Stephen Cambone

Stephen Cambone
Official portrait, 2003
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
In office
March 1, 2003 – December 31, 2006
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byJames R. Clapper
Personal details
Born (1952-06-22) June 22, 1952 (age 72)
The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpouseMargaret Taaffe Cambone
ChildrenMaria
EducationCatholic University of America (BA)
Claremont Graduate University (MA, PhD)
Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen A. Cambone with Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard B. Myers, and Acting Director of Central Intelligence John E. McLaughlin during a testimony at Senate Armed Services Committee on August 17, 2004.

Stephen Anthony Cambone[1] (born June 22, 1952) was the first United States Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, a post created in March 2003. Cambone first came to the attention of the public at large during the testimony of Major General Antonio Taguba before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, where he disputed the General's statement that prison guards were under the effective control of military intelligence personnel and interrogators.[2][3] Cambone resigned at the beginning of 2007 and was replaced by James R. Clapper, Jr., former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.[4] Cambone was associated with the Project for the New American Century, participating in the study which resulted in the writing of the report Rebuilding America's Defenses.[5][6][7][8][9]

  1. ^ "Biographical and Financial Information Requested of Nominees". Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate (PDF). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 2002. pp. 1111–1112. ISBN 9780160692970. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  2. ^ "Transcript : Taguba, Cambone on Abu Ghraib Report", The Washington Post, 11 May 2004.
  3. ^ "Implausible Denial" by Jason Vest, The Nation, 31 May 2004.
  4. ^ "Pentagon To End Talon Data-Gathering Program" By Walter Pincus, The Washington Post, 25 April 2007.
  5. ^ [1] A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility, Joan Hoff, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 139
  6. ^ [2] The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril, Eugene Jarecki, Free Press, 2008
  7. ^ Roberts, Guy (2014-11-13). US Foreign Policy and China: Bush’s First Term. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-64993-9.
  8. ^ [3] PNAC, Rebuilding America's Defenses, 2000
  9. ^ Parmar, Inderjeet (2008). "Chapter 3: A Neo-Conservative-Dominated US Foreign Policy Establishment?". In Christie, Kenneth (ed.). United States Foreign Policy and National Identity in the 21st Century. Routledge. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-415-57357-3.