Stephen Hadley
Stephen John Hadley (born February 21, 1947 in Toledo , Ohio ) is an American lawyer and government official. He was the National Security Advisor in the second term of US President George W. Bush .
Life
Hadley received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1969 . In 1972 he graduated from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor . From 1972 to 1974, Hadley served as an analyst in the United States Department of Defense . This was followed by a service on the staff of the National Security Council for President Gerald Ford . During the George Bush presidency , Hadley served again in the Department of Defense from 1989 to 1993, this time as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs . In this function, Start I and Start II were involved in the disarmament negotiations .
From 1986 to 1987 he was an advisor to the so-called Tower Commission , which US President Ronald Reagan had set up to investigate arms sales to Iran ( see Iran-Contra affair ).
Hadley was a partner in the Washington DC law firm Shea & Gardner and head of the Scowcroft Group, Inc.
Hadley worked as a foreign and defense policy advisor for the then Governor of Texas George W. Bush during the presidential election campaign in 2000 and in 2001 by Bush as Deputy Chairman of the National Security Council of the United States ( National Security Council called). In this capacity, Hadley apologized in 2003 for misinformation leading up to the war in Iraq. Bush named Hadley National Security Advisor in 2005 after the previous security advisor was appointed Secretary of State. He served until January 2009.
Hadley served on the Defense Policy Board , the National Security Advisory Board for the CIA Director, and on the Board of Trustees of the Analytic Services Institute (ANSER). He is a founding member of the US Committee on NATO , a non-governmental organization which, among other things, was committed to the eastward expansion of the transatlantic alliance.
In the past, it has advocated extending the role of the US nuclear deterrent to states that want to procure weapons of mass destruction or participate in their proliferation.
Hadley was a member of the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization (" Rumsfeld Space Commission " for short ), ie in the space commission appointed by Donald Rumsfeld .
On April 22, 1993 Stephen Hadley was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Web links
- Speech by Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley ( Council on Foreign Relations , February 12, 2003)
- Stephen Hadley, Policy Considerations in Using Nuclear Weapons ("Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law", 8, 23)
- A Peace Offering To The CIA (" TIME, " August 4, 2003) (A portrait of Stephen Hadley and his influence in the US government)
- Top-class panel discussion with Stephen Hadley on the topic: 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union at Charlie Rose (September 27, 2011)
- Interview with National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley at the US Mission at NATO Headquarters in Brussels ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on February 21, 2007, (via PRIF )
Individual evidence
- ^ Official biography of the White House
- ↑ According to CIA chief Tenet, the US President's deputy security advisor, Stephen Hadley, has also apologized for incorrect information in George W. Bush's speech on the nation. - SPIEGEL report from July 23, 2003
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| SURNAME | Hadley, Stephen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hadley, Stephen John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and government official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toledo , Ohio |