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02/26/2004 Archived Entry: "Perle Steps Down From Defense Policy Board"

Posted by steve @ 01:40 PM EST [Link]

BYE BYE: The man once known as Darth Vader has left the building. Richard Perle has resigned from the Defense Policy Board.

In his resignation letter to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld dated Feb. 18 and released Thursday, Perle said he quit because he did not want his controversial views "to be attributed to you or the president at any time, and especially not during a presidential campaign."

"This is particularly true now since I have just published a book that calls for far-reaching reform of government departments responsible for combating terrorism," he wrote. "Many of the ideas in that book are controversial and I wish to be free to argue for them without those views or my arguments getting caught up in the campaign."

Read on.

That book was An End to Evil which we reviewed earlier this month.