ANN WRIGHT, [currently in NYC]
Wright, a former State Department diplomat and retired Army
colonel, is going to Afghanistan with a delegation on Friday. Among her
numerous assignments, Wright helped re-open the U.S. embassy in Kabul in
2001. She resigned from the State Department in protest of the Iraq
invasion in March of 2003.
GARETH PORTER, http://ipsnews.net
Porter recently wrote the piece "U.S. Afghan Campaign Plan Says Key
Groups Back Taliban." http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48553
He is an investigative historian and journalist specializing in
U.S. national security policy and author of the book "Perils of
Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam."
RAY McGOVERN,
McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years and is on the Steering
Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He recently
wrote the piece "Afghanistan for Dummies."
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/090209a.html
McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the
ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington.
NORMAN SOLOMON, http://www.normansolomon.com
Executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Solomon --
recently back from Kabul -- is the author of "War Made Easy: How
Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death."
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020, (202) 421-6858; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167