Richard Clarke 1950-
21563 Richard Clarke and some of his books
Richard Clarke’s books include:
Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror. (2004)
Defeating the Jihadists: A Blueprint for Action. (2004).
The Scorpion’s Gate. (2005).
Breakpoint. (2007).
Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters. (2008).
Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It. (2010),
How China Steals Our Secrets. (2012).
Sting of the Drone (2014).
Pinnacle Event. (2015)
Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes. (2017)
The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of yber Threats. (2019),
From Wikipedia
Richard Alan Clarke (born October 27, 1950) is an American novelist and former government official. He was National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism for the United States between 1998 and 2003.
Clarke worked for the State Department during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush appointed him to chair the Counter-terrorism Security Group and to a seat on the United States National Security Council. President Bill Clinton retained Clarke and in 1998 promoted him to be the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism, the chief counter-terrorism adviser on the National Security Council. Under President George W. Bush, Clarke initially continued in the same position but no longer had Cabinet-level access. He later was appointed as the Special Advisor to the President on cybersecurity. Clarke left the Bush administration in 2003.
Clarke came to widespread public attention for his counter-terrorism role in March 2004: he published a memoir about his service in government, Against All Enemies, appeared on the 60 Minutes television news magazine, and testified before the 9/11 Commission. In all three cases, Clarke sharply criticized the Bush administration’s attitude toward counter-terrorism before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and its decision afterward to wage war and invade Iraq. Clarke was criticized by some supporters of Bush’s decisions.
After leaving U.S. government, with U.S. government legal approvals, Clarke helped the United Arab Emirates to set up a cyber security unit intended to protect their nation. Years after Clarke left, some components of the program were acquired by a sequence of firms and it is reported they eventually surveilled women’s rights activists, UN diplomats and FIFA officials.]
Clarke’s positions inside the government have included:
United States Department of State 1985–1992
Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs, 1989–1992
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence, 1985–1988
United States National Security Council, 1992–2003 Special Advisor, 2001–2003
National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism, 1998–2001
Chairman of the Counter-terrorism Security Group, 1992–2003