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The Players
By Timothy B. Clark and
Charles Green

HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT
Profiles in this section were written by Nancy Ferris, Siobhan Gorman, Mark Kukis, Kellie Lunney, Jason Peckenpaugh, and Alina Tugend.

Eduardo Aguirre Jr.
Director, Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services

Penrose 'Parney' Albright
Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology

W. Ralph Basham
Director, U.S. Secret Service

Randy Beardsworth
Director of Operations, Border and Transportation Security Directorate

David Bolka
Director, Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency

Robert C. Bonner
Commissioner, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection

Michael D. Brown
Undersecretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response

Duncan Campbell
Chief of Staff

Sally Canfield
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy

Lucy Clark
Counselor to the Secretary

Adm. Thomas Collins
Commandant, Coast Guard

Steven Cooper
Chief Information Officer

Clark Kent Ervin
Inspector General

Joshua Filler
Director, Office of State and Local Government Coordination

Michael J. Garcia
Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Janet Hale
Undersecretary for Management

Lawrence C. Hale
Director, FedCIRC; Acting Director, US-CERT

Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes, U.S. ARMY (RET.)
Assistant Secretary for Information Analysis

Asa Hutchinson
Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security

Frank Libutti
Undersecretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection

Robert Liscouski
Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection

Adm. James Loy, USCG (RET.)
Deputy Secretary

Alfonso Martinez-Fonts Jr.
Special Assistant to the Secretary, Office of the Private Sector

Charles McQueary
Undersecretary for Science and Technology

C. Suzanne Mencer
Director, Office of Domestic Preparedness

Susan K. Neely
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs

Tom Ridge
Secretary

Gregory D. Rothwell
Chief Procurement Officer

Patrick R. Schambach
Assistant Administrator for Information Technology; Chief Information Officer, Transportation Security Administration

David M. Stone
Acting Administrator, Transportation Security Administration

Pam Turner
Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs

C. Stewart Verdery Jr.
Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning, Border and Transportation Security Directorate

James A. Williams
Director, U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Program

Amit Yoran
Director, National Cyber-Security Division

EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Profiles in this section were written by Lisa Caruso, Nancy Ferris, Siobhan Gorman, Shane Harris, Mark Kukis, Katherine McIntire Peters, and Alina Tugend.

Kenneth W. Bernard
Special Assistant to the President for Biodefense, Homeland Security Council, The White House

James Bernazzani
Principal Deputy Director, Terrorist Threat Integration Center, Central Intelligence Agency

J. Cofer Black
Coordinator for Counterterrorism, State Department

Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum
Chief, National Guard Bureau

John O. Brennan
Director, Terrorist Threat Integration Center Central Intelligence Agency

Linton Brooks
Undersecretary for Nuclear Security; Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, Energy Department

Stephen Cambone
Undersecretary for Intelligence, Defense Department

Thomas Day
Vice President of Engineering, U.S. Postal Service

Gen. Ralph Eberhart
Commander, U.S. Northern Command Defense Department

Lily O. Engstrom
Director, Office of State and Local Preparedness, Health and Human Services Department

Richard Falkenrath
Deputy Assistant to the President; Deputy Homeland Security Adviser, The White House

Dr. Julie Gerberding
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services Department

Gen. John Gordon
Assistant to the President; Homeland Security Adviser, The White House

Maura Harty
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Consular Affairs, State Department

Joseph Henderson
Associate Director, Terrorism Preparedness and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services Department

Dale Klein
Assistant Secretary for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs, Defense Department

Paul McHale
Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense, Defense Department

Robert S. Mueller
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Justice Department

John S. Pistole
Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Justice Department

Frances Fragos Townsend
National Director for Combating Terrorism; Deputy National Security Adviser, The White House

CONGRESS
Profiles in this section were written by David Baumann, Lisa Caruso, Richard E. Cohen, Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., Siobhan Gorman, Margaret Kriz, Nicolas Parasie, Gregg Sangillo, and Kirk Victor.

Sen. Thad Cochran
Republican, Mississippi; Chairman, Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee

Sen. Susan Collins
Republican, Maine; Chairwoman, Governmental Affairs Committee

Sen. Jon Corzine
Democrat, New Jersey

Rebecca Davies
Majority Staff Director, Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee

Sen. Bill Frist
Republican, Tennessee; Senate Majority Leader

Sen. Jon Kyl
Republican, Arizona; Chairman, Senate Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee

Sen. Joe Lieberman
Democrat, Connecticut; Ranking Member, Senate Governmental Affairs Committee

Sen. Pat Roberts
Republican, Kansas; Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Sen. Jay Rockefeller IV
Democrat, West Virginia; Ranking Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Randall Yim
Managing Director, National Preparedness, General Accounting Office

Rep. Christopher Cox
Republican, California; Chairman, House Select Committee on Homeland Security

John Gannon
Majority Staff Director, House Select Committee on Homeland Security

Rep. Porter Goss
Republican, Florida Chairman, Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Rep. Jane Harman
Democrat, California; Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Rep. Edward Markey
Democrat, Massachusetts; Member, House Energy and Commerce Committee

Michelle Mrdeza
Majority Clerk, Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee

Rep. Adam Putnam
Republican, Florida; Chairman, Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census Subcommittee of the House Government Reform Committee

Rep. Harold Rogers
Republican, Kentucky; Chairman, Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee

David Schanzer
Minority Staff Director, House Select Committee on Homeland Security

Rep. Christopher Shays
Republican, Connecticut; Chairman, National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations Subcommittee of the House Government Reform Committee

Suzanne Spaulding
Minority Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Rep. Mac Thornberry
Republican, Texas; Chairman, Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and Development Subcommittee of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security

Rep. Jim Turner
Democrat, Texas; Ranking Member, House Select Committee on Homeland Security

Rep. Curt Weldon
Republican, Pennsylvania; Member, House Select Committee on Homeland Security

OUTSIDE EXPERTS
Profiles in this section were written by Lisa Caruso, Siobhan Gorman, Kellie Lunney, Neil Munro, Gregg Sangillo, Marilyn Werber Serafini, and Bara Vaida.

Norman Augustine
Chairman, Executive Committee, Lockheed Martin; Member, Homeland Security Advisory Council

Leroy 'Lee' Baca
Sheriff, Los Angeles County

Frank Cilluffo
Associate Vice President for Homeland Security, George Washington University

John Cohen
Senior Adviser, Executive Office of Public Safety, State of Massachusetts

Jared Cohon
President, Carnegie Mellon University; Member, Homeland Security Advisory Council

Viet D. Dinh
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Stephen Flynn
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

James S. Gilmore III
Chair, Gilmore Commission; Former Governor of Virginia

Ralph Gomory
President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Lawrence O. Gostin
Director, Center for Law and the Public's Health, a Joint Project of Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities

D.A. Henderson
Senior Fellow, Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Kwame Kilpatrick
Mayor of Detroit

Floyd Kvamme
Co-Chair, President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology; Partner Emeritus, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers

Col. Randall Larsen, USAF (Ret.)
Founder and CEO, Homeland Security Associates

Maj. Gen. Bruce M. Lawlor, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Professor, Homeland Security Initiatives, Stevens Institute of Technology

Craig Mundie
Chief Technical Officer, Microsoft Corp.

Martin O'Malley
Mayor of Baltimore

Demetrios Papademetriou
Co-Director, Migration Policy Institute

Stephen Prior
Research Director of National Security, Health Policy Center of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

Mitt Romney
Governor of Massachusetts; Member, Homeland Security Advisory Council

Warren Rudman
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind & Garrison

George Vinson
Homeland Security Adviser to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

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