Jeremy Bash

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Jeremy Bash (born August 13, 1971) is an American attorney and national security consultant who served as chief of staff to Leon Panetta at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2009 to 2011 and at the Department of Defense from 2011 to 2013. In these roles, Bash advised on key initiatives, including the operation resulting in the death of Osama bin Laden and the development of a new U.S. defense strategy. Following his government service, he co-founded Beacon Global Strategies in 2013, a Washington, D.C.-based firm providing strategic advisory services to global enterprises on national security, policy, and business objectives. Bash holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and has frequently contributed as a national security analyst to media outlets, offering insights on intelligence and defense matters.

In brief

Jeremy Bash was the lawyer in the doorway of two of the hardest buildings in Washington: Langley and the Pentagon, both under Panetta. Chief of staff in those shops is an operations job dressed as advice.

After government he built Beacon and kept a television brief, translating the intelligence world for civilians. The clearance fights of later years only underlined how close to the files he had lived.