John McCain hires former CIA director Jim Woolsey as green advisor

Tim Shipman
London Telegraph
Sunday, June 22, 2008

For 30 years Jim Woolsey has been a hawkish guardian of American national security. As director of the CIA under Bill Clinton he lived every day with the terrorist threats to his homeland.

Yet in his view, the greatest danger to the country now is not nuclear and chemical weapons but climate change and the American dependence on oil which is partly blamed for causing it.

Mr Woolsey believes the greatest weapon in America's arsenal is not the stealth bomber, the Abrams tank or the F-16 jet – but the humble plug-in hybrid car that will let most people do their daily drive on electric power.

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He is one of a new generation of so-called "Greenocons", campaigners who are making the case for a green American foreign and energy policy not just to save the planet, but to keep America safe too.

Mr Woolsey is now a senior energy adviser to John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate. He has played a key role in developing Mr McCain's support for a "cap and trade" system for carbon emissions, and support for renewable energy.

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