Name: Elliott Abrams

Born: January 24, 1948

Profession: Attorney

GW Bush Administration Position:

• Deputy national security adviser, February 2005 - January 2009.
• Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs, 2002 - 2009.
  
• Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations, 2001-2002.

War crime charge(s):

• Crime against peace – planning and carrying out a war of aggression.
• Leading proponent of aggressive "war on terror."
• Abrams was the key man in Reagan administration policy toward Central America, when that administration was abetting what a court recently ruled was a genocide in Guatemala, when the U.S. was backing the army of El Salvador in a series of death squad assassinations and massacres, and when the U.S. was invading Nicaragua with a Contra force that went after what one U.S. general described as “soft targets,” meaning civilians, things like cooperatives.

Primary Association:

• Council on Foreign Relations, Senior Fellow
  1777 F Street, N.W.
  Washington, DC 20006
  Tel. 1-202.509.8400

More Information:

• 1/26/19 Trump's 'Axis of Evil': Pompeo, Bolton & Abrams
• 1/30/19 Allan Nairn: Trump’s Venezuela Envoy Elliott Abrams Is a War Criminal Who Has Abetted Genocide
• 7/4/23 Human Rights Defenders Slam Nomination of Elliott Abrams to Diplomacy Panel
• 9/8/23 Elliot Abrams Was a CIA Agent According to Daughter of CIA-Mafia Liaison