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To: Mo1

Beers joined up with Kerry at the same time Wilson did:

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Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror

By Laura Blumenfeld
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 16, 2003; Page A01

Five days before the war began in Iraq, as President Bush prepared to raise the terrorism threat level to orange, a top White House counterterrorism adviser unlocked the steel door to his office, an intelligence vault secured by an electronic keypad, a combination lock and an alarm. He sat down and turned to his inbox.

"Things were dicey," said Rand Beers, recalling the stack of classified reports about plots to shoot, bomb, burn and poison Americans. He stared at the color-coded threats for five minutes. Then he called his wife: I'm quitting.

Beers's resignation surprised Washington, but what he did next was even more astounding. 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. All of which points to a question: What does this intelligence insider know?...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62941-2003Jun15?language=printer


105 posted on 08/09/2004 2:40:06 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
Beers joined up with Kerry at the same time Wilson did

Ain't that special ...

BTW .. don't forget how Berger was an advisor for Kerry like Beers and Wislon

106 posted on 08/09/2004 2:42:32 PM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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To: Shermy

But the timeline doesn't seem right for Beers to be the leaker; it sounds like he left the administration two or three months before Novak wrote his column.


113 posted on 08/09/2004 2:59:44 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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