Reply #56: May I suggest you google Rand Beers

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and read his transcript from Nightline?


The transcript begins on page 8:
http://dca.boozle.net/odd/ntl30625.pdf



<1>23:36:13 TED KOPPEL (ABC NEWS)
(OC) Rand Beers, whom you will meet in just a moment, has an impeccable resume. A life of government
service that began with two tours in Vietnam with the Marine Corps and then more than 30 years, most
of those at the State Department, working in international narcotics and law enforcement affairs,
intelligence, and counter-terrorism. Most recently, until about three months ago, he served on the
National Security Council at the White House, as a special assistant to the President for combating
terrorism. He had also worked for the National Security Council under presidents Reagan, George Bush
the elder, and Bill Clinton. Like thousands of other public servants in this city, especially those working in
the field of intelligence, Mr. Beers might have left office in near total anonymity were it not for the manner
in which he left his last post. He was so frustrated by what he perceives as the Bush Administration's
ineffectiveness at combating terrorism, at home and abroad, that he quit. A few weeks after he resigned
from the White House, Rand Beers took another step that was bound to get some attention. He signed
on as National Security Adviser to the presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry, currently one of the
leading Democratic candidates for President. Mr. Beers has done a couple of newspaper interviews, he
has testified before Congress, but this is his first television interview since he left the government.