Anonymous ID: 5d6915 Aug. 8, 2020, 8:17 p.m. No.10229137   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Ambassador (Ret) Dell L. Dailey

 

is the President of a family owned consultant company. This enterprise is the culmination of four decades of government service with a brief opportunity at President, Pacific Architect and Engineers. Currently, Dell Dailey and Family span both Department of Defense and Department of State programs, numerous product focused companies, private equity firm, explosive ordnance disposal multi talented company, small arms distribution, personal protection equipment, think tank efforts, and international operations.

 

Prior to his current efforts in the private sector, he served as the Coordinator for Counterterrorism for The Department of State charged with coordinating and supporting the development and implementation of U.S. Government policies and programs aimed at countering terrorism overseas. As the principal advisor to the Secretary of State (Rice and Clinton) on international counterterrorism matters, he is responsible for taking a leading role in developing coordinated strategies to defeat terrorists abroad and in securing the cooperation of international partners to that end.

 

Ambassador Dailey served over 36 years on active duty in the United States Army. He reached the rank of Lieutenant General as the Director of the Center for Special Operations (CSO), U.S. Special Operations Command, at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. His duties involved participation in all recent major military operations. He is a Master Army Aviator with over 2400 hours flight time, and 400 night vision goggle hours. Additionally he is a Master Parachutist of 120 jumps, with airborne wings from Canada, Germany, and Jordan

 

During the latter phase of his military career and particularly in the CSO, Ambassador Dailey’s professional focus was not only on the military aspect of counterterrorism operations, but also on the need to deal with complex terrorist threats using all appropriate instruments of national power. Under his leadership, the CSO promoted interagency collaboration and built closer partnerships between military personnel and the members of other U.S. Government departments and agencies involved in global counterterrorism activities.

 

Ambassador Dailey was born into an Army family in Flandreau, South Dakota. He received his Bachelor of Science degree with focus in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1971. Subsequently he earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Shippensburg University in 1994. In 2008, Ambassador Dailey was recognized by his peers and the Association of Graduates as the youngest Distinguished Graduate from The United States Military Academy. In 2010 he was inducted into the US Army Aviation Hall of Fame.

 

He has five wonderful children, several whom are involved in government service. He is married to his loving wife Mary, who has been his counsel and support for 28 years.

Anonymous ID: 5d6915 Aug. 8, 2020, 8:18 p.m. No.10229160   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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LTG(R) Charles T. Cleveland

 

is a native of Arizona and a 1978 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He retired from the U.S. Army on August 1, 2015. He is currently the Senior Mentor to the Chief of Staff of the Army’s Strategic Studies Group, a Senior Fellow at the Madison Policy Forum, and an Adjunct at Rand. He serves on the Advisory Board of the nonprofit organization Spirit of America Foundation.

 

As the three-star Commanding General, U.S. Army Special Operations Command from 2012-2015, he led the overhaul of U.S. Army Special Operations, which improved the effectiveness and training levels of existing units, built need capability, and improved relationships within the Army, across other government agencies, in Congress, and among international Special Operations Forces partners.

 

From 2008 to 2011, LTG(R) Cleveland was Commander, Special Operations Command-Central, CENTCOM, with responsibility for special operations throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. The command pioneered distributed command structures and clandestine capabilities still in use today in the critical countries of Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Jordan, Pakistan, and Qatar.

 

As Commander, Special Operations Command-South, SOUTHCOM, from 2005 to 2008, LTG(R) Cleveland led special operations throughout the Caribbean and Central and South America. Most notable were the efforts to free three American hostages held by a Colombian rebel group, which ultimately led to their rescue in June 2008.

 

Previous tours included two years as the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Special Operations Command; Commander, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne); and Chief, Special Forces Branch, U.S. Army Personnel Command. In 2003, as Commander, 10th SFG(A), he led the initial invasion into northern Iraq and successfully commanded a force of over 70,000 U.S. and Kurdish fighters with the mission of defeating the 13 Iraqi Divisions arrayed along the 360-kilometer, interethnic boundary called the Green Line.

 

As a midgrade officer, LTG(R) Cleveland served for over seven years in tactical special operations units. In December 1995, as the Deputy Commander, 10th SFG(A) he led the Special Forces into Sarajevo, Bosnia, in what would become Operation Joint Endeavor. He would subsequently return as a Battalion Commander to command the Joint Commission Observer Task Force with 14 outstations conducting advanced influence operations and intelligence collection. As a Special Operations staff officer on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, he was the interagency lead for the recovery of Lt. Michael Speicher, missing F-18 pilot from the first Gulf War. From 1987 to 1990, he served overseas in the 7th SFG(A) in Panama where he participated in the counterinsurgency effort in El Salvador, counter-drug operations in Bolivia, and the invasion of Panama in 1989.

 

LTG(R) Cleveland began his career in the 10th SFG(A) in 1979 after graduating from the Military Intelligence basic officer course, Special Forces Officer’s Course, and U.S. Army Ranger School. In this tour he traveled extensively throughout Europe. His subsequent tour was in Germany as an intelligence officer.

 

LTG(R) Cleveland is nearly fluent in Spanish and has a good working knowledge of German. He has been married for over 37 years to his better half, Mary Ann, and they have three grown children. Jeremy is a pediatrician in Brooklyn. Christina lives in Scotland with her husband, a physician, and their granddaughter. Their youngest, Matthew, is a rising senior at UNC Chapel Hill majoring in computer science. LTG(R) Cleveland was born March 10, 1956, at Fort Ord, California, to Walter and Olga Cleveland. His father was a career enlisted Soldier and civil servant. His mom was a survivor of WWII DP camps. She passed away in 2014.

Anonymous ID: 5d6915 Aug. 8, 2020, 8:20 p.m. No.10229177   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Professor Bruce Hoffmanhas been studying terrorism and insurgency for nearly four decades. He is a tenured professor in Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service where he is also the Director of both the Center for Security Studies and of the Security Studies Program. In addition, he is Professor of Terrorism Studies (part-time) at St Andrews University, Scotland. Professor Hoffman previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and was also Director of RAND’s Washington, D.C. Office. He was appointed by the U.S. Congress to serve as a commissioner on the Independent Commission to Review the FBI’s Post-9/11 Response to Terrorism and Radicalization and co-wrote its report. Professor Hoffman was Scholar-in-Residence for Counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006; an adviser on counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq in 2004, and from 2004-2005 an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad. He was also an adviser to the Iraq Study Group. He is the author of Inside Terrorism (2006). Professor Hoffman most recent books are The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: Cases From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden’s Death ( 2014), and Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 (2015).

Anonymous ID: 5d6915 Aug. 8, 2020, 8:21 p.m. No.10229192   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Michael Morell, the former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

, is one of our nation’s leading national security professionals, with extensive experience in intelligence and foreign policy. He has been at the center of our nation’s fight against terrorism, its work to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and its efforts to respond to trends that are altering the international landscape—including the Arab Spring, the rise of China, and the cyber threat.

 

During his 33-year career at CIA, Michael served as Deputy Director for over three years, a job in which he managed the Agency’s day-to-day operations, represented the Agency at the White House and Congress, and maintained the Agency’s relationships with intelligence services and foreign leaders around the world. Michael also served twice as Acting Director, leading CIA when Leon Panetta was named Secretary of Defense and again after David Petraeus left government.

 

Michael’s senior assignments at CIA also included serving for two years as the Director of Intelligence, the Agency’s top analyst, and for two years as Executive Director, the CIA’s top administrator—managing human resources, the budget, security, and information technology for an agency the size of a Fortune 200 firm.

 

Michael has been a witness to history on multiple occasions. He is the only person who was both with President Bush on September 11th, when al-Qaida burst into the American consciousness, and with President Obama on May 1st, when Bin Laden was brought to justice. Michael played a major role in the Bin Laden operation.

 

Michael is known inside CIA for his leadership. He inspired individuals and work units to perform beyond expectations. He mentored most of the Agency’s current senior leadership team, including a significant number of women and minorities. When he departed CIA, thousands of officers wrote Michael notes of thanks.

 

Michael is the recipient of many awards. He received the Presidential Rank Award for exceptional performance—the nation’s highest honor for civilian service. He also received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, CIA’s highest award, for his role in the Bin Ladin operation. Michael is also the recipient of the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, and the Department of Defense Service Medal.

 

Today, Michael is involved in a wide range of activities. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Chairman of the SAP/NS2 Advisory Board, Counselor to Washington’s fastest growing consulting firm, Beacon Global Strategies, and a consultant to a number of private sector entities. He is also a member of the Advisory Board to the President of the University of Akron.

 

Much of what Michael does today is tied to national security. He is a national security commentator for CBS News and a frequent guest on the Charlie Rose Show discussing national security issues. He is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, a Senior Fellow at West Point’s Center on Combatting Terrorism, a Senior Fellow at the Madison Policy Forum, a member of the Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Group, and a member of the Advisory Board to the University of Chicago’s Project on Security and Terrorism. He served as a Member of President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology.

 

Michael is the author of a forthcoming book on CIA’s nearly 20-year fight against al Qaida. The title of the book is “The Great War of Our Time: An Insider’s Account of the CIA vs al Qaida.” It will be published in May 2015.

 

Michael is a native of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and he maintains close ties to northeast Ohio. His father and mother—who taught him hard work, the pursuit of excellence, and humility—were an autoworker and a homemaker. Michael is a first-generation college student, earning a B.A. summa cum laude in economics from the University of Akron. He also earned an M.A. in economics from Georgetown University.

 

Michael is married to Mary Beth Manion. He has three children, Sarah, Luke, and Peter. Michael enjoys playing golf and tennis, watching sports, reading, and traveling. Michael is involved with charities associated with supporting the families of fallen soldiers and intelligence officers. He is on the Board of the CIA Officer’s Memorial Foundation.

Anonymous ID: 5d6915 Aug. 8, 2020, 8:23 p.m. No.10229213   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Joseph W. Pfeifer was the Chief of Counterterrorism and Emergency Preparedness for the New York Fire Department (FDNY).

During his career, he commanded some of the largest fires and emergencies in the New York City’s history: he was the first Chief at the World Trade Center attack on the morning of September 11, 2001, and played a major command role during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, served as an Incident Commander at the Metro North commuter train Derailment in 2013 and assisted in developing the Ebola response in NYC in 2014. He was the founding director the FDNY’s Center for Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness. Since 2001, he worked as a strategic leader assessing the Department’s response performance, identified new budget and policy priorities, helped overhaul management practices, created partnerships to supplement the Department’s existing competencies with new expertise, shaped new technologies for emergency response and developed the FDNY’s first Strategic Plan, Terrorism Preparedness Strategy, and Continuity of Operations Plan. He produced weekly analyses of threats and crisis response throughout the world and is also a Citywide Command Chief, responsible for commanding major incidents.

 

Chief (Ret.) Pfeifer has spoken both nationally and internationally, including the United Nations General Assembly Conference on Fighting Terrorism for Humanity. He is a Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center and the Program on Crisis Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School. In addition, he has spoken at the United States Military Academy, Harvard University, Columbia University, Wharton Business School, The Naval Post Graduate School, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and to classes from both the Army and Navy War Colleges. Chief (Ret.) Pfeifer holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, a Masters in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Masters in Theology from Immaculate Conception. He writes frequently and is published in various books and journals.

Anonymous ID: 5d6915 Aug. 8, 2020, 8:24 p.m. No.10229231   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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General Joseph L. Votel is a retired U.S. Army Four-Star officer and most recently the Commander of the U.S. Central Command – responsible for U.S. and coalition military operations in the Middle East, Levant, and Central and South Asia.

During his 39 years in the military, he commanded special operations and conventional military forces at every level. His career included combat in Panama, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Notably, he led a 79-member coalition that successfully liberated Iraq and Syria from the Islamic State Caliphate. He preceded his assignment at CENTCOM with service as the Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command and the Joint Special Operations Command.

 

Votel was recognized with the Distinguished Military Leadership Award from the Atlantic Council; the U.S. – Arab Defense Leadership Award from the National Council on U.S. – Arab Relations; the Distinguished Service Award from the National Medal of Honor Society; the SGT James T. Regan Lifetime Achievement Award from the “Lead the Way” Foundation; and the Freedom Award from the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.

 

In July of 2019, Votel was announced as the prospective President/CEO of Business Executives for National Security. He is a Strategic Advisor for Sierra Nevada Corporation as well as a non-resident Distinguished Fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. and the Belfer Center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, MA; and an advisor to the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, NY. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Service to School, a non-profit organization that helps military veterans transition and win admission to the Nation’s best graduate and undergraduate schools. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

Votel is a 1980 graduate of the United States Military Academy and earned Master’s Degrees from the U.S. Army Command and Staff College and the Army War College. He is married to Michele, and they have two grown sons, a daughter-in-law, and a granddaughter. The Votels reside in Lake Elmo, Minnesota.

Anonymous ID: 5d6915 Aug. 8, 2020, 8:26 p.m. No.10229249   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Juan Zarate is the Chairman and Co-Founder of the Financial Integrity Network, the Chairman and Senior Counselor for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance (CSIF),

and the Senior National Security Analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. He is also a Visiting Lecturer of Law at the Harvard Law School, and a Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

 

Mr. Zarate served as the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism from 2005 to 2009, and was responsible for developing and implementing the U.S. Government’s counterterrorism strategy and policies related to transnational security threats. Mr. Zarate was the first ever Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes where he led domestic and international efforts to attack terrorist financing, the innovative use of Treasury’s national security-related powers, and the global hunt for Saddam Hussein’s assets. Mr. Zarate is a former federal prosecutor who served on terrorism prosecution teams prior to 9/11, including the investigation of the USS Cole attack. Mr. Zarate has earned numerous awards for his work, including the Treasury Medal.

 

Mr. Zarate sits on several boards, including HSBC’s Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee (FSVC) as well as the FSVCs for HSBC in Mexico and Latin America; the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority (AIF); the Board of Advisors to the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC); the George Washington University’s Center for Cyber & Homeland Security; America Abroad Media’s (AAM) Board of Advisors; the Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Group; the Coinbase Board of Advisors; and RedOwl Analytics Board of Advisors. He is a senior adviser to several technology companies and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

He is the author of Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare (2013), Forging Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Effects of U.S. Foreign Policy on Central American Democratization (1994), and a variety of articles in The New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, The Washington Quarterly, and other publications.

 

He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and a former Rotary International Fellow at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. He has been inducted into the Mater Dei High School Ring of Honor.

Anonymous ID: 5d6915 Aug. 8, 2020, 8:29 p.m. No.10229292   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Bryan C. Price,

 

Ph.D. is the Founding Executive Director at the Buccino Leadership Institute at Seton Hall University. Prior to joining Seton Hall in 2018, he spent the first half of a 20-year Army career in operational assignments as an Apache helicopter pilot, including combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. From 2012-2018, he was an Academy Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and the Director of the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at the U.S. Military Academy. He is known for his published research on terrorist leadership and organizational behavior, and he is the author of Targeting Top Terrorists: Understanding Leadership Removal in Counterterrorism Strategy by Columbia University Press. He holds a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy in U.S. history, an M.A. in international relations from St. Mary’s University (TX), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. In his role as the CTC Director, he frequently briefed the nation’s top counterterrorism leaders, including the Secretary of Defense, Directors of the CIA, DIA, and NCTC, and multiple combatant commanders. In addition to testifying in front of Congress, he has given keynote talks to national and international audiences.

Anonymous ID: 5d6915 Aug. 8, 2020, 8:36 p.m. No.10229364   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Alex Gallo is a Principal with BMNT, a Silicon Valley start-up that conducts innovation work in national security and defense.

 

He is also an advisor with Hacking for Defense, Inc. (H4Di), a university-sponsored education program that helps students develop a deep understanding of the problems and needs of government sponsors in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.

 

Alex is also a Senior Associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and he recently completed a fellowship as the National Security Practitioner in Residence with START at the University of Maryland.

 

Prior to his CTC fellowship, Alex Gallo served as a Professional Staff Member with the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), full committee policy staff, from 2012-2017. In this capacity, Mr. Gallo was responsible for authoring National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) legislation and conducting oversight of U.S. defense policy in the Middle East, Africa, and the Indo-Asia-Pacific regions. Additionally, he advised the Chairman of the HASC on these policy issues.

 

Prior to joining the committee, Mr. Gallo served as the deputy director of the CTC and as an instructor in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point. In this capacity, he taught classes in American politics, terrorism and counterterrorism, and homeland security. His research at the CTC included the evolution of al-Qa`ida and U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.

 

From 2001-2009, Mr. Gallo served as an active duty and reserve officer in the U.S. Army. While on active duty, he conducted operational deployments to Kosovo (2002) and Iraq (2004). While in the U.S. Army Reserves, Mr. Gallo served as an Assistant Professor of Military Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

Alex holds a Bachelor of Science in American Politics from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. He has completed a Term Membership with the Council on Foreign Relations and is a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Society of the First Infantry Division.

Anonymous ID: 5d6915 Aug. 8, 2020, 8:36 p.m. No.10229373   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Assaf Moghadam is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC) and the Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC), Israel.He is also a fellow at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, a Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), and a research affiliate at the Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland.

 

Prof. Moghadam has taught at the Department of Political Science at Columbia University and the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and he held research fellowships at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, both at Harvard University. He is a contributing editor for the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.

 

Prof. Moghadam’s research examines the dynamics within and between militant actors. He has authored or edited five books on terrorism and political violence, including Nexus of Global Jihad: Understanding Cooperation among Terrorist Actors (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017) and the award-winning The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). Two of his books are included in a list of the top 150 books on terrorism published in the journal Perspectives on Terrorism. His articles have appeared in journals such as International Security, Security Studies, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, as well as in various media and policy outlets including the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, and Orbis. He has lectured and consulted widely before audiences in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.

 

Prof. Moghadam holds a Ph.D. in international relations and an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy (MALD), both from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a B.A. in political science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is married with three children.

Anonymous ID: 5d6915 Aug. 8, 2020, 8:37 p.m. No.10229381   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Dr. Geoff D. Porter is the president of North Africa Risk Consulting, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in political and security risk in North Africa.

North Africa Risk Consulting advises multinational corporations on the political and security contexts in Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia.

 

Dr. Porter was previously an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point and a researcher at the Combating Terrorism Center from 2013-2016. His research focused on conflict and instability and the extractive industries in North Africa and the Sahara.

 

Dr. Porter has an MA in Classical Arabic and a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies, both from New York University. He is fluent in Arabic and French and over the course of his career has traveled and lived extensively throughout North Africa. Go Army. Beat Navy.

Anonymous ID: 5d6915 Aug. 8, 2020, 8:38 p.m. No.10229388   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Frank G. Straub, Ph.D., is Director of Strategic Studies at the Police Foundation, a non-profit organization that studies ways to improve policing in the United States. Dr. Straub has conducted in-depth studies of the San Bernardino terrorist attack, the Kalamazoo mass shooting, and the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting. He is a 30-year veteran of federal and local law enforcement, having served as the police chief in Spokane, Washington; the Public Safety Director in Indianapolis; the Public Safety Commissioner in White Plains, New York; and the New York City Police Department’s Deputy Commissioner of Training and Assistant Commissioner for Counterterrorism. He also served as a member of the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force during his tenure with the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service.