16 Facts About Danielle Pletka

Danielle "Dany" Pletka was born on June 12,1963 and is an American conservative commentator.

Danielle Pletka is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, and the former vice president for foreign and defense policy at AEI.

Danielle Pletka is an Adjunct Instructor at Georgetown University's Center for Jewish Civilization.

From 1992 to 2002, Pletka was a senior professional staff member at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, working for Republican Jesse Helms.

Danielle Pletka is Jewish, appearing on the Sept 28,2024 edition of PBS Newshour wearing a Star of David necklace and yellow ribbon pin commemorating the Oct 8,2023 hostages kidnapped by Hamas.

Danielle Pletka worked as a staff writer for Insight on the News.

Danielle Pletka worked as Senior Professional Staff Member for the Near East and South Asia at the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, for Republican Chairman Senator Jesse Helms from 1992 to 2002.

In March 2002 Danielle Pletka was hired by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington, DC think tank, as vice president for foreign and defense policy.

Danielle Pletka stepped down as vice president for foreign and defense policy in January 2020, but remains a senior fellow at the institute.

Danielle Pletka was a strong supporter of controversial Iraqi opposition leader Ahmed Chalabi, who was the subject of a US government investigation into allegations that he turned over highly classified information to the Iranian government.

Danielle Pletka supported the Iraq War troop surge of 2007, crediting it as a successful counterinsurgency strategy, and criticized President Obama's withdrawal of US troops from Iraq in 2011.

Danielle Pletka has argued that the US should adopt a policy of regime change toward Iran, although not through military intervention.

In testimony in 2019 before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Danielle Pletka argued that the US should seek "to provide sufficient support, incentives and disincentives to ensure the limitation of Iranian reach" in Iraq, and to "end all involvement" of Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces militias in the Iraqi government.

Danielle Pletka has argued that there is "hysteria" over the topic of climate change and that mainstream media narratives fail to account for "global cooling".

Danielle Pletka falsely claimed that 2016 and 2017 were the two coldest years on record over a 100-year period; in fact, climate data show those two years to be among the warmest years.

Danielle Pletka described the report as "Feinstein's partisan screed" and argued that the CIA techniques provided actionable intelligence and were legally allowed by the Justice Department.