Rand Beers

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Rand Beers is a former American counterterrorism adviser who served on the National Security Council under U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. He also served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs under both President Clinton and President George W. Bush. Beers resigned in protest from the NSC in March 2003, five days before commencement of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

In June 1996, Beers was informed by the FBI that the People's Republic of China might be trying to funnel money into U.S. election campaigns. Beers later claimed he did not report the information about the China money controversy to President Clinton or his National Security Advisor because FBI agents asked that he not share information from the briefing with them. The FBI denied the claim.^[1]

After leaving his NSC position, Beers joined the presidential campaign of John Kerry, serving as the National Security Advisor to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign. He teaches a seminar in collaboration with Richard A. Clarke on national security issues at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Beers is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and the University of Michigan; he served in a U.S. Marine Corps rifle company in Vietnam.

Beers has been criticized for his role in the U.S. program called Plan Colombia, which saw widespread use of chemical defoliants across the Colombian countryside.^[2]

Beers now serves as president of the National Security Network.

[edit] See also

• Timeline of Cox Report controversy
• Iraq war (disambiguation)
• 2003 invasion of Iraq
• Post-invasion Iraq, 2003-2006
• Mission Accomplished

[edit] Reference

1. ^ Mitchell, Alison, "Warning on China Never Got to Him, Clinton Contends", New York Times, March 11, 1997
2. ^ U.S. State Department