In the parallel universe, Walternate is credited with making the Star Wars program work, leading to his role as the national security czar.

Well, I'll tell you, from all of the nonsense I hear about Washington, D.C.'s attempt to find a security czar, no one is applying.

They're, like, the gal that's been temporary is stepping down very politely because she wants to put pressure on the administration to find somebody to be the security czar.

Walternate was appointed as the United States "national security czar", and saw that the Strategic Defense Initiative to its success.

It's time to find out what's going on in the world of security with our good friend Steve Gibson, the security czar.

After the first round of voting, he named the army's best known critic of the war, Aleksandr I. Lebed, as his overall security czar.

Mr. Ridge, a decent politician with no expertise in intelligence or counterterrorism, is a frivolous choice for security czar.

So we will, I'm sure, have a full-time security czar on the site as soon as we can do that.

He appointed a retired four-star Air Force general to be the department's first security czar.

Among other things Bill Richardson, the secretary of energy, appointed a "security czar."