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	Statement on Appointment of Mr. Rand Beers as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating ...
		Rand Beers as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism, effective August 19, 2002.
		Beers served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
		Beers holds two degrees in history: a B.A. from Dartmouth and a M.A. from the University of Michigan.
	www.state.gov /p/inl/rls/prsrl/ps/12749.htm (201 words)

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		Beers might have left office in near total anonymity were it not for the manner in which he left his last post.
		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.
		Beers, you must have realized that in deciding to become part of the Kerry campaign, you sort of undermined the purity of your resignation.
	dca.boozle.net /odd/beers.html (3038 words)

	etc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Though Beers, according to the Post, was a devoted and highly circumspect public servant, he apparently became so frustrated by the tack the Bush administration was taking in the war on terrorism that he felt he had no choice but to resign and work to deny his former boss a second term.
		Beers might argue that that would effectively freeze him out of the top-ranks of the eventual nominee's staff--which would diminish his impact on the race--but that seems unlikely.
		Beers says the reason he didn't take a think tank or university job after leaving the White House is that he's "never felt so strongly about something in my life" as he does about changing the country's approach to battling terrorism.
	www.tnr.com /etc.mhtml?pid=482 (466 words)

	Undermining America: More FAO Problems: Rand Beers
		Beers is now John Kerry's top national security advisor, but he used to be the NSC's senior director for counter-terrorism for the Bush administration.
		Beers criticized the administration's focus on Iraq, which he said came at the expense of domestic security, damaged America's international alliances and could help breed a new generation of terrorists.
		Beers is teaching a course with Richard Clarke at Harvard.
	www.moveon.org /pac/blog/archives/000029.html (385 words)

	United Press International: Top White House anti-terror boss resigns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rand Beers would not comment for this article, but he and several sources close to him are emphatic that the resignation was not a protest against an invasion of Iraq.
		The source said that although Beers insisted it was not, the tone of the interview concerned Rice enough that she felt she had to ask the question twice.
		Beers joined the NSC in August after heading the State Department's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement branch, where he ran the Plan Colombia program to fight narco-traffickers in that country.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20030319-040543-3049r (718 words)

	The State Department's Misinformation Campaign
		In Rand Beers' July 9 editorial published in the Boston Globe and titled, Plan Colombia is Well Worth U.S. Support, the assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs claims that U.S. support for Plan Colombia has been "frequently misunderstood and misconstrued." But in making his case, it is Mr.
		Beers is correct that the areas to be fumigated are carefully selected, his statement that "spraying is tightly concentrated on coca" has no basis in fact.
		Beers neglects to mention is that the glyphosate used for illicit crop fumigation is mixed with another chemical called Cosmo Flux 411F, and the human and environmental safety of this chemical cocktail has not been approved or tested by the EPA or any regulatory agency.
	www.colombiajournal.org /colombia72.htm (624 words)

	Democracy Now! \| "Classic Washington Pushoff" - Fmr. Counterrorism Advisor Rand Beers on Rice's Reported Dismissal of ...
		AMY GOODMAN: Rand Beers, Michael Scheuer said yesterday on FOX that there’s a document to prove that there were at least eight opportunities to kill or capture bin Laden, and that it’s a lie that it couldn't have been done before 9/11, and that goes back to President Clinton.
		RAND BEERS: With all due respect to Michael Scheuer, who served his country well, I’m sure there is a document -- I don't dispute that -- that he thought he could have produced an operation that could have captured bin Laden.
		RAND BEERS: The final straw for me was that the reports that were coming in from the field just continued to mount, and we weren't really paying attention to them, because the senior leadership had determined that we were going into Iraq, and I just couldn't go along with that decision.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=06/10/04/1428200 (2162 words)

	Reason Magazine - This Is Kerry On Drugs
		Candidate Kerry's choice for Homeland Security Advisor, Rand Beers, is a seasoned drug warrior who has already shown his loyalty to the well being of the drug war, no matter how many lives it destroys, or how many narco- terrorists are enriched along the way.
		So while Beers was happily killing the crops (both licit and illicit) of Colombian farmers, narco-traffickers and the terrorists who feed off the drug trade continued to eat well, simply moving their operations elsewhere in response to eradication efforts.
		Beers argued that the case shouldn't go to trial because the fumigation program is vital both to the national security of the U.S. and the war on terror in Colombia, claiming "It is believed that FARC terrorists have received training in Al Qaida terrorist camps in Afghanistan."
	www.reason.com /news/show/32535.html (1838 words)

	Narco Pollution: Illicit Drug Trade in the Andes
		BEERS: With respect to the first issue, I would love to be able to make the announcement that you suggested I might want to make, but I don't have the figures yet so I'm not in a position to tell you what coca cultivation estimates look like in Colombia at this time.
		BEERS: We have been talking for some time with the government of Colombia about what our program might look like in the next fiscal year, and we are about to present a budget with respect to that particular program.
		BEERS: From our perspective, the answer at this time is, we're not prepared to be involved directly in the peace process, but we support the government Colombia in its efforts to do that.
	www.cjpf.org /drug/randbeers_narcopollution.htm (3277 words)

	The Osamasux Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rand Beers: I joined John Kerry's campaign because I knew about his record in the Senate, on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
		Rand Beers: It's absolutely essential that the next president, from his first day in office, makes a major effort to reach out to countries around the world.
		Rand Beers: I think that the major lesson from history is that if we do not work together with allies around the world, we are going to be unable to prevent terrorists from attacking us and hurting us.
	osamasux.1hwy.com /weblog/archive/2004_06_01_blog-archive.html (1372 words)

	Rand Beers
		Rand Beers had a public service career spanning 25 years -- all the way back to the Reagan administration, where he was assigned to take over the terrorism and narcotics desk at the National Security Council following Oliver North.
		Beers was assigned to counterterrorism in the George W. Bush White House.
		The source said that although Beers insisted it was not, the tone of the interview concerned Rice enough that she felt she had to ask the question twice.
	www.nndb.com /people/820/000058646 (214 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror
		Nevertheless, Beers will say that the administration is "underestimating the enemy." It has failed to address the root causes of terror, he said.
		The first thing Beers noticed when he walked into his new office was the pile of intelligence reports.
		Beers was on a three-hour conference call, the weekly Monday night foreign policy briefing for the campaign.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A62941-2003Jun15?language=printer (1839 words)

	CNN.com - Bush excuses Afghanistan, Haiti from drug penalties - February 26, 2002
		Rand Beers, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, said that the U.S. judgment of Afghanistan's performance in combating drugs was made during a period in which the Taliban were in power.
		Beers said that while the government enacted anti-money laundering legislation in January 2001, it did not introduce other key pieces of counternarcotics legislation.
		Beers called Myanmar's counternarcotics performance in 2001 "decidedly mixed" and noted that while the government took some "useful" counternarcotics measures in the last year, they were "far too limited in duration and scope to constitute a substantial effort to meet the standards set forth under U.S. law.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/02/25/us.drugs/index.html (713 words)

	On the Issues \| National Security Network
		Rand Beers, president of the National Security Network, issues this memorandum to the national security community in response to the recent escalation of rhetoric towards Iran.
		Rand Beers, president of the National Security Network, issues this memorandum to the national security community in response to the President's decision to increase troop levels in Iraq.
		Rand Beers, president of the National Security Network, issues this memorandum to the national security community in the lead up to the confirmation hearings of Secretary of Defense nominee Robert Gates.
	www.nsnetwork.org /on_the_issues (126 words)

	ANNCOL : Opinion: Democracy Now Gave Plan Colombia Architect A Free Pass
		Beers was the public face of the fumigation program, defending and advocating for it in Congressional hearings and in the media.
		Beers was so eager to defend the fumigation program that he actually lied in a sworn affadavit in an effort to quash a [suit brought against Dyncorp by the International Labor Rights Fund] on behalf of people just across the border in Ecuador who were hurt by the fumigations.
		Beers claimed that there were international terrorists operating in Ecuador, and that FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) had received training at Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan -- statements he later retracted to avoid possible perjury charges.
	www.anncol.org /uk/site/doc.php?id=259 (815 words)

	State's Rand Beers Briefs on Anti-Drug Certification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Beers said Cambodia and Haiti also were not certified but were granted a waiver from those provisions of the law that call for a withdrawal of aid for non-cooperating nations.
		Beers said the State Department is not yet ready to comment on the varying proposals for changing the INCSR review.
		Q: Assistant Secretary Beers, you mentioned in your comments that it was partly the helplessness of the Haitians which contributed to illegal migration to the US that qualified it for a waiver.
	www.usembassy.it /file2001_03/alia/a1030102.htm (5785 words)

	Ex-Bush Aide: Terror War A Bust, Former Adviser Joins Kerry Campaign After Quitting NSC Post - CBS News
		Rand Beers quit his job as special assistant to the president for combating terrorism eight weeks ago.
		Beers charged the administration "wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism.
		Asked to comment on Beers, Sean McCormack, an NSC spokesman, said, "At the time he submitted his resignation, he said he had decided to leave government.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/06/16/politics/main558874.shtml (606 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Foreign policy expert to Republicans and Democrats settles on a politician
		But Beers was no newcomer to government; he had worked on foreign policy for four presidents.
		Rand Beers – Randy to his friends – is a Democrat who spent a good part of his government career getting things done for Republican presidents.
		At the White House, Beers displayed a low-key style, in sharp contrast to his hard-charging friend and colleague Clarke, who recounted Beers' decision to quit in his book, "Against All Enemies," which is highly critical of the Bush administration.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20040613-2259-beersprofile.html (846 words)

	CNN.com - A Bush defector in Kerry's camp - Mar 8, 2004
		Rand Beers says he has taken two big risks in his life.
		Beers also brought organizational skills to the Kerry team, creating a shadow national-security council that holds conference calls nearly every Monday at 4:30 p.m.
		Beers defends his decision not to notify Lake, saying the Chinese operation was small and that he asked the FBI to brief him again if it got more serious.
	www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/08/beers.tm (558 words)

	Rand Beers - SourceWatch
		Rand Beers resigned his National Security Council (NSC) position as special assistant to President George Walker Bush for combatting terrorism five days before the invasion of Iraq.
		Beers remained in this position for four years, returning to the National Security Council in 2002 as special assistant and senior director for combating terrorism.
		Beers holds two degrees in history: a B.A. from Dartmouth (1964) and a M.A. from the University of Michigan (1970).
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Rand_Beers (890 words)

	Press availability by Assistant Secretary of State Rand Beers, Bogota, August 31, 2001
		Rand Beers: With respect to the situation about Mr.
		Rand Beers: With respect to the issue of whether or not there are FARC leaders or individuals who are under investigation or under indictment -- sealed or otherwise -- in the United States, I am not in a position to comment on that.
		Rand Beers: The president of the United States personally has said it is the responsibility of the United States to deal with consumption within the United States as a major part of his contribution to dealing with the global drug problem.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/083102.htm (959 words)

	RealClearPolitics - Articles - Pete King, Rafi Ron, Rand Beers, Chuck Hagel, Roundtable
		RAND BEERS, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL COUNTERTERRORISM ADVISOR: No, of course it wouldn't be a problem, but as Secretary Chertoff said, we shouldn't leave ourselves in the position of only focusing on one particular profile as opposed to making sure that we're still keeping up our guard more generally.
		BEERS: Oh, I'm not saying that 85-year-old grandmothers need to be pulled out of the line.
		BEERS: I understand that they are, and I have a problem with the rigidity of the random checks that are being instituted.
	www.realclearpolitics.com /articles/2006/08/pete_king_rafi_ron_rand_beers.html (7727 words)

	"America's Concentration on Iraq Has Led to Failure in Relations with Russia" - Kommersant Moscow
		Kommersant correspondent Dmitry Sidorov talks with Rand Beers, one of the Democratic Party's leading foreign policy strategists, about what the Democrats will do to solve the Iraq problem if their candidate wins the presidential elections in 2008.
		Rand Beers has served as a counterterrorism advisor to four US presidents and was a member of the US National Security Council.
		Beers had been promised the post of presidential advisor on matters of national security.
	www.kommersant.com /p744819/r_1/Rand_Beers_Iraq_problem (1178 words)

	William J. Clinton Foundation "President Names Rand Beers Assistant Secretary of State"
		PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES RAND BEERS AS The President today announced his intent to nominate Rand Beers to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
		Rand Beers, of the District of Columbia, is a member of the Senior Executive Service and has been serving as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs since January 1998.
		Beers graduated from Dartmouth College (BA) in 1964, and from the University of Michigan (MA) in 1970.
	www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org /legacy/091098-president-names-rand-beers-assistant-secretary-of-state.htm (302 words)

	SwiftVets.com :: View topic - Rand Beers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rand Beers: I joined John Kerry's campaign because I knew about his record in the Senate, on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
		Rand Beers, not bad for just telling it the way it is. Another fact for the truth, not like siding with traitors to Iran, and giving up CIA agents names and cutting Veterans Benefits like our current administration.
		Rand does not say it, the continued opinion that ‘we’ engaged in a war in Iraq that did not consist of a coalition of nations and that we unilaterally went into this war was false.
	www.swiftvets.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=6989 (8911 words)

	Press availability by Assistant Secretary of State Rand Beers, Bogota, August 31, 2001
		Rand Beers: With respect to the situation about Mr.
		Rand Beers: With respect to the issue of whether or not there are FARC leaders or individuals who are under investigation or under indictment -- sealed or otherwise -- in the United States, I am not in a position to comment on that.
		Rand Beers: The president of the United States personally has said it is the responsibility of the United States to deal with consumption within the United States as a major part of his contribution to dealing with the global drug problem.
	ciponline.org /colombia/083102.htm (959 words)

	»«TBogg»«
		Your comment this evening relevant to Rand Beer's decision to align himself with John Kerry's campaign because of his disgust with the misrepresentation of evidence by the Bush Administration was reprehensible.
		Rand is an honorable man who always has conducted himself with integrity.
		Beers told the media that he wanted to erase what he had said.
	tbogg.blogspot.com /2003/06/brit-hume.html (780 words)

	UNCOVERED: The War on Iraq - interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rand Beers is a former Special Assistant to President Bush and Senior Director for combating terrorism.
		Beers resigned in March of 2003, five days before the start of the Iraq War, and is currently the National Security Advisor for John Kerry's campaign.
		Beers received a BA from Dartmouth and an MA from the University of Michigan.
	www.truthuncovered.com /interviews.php (2494 words)

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