24 Streamlining and Consolidating Congressional Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Appendix Task Force on Streamlining and Consolidating Congressional Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Task Force Members Arif Alikhan Juliette Kayyem Thad Allen Thomas H. Kean Sr. Howard Berman Loretta Sanchez Michael Chertoff John Tanner David Dreier Caryn A. Wagner Bob Graham Kenneth L. Wainstein Lee H. Hamilton Retreat Organizers Meryl Justin Chertoff Kathleen Hall Jamieson Biographical Information on Retreat Hamilton. Allen supports the firm’s work with Participants and Organizers the departments of Justice and Homeland Security. Allen completed his distinguished Arif Alikhan career in the U.S. Coast Guard as its 23rd Counterterrorism and homeland security commandant. Prior to that assignment, Allen expert Arif Alikhan joined Los Angeles World served as Coast Guard chief of staff. During Airports as the new deputy executive director his tenure in that post, in 2005, he was for law enforcement and homeland security on designated principal federal official for the Nov. 7, 2011. Prior to that, Alikhan was a U.S. government’s response and recovery Distinguished Professor of Homeland Security operations in the aftermath of hurricanes and Counterterrorism at National Defense Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast region. University in Washington, D.C. Alikhan previously served as assistant secretary for Howard Berman policy development at the U.S. Department of Howard Berman is a former representative Homeland Security. His federal service also from California who served 15 consecutive includes 10 years with the U.S. Department of terms in the U.S. House of Representatives Justice as a federal prosecutor and senior from 1982 to 2012. In 2008, he was appointed adviser to two U.S. attorneys general on chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. cybercrime and intellectual property. In addition, Berman served on the Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on Thad Allen Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Thad Allen is senior vice president of the Security & International Law. Virginia-based consulting firm Booz Allen Streamlining and Consolidating Congressional Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security 25 Meryl Justin Chertoff and serves on the board of the International Meryl Justin Chertoff is director of the Aspen Republican Institute. Dreier is the founding Institute’s Justice and Society Program and chairman of the House Democracy an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Partnership and the founding chair of the Law. From 2006 to 2009, Chertoff was director Congressional Trade Working Group. of the Sandra Day O’Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary at Georgetown Law. Bob Graham She served in the Office of Legislative Affairs Bob Graham is the former two–term governor at the Federal Emergency Management of Florida and served for 18 years in the U.S. Agency, participating in the agency’s Senate. Graham retired from public service transition into the Department of Homeland in January 2005, following his presidential Security. Chertoff has been director of New campaign in 2004. After retiring from public Jersey’s Washington, D.C., office under two life, Graham spent a year as a senior fellow governors, and legislative counsel to the at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. chair of the New Jersey State Assembly In recent years, he was appointed by Appropriations Committee. President Obama and served as co-chair of the National Commission on the BP Michael Chertoff Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Michael Chertoff served as secretary of the Drilling. This followed his service as a U.S. Department of Homeland Security from commissioner on the Financial Crisis Inquiry 2005 to 2009. He is chairman and co-founder Commission, as chairman of the Commission of the Chertoff Group. At the Chertoff Group, on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Chertoff provides high-level strategic counsel Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, and to corporate and government leaders on a on the CIA External Advisory Board. broad range of security issues, from risk identification and prevention to preparedness, Lee H. Hamilton response, and recovery. Before heading the Lee H. Hamilton is director of the Center on Department of Homeland Security, Chertoff Congress at Indiana University. He served in served as a federal judge on the U.S. Court the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965 of Appeals for the Third Circuit. to 1999, representing Indiana’s 9th District. Since retiring from Congress, Hamilton David Dreier remains at the center of efforts to address David Dreier was elected to Congress from some of the nation’s major homeland security California in 1980 and became a member of and foreign policy challenges. He served as the House leadership when he took the helm vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, co-chair of the House Committee on Rules in 1999. of the Iraq Study Group, and co-chair of the As the youngest Rules chairman, he played U.S. Department of Energy’s Blue Ribbon a pivotal role in fashioning legislation for Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. He debate in the House. He authored the 1995 is a member of the President’s Intelligence Congressional reform package. He is a Advisory Board, the President’s Homeland member of the Council on Foreign Relations Security Advisory Council, the CIA External 26 Streamlining and Consolidating Congressional Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advisory Board, and the U.S. Department of Thomas H. Kean Sr. Homeland Security Task Force on Preventing Tom Kean served as president of Drew the Entry of Weapons of Mass Effect on University from 1990 to 2005 and as governor American Soil. of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990. In 1986, he was re-elected governor by the largest Kathleen Hall Jamieson margin in state history. Prior to serving as Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth governor, Kean was a member of the New Ware Packard Professor of Communication Jersey Assembly from 1968 to 1977. In 2002, at the Annenberg School for Communication President George W. Bush named Kean as and Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director chairman of the 9/11 Commission. He of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the headed the American delegation to the U.N. University of Pennsylvania. She is a fellow of Conference on Youth in Thailand, was vice the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, chairman of the American delegation to the the American Philosophical Society, the World Conference on Women in Beijing, and American Academy of Political and Social served as a member of the President's Science, and the International Communication Initiative on Race. Association. Jamieson is the author or co- author of 16 books. She is co-founder of Loretta Sanchez FactCheck.org, founder of the new political Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez was first literacy site FlackCheck.org, and program elected to the House of Representatives in director of The Annenberg Retreat at 1996, and is currently serving her ninth term Sunnylands. as the representative for California's 46th District. Sanchez is the second highest-ranking Juliette Kayyem Democrat on the House Armed Services Juliette Kayyem is a lecturer in public policy Committee. She is the ranking member of the at the Harvard Kennedy School of Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee. Government, a former national security and Rep. Sanchez is also a senior member of the foreign policy columnist for The Boston Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. She is Globe, and a former contributor to CNN. She founder and co-chair of the Women in the served President Obama as Assistant Military Caucus and is the highest-ranked Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the female on the Armed Services Committee. Department of Homeland Security. She She also serves on the House Committee on served as co-chair of the Congressionally Homeland Security, where she is the second- mandated Preparedness Task Force, and as ranked Democrat and most senior female a member of President Obama’s Task Force member. on Puerto Rico and the Defense Department’s Council of Governors. Before joining the John Tanner Obama Administration, Kayyem served as John Tanner is vice chairman of Prime Policy Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s homeland Group. He joined the firm after serving in the security adviser. U.S. House of Representatives for 22 years, representing Tennessee’s 8th District. In Streamlining and Consolidating Congressional Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security 27 Congress, Tanner served on the House National Intelligence for Management and was Foreign Affairs Committee and the Ways & the first chief financial officer for the National Means Committee. He also served on the Intelligence Program. Her final position was House Armed Services and House Science that of the senior Defense Intelligence Committees and served as Chief Deputy Agency Representative to Europe. Whip for the Democratic Congress in the 109th, 110th, and 111th Congresses. In Kenneth L. Wainstein November 2008, Tanner was elected to a Kenneth L. Wainstein is co-chair of the two-year term as president of the NATO business fraud group at the law firm of Parliamentary Assembly. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. In 2008, after 19 years at the Justice Department, Caryn A. Wagner Wainstein was named homeland security Caryn Wagner served as Under Secretary for adviser by President George W. Bush. Prior Intelligence and Analysis in the Department to his White House service, he was twice of Homeland Security from 2010 to 2012. nominated and confirmed for leadership She served on the intelligence agency positions in the Justice Department. In 2006, review team of the Obama-Biden Transition the U.S. Senate confirmed him as the first Project. She retired from federal service from Assistant Attorney General for National the House Permanent Select Committee on Security.