Vice president, director of studies and fellows programs and the international security program at the New America Foundation; national security analyst for CNN and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University; author of The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader and Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
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