Jonathan Fredman
has held a number of legal and policy positions for the U.S.
Government, including Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence
for Special Programs, chief counsel to the Director of Central
Intelligence Counterterrorist Center, and Special Assistant to the
Director of Central Intelligence.
He provides legal and policy guidance with respect to intelligence
operations, science and technology, compliance, and investigations.
He has taught national security law, the law of foreign intelligence,
and the law of counterterrorism, and has been published in the ABA National Security Law Report, Yale Law and Policy Review, and Studies in Intelligence.
Prior to entering government, Mr. Fredman
was an attorney in private practice with the firm of Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison in New York and Washington, and a law
clerk for U.S. District Judge Charles M. Metzner of the Southern
District of New York.
He graduated from Princeton University in 1979 magna cum laude with
an A.B. in Public and International Affairs, and received his J.D. from
Columbia Law School in 1983, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
Mr. Fredman
is a recipient of the George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in
Counterterrorism, the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement
Medal, and the Middle East Mission Manager Medallion.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Mr. Fredman has addressed audiences at Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government; Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs;
Columbia Law School; Georgetown Law School and the Edmund A. Walsh
School of Foreign Service; George Washington University, Elliott School
of International Affairs; American University, School of International
Service; Stanford University; University of Virginia Law School;
University of Pennsylvania Law School; National Defense University;
National War College; Army War College; Council on Foreign Relations;
World Affairs Council; National Advocacy Center; and others.
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Mr. Fredman is the author of “Covert Action, Loss of Life, and the Prohibition on Assassination,” published in Studies in Intelligence, semi-annual unclassified edition, no. 1 (1997); “Intelligence Agencies, Law Enforcement, and the Prosecution Team,” published in the Yale Law and Policy Review, vol. 16, no. 2 (1998); and “Covert Action Policy and Procedure,”
published in the American Bar Association National Security Law Report,
vol. 31, nos. 3-4 (2009). He is the co-author, with Richard Morgan, of
the chapter “The Law of Foreign and National Intelligence” in National Security Law and Policy (Carolina Academic Press, 2015).
