Council for National Policy

http://www.cfnp.org/

The Council for National Policy (CNP) is, according to the New York Times, a secretive club whose few hundred members include Dr. James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family, the Rev. Jerry Falwell of Liberty University and Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. CNP promotes a free enterprise system, a strong national defense, and support for traditional western values, its intentionally meager website states. As reported by Time, The invitation-only club, whose aggressively vague name is an invisibility cloak for some of the most influential economic and social conservatives in the country, meets three times a year to plot the vast right-wing conspiracy's next moves--and remind its members not to talk to reporters or even refer to the group by name. The group was founded in the early 1980s by Reverend Tim LaHaye.
In an article describing CNP as the most powerful conservative group youve never heard of, ABC News Marc Ambinder wrote, When Steve Baldwin, the executive director of an organization with the stale-as-old-bread name of the Council for National Policy, boasts that we control everything in the world, he is only half-kidding. Their 2006 conference attracted a slew of high-profile speakers, including Heritage Foundation president Edwin Feulner, Jr., then-Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Phyllis Schlafly, Grover Norquist, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, and Judge Robert Bork. George W. Bush addressed the group when he was running for President in 1999. And, The Nation reported, members of the CNP were the hidden hand behind McCain's Palin pick.