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In doing a search on Joe Wilson's company, J C Wilson International Ventures, I came across this article from Aljazerah. It is dated January 26, 2005. I cannot read it but there are many names we would recognize. BEK(The Century Foundation), Samuel R. Berger, Stonebridge International, Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, Economic Strategy Institute, Rogne Nation, Brookings, Richard Holbrook, J.C.Wilson International Ventures, Terror in the name of God, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Mark Warner, Julitte Kayem, Michele A. Flournoy, James Sterinberg, Rand Beers, Chuck Hagel http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:a0WmXPSw8tIJ:aljazerah.net/modules.php%3Fname%3DNews%26file%3Darticle%26sid%3D353+%22j+c+wilson+international+ventures%22&hl=en (It may not link, if not you need to do a google search on...

Gelb was identified as a senior Kerry adviser in an interview with Rand Beers, John Kerry's top national security adviser...

John Kerry's Fellow TravellersA 5--part series exposing John Kerry's Communist connections.Part 5: John Kerry vs. the War on Terror: Candidate Kerry's Subversive CampaignBy Fedora *NOTE: The term “fellow traveller" as used in this article series refers to someone who is not a member of the Communist Party (CP) but regularly engages in actions which advance the Party's program. Some apparent fellow travellers may actually be “concealed party members": members of the CP who conceal their membership. Which of these classifications is applicable to the Kerrys is a question this series leaves unresolved. This series does not argue for any direct...

Senator Kerry's national security adviser had to take back comments he made under oath in 2002 to a federal court that members of a Colombian paramilitary group received training from Al Qaeda in Afghanistant The disclosure of Rand Beers's amended deposition in Arias v. Dyncorp, may weaken a central claim of the Democratic campaign for the White House that the Bush administration knowingly lied about pre-war Iraq intelligence.

<p>For those who oppose the federal government's disastrous war on drugs, there are many things to dislike about the Bush Administration, not the least of which is its shameless—and dangerous—use of the war on terror to prop up the failed drug war and the accompanying $18 billion dollar bureaucracy. And there is no indication that four more years of a Bush presidency will offer anything but more of the same.</p>

Kerry’s Dogs of War By M. Bozinovich Recent Albanian violence against the Serbs in Kosovo appears to have been a screaming success. Aside that UNMIK has made no convictions of the arrested Albanian suspects, the fact that NATO inflicted no reprisal to counter its exposed military impotence leaves the Albanian militants in a confident position that, if repeated again, the violence will drive NATO out of Kosovo. In fact, it appears that the Albanian militants have also set the NATO drive-out date. "I'm not a fan of setting dates,” said Hasim Taci, the leader of the Albanian paramilitary in Kosovo...

Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) presidential campaign is preparing for a so-called “October surprise,” including Osama bin Laden’s capture and a terrorist attack in the United States, The Hill has learned. “There is discussion of what are the unexpected, unanticipated [events],” said Rand Beers, Kerry’s top foreign-policy guru and a former Bush National Security Council adviser, who is a member of a loose group of advisers that the Democratic challenger is putting together. “It would be a surprise if we were not going to talk about it.” By design, the group includes several outside advisers who are free of the day-to-day...

<p>The country is in an uproar over former White House terrorism expert Richard Clarke's recent contentions, which will continue to be debated.</p> <p>Let me give some insight on my own very recent (February 2004) experience with Mr. Clarke, who teaches a class at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He teaches this class with Rand Beers, a former government official with National Security Council experience who now works on the Democratic presidential campaign.</p>

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea seems to have lost interest in nuclear talks until after the U.S. presidential election in November, despite strenuous Chinese efforts to keep Pyongyang engaged, South Korean experts said on Thursday. China's foreign minister emerged a week ago from a trip to North Korea voicing optimism about the six-party negotiations. But days later, Pyongyang state media flatly rejected the goals set out by Washington, Tokyo and Seoul, the experts said. "I don't think North Korea is very serious about six-party talks," said Choi Jin-wook, a senior analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification. "Until the...

CAL THOMAS: Richard Clarke's former deputy, Rand Beers, is now an advisor to the presidential campaign of John F. Kerry. We all know that Kerry's chief campaign strategy is to persuade the public that Bush failed to effectively fight the war on terror. What a coincidence (sneer).

KSG ISP-213 Post-Cold War Security: Terrorism, Security, and Failed States Faculty: Richard Clarke; Rand Beers Semester Spring Course Credit: 1.0 Day Time Room 1st Day 2\4 Meet Time W 4:10 - 6:00 Starr Review Description Between them Rand Beers and Richard Clarke spent over 20 years in the White House on the National Security Council and over 60 years in national security departments and agencies. They helped to shape the transition from Cold War security issues to the challenges of terrorism, international crime, and failed states. This course is more than a retrospective on that transition, it focuses also on...

At least two things should raise suspicions about the motives of Richard Clarke, the former antiterrorism adviser to four presidents, whose name, face and book were all over the newspapers last weekend and on "60 Minutes" Sunday night. One is that Mr. Clarke's book, in which he accuses the Bush administration of not heeding "warnings" from the Clinton administration about possible terrorist attacks by al Qaeda, was available only to journalists and not to those in the administration on the receiving end of Mr. Clarke's criticism. So says an administration spokesman with whom I spoke. The other red flag that...

ABOUT THIS RICHARD CLARKE GUY ON 60 MINUTES..... Well, the media is serving up more fuel for the "Bush lied" crowd. Today's installment comes courtesy of disgruntled former White House employee Richard Clarke who is (surprise!) hawking a book. Clarke was an anti-terrorism advisor for Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr. and Clinton. When the current President Bush took office, Clarke was stripped of his cabinet-level rank. I am sure that has nothing to do with any of this. Sure. Clarke claims he was all but told by the President to manufacture a link between between 9/11 and Iraq. The White House...

Clarke is perhaps not the most neutral source. Last year Clarke's best friend, Rand Beers, quit as the White House's counterterrorism chief after complaining—over glasses of wine on Clarke's front porch—about the wrong-headedness of Bush's plan to invade Iraq. Beers is now a principal foreign-policy adviser to Kerry.

Former Clinton administration terrorism czar Richard Clarke, who has been portrayed in dozens of media accounts as a nonpartisan critic of the Bush White House's terrorism policies, faces new questions about his credibility after a report surfaced on Sunday suggesting he has close ties to the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry. "One of [Clarke's] very close friends and colleagues for years - a man whom he taught a class with at Harvard, Rand Beers - is one of the top foreign policy advisors to Sen. Kerry," reported ABC White House correspondent Terry Moran. Moran told ABC's "This Week" that...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former White House anti-terrorism adviser has accused President Bush of ignoring terrorism threats before the Sept. 11 attacks and of making America less safe. Richard Clarke, Bush's top official on counter-terrorism who headed a cybersecurity board, told CBS "60 minutes" in an interview to be aired on Sunday he thought Bush had "done a terrible job on the war against terrorism." "I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could...

From Drudge: Kerry Foreign Policy Advisor Rand Beers issued the following statement today: '...It is simply not appropriate for any foreign leader to endorse a candidate in America's presidential election. John Kerry does not seek, and will not accept, any such endorsements'... Statement from Kerry Foreign Policy Advisor Rand Beers on the former Malaysian Prime Minister Washington, DC – Kerry Foreign Policy Advisor Rand Beers issued the following statement today: “John Kerry rejects any association with former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, an avowed anti-Semite whose views are totally deplorable. The world needs leaders who seek to bring people together,...

Kerry's Secret Weapon Super smart commenter Sara points out something very interesting that may very well be a potent arrow in Kerry's quiver: Well next month we have yet another book to digest -- from the inside of the Bush White House. Richard Clarke, the former NSC counterterrorism expert from Bush I, Clinton and 2 years plus of Bush II is publishing his insider book that takes no prisnors. Word is that Rove is very afraid of what Clarke has to say -- particularly because Clarke was the August 6 2001 briefer of Bush, and there is a good deal...

WASHINGTON (IRNA) -- Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry will seek direct talks with Iran if he wins the White House, his foreign policy chief said Thursday. Rand Beers, national security issues coordinator for the Massachusetts senator, was critical of President George W. Bush for shunning direct dialogue with Iran after branding it a member of an "axis of evil," dispatches indicated. Speaking to a foreign policy forum, Beers said the question of nuclear non-proliferation was one of the most significant issues facing the world and Washington should press harder to advance negotiations. Beers said Kerry, currently leading the pack in...

ELIZABETH, N.J. (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) countered those questioning his justification for the invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) on Monday, dismissing "revisionist historians" and saying Washington acted to counter a persistent threat. "Now there are some who would like to rewrite history; revisionist historians is what I like to call them," Bush said in a speech to New Jersey business leaders. Referring to the ousted Iraqi president, Bush said, "Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was a threat to America and the free world in '91, in '98, in 2003. He continually ignored the...