Stephen Hadley

Stephen John Hadley ( born February 21, 1947 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American lawyer. He was the National Security Advisor in the second term of President George W. Bush.

Life

Hadley made ​​in 1969 with a BA from Cornell University. In 1972 he graduated from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor. From 1972 to 1974 Hadley served in the Ministry of Defense of the United States as an analyst. This was followed by service on the staff of the National Security Council for President Gerald R. Ford during the presidency of George HW Bush, Hadley worked again in the Defense Ministry. In this role, I start and Start II was involved in the disarmament negotiations.

From 1986 to 1987 he was a consultant to the so-called Tower Commission, the U.S. President Ronald Reagan had begun to be investigated weapons sales to Iran (see Iran -Contra affair).

Hadley was a partner in the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC and head of the management consulting Scowcroft Group, Inc.

Hadley worked as a foreign and defense policy adviser for the then Governor of Texas George W. Bush during the presidential election campaign in 2000 and was of Bush as the Deputy Chairman of the National Security Council of the United States ( National Security Council ) was appointed in 2001. In this function Hadley apologized in 2003 for false information in the run-up to the Iraq war. Bush nominated National Security Advisor Hadley 2005 after the former national security adviser was appointed Foreign Minister. He served until January 2009.

Hadley was a member of the Defence Committee (Defense Policy Board ), the Committee to advise the CIA Director on matters of national security and the Board of Trustees of the Institute Analytic Services ( ANSER ). In the U.S. Committee on NATO, a non-governmental organization that was involved, among others, for the eastward expansion of the transatlantic alliance, he is a founding member and font or manager.

In the past, has come out in favor of extending the role of the nuclear deterrent, the United States also states want to procure weapons of mass destruction or participate in their further dissemination.

Hadley was a member of the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization (in short: " Rumsfeld Space Commission " ), ie in the space commission set up by Donald Rumsfeld.

On April 22, 1993 Stephen Hadley was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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