Randy Scheunemann

A well-connected lobbyist and political insider with strong ties to the neoconservative political faction, Randy Scheunemann has been involved in a number of advocacy campaigns aimed at pushing an aggressive U.S. foreign policy agenda in recent years

helping found the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI), an advocacy outfit that emerged in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to push for war in Iraq.

CLI members included several prominent congressional figures, including Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

A long-standing associate of McCain, Scheunemann serves as an adviser to McCain's 2008 presidential campaign

neoconservatives, including William Kristol and Robert Kagan

McCain first began advocating a foreign policy agenda strikingly in line with neoconservative prescriptions

McCain echoed the neoconservative idea

consultant to then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

a registered lobbyist