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Beers is definitely another guy who seems to have been part of a network working against the Bush administration from the inside during that period. When was his earliest known contact with Wilson? He was working with Kerry by May 2003:

John Kerry vs. the War on Terror: Candidate Kerry's Subversive Campaign

In May 2003 Kerry's foreign policy team was joined by Rand Beers, a career diplomat who had been appointed to senior positions in the National Security Council and State Department by Clinton and had stayed on into the Bush administration before suddenly resigning on the eve of the war in Iraq.⁶ Beers helped Kerry pull together the nucleus of his foreign policy team.⁷

⁶On Beers, see Cullen F. Thomas, “Beers, Rand", Current Biography, Volume 65, Issue 10, October 2004, 6; “Rand Beers: Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs", U.S. Department of State, http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/biography/beers.html.

⁷"John Kerry's Campaign Staff and Advisers", The Progresssive Government, http://www.progressivegovernment.org/PresidentialCampaign/kerrystaff.cfm, archived at FReeper mtrott, “Drudge: Mystery Woman Dated Campaign Finance Chief", FreeRepublic.com, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f--news/1079203/posts, February 16, 2004, Post 40; Laura Flanders, "Not Quite a Dream Team", TomPaine.com, http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9966, February 17, 2004; Michael Crowley, “The Kerry Tribes: The seven factions fighting for control of his campaign and his presidency.", MSN.com, http://slate.msn.com/id/2098894/, April 15, 2004; Laura Blumenfeld, “Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror", The Washington Post, June 16, 2003, Page A01, online at washingtonpost.com, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp--dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A62941--2003Jun15&notFound=true; Bernard Gwertzman, “Beers: Kerry Would Restore Alliance, Stress Diplomacy if Elected President", Council on Foreign Relations, http://www.cfr.org/pub7237/bernard_gwertzman_rand_beers/beers_kerry_would_restore_alliances_stress_diplomacy_if_elected_president.php, August 5, 2004; Ronald Brownstein, “Kerry is shaping his foreign policy: His network of experts spans a range of opinions", deseretnews.com, deseretnews.com, http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595055360,00.html, April 11, 2004.