You can't know the players without a program.
Here's some background info. The links on the names take you to more.
A summary of financial disclosure reports, covering 2002, submitted by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. It tell you who they are and how much money they made (and how they made it).
Here are some bio stuff and links.
Chairman Thomas Keane
OCCUPATION: President of Drew University, former governor of New Jersey.
Republican
Thomas Kean (born April 21, 1935) was the Republican Governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990. He has been president of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey since 1990.
Thomas Howard Kean was born in New York City to a long line of New Jersey politicans. He was educated at Princeton and Columbia Universities, and was originally a teacher of history and government. In 1967, he was elected as a Republican Assemblyman to the New Jersey State Legislature. He served as the house speaker in 1972, and became the minority leader in 1974. In 1973, he briefly served as Acting Governor. He ran successfully for governor in 1981, and served two terms. After leaving office, he became the President of Drew University, in which capacity he still serves.
Kean serves on the board of Amerada Hess, which had a four-year alliance with Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia on a venture in Azerbaijan. Amerada Hess ended its role in the venture in November.
In December 2002, Kean was appointed by President George W. Bush to lead the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, an independant commission investigating the September 11 Terrorist Attacks.
Vice Chair Lee Hamilton
OCCUPATION: Director of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, former congressman from Indiana.
Democrat
Hamilton is a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century / Hart-Rudman Commission and Vice Chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission). On June 11, 2002, Hamilton was appointed to President George Walker Bush's Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Hamilton is Director, The Center of Congress at Indiana University (1999-present); served thirty-four years as the United States Representative from Ninth District, Indiana (1965 - 1999); was the Ranking Democratic Member, Committee on International Relations, Member and Former Chairman, Joint Economic Committee, and was the Former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs where he was the ranking Democrat for ten years and was Committee Chairman during the 103rd Congress; served on the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress October Surprise Task Force and Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, and a member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Hamilton received a Bachelor of Arts, DePauw University and Goethe University, Frankfurt Germany; and a Graduate, Indiana University School of Law. He is also affiliated with The Alfalfa Club.
Richard Ben-Veniste
OCCUPATION: Partner at Mayer Brown Rowe and Maw, former Watergate prosecutor.
Democrat
Ben-Veniste, a Washington attorney in the firm of Weil Gotshal & Manges, was chief of the Watergate Task Force of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's office.
Here is an article he wrote about Watergate.
He also worked for the Democrats on Whitewater.
And was part of this:
"President Clinton announced January 11 (1999) his intent to appoint Thomas H. Baer, Elizabeth Holtzman and Richard Ben-Veniste as members of the Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group."
"The Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group was established, with bipartisan support, to locate, identify, inventory, recommend for declassification, and make available to the public at the National Archives and Records Administration, all classified Nazi war criminal records of the United States. In addition to the public members named above, the President will also appoint individuals from government agencies, as he deems appropriate, to effectively execute the mission of the Working Group,"
Fred F. Fielding
OCCUPATION: Senior partner at Wiley, Rein, & Fielding, former counsel to President Reagan.
Republican
some of what he has done:
Reagan-Bush Campaign 1980:TNG (Thursday Night Group)
Lawyers for Reagan Advisory Group
Reagan-Bush Transition 1980-81:Conflict of Interest Counsel
Transition Team Leader - Office of Government Ethics
White House Transition Team - Office of the Counsel to the President
Panelist - Executive Briefing
Bush-Quayle Campaign 1988: Republican National Convention - Legal Advisor
Campaign Counsel - Senator Quayle
Bush-Quayle Transition 1988-89:Deputy Director
Bush-Quayle Campaign 1992: Senior Legal Advisor
Dole-Kemp Campaign 1996:Republican National Convention - Legal Advisor
Republican National Convention 2000:Counsel to the Republican National Committee
Bush-Cheney Transition 2000-01 Clearance Counsel
Jamie S. Gorelick
OCCUPATION: Vice chair, Fannie Mae (stepping down July 1).
Democrat.
Former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration.
Slade Gordon
OCCUPATION: Attorney, former senator from Washington state.
Republican
He represented Washington State in the United States Senate for 18 years, from 1982-2000. While in the Senate, Gorton served on the Appropriations, Budget, Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Energy and Natural Resources Committees. He served as chairman of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee (1995-2001), the Commerce Subcommittees on Consumer Affairs (1995-99), and Aviation (1999-2000). He was also a member of the Republican leadership as counsel to the Majority Leader (1996-2000). Gorton began his political career in 1958 as a Washington state representative; he went on to serve as State House majority leader.
Bob Kerrey
Democrat
He has been around for a long time, there is a lot of history behind Kerrey.
Bob Kerrey is President of New School University in New York City. For twelve years prior to becoming President of New School University, Bob Kerrey represented the State of Nebraska in the United States Senate. Before that he served as Nebraska's Governor for four years.
Educated in pharmacy at the University of Nebraska, Bob Kerrey served three years in the United States Navy.
bio
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John F. Lehman
OCCUPATION: Chairman of J.F. Lehman & Co., former secretary of the Navy.
Republican
He served 25 years in the naval reserve. Lehman was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and served until 1987. During his tenure as Secretary of the Navy, Lehman was responsible for building a 600 ship Navy, establishing a strategy of maritime supremacy, and reforming ship and aircraft procurement. He has served as staff member to Henry Kissinger on the National Security Council, as delegate to the Force Reductions Negotiations in Vienna and as deputy director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Timothy J. Roemer
OCCUPATION: Lobbyist with Johnston & Associates, former congressman from Indiana.
Democrat
From 1991-2003, Roemer represented the Third District of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Science.
James R. Thompson
OCCUPATION: Chairman, Winston & Strawn law firm, former Illinois governor
Republican
James Thompson, Illinois' longest-serving governor (1977-1991), is chairman of the law firm of Winston & Strawn, headquartered in Chicago.
From 1959 to 1964, he served in the Cook County state's attorney's office, where he argued criminal civil rights cases before the Illinois and US Supreme Courts. He then taught at the Northwestern Law School. In 1971, he became U.S. Attorney for the Northern District, where he established a solid reputation for prosecuting corrupt public officials.
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