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Brandon Declet
Counsel
Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Areas of Interest
1) national and homeland security strategy
2) intelligence, counterterrorism, and National Security Council/Homeland Security Council issues
3) international dimensions of homeland security

Biography
Brandon D. Declet serves as Counsel to the U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Prior to April 2009, he served as Counsel to the House Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. With 7 years experience in the fields of national and homeland security, he was responsible for the development of legislative, oversight, and policy initiatives with an emphasis in the areas of intelligence, homeland security, national security and counterterrorism. He was previously an Intelligence Research Specialist for the Counter Terrorism Bureau of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and an adjunct professor at the John C. Whitehead School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Seton Hall University. He also served as a senior analyst with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), specializing in strategic planning, military transformation and international security. Mr. Declet has a BA from Union College and a JD from the Fordham University School of Law; he recently completed his LLM in national security law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the Hispanic National Bar Association and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).