Richard Clarke is Chairman of Good Harbor Security Risk Management and the author of Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror and Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do about It. A former Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, from 1992 through 2003 he served as a staffer in three White House administrations, most recently as Senior White House Counterterrorism Advisor.
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