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Juliette Kayyem is the Undersecretary of Public Safety for Homeland Security, serving since the post's creation in January 2007. She began her career in
public service as a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice and was later
legal counsel to then-Attorney General Janet Reno. One of the few women in the
national security world, Juliette is the only woman commissioner on the
Congressionally appointed National Commission on Terrorism, a commission that
warned America, in early 2001, that the terrorist threat was real, and likely to
succeed in America. A graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School,
Kayyem is a lecturer at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. A
leading contemporary expert on national security strategy, she is co-author of
the acclaimed new book, "Preserving Liberty in the Age of Terror." Kayyem
currently heads the National Security Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She is also well known to television viewers from her expert
commentary as NBC News National Security analyst.
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