Crime against peace – planning and carrying out a war of aggression.
With Donald Rumsfeld and others, set up Office of Special Plans in Defense Department to develop the case for invading Iraq.
Primary Association:
Visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships - 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036
Secondary Associations:
Chairman of the US-Taiwan Business Council, 1700 North Moore St., Suite 1703, Arlington, VA 22209
"The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason."2
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary Bush Administration 2001–2005
Excerpted from Truthout:
In 2002, as the Bush administration was turning to the useof EITs for interrogating detainees, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz loosened rules against human experimentation, an apparent recognition of legal problems regarding the novel strategies for extracting and evaluating information from the prisoners. Wolfowitz issued a little-known directive on March 25, 2002, about a month after President George W. Bush stripped the detainees of traditional prisoner-of-war protections under the Geneva Conventions. Despite its title “Protection of Human Subjects and Adherence to Ethical Standards in DoD-Supported Research” the Wolfowitz directive weakened protections that had been in place for decades by limiting the safeguards to prisoners of war. The Wolfowitz directive provided legal cover for a top-secret Special Access Program at the Guantanamo Bay prison, which experimented on ways to glean information from unwilling subjects and to achieve “deception detection.”