The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

The next year he earned a Master's degree in international relations also at USC. S. They sought to surround Afghanistan with secure covert bases for CIA operations — as many bases as they could arrange.

S. He then served as the chairman of the privately owned intelligence gathering company Total Intelligence Solutions until his current appointment as the Vice President of Blackbird Technologies a technology solutions provider based in the Washington DC area.