Clarke continued as counter-terrorism coordinator at the NSC during the first year of the George W. Bush administration , but no longer had access , as the position 's scope was reduced . His written recommendations and memos had to go through layers of political appointees above him . In 2001 , he was appointed as Special Advisor to the President on cybersecurity and cyberterrorism . He resigned from the Bush administration in early 2003 . Clarke 's positions inside the government have included : During the Rwandan genocide of 1994 , Clarke advised Madeleine Albright , then US Ambassador to the United Nations , to request the UN to withdraw all UN troops from the country . She refused , and permitted Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire to keep a few hundred UN troops ; his forces saved tens of thousands from the genocide . Later Clarke told Samantha Power , " It was n't in American 's national interest . If we had to do the same thing today and I was advising the President , I would advise the same thing . " He supervised the writing of PDD-25 , a classified Executive Order that established criteria for future US participation in UN peacekeeping operations . It also proposed a reduced military and economic role for the United States in Rwanda
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