# Richard Perle resigns from Defense Board

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 28, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-perle-resigns-from-defense-board/164687 "2003-03-28T02:15:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Consuela\_Bobuela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Consuela\_Bobuela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Consuela_Bobuela)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-perle-resigns-from-defense-board/164687/1 "2003-03-28T02:15:14Z")

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[Link](http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030328/15/39hrl.html)

Perle has resigned and will donate his Global Crossing fees to families of US troops in Iraq.

So, what do y’all think of this?

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**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-perle-resigns-from-defense-board/164687/2 "2003-03-28T02:54:23Z")

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I’m impressed by [Mr. Hersh](http://newyorker.com/printable/?fact/030317fa_fact) even if he is [“the closest thing American journalism has to a  
terrorist, frankly.”\*](http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/09/le.00.html).  
He has exposed [“The Prince of Darkness”](http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-taheri030703.asp).

I wonder what kind of “legs” this story will have. I think it’s a little too complicated to pull many ratings

\*{Is calling someone a terrorist a new alternate way of Godwinizing a discussion?}

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**Author:** ![Eclectic\_Skeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@Eclectic\_Skeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclectic_Skeptic)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-perle-resigns-from-defense-board/164687/3 "2003-03-28T03:19:32Z")

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Perle has already been caught passing classified information to the Israelis, so I hope he is tried for treason.

“Perle was expelled from Senator Henry Jackson’s office in  
the 1970’s after the National Security Agency  
(NSA) caught him passing Highly-Classified  
(National Security) documents to the Israeli  
Embassy. He later worked for the Israeli weapons  
firm, Soltam. Perle is one of the leading pro-Israeli  
fanatics leading this Iraq war mongering within the  
administration and now in the media.”

[http://www.nowarforisrael.com/Bush’s%20Israeli%20Advisors%20Push%20America%20Into%20War.htm](http://www.nowarforisrael.com/Bush's%20Israeli%20Advisors%20Push%20America%20Into%20War.htm)

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-perle-resigns-from-defense-board/164687/4 "2003-03-28T03:27:07Z")

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What can you say except, “one down, more to go.”

Incredible lack of awareness on Perle’s part.

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-perle-resigns-from-defense-board/164687/5 "2003-03-28T03:48:06Z")

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Haven’t laughed so hard since they shot Ol’ Yeller!

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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-perle-resigns-from-defense-board/164687/6 "2003-03-28T04:46:35Z")

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Well, he resigned as Chairman but was asked by GW to remain as a member. Have things changed from that?

Why shouldn’t he resign? He got the war he wanted and needn’t stick around any longer. Being on the board cramped his earning power a little bit and that would be painful.