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[[Image:Richard_clarke.jpg|Richard A. Clarke]]
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'''Richard A. Clarke''', "an internationally recognized expert on security, including [[homeland security]], national security, [[cyber security]], and [[counterterrorism]], served in the [[United States]] government from 1973 to 2003, with a specialization in the issues of intelligence and [[terrorism]]. He was the counter-terrorism adviser on the U.S. [[National Security Council]] when the [[September 11, 2001|September 11 attacks]] occurred. He [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17694-2003Mar12 resigned in January 2003] as "anti-terrorism czar." after serving in the White House under three presidents ([[George H.W. Bush]], [[Bill Clinton]] and [[George W. Bush]]). [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040323/pl_nm/security_bush_dc_14] [http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030131S0004] [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/22/tech/main550581.shtml] In [[2004]], he published a book, ''Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror--What Really Happened'' (ISBN 0743260244), which was highly critical of the Bush administration's handling of counterterrorism both before and after September 11.
[[Rand Beers]], the official who succeeded Clarke after he left the White House, resigned in protest just one month later--five days before the Iraqi war started--for precisely the same reason that Clarke quit. [http://slate.msn.com/id/2097685/]
"Richard Clarke [served as] a career member of the Senior Executive Service, having begun his federal service in 1973 in the Office of the Secretary of Defense." [http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-02/bh-usa-02-speakers.html]
March 12, 2003: "Career highlights: Chairman, President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board (resigned Jan. 31[, 2003]); chaired interagency counterterrorism committee for nine years; served on National Security Council staff under President Bush and President Bill Clinton, covering [[U.N.]] [[peacekeeping]], Haiti intervention, Persian Gulf security and international crime control; assistant secretary of state for politico-military affairs in first Bush administration, coordinating State Department support of the Persian Gulf War; deputy assistant secretary of state for intelligence in Reagan administration; joined State in 1979 as senior analyst for European arms control; analyst on [[nuclear weapons]] and European issues, Defense Department." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17694-2003Mar12]
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