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Bob Barr

James Bovard

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Ted Galen Carpenter

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Richard M. Ebeling

Ivan Eland

Daniel Ellsberg

Bart Frazier

Anthony Gregory

Robert Higgs

Jacob Hornberger

Karen Kwiatkowski

Joseph Margulies

Joanne Mariner

Andrew P. Napolitano

Ron Paul

Ralph Raico

Justin Raimondo

Sheldon Richman

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Robert Scheer

Joseph R. Stromberg

Richard Vague

Richard Vague

Richard Vague has been CEO of Barclays Bank Delaware since Barclays’ acquisition of Juniper Financial in December, 2004. Prior to that, he was co-founder and chief executive officer of Juniper Financial, a direct consumer credit card bank that commenced operations in October 2000. Vague was also co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of First USA, a credit card company that grew from a virtual start-up in 1985 to a credit card issuer with 57 million credit cards issued and $70 billion in loans. He also served as chairman of Paymentech, the merchant payment-processing subsidiary of First USA. Barclays currently issues credit cards in over 20 countries worldwide.

Mr. Vague was recently the subject of an article by syndicated columnist Jim Lobe, which pointed out that Mr. Vague “was spending much of his time and resources on another enterprise — trying to persuade other ‘conservative’ businessmen around the country that Bush’s ‘global war on terror’ has been a disaster and rally them in favor of an entirely different approach.”

In a report posted on a website he founded, AmericanRespect.com, he states, “Simply put, U.S. policies and actions in Iraq and throughout the world have increased world terrorism. Force does not subdue, it enrages. We have the opportunity to lead the world out of this danger by building up, not tearing down.”

Laurence M. Vance