Sturdy Loyalty is Rewarded....Steven Hadley (of Niger Documents Claim)

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(They say he is VERY PRIVATE ....he was also in Hillary's Law school class, but was NOT in the Clinton Administration...interesting)



Sturdy Loyalty Is Rewarded - Stephen John Hadley
By SCOTT SHANE

Published: November 17, 2004

In fact, Mr. Hadley's aversion to personal publicity "endeared him to both Condi and the president," Mr. Biegun said. "Now, obviously, that will have to change."

The son of an electrical engineer and a homemaker, Mr. Hadley grew up near Cleveland and graduated from Cornell University and Yale Law School, where he was a classmate of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He first tasted government service as a young naval officer working at the Pentagon and later for Mr. Scowcroft in President Ford's National Security Council.

He left the government in 1977 to join the Washington law firm of Shea & Gardener, and in 1986 he was invited to join the staff of the commission led by Senator John Tower that was reviewing the Iran-contra affair. Mr. Hadley won Mr. Tower's gratitude as principal author of the committee's huge report, pounded out on an old Wang computer, recalled Rhett Dawson, who had hired him for the job.

When Mr. Tower was later nominated by the elder President Bush as secretary of defense, he brought Mr. Hadley along. Although Mr. Tower's nomination was not confirmed, Mr. Hadley became assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, working on arms control and missile defense under Mr. Cheney, who was then secretary of defense, and Mr. Wolfowitz.

He practiced law during the Clinton years. But during George W. Bush's first campaign for the presidency, Mr. Hadley became part of his foreign policy advisory team, known as the Vulcans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/politics/17hadley.html?pagewanted=all