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Mort Halperin

Halperin served in the federal government in the Clinton, Nixon, and Johnson administrations, most recently from December 1998 to January 2001 as Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State. In the Clinton administration, he was also Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy at the National Security Council, a consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and was nominated by the president for the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Peacekeeping.

Halperin worked for many years for the American Civil Liberties Union.

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Mark Halperin's father, Morton Halperin, is noted for being a "far left civil libertarian who made his mark during the Cold War attempting to undermine America's key national security agencies, including the CIA, the FBI and the Pentagon." [6]. Morton Halperin is also a Member of the Board of Directors of George Soros's Open Society Policy Center and Executive Director, Open Society Policy Center.

Mark E. Halperin (born January 11, 1965), is a political analyst for Time magazine, Time.com and ABC News. He is also an editor at large for Time.

In 1997, he was named the Political Director for ABC News. As director, Halperin appeared frequently as a correspondent and political analyst for ABC News television and radio programs. He also the founded and edited The Note, which appears daily on ABCNews.com

In March 2007, Halperin stepped down from Political Director to become a political analyst for ABC News.

Morton H. Halperin is the Director of U.S. Advocacy for the Open Society Institute. Halperin oversees all policy advocacy on U.S. and international issues, including promotion of human rights and support for open societies abroad.

Halperin also serves as Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. He is Chairman of the Board of the Democracy Coalition Project. He is also the Chairman of the Board of the Health Privacy Project at Georgetown University. He serves on the boards of DATA and The Constitution Project, and is the chair of the Advisory Board of the Center for National Security Studies.

Halperin also has a long record as a Washington advocate on national and international issues. He spent many years at the American Civil Liberties Union, serving as the Director of the Washington Office from 1984 to 1992, where he was responsible for the national legislative program as well as the activities of the ACLU Foundation based in the Washington Office. Halperin also served as the Director of the Center for National Security Studies from 1975 to 1992, where he focused on issues affecting both civil liberties and national security.