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Clifford D. May (born 1951) is an American journalist, editor, political activist, and podcast host. He is the founder and president of the
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, a
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created shortly after the 9/11 attacks, where he hosts the podcast ''Foreign Podicy''. He is the weekly "Foreign Desk" columnist for ''
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''. May previously served as commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission that makes policy recommendations concerning international religious freedom, as well as the Chairman of the Policy Committee department within the
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. May was also previously a weekly columnist for Scripps Howard News Service and
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. May has been widely published, including in ''
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'', '' National Review'', ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. He has served as a
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, a
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, and a newspaper/magazine editor, working notably for ''
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'' in the 1970s and for ''
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'' in the 1980s.Clifford D. May
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Main Website
Accessed May 5, 2009.
May is also a member of the
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. In October 2007, ''
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'' named May number 94 in its list of the "100 most influential conservatives in America", identifying him as a neo-conservative within the
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.


Career


Early career

May earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from
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in
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in 1973. He then earned master's degrees from both
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's
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and its
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. In addition, he holds a certificate in
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and
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from Leningrad University..
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. Archive accessed on May 5, 2009.
May worked as an associate editor of ''
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'' from 1975 to 1978. He then became a foreign correspondent for ''Hearst'' newspapers and worked for CBS Radio News and
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on
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as well. For all three outlets, he covered the
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in 1979. Returning to the U.S., he became senior editor of ''
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''. May then spent about a decade with ''
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'' serving as an editor of the Sunday magazine, a New York City and
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reporter and as a
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. He opened the ''Times''' West Africa bureau and worked as its chief. He then moved to
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to be associate editor of the ''
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''. He started writing a weekly political and social criticism column that was distributed nationally by Scripps Howard News Service. He also hosted two weekly television programs and a talk radio show around this time.


Later career

May served as the Director of Communications for the
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from 1997 to 2001. In his position, he oversaw activities such as strategic planning, press, radio, television, online services, speech writing, and advertising. He worked as the editor of ''Rising Tide'', the official
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magazine. He also was Vice Chairman of the
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. After leaving the RNC, he became a director in the Washington, D.C. office of BSMG Worldwide, a public affairs and public relations company. In 2006, he was appointed an adviser to the
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. He strongly dissented from the recommendations that the group came to, and he then worked with various groups to oppose the policies. On July 11, 2008, May was nominated by
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to be a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors for a term expiring August 13, 2009. "In this very challenging period of history, it is vital that the United States communicates with audiences abroad clearly and creatively,” May said, “I will be honored and privileged if I can assist with this mission.”


Views and opinions


Issue positions

May is an International Patron of the
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. In October 2007, ''
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'' named May number 94 in its list of the "100 most influential conservatives in America", and labeled him "an outspoken proponent of the need to achieve victory in Iraq and the broader war against Muslim extremism". It also described him as a "nimble"
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activist in the American media. May supports the use of
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, other than
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, against those captured by the United States in what he calls the
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, so long as they are used as a "last resort"; he views them as fundamentally different from
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. He also opposes regarding those captured as either
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s or
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. On April 23, 2009, May appeared on '' The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'' discussing the subject of torture, and he and Stewart engaged in a rather heated yet cordial debate on the subject. Jacob Gershman of ''
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'' later highlighted the exchange as one of the clearest discussions about the issue in the news media. May supported the
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as well as the
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. In March 2008, he wrote for the ''
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'' that " at one can not say is that regime change in Iraq was unjustified: Not if you know Saddam's record, his clearly stated intentions, and his ties to international terrorists—including, as a new Pentagon report reveals, a group headed by Ayman al-Zawahiri, now al Qaeda’s second-in-command." In an April 2004 interview with
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, who alleged that
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had decided to invade Iraq before the 9/11 attacks and manipulated the intelligence links on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, May argued that Bush had been continuing the policy of the
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-era
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and that Bush had pushed the
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for accurate information. May told Smiley: "I'm rooting for the guy in the White House, personally, 'cause I do think he has done a good job". In the aftermath of the American re-deployment in Iraq during July 2009, he wrote for ''
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'' that " e news is not that American combat troops withdrew from Iraqi cities. The news is that American combat troops withdrew from Iraqi cities in victory—rather than in defeat." In October 2012, May wrote for the '' San Angelo Standard Times'' that, despite the death of Osama bin Laden and other successes against al-Qaida, he considered the group "degraded" but not actually "defeated"; he referred to the attempted assassination of Malala Yousafzai as a particular sign of a still dangerous Taliban. He argued that "Roosevelt and Churchill grasped what too many analysts in government, academia, media and think tanks do not: To prevail against America's 21st century enemies, kinetic warfare is necessary but insufficient. An ideological war, a war of ideas, also must be waged. And on that front, we have not yet begun to fight."


Disputes, debates, and criticism

During the beginning of the 2003 CIA leak scandal, May wrote that an ex-administration official had told him that
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was a
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agent, and May stated that the fact was an open secret widely known across Washington, D.C. He also remarked that he chose not to mention this in his own writings since he considered this to be irrelevant to anything else. David Corn, writing for ''
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'' in March 2007 in the aftermath of the scandal, disputed May's assertions, and he quoted Plame as saying that only a handful of people knew about her
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status.
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then called upon May, along with other conservative commentators such as Jonah Goldberg who had made similar statements, to apologize. On the October 15, 2007 edition of ''Tucker'' on
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, May agreed with host Tucker Carlson's allegation that
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had used her
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to garner support in her
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. May then jokingly referred to Clinton as a ' Vaginal-American'. The comment was highlighted by Media Matters for America. In September 2007, Media Matters for America criticized May for making numerous public appearances in support of the Bush administration without mentioning his relationship with Secretary of State
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's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion or the fact that the
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had received
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monetary grants. After Rush Limbaugh compared
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to
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in August 2009, ''
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'' writer Glenn Greenwald stated on his blog that May had called Limbaugh's commentary "wrong, outrageous and damaging". May wrote at
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shortly afterward that
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had " edictably" and "dishonorably" misrepresented the statement that he had e-mailed to
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, which he said had criticized specious Nazi comparisons by both Limbaugh,
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, and
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. On December 31, 2009, May jokingly suggested releasing detainees from Guantanamo Bay to
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, then sending "missiles to strike the baggage-claim area". He later defended the remarks, describing critics such as
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as "humorless". He also stated that he had intended to highlight the logical disconnect between someone both supporting the extrajudicial killing of suspected militants and opposing the holding of suspected militants at Guantanamo Bay at the same time.


See also

*
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* People associated with the Project for the New American Century


References


External links

* , with a full archive and mailing list
Archive of May's columns at
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