MTP/ChuckTodd - Danielle Pletka
She was a guest today and if you don't remember her, here's a reminder:
Danielle Pletka (born 12 June 1963, Melbourne, Australia) is vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.Pletka is the AEI expert on Iraq and was involved in the drafting of the Iraq Liberation Act. She was a senior professional staff member for Near East and South Asia with the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1992 to 2002 where she was a chief aide to Sen. Jesse Helms. Prior to working with the Senate committee she was a staff writer for Insight Magazine (Rev. Moon's Unification Church publication) from 1987 to 1992 and an editorial assistant with the Los Angeles Times and Reuters, working in Jerusalem from 1984 to 1985.
Pletka is one of the early neoconservatives, a Zionist, and an associate of Martin Indyk (also Australian born). Pletka has been at the forefront of the neoconservative war drumming against Iraq, and she has been a champion for Ahmad Chalabi, an Iraqi politician who supported regime change in Iraq.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Danielle_Pletka
MSNBC seems lately to be trying to get the neocon band back together.