Major General Timothy M. Haake retired from the United States Army Reserve on May 11, 2006 after more than 35 years of service. He formerly served as the Deputy Commander, Mobilization and Reserve Affairs, United States Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. Prior to that assignment, he served as Director of Legislative Affairs, United States Special Operations Command, Washington, D.C.

General Haake was born in Schenectady, New York. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (1969) from Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; a Law Degree (1973) from Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, New York; and Master of Laws Degree (LL.M.) in Taxation (1978) from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C. He completed the Judge Advocate General’s Officer Basic Course in 1978; the Judge Advocate General’s Advanced Officer Course in 1982; Civil Affairs Officer Advanced Course in 1985; Command and General Staff College in 1987; and the Army War College in 1994.

General Haake served in the Army National Guard as an enlisted member from 1970 through 1976, where he completed the Special Forces Qualifications Course in 1973. He then served in the Army Reserve from 1976 through 1978 and received a direct commission October, 1978.

In 1978, General Haake served as the Staff Judge Advocate for Headquarters, 11th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Meade, Maryland. In 1982, he became the Legal Officer for the 450th Civil Affairs Company in Riverdale, Maryland. In 1984, he returned to the 11th Special Forces Group to serve once again as their Staff Judge Advocate. In 1992, he became the Legal Advisor (IMA) for the Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Concurrently, beginning in 1995 he assumed command of the 157th IMA Detachment for the Army Reserve in Washington, D.C.

General Haake’s awards include the: Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal (one oak leaf cluster), Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal (one oak leaf cluster); Army Meritorious Service Medal; Joint Service Commendation Medal; Army Commendation Medal; Joint Service Achievement Medal; Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal (silver oak leaf cluster); National Defense Service Medal ( two bronze service stars); Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Armed Forces Reserve Medal (silver hourglass); Army Service Ribbon and Army Reserve Components Overseas Training Ribbon. He is a Master Parachutist, Special Forces Military Free Fall Parachutist, and holds German, Italian, and British military parachutist badges.

Mr. Haake is a legislative consultant and lawyer and the owner of Haake & Associates. His specialties include tax, energy, trade, health, and defense issues. He held several administrative, legal, and Congressional positions prior to starting his own firm.

At the Internal Revenue Service, he served in a professional legal capacity where he drafted private rulings, issued advisory opinions to field offices, and drafted broadly applicable rulings.

For the next five years, Mr. Haake served as Counsel to members of the United States Senate Committee on Finance and the United States House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, advising Members of Congress on all issues coming before the Committees, including matters of tax, trade, and health policy. He assisted in formulating legislative initiatives and guiding them through the legislative process to enactment. He was later head of the tax department in the Washington office of O'Connor & Hannan, a law firm based in Minneapolis.

Mr. Haake holds a Master of Law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, a Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse University College of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Antioch College. He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia.

Mr. Haake is a contributor to Fox News, Nightline and CNN as an expert on foreign affairs, military and political issues. He is married and has three children ages fourteen, seventeen and twenty.

Jim Sciutto is ABC News’ Senior Foreign correspondent, based in London. Since moving overseas in 2002, he has reported from more than 40 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where he’s completed more than 100 assignments. His globe-trotting role for ABC News has put him on multiple trips to war-zones from Iraq to Afghanistan to Israel-Palestine, undercover in Zimbabwe and Myanmar, under fire in Beslan, Russia, and on frenetic cross-country tours of China and India for special, multi-part ABC series. When he was named senior foreign correspondent in 2006, he was the first person to carry the title since Peter Jennings and Pierre Salinger.

Sciutto won the 2007 George Polk Award for television for his undercover reporting in Myanmar during the military regime’s brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrations in October 2007. He won Emmy awards in 2004 and 2005 for best story in a regularly scheduled newscast, covering northern Iraq for “Iraq: Where Things Stand.” He was nominated for other Emmys in 2005 for outstanding coverage of a breaking news story for “Crisis in Beslan” and in 2007 for his contribution from Cambodia for Good Morning America’s “Around the World” series.

Sciutto was the only western reporter to make his way inside Myanmar during the 2007 crackdown, the first television reporter to interview Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah and one of a handful of journalists allowed inside an Iranian nuclear plant in 2005. During the Iraq war, Sciutto was the only reporter embedded with the U.S. Special Forces.

Prior to joining ABC News in 1998, Sciutto was Hong Kong correspondent for Asia Business News, an Asia-wide TV network owned by Dow Jones. For ABN, he covered Hong Kong’s return to China in 1997, and reported on every country in the region, including assignments to China, Mongolia, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore and South Korea.

Sciutto’s first job in television was as moderator and producer of “The Student Press,” a weekly public affairs talk show for U.S. and Canadian college students broadcast on PBS.

Sciutto earned a degree in history from Yale University in 1992. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Hong Kong from 1993 to 1994. In 2008, he was selected as a lifetime member of the Council of Foreign Relations. In 2002, he was appointed Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale.

He lives in London with his wife, Gloria Riviera, also a London-based correspondent for ABC News.

A foreign correspondent for ABC News, Sciutto examines and explains the increasingly negative attitudes toward the United States among citizens of Muslim and Arab countries in this deeply insightful book. Structured around interviews conducted in the Middle East and the U.K., the book offers ample anecdotal evidence to suggest that anti-American sentiment—once the province of fringe groups—has gone mainstream, becoming in effect, a form of Middle Eastern nationalism, uniting moderates and radicals, Muslims and Christians for whom freedom implies the freedom from American interference. Sciutto weaves together interviews with historical background, poll data and personal experience in this consistently informative and captivating account. In the strongest interviews, including one with a young, reform-minded Iranian activist and another with an Iraqi doctor, the book sets intense, sometimes horrifying experiences against a complicated and changing political backdrop. The author makes a few amorphous foreign policy recommendations on the basis of his research, but the book is less interesting for what it reveals about American policy than for its empathetic and candid depiction of its subjects and their lives.

Todd A. DuBord was raised in the Bay Area of Northern California, in an atheist and agnostic background. As a young adult, he sensed that there was much more to life than he had been led to believe. Initially incorporating a wider pursuit of the world religions, Todd prayed to God, “If you show me the truths and purpose of this life, I will spend the rest of my life helping people to understand them.”

In his years of research, both informal and formal (B.A. From Bethany University; M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary), Todd accepted that the claims of Christianity were true. Todd’s areas of expertise are in apologetics, biblical languages and studies, American religious history, historical and ecclesiastical theology, leadership equipping, and pastoral care and counseling. While going through his seven years of undergraduate and graduate studies, Todd also worked in business for a copier corporation, at which he served as Operations Manager for the entire region of Southern California.

Throughout his initial years as a Christian in the Bay Area and Southern California, Todd also served in areas of prison ministry, homeless ministries, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, various discipleship programs, and in various Church leadership roles. Through seminary Todd also served as overseer of a thirteen-facility retirement home and convalescent hospital ministry, as well as a chaplain intern at U.C. Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Chaplain Todd served as a youth pastor (in a Foursquare Church) in the 1980’s, an Associate Pastor (of a Presbyterian Church) in the 1990’s, and the past twelve years served as Senior Pastor of Lake Almanor Community Church, located near Lake Almanor on the edge of the Lassen National Forest in Northern California. In April 2008, he accepted the invitation of Chuck and Gena Norris to join them full time in serving the diversity of their humanitarian efforts and ministries as the Chaplain of Topkick Productions (and other Chuck Norris enterprises). Todd also accompanied Chuck Norris to Iraq in September of 2007, where they visited 15 military bases and over 18,000 troops. Todd’s revisionist ministry and research, as well as his story of their trip to Iraq, can be located, read, and downloaded at this website.

Over the past two years, Chaplain Todd has gained national recognition in his work to restore Christian revisionism and reductionism from American historic sites and landmarks. He has successfully led restorations of our Christian heritage to the Jamestown Settlement (first English colony in America) and the Washington Monument (advances that were broadcasted on Fox News and other news agencies across the country). He continues to march against revisions at Monticello (Thomas Jefferson’s estate), the U.S. Supreme Court, and other historic landmarks that are revising America’s religious history.

Todd is known as a passionate, caring chaplain, who respects all people and inspires others to genuinely live and grow spiritually. He is a leader of leaders, and loves to simply serve God and encourage others wherever he’s called. As a speaker, Todd is an inspiring educator and motivator, using a blend of information, historical quotes, visuals, and contagious humor. His past messages, given as a Senior Pastor of Lake Almanor Community Church, are heard by people all over the world from his website and can be downloaded for free at www.iTunes.com (at the latter by typing in “almanor” or “dubord” to find link for “Lake Almanor Community Church).

Born and raised on his family's farm in rural Caswell County, Hugh Webster is not what you would call a "polished politician." He is blunt, brash, and firm in his straightforward, common sense convictions.  Hugh Webster has never been accused of pandering to political correctness, but has earned the reputation of one unafraid to tell the truth and stand by his convictions.

That straightforward, common sense manner served the taxpayers of North Carolina well while Webster served in the State's General Assembly from 1995 through 2006.

During those 12 years, Webster never once voted in favor of a state budget that included a tax increase and he never voted in favor of legislation that went against the provisions set out by the North Carolina Constitution. Webster led the fight to stop illegal aliens from getting NC drivers' licenses and fought against liberal legislation to allow illegal aliens to get in-state tuition and register to vote. He sponsored legislation known as "The Baby Greer Act" that would allow those convicted of murdering a pregnant woman to be charged with double homicide instead of a single murder.
In Raleigh, Hugh Webster stood firm in his defense of the State's Constitution and protected the wallets of North Carolina's taxpayers.

Webster has pledged that as your Congressman in Washington, he will continue to take a firm stance defending the US Constitution, America's sovereignty, and protecting the property of American taxpayers.

Mr. Hawkins is a professional blogger who runs conservativegrapevine.com and rightwingnews.com He also writes a weekly column for Townhall.com and consulted for the Duncan Hunter for President campaign.

Sabrina L. Schaeffer is the Managing Partner of Evolving Strategies.

Prior to launching Evolving Strategies, Sabrina worked in numerous communications positions. She served as the speechwriter for Senator George Voinovich of Ohio, the Director of Media Relations and Public Affairs at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington, DC, where she frequently served as a spokeswoman for the organization, and a member of the communications team for Bob McEwen's primary campaign in Ohio's second district. 

Sabrina was also a Communications Associate at the White House Writers Group, where she worked extensively on designing and orchestrating communications projects for a range of intellectual, government, and corporate clients on a variety of issues including energy policy, transportation policy, and telecommunication deregulation. While working for the White House Writers Group, she also acted as a liaison at the U.S. Department of Labor, where she helped launch "The Skilled Trades Initiative." 

Sabrina began her career in Washington as an assistant to former United Nations Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick at the American Enterprise Institute.

Sabrina has commented on politics and political culture in publications such as the Weekly Standard, The Washington Times, Philanthropy Magazine, Doublethink, Policy Review, Tech Central Station, American Enterprise Online, and National Review Online, as well as on Press TV.  She received her B.A. from Middlebury College, her M.A. in American History from the University of Virginia, and her M.A. in Politics also from UVa.

Zephyr R. Teachout graduated in 1999 with both a JD from Duke Law School, summa cum laude, and an MA in Political Science from the Duke University.  She was also editor-in-chief of the Duke Law Journal. She received her BA from Yale University, where she was editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News Magazine. Following graduation from Duke Law School, she clerked for Chief Judge Edward R. Becker, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia. In 2005, she was a non-residential fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Her teaching interests are election law, federal legislation, the law governing corruption, Internet and politics, comparative law, administrative law, law of democracy and local government.

Prior to acceptance in the Visiting Assistant Professorship Program, Ms. Teachout served as the National Director of the Sunlight Foundation, Washington, DC, where she created a policy platform for transparency in Congress, drafted and lobbied for transparency legislation, and developed new tools for making Congressional information more accessible to citizens. Her efforts were featured on NPR and CNN, and in The Washington Examiner, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, PC World, and The New York Times. She is an internationally recognized expert on the impact of the Internet on electoral politics and government.

Ms. Teachout spent three years in Burlington, Vermont. From 2005-2006 she was a lecturer at the University of Vermont, teaching Internet and politics, and introduction to international relations; and drafted briefs in environmental law, tort law, energy law, and federal administrative law for the firm of Shems, Dunkiel, Kassel & Saunders. Prior to that, she served as Director of Internet Organizing for Dean For America, where she also created a technology policy advisory council and drafted the first presidential open source policy platform. She also provided consulting services to non-profit and citizen journalism organizations such as The War Tapes, Music for America, Current TV, and the International Rescue Committee, and America Coming Together. She was a co-founder and Executive Director of the Fair Trial Initiative in Durham, where she also served as a staff attorney at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation.

Some of her selected publications include Mousepads, Shoeleather and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics (Editor) (forthcoming August 2007, Paradigm Publishers); "How Politicians can use Distributive Networks" (New Assignment, November 2006); "Youtube? It's so Yesterday," (with Tim Wu) (Washington Post, November 2006), and "Powering Up Internet Campaigns," book chapter in Lets Get This Party Started (Rowan and Littlefield, 2005.) She is currently writing about the meaning of corruption in the American constitutional tradition.