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'''Kash Patel served as the former [[Chief of Staff]] to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller. Previously, Patel served as the Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism (CT) at the [[National Security Council]] (NSC). Patel also served as Principal Deputy to the Acting [[Director of National Intelligence]] where he oversaw the President’s Daily Briefing.
Before joining the [[NSC]], Patel served as the National Security Advisor and Senior Counsel for the [[House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence]] (HPSCI), where he spearheaded the investigation into the Russian active measures campaign to influence the [[2016 presidential election]]. Concurrently, he oversaw sensitive programs for the [[Intelligence Community]] and [[U.S. Special Operations Forces]] and worked to enact legislation to fully fund the multi-billion dollar budgets supporting intelligence and counterterrorism operations worldwide.
Patel joined the HPSCI following his tenure as a [[terrorism]] prosecutor at the [[Department of Justice]] (DOJ), where he led investigations spanning multiple theaters of conflict and oversaw the successful prosecution of criminals aligned with [[Al-Qa'ida]], [[ISIS]], and other terror groups. Patel also served as the DOJ Liaison Officer to Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
Patel began his career as a public defender, trying scores of complex cases ranging from murder, to narco-trafficking, to complex financial crimes in [[jury]] trials in state and federal courts.
A native of [[New York]], Kash Patel completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Richmond before returning to New York to earn his [[law]] degree, along with a Certificate in International Law from University College London Faculty of Laws in the [[United Kingdom]].
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