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 master 's degree from the massachusetts institute of technology richard alan clarke counter-terrorism expert/analyst author university of pennsylvania
richard a. clarke

richard alan `` dick '' clarke -lrb- born october 27 , 1950 -rrb- is the former national coordinator for security , infrastructure protection , and counter-terrorism for the united states .
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 the position was no longer given cabinet-level access .
he later became the special advisor to the president on cybersecurity .
clarke left the bush administration in 2003 .
clarke came to widespread public attention for his role as counter-terrorism czar in the clinton and bush administrations in march 2004 , when he appeared on the 60 minutes television news magazine , released his memoir about his service in government , `` against all enemies , '' and testified before the 9/11 commission .
in all three instances , clarke was sharply critical of the bush administration 's attitude toward counter-terrorism before the 9/11 terrorist attacks , and of the decision to go to war with iraq .
