Elliott Abrams – Wikipedia born January 24, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer, who has served in foreign policy positions for Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Abrams is considered to be a neoconservative.[2] He is currently a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.[3] He served as the U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela from 2019 to 2021 and as the U.S. Special Representative for Iran from 2020 to 2021.
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Abrams, Elliott was appointed to the National Security Council by George Walker Bush. He served as Assistant Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan.
Abrams is one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton. ¶
He is associated with the Committee on U.S. Interests in the Middle East. He has ties to the Hudson Institute and the Center for Security Policy. ¶
Abrams was heavily involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. In 1991, Abrams
was indicted by the Iran-Contra special prosecutor for giving false testimony before Congress in 1987 about his role in illicitly raising money for the Nicaraguan Contras. He pleaded guilty to two lesser of ofenses of withholding information to Congress in order to avoid a trial and a possible jail term. He was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush along with a number of other Iran-Contra defendants on Christmas night 1992. ¶
After Reagan left office in 1989, Abrams, like a number of other prominent neo-conservatives, was not invited to serve in the Bush Sr. administration. Instead, he worked for a
number of think tanks and eventually became head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center where he wrote widely on foreign-policy issues, including the Middle East, and the threats posed by U.S. secular society to Jewish identity. He also remained an integral part of the tight-knit neo-conservative foreign policy community in Washington that revolved around one of his early mentors, Richard N. Perle and former UN Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick at the American Enterprise Institute. ¶
Recently, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice appointed Elliott Abrams as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations at the National Security Council.
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