[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.google.com/search?&rls=en&q=%22rand+beers&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[ElayneJ]

for later

[the invisib1e hand]

if there’s a pro-abortion geek with tax issues, obama will find him.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Well, the guy at least has a kick-ass name. Half objectivist and half alcoholic!

[hometoroost]

This organization already acts like it’s had a few too many Beers. Just say Nyet comrade O.

[Mike Darancette]

Obama, again, manages to pick the wrong person for the job.

[Obamageddon]

Four years leading a Marine Rifle Company in Vietnam

"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.[1]

Beers is described as a "lifelong bureaucrat, unassuming and tight-lipped until now. He is an unlikely insurgent. He served on the NSC under Presidents Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton and the current Bush."

However, on June 16, 2003, "Eight weeks after leaving the Bush White House, he volunteered as national security adviser for Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), a Democratic candidate for president, in a campaign to oust his former boss."
From SourceWatch

And , of course, he's CFR (South American desk).

[SunkenCiv]

"More than anyone I know, Rand Beers can be trusted with protecting the security of the United States," said DHS Secretary Napolitano.

"What's *that* supposed to mean?!?"