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Retired Faggot General Barry Mccaffrey chimes in.
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>Retired Faggot General Barry Mccaffrey chimes in.
BR McCaffrey Associates, LLC
BR McCaffrey Associates LLC according to its website "provides strategic, analytic, and advocacy consulting services to businesses, non-profits, governments, and international organizations. We also work with clients to generate investment or non-profit funding. Our purpose is to get specified results for clients who want action. On a retainer basis, McCaffrey Associates provides strategic planning support to client CEOs, Board Chairmen, and senior corporate leadership. We will help build linkages between government and private sector clients; design public relations, media, advertising and legislative strategies; and provide client specific analysis of U.S. and international political and economic issues. McCaffrey Associates will also undertake on a success fee basis to shape client business and investment partnerships. BR McCaffrey Associates LLC will not engage in activities that would require us to register as an agent of any foreign government."[1]
Contents
1 Website and Contact
2 Staff
3 Clients
4 Articles and Resources
4.1 Related SourceWatch Articles
4.2 References
4.3 External Articles
Website and Contact
Office
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Phone: 703-824-5160
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Website: http://www.mccaffreyassociates.com/index.htm
From the website: "If you are a member of the media and would like to interview General McCaffrey, please contact us by email at media@mccaffreyassociates.com.If you would like to schedule an appointment with General McCaffrey, please contact us by email at scheduling@mccaffreyassociates.com. All scheduling requests must be in writing.For information on BR McCaffrey Associates LLC and General McCaffrey, please contact us by email at info@mccaffreyassociates.com.To contact General McCaffrey directly please email him at brm@mccaffreyassociates.com "
Staff
From the website, as of December 2008:[2]
Melissa Henson, Executive Assistant
Kate Salter, Special Assistant
Jill McCaffrey, Human Resources Director
Karen Johnson, Financial Manager
Stacy Martin, Systems Administrator
Clients
No list of clients appears on the website. However, in November 2008 New York Times reporter David Barstow identified some clients as:
Defense Solutions [3]
DynCorp International, with whom McCaffrey has a profit-sharingagreement[3]
Global Linguist Solutions, DynCorpsubsidiary [3]
Veritas, ownsDyncorp [3]
Articles and Resources
Related SourceWatch Articles
Barry McCaffrey
References
"welcome", BR McCaffrey Associates website, accessed December 2008.
"Meet Our Staff", BR McCaffrey Associates website, accessed December 2008.
David Barstow, One Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex, New York Times, November 28, 2008.
External Articles
David Barstow, One Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex, New York Times, November 28, 2008.
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McCaffrey's Military-Industrial-Media Complex
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on December 1, 2008 - 4:09pm
Barry McCaffrey
After outing the Pentagon's pundit program which recruited some 75 retired military officers who are frequent media commentators, to serve as the Bush Administration's "message force multipliers" New York Times reporter David Barstow profiles one particularly conflicted pundit, Barry McCaffrey. The retired general is an NBC News analyst; heads his own consulting firm, BR McCaffrey Associates; and holds lucrative positions with numerous military and security contractors, including Veritas Capital, DynCorp, Defense Solutions and HNTB Federal Services. McCaffrey was anearly participant in the Pentagon pundit program, but then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "abruptly cut [him] off"after McCaffrey's belated admission of concerns about U.S. military operations in Iraq. A chastened McCaffrey responded by publicly praising Rumsfeld and the Administration. McCaffrey's influence was so great that, even in semi-exile, the Pentagon continued to pay for him to visit Iraq and Afghanistan. "Other military analysts were invited on trips, but only in groups," Barstow writes. "McCaffrey went by himself." While McCaffrey's overseas visits, Pentagon contacts, media appearances and Congressional testimony benefited his corporate clients, neither he nor NBC disclosed those clients. NBC News president Steve Capus called McCaffrey an "independent voice" whose business obligations wouldn't color his commentary. McCaffrey simply claimed that his consulting "never has been a problem" for his punditry.
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One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex
Barry R. McCaffrey is among the retired military officers working as network analysts.Credit…Photo Illustration by The New York Times
By David Barstow
Nov. 29, 2008
In the spring of 2007 a tiny military contractor with a slender track record went shopping for a precious Beltway commodity.
The company, Defense Solutions, sought the services of a retired general with national stature, someone who could open doors at the highest levels of government and help it win a huge prize: the right to supply Iraq with thousands of armored vehicles.
Access like this does not come cheap, but it was an opportunity potentially worth billions in sales, and Defense Solutions soon found its man. The company signed Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general and military analyst for NBC News, to a consulting contract starting June 15, 2007.
Four days later the general swung into action. He sent a personal note and 15-page briefing packet to David H. Petraeus, the commanding general in Iraq, strongly recommending Defense Solutions and its offer to supply Iraq with 5,000 armored vehicles from Eastern Europe.“No other proposal is quicker, less costly, or more certain to succeed,” he said.
Thus, within days of hiring General McCaffrey, the Defense Solutions sales pitch was in the hands of the American commander with the greatest influence over Iraq’s expanding military.
“That’s what I pay him for,” Timothy D. Ringgold, chief executive of Defense Solutions, said in an interview.
General McCaffrey did not mention his new contract with Defense Solutions in his letter to General Petraeus. Nor did he disclose it when he went on CNBC that same week and praised the commander Defense Solutions was now counting on for help “He’s got the heart of a lion” or when he told Congress the next month that it should immediately supply Iraq with large numbers of armored vehicles and other equipment.
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>One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex
Pentagon military analyst program
The Pentagon military analyst program was revealed in David Barstow's Pulitzer Prize winning report appearing April 20, 2008 on the front page of the New York Times and titled Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand.
Background of Pentagon War Propagandists in the US TV Networks
The Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld covert propaganda program was launched in early 2002 by then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Victoria Clarke. The idea was to recruit "key influentials" to help sell a wary public on "a possible Iraq invasion." Former NBC military analyst Kenneth Allard called the effort "psyops on steroids." [1]
Eight thousand pages of the documents relative to the Pentagon military analyst program were made available by the Pentagon in PDF format online May 6, 2008 at this website:
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/milanalysts/
Text-searchable versions of the documents are available via the SourceWatch page Pentagon military analyst program: Documents.
"Internal Pentagon documents repeatedly refer to the military analysts as 'message force multipliers' or 'surrogates' who could be counted on to deliver administration 'themes and messages' to millions of Americans 'in the form of their own opinions.' … Don Meyer, an aide to Ms. Clarke, said a strategic decision was made in 2002 to make the analysts the main focus of the public relations push to construct a case for war." [emphasis added] Clarke and her senior aide, Brent T. Krueger, eventually signed up more than 75 retired military officers, who appeared on television and radio news shows as military analysts, and/or penned newspaper op/ed columns. The Pentagon held weekly meetings with the military analysts, which continued as of April 2008, when David Barstow reported on the program in the New York Times, later winning a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting. [1]
The program proved successful and was expanded to issues besides the Iraq War. "Other branches of the administration also began to make use of the analysts. Mr. Gonzales, then the attorney general, met with them soon after news leaked that the government was wiretapping terrorism suspects in the United States without warrants, Pentagon records show. When David H. Petraeus was appointed the commanding general in Iraq in January 2007, one of his early acts was to meet with the analysts." [1]
On April 25, 2008, Pentagon spokesperson Robert Hastings said "the briefings and all other interactions with the military analysts had been suspended indefinitely pending an internal review." [2] Hastings "could not say … how long this review might take. 'We'll take the time to do it right,'" he told Stars and Stripes. Hastings, who became the principal deputy assistant secretary of Defense for public affairs in March 2008, also said "he is unaware of the Defense Department's … activities with retired military analysts" before that time. [3] The following week, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told Reuters the suspension is "temporary" and "he does not think the program violated any laws." [4]
Keeping doubts to themselves
Many of the analysts were also lobbyists for defense contractors, and boasted of their Pentagon access to potential clients. This financial conflict discouraged the analysts from questioning or criticizing the Pentagon's claims. [1]
Timur J. Eads, a Fox analyst, program participant and lobbyist for military contractor Blackbird Technologies "said he had at times held his tongue on television for fear that 'some four-star could call up and say, "Kill that contract."' For example, he believed Pentagon officials misled the analysts about the progress of Iraq’s security forces. 'I know a snow job when I see one,' he said. He did not share this on TV." [1]
At least two analysts Robert S. Bevelacqua and Robert L. Maginnis doubted the Administration's case for war with Iraq, but kept their reservations to themselves. Both had attended "a briefing in early 2003 about Iraq’s purported stockpiles of illicit weapons." Maginnis "concluded that the analysts were being 'manipulated' to convey a false sense of certainty about the evidence of the weapons. Yet he and Mr. Bevelacqua and the other analysts who attended the briefing did not share any misgivings with the American public." [1]
The analysts were also reluctant to be critical, fearing they would lose their high-level Pentagon access. The Pentagon tracked what the analysts said, via a six-figure contract with Omnitec Solutions. As William V. Cowan learned, there were repercussions for analysts who didn't follow the Pentagon's suggested talking points. He was fired from the Pentagon analysts group after saying on Fox News that the United States was "not on a good glide path right now" in Iraq
>Pentagon military analyst program
Pentagon-funded trips
In addition to the meetings, the Defense Department paid for some analysts to travel to Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, encouraging them to counter negative press with Pentagon talking points. "Eventually the effort involved officials from Washington to Baghdad to Kabul to Guantánamo and back to Tampa, Fla., the headquarters of United States Central Command," reported the Times. [1]
The trips included: [1]
A September 2003 tour of Iraq, which included William L. Nash, William V. Cowan, Carlton A. Sherwood and Paul E. Vallely;
John C. Garrett also took part in "three Pentagon-sponsored trips to Iraq";
An Omnitec Solutions report assessed the program's "several trips to Iraq in 2005" positively, stating: "Commentary from all three Iraq trips was extremely positive"; and
A June 24, 2005 trip to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "the first of six such Guantánamo trips."
Public relations ties
In addition to Victoria Clarke, a former Hill & Knowlton executive, Allison Barber was copied on emails about the program. [1] At the time, Barber was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Liaison and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Internal Communications. She launched the controversial pro-war program America Supports You, as well as the Pentagon Channel, the Defense Department's New Media Operation and the speakers bureau program called "Why We Serve." [5] Barber had previously run her own PR firm; upon leaving the Pentagon, she returned to her firm, Sodenta. [6]
In an April 2006 email, Dallas B. Lawrence, the Defense Department's director of community relations and public liaison, informed Barber and others that members of the military analysts program were writing op/eds and appearing on television to respond to some retired generals' criticism of then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Barber responded: [1]
Great work, dallas. [sic]
I wanted everyone to see what you can pull off. Way to go Ab
Early indications
The military analyst programwas first reported on by the New York Times in April 2006, though its scope at the time was unclear. At the time, Rumsfeld was coming under increased criticism and pressure to resign. [7]
"The Defense Department has issued a memorandum to a group of former military commanders and civilian analysts that offers a direct challenge to the criticisms made by retired generals about Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld," reported Mark Mazzetti and Jim Rutenberg. "The one-page memorandum was sent by e-mail on Friday to the group, which includes several retired generals who appear regularly on television, and came as the Bush administration stepped up its own defense of Mr. Rumsfeld." [7]
The Times story added, "It is not uncommon for the Pentagon to send such memorandums to this group of officers, whom they consider to be influential in shaping public opinion.But it is unusual for the Pentagon to issue guidance that can be used by retired generals to rebut the arguments of other retired generals." [
>Pentagon military analyst program
>Pentagon to issue guidance that can be used by retired generals to rebut the arguments of other retired generals." [
Reaction of media outlets that featured the analysts
One of the analysts mentioned in Barstow's original story was Robert H. Scales Jr., who appeared on programs for both NPR and Fox News programs. Barstow noted that Scales, "whose consulting company advises several military firms on weapons and tactics used in Iraq, wanted the Pentagon to approve high-level briefings for him inside Iraq in 2006.'Recall the stuff I did after my last visit,' he wrote. 'I will do the same this time.'"[1] In 2003 Scales co-founded a "defense consulting company" Colgen, which boasts that it is "America's Premier Landpower Advocate".[8]
A little over a week after the New York Times story ran, NPR Ombudsman, Alicia C. Shepard, wrote in her blog that when the story broke "emails began flying trying to assess the damage and determine how to proceed. NPR waited until Wednesday on Talk of the Nation to first discuss this issue publicly. The Bryant Park Project followed up the next day with two pieces on how the media was ignoring The Times' story."[9] Shepard noted "since February 2003, he has been on NPR 67 times, most often (28 appearances) on All Things Considered (ATC). The latest was March 28, when he gave ATC listeners an assessment of the fifth anniversary of the war … Only once in December 2006 was Scales' relationship to Colgen mentioned."[9]
Shepard disagreed with the suggestion of a number of NPR listeners who wanted the media organization to stop doing interviews with Scales. "Rather than toss Scales off the air and lose his practical and scholarly knowledge of the Army, in the future NPR should always be transparent and identify him as a defense consultant with Colgen. NPR's audience can evaluate what Scales says through that lens. NPR should also append a note to each archived Scales' appearances that indicates he is also a defense consultant with Colgen. What also is needed, and I believe NPR will now begin doing, is a more careful vetting of all experts before they go on air," she wrote.[9] NPR have developed new guidelines for "vetting guests" which state "Ask the guest if he/she has any conflicts of interest. You can modify the question to be more descriptive; any financial, political, personal or other conflicts of interest. In some cases, the appearance of conflict of interest obvious to some, may not be obvious to the guest. For example, has the guest made any trips paid for by an organization having an interest in this story?" [10]
Investigations
On May 23, 2008, the Defense Department Inspector General's Office announced it would investigate the Pentagon pundits program. "The inspector general's office said its inquiry would specifically look at whether special access to Pentagon leaders 'may have given the contractors a competitive advantage,'" reported the New York Times. The same week, the Government Accountability Office "said it had already begun looking into the program and would give a legal opinion on whether it violated longstanding prohibitions against spending government money to spread propaganda to audiences in the United States." [11]
On May 22, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment (PDF) to the Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2009 that "would make permanent a domestic propaganda ban that until now has been enacted annually in the military authorization bill; the Senate is still working on its version of the bill." The bill, which was sponsored by Representative Paul Hodes, would also require the Defense Department Inspector General and GAO to investigate the program. [11]
The Federal Communications Commission is also investigating the Pentagon pundit program. "FCC chairman Kevin Martin already said the commission is looking into complaints about the program lodged by key legislators including House Energy & Commerce Committee chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.)," reported Broadcasting & Cable. "The legislators said the program may violate the FCC's sponsorship-identification rules by not informing viewers of the analysts' ties to the White House or various companies that do business with the DOD." [12]
>Reaction of media outlets that featured the analysts
On October 2, 2008, the FCC sent letters of inquiry to "five television networks and 19 former military officers," reported Associated Press. CBS News and ABC News confirmed that they received letters. [13] The letters were sent in response to a complaint filed with the agency by Representatives John Dingell and Rosa DeLauro. Several of the pundits named in the New York Times expose of the Pentagon pundit program were employees of or lobbyists for military contractors. [14] The FCC letter to the pundits "suggests that TV stations and networks may have violated two sections of the Communications Act of 1934 by not identifying the ties to the Pentagon." The agency is asking the pundits "to respond to the allegations of wrongdoing within 30 days," or by early November 2008. [15]
On January 14, 2009, the Pentagon's Office of Inspector General released its report (pdf) on the pundit program. The report absolved the Pentagon of any wrong-doing, finding that the covert attempt to influence U.S. public opinion was not propaganda, and that the pundits did not use their high-level Pentagon access to unfairly benefit the military contractors for which they consulted. However, several people key to the Pentagon pundit program including its originator, Victoria Clarke, and her successor at the Pentagon, Lawrence DiRita, along with network news executives declined to be interviewed for the report. The report also contained obvious inaccuracies – for instance, listing retired General Barry McCaffrey and other pundits "with easily documented connections" to military contractors as people without contractor ties. Democratic members of Congress "expressed concerns about the scope, methodology and accuracy of the report," noted the New York Times. Representative Hodes called the Pentagon report "a whitewash" and "the parting gift of the Pentagon to the [former] president [Bush]." [16]
Program participants
From the New York Times story and associated documents, along with other sources as indicated: [1][17]
Kenneth Allard, former NBC analyst, lobbyist with the firm Potomac Strategies International, and author of a 2006 book, "Warheads: Cable News and the Fog of War" [18]
Jed Babbin, former under secretary of defense, analyst on Fox News and MSNBC, radio host and columnist
Robert S. Bevelacqua, former Fox News analyst and co-founder of the military firm WVC3 Group, Inc.
Dennis C. Blair
Peter Brookes
Frank B. Campbell
James Jay Carafano
William V. Cowan, Fox News analyst and chief executive of the WVC3 Group, Inc.
Gordon Cucullu
Dana R. Dillon
Wayne A. Downing (deceased), former NBC analyst, advisory board member for the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, director of Metal Storm Limited and lobbyist for the SPECTRUM Group and the Iraqi National Congress [19]
Timur J. Eads, Fox analyst, vice president of government relations for Blackbird Technologies, and lobbyist for Science Application International Corporation and EMC Corporation
David M. Finkelstein
Ronald Fogleman
Rick Francona, analyst for NBC, MSNBC, CNBC
John C. Garrett, unpaid analyst for Fox News TV and radio, Patton Boggs lobbyist
Buster Glosson
David L. Grange, CNN analyst
Steven Greer
Jack Jacobs
David E. Jeremiah
George Joulwan
William F. Kernan, Senior Vice President and General Manager for International Operations for MPRI, a subsidiary of L-3 Communications, who's appeared on PBS's "Charlie Rose" show [20]
Glenn Lackey
Walter P. Lang
Thomas Joseph Lopez
Robert L. Maginnis, Fox analyst who's also appeared on MSNBC and "works in the Pentagon for a military contractor," BCP International Ltd [21]
James Marks, analyst for CNN from 2004 to 2007, senior executive with McNeil Technologies
Barry R. McCaffrey, NBC analyst, advisory board member for the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
Jeffrey D. McCausland, CBS military analyst and lobbyist with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
Thomas G. McInerney, Fox News analyst and board member of "of several military contractors, including Nortel Government Solutions"
Montgomery Meigs, NBC analyst
Andy Messing, Jr.
Thomas S. Moorman, Jr.
Michael J. Nardotti, Jr.
Charles T. Nash, Fox News analyst and "a consultant who helps small companies break into the military market"
William L. Nash, ABC analyst
Glenn K. Otis
Joseph W. Ralston, CBS analyst, The Cohen Group lobbyist, also has appeared on PBS's "Charlie Rose" show [22]
Erv Rokke
Robert H. Scales Jr., analyst for Fox News and National Public Radio; Colgen, his "consulting company advises several military firms on weapons and tactics used in Iraq"
H. Hugh Shelton
Donald W. Shepperd, CNN analyst who also provides commentary for ABC Radio Network in New York, and president of The Shepperd Group, a defense consulting firm [23]
Carlton A. Sherwood, executive vice president of WVC3 Group, Inc.
Steve Short
Wayne Simmons, Fox analyst and Human Events contributor
Perry Smith
Martin Strong, Fox analyst
Robert R. Timberg
Bernard Trainor
Paul E. Vallely, Fox News analyst from 2001 to 2007 who asked the Pentagon for input on an April 2006 Wall Street Journal editorial defending then-Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
John Warden
Larry D. Welch
Charles E. Wilhelm
Thomas Wilkerson, occasional commentator on outlets including CNN
In addition, Wesley Clark is named in the Pentagon pundit documents, as a Fox News analyst, who's against the war in Iraq and in favor of dialog with Iran. [24]. He also appears in a picture accompanying Barstow's Times article on the program, but is not mentioned in the text. [1] Clark is also mentioned in the documents as a potential person to invite to take part in the propaganda effort. [25] Clark has "claimed publicly that after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, he was pressured by the Bush administration to link the attacks directly to Iraq. When pressed on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes show, Clark refused to name White House names and instead fingered a public policy think tank in Canada. 'I personally got a call from a fellow in Canada who is part of a Middle Eastern think tank who gets inside intelligence information. He called me on 9/11,' Clark said. When asked who in the White House contacted him, Clark responded that he was 'not going to go into those sources.'" [26]
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Military Analysts
These documents, audio files and photos were released to the New York Times regarding the Pentagon's Military Analyst program.
Documents and Audio Files
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Trump Said:“We are under invasion from within” to a group of General Officers today.
Here Is A Big What If:
Last week on Sept 23rd, Secret Service in cooperation with other federal agencies dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout New York Tristate area.
They were being used for telecommunications-related threats.
⚫️Disabling Cell Towers
⚫️Launching DDOS attacks
⚫️Facilitating anonymous, encrypted communications between threat actors and criminal enterprises.
On September 25th Secretary of War Hegseth called for “All General Officers and SES Meeting” at Quantico Virginia.
Quantico is the location of the Marine Corp Intelligence Activity (MCIA). This provides strategic and tactical intelligence including SIGINT support worldwide. It is a satellite facility lined to Fort Meade, NSA Headquarters.
What If: There was suspicions that certain Generals were compromised. Or that data/metadata on the Secret Service busted Cell Phone Encrypted Communications line were connected to high ranking military officers. Or maybe classified intelligence was found on them?
How would you find the source.
You would call all the General Officers to an “All Call” at a centralized location. Once inside, you would turn on your data capture systems and collect all the metadata to make a connection to the encrypted server.
Remember Trump said…
Infiltration from within. What if he was saying this literally and directly.
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Utah Governor Spencer Cox has promoted the Dignity Index as part of his "Disagree Better"initiative to encourage civility in political discourse
. The index, developed bythe non-profit organization UNITE, is an eight-point scale that measures the level of contempt or dignity in language.
How the Dignity Index works
The index ranges from 1 to 8, with lower numbers indicating more contemptuous, divisive, and dehumanizing language, and higher numbers signifying more respectful language.
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As Chair of the National Governors Association (NGA) in 2023–2024, Cox launched his "Disagree Better" initiative, urging elected officials and citizens to model healthier political dialogue.
He has appeared at numerous events to promote the initiative, often alongside Democratic governors to demonstrate bipartisan cooperation.
The Dignity Index has been recognized in bipartisan efforts to condemn political violence and encourage better discourse, with Cox using the tool to highlight the importance of treating people with respect.
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Co-creator of the Dignity Index
Tim Shriver is married, a father of 5, the Chairman of Special Olympics International,co-creator of the Dignity Index, and founder and CEO of UNITE. Tim began his career as an educator and co-founded andcurrently chairs the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). He earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University, a Master's degree from Catholic University, and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Connecticut. He has produced 6 films, is the author of the NYT bestseller Fully Alive – Discovering What Matters Most, and co-editor of The Call to Unite: Voices of Hope and Awakening.
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Chief Strategist & Director of Research
Co-creator of the Dignity Index
Tom Rosshirt is a co-founder of UNITE and co-creator of the Dignity Index. Previously, he was a high school teacher, a syndicated columnist, a Capitol Hill press secretary, and aSpecial Assistant to the President in the Clinton White House, where he was foreign affairs spokesman for Vice President Gore and national security speechwriter for President Clinton. Tom is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he majored in Philosophy, and has a Master’s degree from Harvard, where he studied Human Development. He is co-founder of West Wing Writers, the Washington DC writing and strategy firm, co-editor of The Call to Unite: Voices of Hope and Awakening, and author of Chasing Peace: A Story of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs and the Spiritual Power of Neuroscience, published in 2025 by Penguin Random House.