**Richard Clarke Takes Position as ABC News Consultant**

ABC News | March 25, 2004

[Howlin]

I don't do this very often, so forgive me.

I was watching the ABC program tonight on Donald Rumsfeld at 8 P.M. EST.

Right in the middle of the show, here appears Richard Clarke, and down in the corner is the little ABC logo with the words ABC (SOMETHING) CONSULTANT. (Not sure what TYPE of consultant, but definitely CONSULTANT.

[M. Peach]

"Well, if they had a spot on their screen, it is probably only a matter of time."

Kind of adds a new meaning to, "Thank you for letting me come into your living room tonight!"

[NormsRevenge]

Excellent!

[lonevoice]

It's hard to imagine it getting any uglier...but I know it will.

[Jeff Head]

Always remember the nature of the beast...

CBS=CBS=Sea of BS
ABC=ABS=Acrid BS
NBC=NBS=Nothing but BS
MSNBC=MSNBS=More of the same...nothing but BS
CNBC=CNBS=Can't be nothin' but BS
CNN=CNN=Communist News Network

Jeff

[lainde]

---I wish i still believed in justice---

We just have to take our country back, one victory at a time. I still believe in justice and miracles! Otherwise we'd be discussing President Gore.

[ladyinred]

I'd love to tell that jerk what he can kiss.......but I am a lady you know! :-)

[Defender2]

Post me something just to let me know were posting in Real Time, Thanks ladyinred!!!! D2 :-)

[Solamente]

I heard it on the ABC Evening News, 1 1/2 hours before PrimeTime.

I really respect Rumsfeld even more for negotiating that minefield hit piece masterfully.

[TaxRelief]

Er, I meant his partner in his company is the NBC Consultant (In other words their marketing-bases are covered. Guess Tritak gets CBS?)

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JULY 11, 2003 (COMPUTERWORLD) - WASHINGTON -- Richard A. Clarke, the former special adviser to the president for cybersecurity, has joined Arlington, Va.-based Good Harbor Consulting LLC as chairman.

Clarke joins Roger Cressey, president of the firm, who served as Clarke's chief of staff at the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and before that as the director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council.

Good Harbor Consulting plans to target a wide range of corporate clients, from the Fortune 500 to small technology start-ups, providing strategic consulting services in the areas of homeland security, cybersecurity, protection of critical infrastructure and counterterrorism.

John Tritak, former director of the Commerce Department's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office and a longtime government thought leader on cybersecurity issues, has also joined the firm as its CEO, said Good Harbor.

In addition to the core team of Clarke, Cressey and Tritak, the company will rely on what Cressey calls a "network of subject matter experts" and has been negotiating a partnership for the past several weeks with another major security consulting business.

Cressey and Clarke plan to focus on four key areas: strategic planning, product and business strategy evaluation, partnership opportunities and strategic security risk assessment.

"For too many companies, Washington is a jumble of acronyms and an indecipherable procurement maze," according to the company's new mission statement. "Good Harbor uses its unique combination of experience in the halls of government and with the information technology industry to provide clients with partnership opportunities to better negotiate the U.S. government space and the critical infrastructure vertical markets."

Howard Schmidt, a former White House colleague of both Clarke and Cressey who is now chief security officer at eBay Inc., called the new venture a "natural progression" for Clarke and Cressey, given the years the two spent working together in government. When asked about his own plans, Schmidt said he also had considered going into private practice as a consultant and may still do so on a part-time basis.

Clarke announced in January that he was stepping down from his cybersecurity role in the U.S. government, ending a career at the National Security Council that had spanned three administrations (see story). His career was characterized by a concerted effort to enhance the government's relationship with the private-sector operators of critical infrastructure.

Shortly after leaving government, he testified at a congressional hearing that he didn't think the Bush administration was moving fast enough in organizing the National Cyber Security Center (see story). Clarke also called on Congress to fund vulnerability scanning sensors on all federal networks, and he recommended that federal agencies outsource cybersecurity projects and withhold money from vendors if the agencies get failing cybersecurity grades.

[texasbluebell]

Well, I'm just so happy for him that he'll be able to add to his stash of cash now.

[texasbluebell]

The man totally creeps me out.

[easonc52]

Well, hopefully his cash will go up in a flash, like I hope he will...

[Mitchell]

Clarke has been an ABC News consultant for some time. A search yielded this ABC News article from August 12, 2003, which mentions Clarke in that capacity (go to that page and look for the word "consultant" in it).

I didn't search for earlier references, so I don't know when Clarke joined ABC, but his employment there goes back at least as far as August, 2003.

[Howlin]

Then why are they annoucing it today? And why did CBS get that exclusive interview?

I bet they let him go and hired him back.

This is from today:

""Mr. Clarke has already given 14 hours of testimony to the commission investigating why the government failed to prevent those attacks," said Mr. Stephanopoulos, also noting that Mr. Clarke now works for ABC as a consultant. "

[nutmeg]

"BUSH WARNED!"???

My jaw is dropping here. What the...?!

It's a good thing I didn't have time to call my local rag (The Courant) today... there's no telling what I would've yelled at them!

[Pukin Dog]

So, Clarke joins the Petah Jennings crowd over at ABC? So what? It helps us, not the Left. ABC's bias has been established for years. Think about Wes Clark and CNN. The man was such a nut-case, they had to let him go.

Who watches ABC who doesn't already hate the President? The good news is that when the truth catches up with Richard Clarke, the media will be too far up his ass to escape damage.

[Dolphy]

On the bright side, Sen. Mitch McConnell was on MSNBC this afternoon and was blasting Dick Clark. Basically calling him a sleaze ball for his performance at these "Hang Bush" commission hearings.

And New Gingrich was on Sean Hannity's radio show blasting Mr. Clark. He was outraged at his actions. I doubt this will the last we hear from Newt on this topic.

And Kristol blasted him last night on Hume's panel saying that it is unprecedented to have a member of what is traditionally a nonpartisan area (national security) write a book about a sitting president. The Dems are going for broke but they have a chosen a liar who will soon be facing perjury charges.

President Bush is not his father, he will not be go down counting on the good sense of the voter or the honor of the opposition. And Clarke is a fool to think that his opinion alone could undo the years of doing nothing under the Clinton administration. We were not prepared for war with Afghanistan, the diplomatic ties had not been established, we did not tend to airline security, Visa problems, the wall between law enforcement and intelligence, etc.

[Mitchell]

Then why are they annoucing it today?

Do you have a link to an announcement? I thought you just happened to notice him identified today as an ABCNews consultant.

And why did CBS get that exclusive interview?

Good question. I have no idea. I think his interviews so far have been with CBS, PBS, and CNN.

Maybe ABC thought they had a conflict of interest (or that it just wouldn't look good) for them to interview one of their own employees?

I bet they let him go and hired him back.

That's possible, I guess. Can you find anything saying so?

[NonValueAdded]

And after CBS invested all that promotion money for his book. What an ingrate!

[Howlin]

No, I don't. But since I posted this several people have said that they have heard it annouced today.