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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dozens of Republican former U.S. national security officials are forming a group that will back Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, people familiar with the effort said, in a further sign that President Donald Trump has alienated some members of his own party. The group will publicly endorse Biden in the coming weeks and its members plan to campaign for the former vice president who is challenging Trump in the Nov. 3 election, the sources said. It includes at least two dozen officials who served under Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, with...

In an indication of their growing estrangement with the Bush administration, neoconservatives are slamming the White House for failing to stop what they describe as an antisemitic campaign to marginalize them being conducted by the CIA and the State Department. This view was outlined in a memo circulating among neoconservative foreign policy analysts in Washington. Obtained by the Forward, the memo criticizes the White House for not refuting press reports on the FBI's investigation of Pentagon analyst Lawrence Franklin that suggest wrongdoing on the part of Jewish officials at the Defense Department. "If there is any truth to any of...

The man who oils India's wheels By Ramtanu Maitra No US ambassador since John Kenneth Galbraith massaged the Indian ego more efficiently than Robert D Blackwill. The former envoy to India (2001-2003) is now reportedly cultivating his Indian friends to win a lobbying contract for his firm, Washington-based Barbour, Griffith and Rogers International (BG&R). [1] Blackwill's timing is right. India has terminated its relationship with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Field as a result of its failure to stop US government consideration of the sale of F-16s to Pakistan. Blackwill resigned suddenly last November from his position as number two...

WASHINGTON (AP) - With less than four months before a deadline to transfer Iraqi sovereignty to the people, the Bush administration has dispatched a senior White House official to Baghdad to help form an interim government - action that's needed before any handoff of power. In Baghdad, coalition spokesman Dan Senor identified the official as Robert Blackwill, deputy national security adviser for strategic planning at the National Security Council staff. Senor says Blackwill visits Iraq every four to six weeks. This time, Blackwill is working to resolve problems some Shiite members of the Iraqi Governing Council have with the interim...

International Blackwill may succeed Rice in a 2nd Bush term: Post Washington, Dec. 23 (PTI): Former US Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill, may succeed Condoleeza Rice as National Security Adviser if President George W Bush wins a second term, according to a media report. Describing Blackwill as a "foreign policy guru", the Washington Post, quoting senior officials in the US administration says "as a strategic planner, he has free rein to think, track global trends, predict the unnoticed or unintended consequences of US policy decisions anywhere in the world". "Blackwill has been with the team of the present President from...

New leadership in Iraq Posted: November 18, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com President Bush is reportedly not pleased with the job Paul Bremer is doing in Iraq. That's progress. It's time to rethink Bremer. It's time to rethink the qualifications needed for the person leading the rebuilding of Iraq. It's time to rethink what has worked and not worked in the past in such situations. When the U.S. conquered Japan in 1945, we didn't send a career bureaucrat to turn the country around, to change the culture, to rebuild the economy and the nation's infrastructure as rapidly as possible. We sent...

Harvard rules left Blackwill with little option S Rajagopalan Washington, April 22 US Ambassador Robert Blackwill would have had to be back at Harvard by August if he did not wish to say good-bye to his teaching job at the institution. Under Harvard's rigid rules, a faculty member can't be away for more than two years. Blackwill's leave of absence expires in July. The Ambassador knew well that he had to make a choice soon enough between his high-profile but challenging New Delhi posting and the relatively laidback yet prestigious teaching assignment. The fact that he was not on...