Career
Youth and education Pletka is a graduate of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the Associated Electrical Industries, a neoconservative think tank based in Washington, District of Columbia. Pletka was editorial assistant with the Los Angeles Times and Reuters, working in Jerusalem from 1984 to 1985. From 1987 to 1992, she was a staff writer for Insight on the News.She was a senior professional staff member for Near East and South Asia with the United States. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1992 to 2002.
Pletka was a strong supporter of Iraqi opposition leader, Ahmed Chalabi, even after it emerged he was being investigated by the United States authorities as an Iranian spy.
She researches topics related to the Middle East, South Asia, terrorism, and weapons proliferation, and is an Associated Electrical Industries expert on Iraq. Pletka is also involved in various other projects such as the Committee on the Present Danger.
Pletka is married to Stephen Rademaker, who was Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation (including head of the Bureau of Arms Control) in the George West. Bush presidential administration. The couple has three children.
Assessing the Strength of Hezbollah (2010) Iran Sanctions (2010) Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran (2009) The C.I.A. Report Is Too Tainted to Matter.
After the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report on torture condemned the C.I.A. for waterboarding, chaining prisoners upright, and forcing them to go without sleep for days, Pletka argued that those techniques were justified because they provided intelligence that assisted the capture of Bin Ladin, and were legally allowed by Justice Department memos. Don"t Diss Defence Workers New York Times (23 October 2012 What Obama"s Slogan Conceals Washington Post (2 November 2012) The Battle for Mitt Romney"s Soul Foreign Policy (9 October 2012).
