has an odd background:
Adviser Has President's Ear as She Keeps Eyes on Iraq
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: June 12, 2006
WASHINGTON, June 11 — At the end of each day, President Bush gets a three-to-four-page memo from the National Security Council staff about developments over the previous 24 hours in Iraq. The document, said to be written in the crisp, compelling style that the president prefers, can cover a range of issues — the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, new nominees for cabinet posts or the progress, or lack of it, in ending the three-year insurgency.
The person responsible for the memo is someone who is largely unknown outside the administration, but who colleagues say is instrumental in shaping Mr. Bush's views: Meghan L. O'Sullivan, the 36-year-old deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan, and the most senior official working on those nations full time at the White House.
With Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, Ms. O'Sullivan briefs the president in person on Iraq up to several times a week. Over the weekend she helped to prepare the agenda for Mr. Bush's war cabinet meetings on Monday and Tuesday at Camp David and will be on hand throughout the sessions.
Ms. O'Sullivan, who spent more than a year in Baghdad as an aide to L. Paul Bremer III, then the top American civilian administrator in Iraq, also helps to prepare the agenda for the president's weekly National Security Council meetings on Iraq.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/washington/12osullivan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin ++++++++++
So then we look at SourceWatch:
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Dr. O'Sullivan came to the National Security Council from the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq. Prior to her departure to the region in March of 2003, Dr. O'Sullivan served as a member of the Office of Policy Planning at the Department of State. In this capacity, she was the chief advisor to the presidential envoy to the peace process in Northern Ireland, and was also involved in efforts to promote reform in the Muslim world," the annoucement said.
O'Sullivan "departed the Brookings Institution in November 2001 for a position with the director of policy planning in the U.S. Department of State." <1> (
http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/mosullivan.htm)
"Meghan O'Sullivan, an aide to the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and more recently part of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, is in line to be senior director for Iraq at the National Security Council," Al Kamen wrote (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32199-2004Jul6_3.html) in the July 7, 2004, Washington Post.
"She had fallen out of favor with neo-cons awhile back because of her enthusiasm for sanctions as opposed to war against Iraq and because she had worked for insufficiently hard-line State Department policy chief Richard Haass. She's back in good graces now and, we hear, is a rising star," Kamen said.
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Meghan_L._O%27Sullivan+++++++++++++++
Moynihan? Haass? Bremner? *???
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