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• Colin Powell [r]: A retired general in the United States Army who served in high political office, first African-American to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State; minimally partisan although he considered himself a moderate Republican, not a neoconservative ^[e]
• United States Army [r]: Branch of the United States Armed Forces with the principal responsibility of conducting large-scale ground combat ^[e]
• George W. Bush Administration [r]: The policies and acts during the presidency of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States of America ^[e]

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• David Addington [r]: U.S. lawyer, closely affiliated with Dick Cheney, who is an advocate of extremely strong Presidential power ^[e]
• George H. W. Bush [r]: (1924–) 41st U.S. President (Republican), elected in 1988 and serving one term; Director of Central Intelligence; U.S. Ambassador to China; youngest naval aviator in WWII ^[e]
• George W. Bush [r]: (1946–) 43rd U.S. President (Republican), elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. ^[e]
• Dick Cheney [r]: (1941–) U.S. Vice President in the George W. Bush Administration and advocate of neoconservatism and unitary Presidential authority; currently a political commentator; U.S. Secretary of Defense in the George H. W. Bush Administration; spouse of Lynne Cheney; father of Liz Cheney ^[e]
• Douglas Feith [r]: An American strategic analyst, associated with neoconservatism, who held posts including Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2001-2005, when he advised Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War; fellow of the Hudson Institute ^[e]
• Alberto Gonzales [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William Haynes II [r]: General counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense during the George W. Bush Administration ^[e]
• Iraq War [r]: Invasion of Iraq by a coalition of countries, led by the United States, in 2003, and subsequent occupation ^[e]
  • Iraq War, origins of invasion [r]: Those factors, in the broad context of prior American actions and foreign policy, which led to the specific decision of the George W. Bush Administration to launch the 2003 invasion of Iraq ^[e]
  • Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: The policies and practices authorized for interrogation of suspected terrorists by the United States Department of Defense and the United States intelligence community during the George W. Bush Administration ^[e]
• New America Foundation [r]: Think tank and funding organization focused on the next-generation of challenges facing the United States. ^[e]
• Condoleeza Rice [r]: Academic political scientist, then Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and U.S. Secretary of State in the George W. Bush Administration ^[e]
• Donald Rumsfeld [r]: U.S. Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration (2001-2008); was the oldest secretary and earlier the youngest secretary in the Administration (1975-1977); major policymaker after the 9-11 attack; advisor, Project for the New American Century ^[e]
• John Yoo [r]: Professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law since 1993; between 2001 and 2003; deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel, working on separation of powers, presidential authority, intelligence interrogation and extraordinary rendition; Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute ^[e]
• U.S. policy towards Cuba [r]: United States policy and actions toward Cuba, especially since the 1959 assumption of power by Fidel Castro, and recent lessening of tensions ^[e]

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• Richard Armitage [r]: A U.S. foreign policy specialist, first a U.S. Navy officer in the Vietnam War, who rose to positions including Deputy Secretary of State in the first term of the George W. Bush Administration; board, International Crisis Group; Aspen Strategy Group, Aspen Institute ^[e]
• George Washington University [r]: Private, nonsectarian institution chartered by President James Monroe and Congress in 1821; the largest private co-educational institution in Washington, D.C. ^[e]
• U.S. Naval War College [r]: The United States Navy senior professional educational institution, at Newport, Rhode Island, preparing officers generally at the senior commander (naval) level for duty in joint and combined staffs; the staff college level is colocated; Alfred Thayer Mahan did his research there ^[e]
• Neiman Foundation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Office of Special Plans [r]: A small office, formerly in the U.S. Department of Defense, created by Douglas Feith, under general supervision of William Luti and directly headed by Abram Shulsky, which took unprocessed intelligence and bypassed independent analysis, to present evidence supporting policy positions; this was a conscious "top-down" methodology contrasting to the traditional "bottom-up" of intelligence analysis ^[e]
• George Tenet [r]: Director of Central Intelligence from July 1997 to July 2004, heading the United States intelligence community and the Central Intelligence Agency ^[e]
• Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Weapons that cause death or injury not primarily through kinetic energy of projectiles or the detonation of conventional explosives, but rather produce large-scale effects greater than possible with the same weight of explosives weapons; by means heat, blast and radiation from nuclear weapon; poisoning by chemical weapon; infectious disease by biological weapons; or acute or chronic radiation syndromes from radiological weapons. ^[e]
• College of William and Mary [r]: Add brief definition or description