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One guy who would know, who worked at the White House around the right times, and who is a pal of Richard Clarke, Joe Wilson, John Kerry, and Ray McGovern, is a guy named Rand Beers, who resigned his position at the White House about March 15th.

"After a decade with the National Security Council, President William J. Clinton appointed Beers first principal deputy assistant secretary of state, and then assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs (1998). Beers remained in this position for four years, returning to the National Security Council in 2002 as special assistant and senior director for combating terrorism.
"Beers left the Bush administration in March 2003, signing on with Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) as national security adviser for Kerry's 2004 presidential election bid."------From the American President.org (http://www.americanpresident.org/history/bushgeorgew/bushIIstaffadvisers/nationalsecurity/nationalsecuritycouncil/terrorism/randbeers/h_index.shtml) Web Site

"However it was viewed inside the administration, onlookers saw it as a rare Washington event. 'I can't think of a single example in the last 30 years of a person who has done something so extreme,' said Paul C. Light, a scholar with the Brookings Institution. 'He's not just declaring that he's a Democrat. He's declaring that he's a Kerry Democrat, and the way he wants to make a difference in the world is to get his former boss out of office.'"[4] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62941-2003Jun15.html?nav=hptop_tb)

And Rand Beers was involved in this stuff ;

1990s : (RAND BEERS IS ONE OF TWO NSC EMPLOYEES BRIEFED BY THE FBI ON THE CHINESE TRYING TO BUY INFLUENCE ON CONGRESS; also see BEERS' FALSE AFFIDAVIT TO BLOCK THE DYNCORPS SUIT CONCERNING ECUADORIAN FARMERS) Beers was also a central figure in Chinagate. Clinton said he'd have been more careful if he'd known what the FBI did--that the Chinese were trying to buy influence in Congress. The FBI said they'd briefed 2 NSC employees (one of whom was Beers) on this very issue. Clinton responded that the FBI had told those they'd briefed not to pass the info up the chain. The FBI denied that.(I credit their denial. What reason would they have had for such a restriction on the information?)
Thereafter Beers was twice promoted by Albright.
Then came the false affidavit to block the DynCorps suit, which Beers amended in a second affidavit in which he admitted critical statements in the first affidavit were false.
Depends on what the meaning of "is" is type guy. I have written the Wash Post editors and ombudsman complaining of this reporting--it was written by a lazy reporter or one who was simply acting as a conduit for a candidate. 21 posted on 06/17/2003 10:10:17 AM PDT by the Real fifi

Sidenote : China lurks in the background of the Africa uranium cases, too... along with South Africa.

NOVEMBER 27, 2001 : (RAND BEERS BACKTRACKS) Senator Kerry's [future] 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 Afghanistan.
[snip][Beers] took the unusual step on November 27, 2001 of filing a declaration in favor of Dyncorp, the main contractor in charge of spraying defoliating agents on the coca crops grown in the Putumayo region of the country. Dyncorp sought to have a court challenge brought on behalf of Ecuadorian farmers thrown out of court on national security grounds.
[snip]On this matter Mr. Beers, who [in 2004] coordinates the national security message for Mr. Kerry, may be guilty of the same thing his boss has accused President Bush of doing -- distorting intelligence to suit the goals of a specific policy.-------- "Key Aide to Kerry amends Testimony Givien under Oath.,"