Juan Carlos Zarate was a Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism during the George W. Bush administration. He currently serves as Senior Adviser at the think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, Transnational Threats Project.
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