William O. DeWitt, Jr.
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William O. DeWitt, Jr., "an Ohio businessman who has raised more than $300,000 for the president’s campaigns," was reappointed by President George W. Bush to be a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board on October 27, 2005, "for a third two-year term on the panel. Originally appointed in 2001, just a few weeks after the 9/11 attacks, DeWitt, who was also a top fund-raiser for Bush’s 2004 Inaugural committee, was a partner with Bush in the Texas Rangers baseball team." [1]
Upon his second nomination by President Bush to the PFIAB on October 8, 2003, the Cincinnati "Enquirer" wrote:
- "Cincinnati investor William O. DeWitt Jr. has long been a friend of and fund-raiser for President Bush. Now he will be one of the president's advisers on one of the most important issues of the post 9-11 world: just how good America's intelligence gathering is." [2]
SourceWatch Resources
External links
- Profile: William O. DeWitt, Jr., White House for Sale.org, undated.
- Carl Weiser, "Bush taps DeWitt for inner circle. Cincinnati fund-raiser to advise on U.S. intelligence," Cincinnati Enquirer, October 10, 2003.
- "Bush Picks Three for Inaugural Fundraising," Associated Press (Fox News), November 19, 2004: "Bush-Cheney campaign finance chairman Mercer Reynolds and Bush 'Rangers' Brad Freeman and William DeWitt, who each raised more than $200,000 for Bush's re-election effort, will serve as co-chairmen of Bush's inaugural fund-raising committee. Texas businesswoman Jeanne Phillips, a former ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; DeWitt's wife Kathy; and Reynolds' wife Gabrielle are also committee co-chairs."
- Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey, "In the Company of Friends. Bush may be besieged by charges of cronyism, but they don’t seem to have affected his picks for a panel assessing intelligence matters," Newsweek, November 2, 2005.
