Torie Clarke, best known for her role as the chief George W. Bush-era Pentagon spokeswoman at the start of the second Gulf War, is co-hosting a fundraiser for Democrat Dorothy McAuliffe’s congressional campaign next Tuesday, according to an invitation obtained by NOTUS.

Clarke, who previously worked for three Republican presidential administrations and the late Sen. John McCain, is hosting the fundraiser with her husband, Brian Graham, at their home in Northwest Washington, D.C., the invitation indicates.

Clarke was assistant secretary of defense for public affairs to then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. She helped craft the narrative that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction” before the U.S. invaded in 2003. That turned out to not be true. Clarke is currently the president of the board of the Rumsfeld Foundation.

Then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Torie Clarke (right) takes a question on April 16, 2002, at the Pentagon briefing in Washington. Air Force Brig. Gen. John W. Rosa Jr., looks on left. Joe Marquette/AP

The fundraiser price of entry ranges from $500 as a “guest” to $7,000 as a “host.”

Other event hosts include Evan Ryan, former President Joe Biden’s White House Cabinet secretary; John Podesta, the Center for American Progress founder and a Biden, Obama and Clinton White House alum; and Lauren Gillis, the former special assistant to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, according to the invitation.

McAuliffe, the former first lady of Virginia, launched her bid for Congress last month. Virginia voters approved a measure to redraw the state’s congressional map that has McAuliffe running in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, which now stretches from Arlington to Augusta County. But a Virginia judge immediately blocked certification of the new map, and ongoing litigation is expected.

In the 7th Congressional District, McAuliffe is running in a crowded field of Democratic candidates including party-switching former Mike Pence aide Olivia Troye, former federal prosecutor J.P. Cooney, former CIA officer Adam Dunigan, state Sen. Saddam Salim and state Dels. Elizabeth Guzmán, Dan Helmer and Adele McClure. Incumbent Democratic Rep. Eugene Vindman has said he plans to run in Virginia’s redrawn 1st Congressional District.

The United States is once again embroiled in conflict in the Middle East, as President Donald Trump launched strikes on Iran in late February, killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and kicking off a conflict that’s sent gas prices skyrocketing.

Democrats in Congress have tried and failed repeatedly to pass war powers resolutions to rein in the president’s ability to take military action against Iran.

McAuliffe has not weighed in on the conflict in her social media posts, and a McAuliffe spokesperson did not respond to questions about her position on the war — or the optics of attending a fundraiser hosted by Clarke.

Clarke could not be reached for comment.