List of neoconservatives

This is a list of prominent public figures frequently referred to as neoconservatives. Classifications of this sort are often disputed (see the neconservative page for a discussion of the terms' controversies), so any listing here should not be taken as definitive.

Public sector

• Elliott Abrams, Senior director, National Security Council; son-in-law of Norman Podhoretz.
• Kenneth Adelman, member of Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, former member of Reagan administration who praised Apartheid era South Africa for its nuclear proliferation.
• John Bolton, Undersecretary of State.
• Stephen Cambone, first Defense Undersecretary for Intelligence, Rumsfeld protege.
• Eliot Cohen, member Defense Policy Board.
• Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy since 2001, responsible for planning the occupation of Iraq.
• Larry Franklin, Feith lieutenant being investigated for passsing government secrets to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and Israeli Embassy Officials.
• Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, leader of non-scientist faction on the President's Council on Bioethics.
• I. Lewis Libby, a.k.a Scooter Libby, Chief of Staff to the Vice President. Suspected of having committed treason by revealing the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame as a political reprisal against her husband.
• William J. Luti, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense.
• Harold Rhode, Foreign Affairs Specialist, Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense.
• Abram Shulsky, Director Office of Special Plans.
• Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense since 2001, a major advocate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation
• David Wurmser, Office of the Vice President, Middle East Adviser.
• Dov Zakheim, former Comptroller, Department of Defense.

Private sector

• Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard 'Dick' Cheney; critic of academic critics of the second Bush administration; best known for her outspoken period as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and author of Telling the Truth (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), an attack on liberal values.
• David Frum, Canadian, newspaper columnist, and speechwriter.
• David Horowitz McCarthyism on Campus (http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17838)
• Robert Kagan, co-founder, Project for the New American Century.
• Jeane Kirkpatrick, former Ambassador to the United Nations, famous for asserting the existence of a meaningful difference between totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
• Charles Krauthammer.
• Irving Kristol
• William Kristol, co-founder, Project for the New American Century.
• Michael Ledeen
• Philip Merrill, Chairman of the Export-Import Bank since 2001.
• Oliver North, talk show host.
• Richard Perle, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board.
• Norman Podhoretz
• Daniel Pipes, anti-Soviet popular historian and activist.
• Ronald D. Rotunda, law professor at conservative George Mason University, apologist for denying Prisoner of War status under the 1949 Geneva Conventions to the prisoners from the War in Afghanistan held at Guantanamo Bay.
• Michael Rubin, lecturer; former Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Washington Institute for Near East Policy: Soref Fellow (1999-2000).
• Mark Steyn, author of several books, and politics, arts, and culture commentator for the Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Telegraph of London, The Irish Times, and others.

External links

• RightWeb (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/index.php), a comprehensive and highly critical examination of neoconservatives and neoconservatism (about rightweb (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/about.php)).