Stephen J. Hadley

Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley is "Condoleezza Rice's right-hand man in the Bush administration's National Security Council" and was "the fall guy when allegations arose regarding the national security adviser's mishandling of information about Iraq's purported effort to buy uranium from Niger," according to RightWeb. [1]

"Italy's intelligence chief met with Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley just a month before the Niger forgeries first surfaced," Laura Rozen reported October 25, 2005, in The American Prospect.

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Treasongate: Beyond Karl Rove

National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley was "the senior administration official" who told Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward that Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA officer, attorneys close to the investigation and intelligence officials" told Raw Story reporters Larisa Alexandrovna and Jason Leopold November 16, 2005.

Bush's "Top Lieutenant"

Identified by the Washington Post as Rice's "top lieutenant", Hadley, "along with CIA Director George J. Tenet -- took responsibility for allowing into Bush's State of the Union 2003 address a dubious and ultimately inaccurate claim about Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain nuclear materials." [2]

The February 13, 2001, George W. Bush's first National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD) expanded the National Security Council "and added 11 new coordinating committees." The Directive, in effect, allowed Hadley to attend NSC meetings and made him Executive Secretary of the NSC. [3]

Hadley was "formerly with the National Institute for Public Policy and a former member of ANSER Institute's Board of Trustees. [4]

Profile

Hadley was born in 1947 in Toledo, Ohio. "From 1972 to 1974, Hadley served as a comptroller for an analysis group for the assistant secretary of defense. He then worked in the National Security Council's Office of Program Analysis for three years before leaving government service in 1977 and becoming an associate, and then partner, at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner, ... [where he worked] until 2001, taking leaves in 1986 to serve as counsel to the President's Special Review Board--also known as the Tower Commission--and again in 1989 when he served for four years as assistant secretary for international security policy in the Department of Defense." [5]

Affiliations

• Deputy National Security Advisor, National Security Council (current)
• Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, Department of Defense (1989-1993)
• Counselor, President's Special Review Board (Tower Commission) (1986)
• National Security Council's Office of Program Analysis (1975-1977)
• Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, Department of Defense (1972-1974)
• Partner, Shea & Gardner (1977-2001)
• Principal, Scowcroft Group
• Director, ANSER Analytic Services

Source: RightWeb.

Education

• B.A., Cornell University (with highest honors) (1969)
• J.D., Yale University Law School (1972)

Contact Information

White House Office of Stephen J. Hadley, phone: (202) 456-9491

Related SourceWatch Resources

• Frederick L. Jones II
• Iran-Contra II
• White House Iraq Group

External Links

Profiles

• Stephen J. Hadley: Links to articles, why-war.com.
• Stephen J. Hadley, Remarks As Prepared for Delivery by Stephen J. Hadley, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor, Council on Foreign Relations, February 12, 2003.

Related to Treasongate: Beyond Karl Rove

• "23 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak," Think Progress, undated.
• "Rove E-mail, Alerting Hadley to Chat with Cooper, Surfaces," Associated Press (Editor & Publisher), July 15, 2005. re Karl Rove and Karl Rove: Outing Valerie Plame
• John Solomon, "Rove told Hadley about Cooper talk," Associated Press (Washington Times), July 17, 2005.
• Timothy Noah, "Karl Rove Death Watch, Part 4. What did Hadley tell Rove?" Slate, July 18, 2005.
• emptywheel, "Rove's First Story, and Second Story, and Third Story to the Prosecutor" and "From Rove to Hadley to the Rest of the Conspiracy," The Next Hurrah, October 7, 2005.
• Jason Leopold and Larisa Alexandrovna, "Cheney aide passed Plame's name to Libby, Hadley, those close to leak investigation say," The Raw Story, October 24, 2005. (Yahoo! link needs to changed.)
• Steve Soto, "Hadley Was Woodward's Source - Bad News For Bush," The Left Coaster, November 16, 2005.
• Larisa Alexandrovna and Jason Leopold, "National Security Adviser was Woodward's source, attorneys say," The Raw Story, November 16, 2005.
• Joe in DC, "Stephen Hadley 'coy' about being Woodward's source," AMERICAblog, November 18, 2005.
• BREAKING: "Hadley Being Coy About Whether He’s Woodward’s Source," Think Progress, November 18, 2005. See:

• White House News Release: Press Briefing with National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley on APEC Summit Meetings, Commodore Hotel, Busan, Republic of Korea, November 18, 2005.
• "Hadley Coy on Whether He's Woodward Source," Associated Press (Salon), November 18, 2005. Also posted on Yahoo! News website.

• Adam Entous, "US official Hadley hints he wasn't Woodward's source," Reuters (Yahoo! News), November 18, 2005.
• Elizabeth de la Vega, "Libby's 'Some Other Dude Did It' Defense," Tom Dispatch, November 18, 2005.

Articles & Commentary

2003-2004

• Hadley Came Clean After CIA Memos Surfaced, TheLeftCoaster, July 22, 2003: "Now we know why Stephen Hadley suddenly came clean today: the CIA reminded the White House that they had not one but two memos that proved the Administration was in fact alerted to Agency concerns about the reliability of the African uranium claims months before the SOTU, memos which undermined most of the White House shifting blame jobs of the last two weeks. And memos that showed that Condi Rice has in fact been lying that no one at a senior level in the Administration has known about these concerns until recently."
• Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus, Bush Aides Disclose Warnings From CIA. Oct. Memos Raised Doubts on Iraq Bid, Washington Post, July 23, 2003.
• Who's Who in the White House, updated February 16, 2004.
• "Transcript: Stephen Hadley on 'FOX News Sunday'," Fox News, March 14, 2004.

2006

• Mark Drajem, "Rumsfeld's Iraq Memo Part of Review, Hadley Says (Update1)," Bloomberg, December 3, 2006.
• "Hadley: Bush Open To Rumsfeld's Options. National Security Advisor Said President Will Consider Iraq Changes," Associated Press/CBS News, December 3, 2006.
• "Hadley: Bush knows changes needed in Iraq," CNN, December 4, 2006.
• Eric Pfeiffer, "Hadley calls leaked memo 'constructive'," Washington Times, December 4, 2006.