with Ismar Schorsch, Craig Horowitz, Alan Dershowitz and more on Jul 4, 1997
with Allan Nairn, Elliott Abrams and Robert Torricelli on Mar 31, 1995
Elliott Abrams is an American lawyer who has served in foreign policy positions for a number of Republican U.S. Presidents, most recently George W. Bush.
During Bush’s first term in office, he was appointed the post of Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs. At the start of Bush’s second term, Abrams was promoted to be his Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy, responsible for advancing Bush’s strategy of advancing democracy abroad. A leading Straussian neoconservative, Abrams’ appointment by Bush was considered highly controversial due to his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair, over which he subsequently pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of unlawfully withholding information from Congress.
