"What's *that* supposed to mean?!?"
Posted on 04/12/2009 5:10:22 PM PDT by Cindy
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1239207536374.shtm
President Obama Announces His Intent to Nominate Rand Beers as Homeland Security Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs Directorate
President Barack Obama announced today his intent to nominate Rand Beers as U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), the Department’s primary risk-reducing division. Beers will oversee five major offices in this role, including Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C), Infrastructure Protection (IP), Intergovernmental Programs (IGP), Risk Management and Analysis (RMA) and US-VISIT.
“More than anyone I know, Rand Beers can be trusted with protecting the security of the United States,” said DHS Secretary Napolitano. “He will be an invaluable asset to NPPD. I thank Rand for his service as Acting Deputy Secretary, and I am grateful that his leadership and vast depth of experience will continue to benefit the Department of Homeland Security.”
As Acting Deputy Secretary, Beers helped guide the Department’s continuity of operations during a major leadership shift. He assumed the role beginning Feb. 11, replacing former Deputy Secretary Paul Schneider, and relinquished it April 3, when new Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute received Senate confirmation. Previously, Beers led President Obama’s DHS agency review team during the transition, where his team helped set the stage for Secretary Napolitano’s confirmation and prepare the incoming Obama Administration on all homeland security issues.
Beers’ responsibilities at NPPD will include continued operations leadership, as well as oversight on intelligence, cybersecurity, technology and coordination with state, local and tribal partners. IP leads a complex national mission to protect the country’s critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) from threats by analyzing intelligence and executing public and private coordination in order to mitigate risks and effects. CS&C works to prevent or minimize disruptions to our critical cyber and communications infrastructure to protect the overall security of the United States.
Beers brings a long career in national security and law enforcement policy to NPPD. He has served in leadership roles under four Presidents, including as White House/National Security Council Director for Counterterrorism and Counternarcotics; Director for Peacekeeping; Senior Director for Intelligence Programs; Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism; and Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. In 2006, Beers founded the National Security Network, a foreign policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from the University of Michigan. ###
for later
if there’s a pro-abortion geek with tax issues, obama will find him.
Well, the guy at least has a kick-ass name. Half objectivist and half alcoholic!
This organization already acts like it’s had a few too many Beers. Just say Nyet comrade O.
. . . that the former POW's (McCain) isolation during the Vietnam War has hobbled the Arizona senator's capacity as a war-time leader.“Sadly, Sen. McCain was not available during those times, and I say that with all due respect to him," said informal Obama adviser Rand Beers. "I think that the notion that the members of the Senate who were in the ground forces or who were ashore in Vietnam have a very different view of Vietnam and the cost that you described than John McCain does because he was in isolation essentially for many of those years and did not experience the turmoil here or the challenges that were involved for those of us who served in Vietnam during the Vietnam war (Beers enlisted in the Marines in 1964 served four years leading a rifle company Vietnam)."
"So I think," he continued, "to some extent his national security experience in that regard is sadly limited and I think it is reflected in some of the ways that he thinks about how U.S. forces might be committed to conflicts around the world."
As I said, it will be a very interesting hearing.
That is interesting.
OPINION:
Needless to say, after googling Beers; it seems to me that he meets the values and standards of the Obama administration.
Obama, again, manages to pick the wrong person for the job.
"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).
"What's *that* supposed to mean?!?"
TOO MANY BEERS!!! |
Re: the administration, I’ve seen better heads on a glass of beer. ;’)
TOO MANY BEERS!!! |
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