National Security & Intelligence

Command Consulting Group provides a team with senior leadership experience in both the U.S. Intelligence Community and the U.S. National Security Council. This provides clients with current and historical knowledge of national security policy formation and implementation combined with an understanding of the complex interaction between senior national policy makers and the intelligence community’s operational and analytical apparatus. The team provides expertise from real-world, hands-on experience in the intelligence community’s operations, to include counterterrorism, counter-drug, special operations, all source and geospatial analysis.

CCG team members have experience in both the public and private sector in the areas of data mining and information sharing. CCG Principals have played major leadership roles in the modernization and transformation of the White House Situation Room and in operation centers around the federal government and intelligence community. Our group is experienced in developing systems to transform overwhelming volumes of data into actionable knowledge for senior decision makers, and our team has strong relationships with current and former intelligence community members as well as relationships with the members and staffers of the intelligence oversight committees in Congress.

For CCG’s international clients, this background and expertise provides an opportunity to better evaluate national security processes and procedures and the interactions between senior policy makers and intelligence organizations.

THE CCG NATIONAL SECURITY & INTELLIGENCE TEAM

		David Carey had a thirty-plus year career in the Central Intelligence Agency which culminated with his appointment as Executive Director in 1997.
		Phil Lago served in senior positions in the US Intelligence Community and was the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council where he led the overhaul of the White House Situation Room.
		Dr. Kathleen L. Kiernan is among the top law enforcement, intelligence and security authorities in the world. As a 31-year veteran of Federal Law Enforcement and the intelligence community, her expertise is widely recognized by members of her profession.
		W. Ralph Basham was the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection where he led efforts to modernize the way in which law enforcement agencies and the intelligence community work together.
		Michael Braun has held multiple senior leadership positions in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), including his most recent role as the DEA Chief of Operations where he became widely recognized as an expert on the growing nexus between drugs and terrorism, and for focusing the agency’s efforts on the Global War on Terrorism. Prior to that, Mr. Braun headed the multi-agency Office of Special Intelligence and later led the entire Intelligence Division. He was also appointed by the Deputy Attorney General to serve as the first Interim Director of a new Department of Justice Drug Intelligence Fusion Center supporting the war on terrorism and drugs.
		Harold Douglas Wankel has held senior leadership positions in international law enforcement and security operations for nearly the last four decades, including as Assistant Administrator for Intelligence at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), where he was charged with continuing the effort to help the DEA strengthen its proactive role in intelligence and law enforcement operations given the increasingly vital synergy between counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism efforts. As Assistant Administrator, Mr. Wankel was the Principal Intelligence Officer for the DEA and oversaw all intelligence and operations coordination in the U.S. and overseas.
		William Houston was the Director of the Office of Policy & Planning at US Customs & Border Protection and served as an Army Intelligence Officer on active duty – his tours of duty include providing support to the Joint Chiefs of Staff Counterterrorism Task Force and in the Advance Analytics and Red teaming Group at the National Counterterrorism Center.
		Jon Whittingham has extensive knowledge and experience in developing, programming, and executing complex counterintelligence investigations supporting a variety of classified and sensitive offensive and defensive programs and projects.

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