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. | 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. |