Five days before the war began in Iraq, Rand Beers resigned his White House job as special assistant to the president for combating terrorism. "The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They're making us less secure, not more secure [3]," Beers told reporter Laura Blumenfeld. "As an insider, I saw the things that weren't being done. And the longer I sat and watched, the more concerned I became, until I got up and walked out." Beers' wife Bonnie described the Bush administration as "a very closed, small, controlled group. This is an administration that determines what it thinks and then sets about to prove it. There's almost a religious kind of certainty. There's no curiosity about opposing points of view. It's very scary. There's kind of a ghost agenda."