka's advocacy of sometimes forthright political positions hasn't been without critics;
Antiwar.com described her as ‘a conduit for
neocon disinformation’
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