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.
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.