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Daniel Pipes
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Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American writer, and political blogger who focuses on criticism of Islamism.<1> Pipes is the founder and director of the Middle East Forum, a conservative<2> think tank, as well as the founder of Campus Watch, an organization which states its mission to be critiquing poor scholarship concerning the Middle East, but which has been characterized by some critics as a vehicle for harassing scholars critical of Israel.<3><4><5>

Pipes has often been characterized as a conservative. His 2003 nomination by U.S. President George W. Bush to the board of directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace was protested by Democratic leaders, Arab-American groups, and civil rights activists, who cited his allegedly rightist views and oft-stated belief that force was the most effective remedy to conflict.<5><6><7> The Bush administration sidestepped the opposition with a recess appointment.<6>

A critic of the Obama administration, Pipes has written in support of a preemptive strike on Iran, which Pipes believes is preparing a nuclear bomb. In 2010, Pipes cautioned that Iran "could launch an electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States, utterly devastating the country".<8> According to Pipes, attacking Iran would cause Americans to "rally around the flag", conferring domestic political advantage upon the Obama administration, "just as 9/11 caused voters to forget George W. Bush’s meandering early months".<9>

Pipes has written or co-written more than a dozen books, and has written hundreds columns or opinion pieces for many newspapers both here and abroad. He frequently participates in discussion panels on television, and has lectured prolifically in the U.S. and abroad. He served as an adviser to Rudolph Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign.<10> According to The New York Times: "Among his supporters, Mr. Pipes enjoys a heroic status; among his detractors, he is reviled."<11> He is currently a Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

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Pipes the Propagandist
Bush's nominee doesn't belong at the U.S. Institute for Peace.
http://www.slate.com/id/2086844/