Jonathan Fredman

Jonathan Fredman is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs.

He held numerous leadership positions at the Central Intelligence Agency during his 36-year career, including Chief Counsel, Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Counterterrorist Center; Chief Counsel, DCI Counterintelligence Center; Counsel for Operations, CIA Directorate of Science and Technology; and Chief Counsel for several additional CIA divisions and mission centers. He also served as Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Special Programs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence.

Mr. Fredman is a recipient of the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism, the John A. McCone Award for Science and Technology, the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal, and the Middle East Mission Manager Medallion.

From 2005-2010 he was Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence. In that position, he was the senior U.S. Government official devoted solely to the development and oversight of U.S. covert action and special programs. He conducted policy development, program evaluation, and resource allocation activities as well as strategic operational planning, and resolved legal and legislative matters.

At CIA, M r. Fredman provided guidance on intelligence operations, cybersecurity, technology, legal compliance, oversight, legislation, and investigations. His areas of responsibility included privacy and civil liberties, U.S.-E.U. data sharing agreements, foreign and transnational requirements relating to personal information and intellectual property, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and related U.S. and foreign legislation, U.S. and international economic sanctions and export controls, cyber law, science and technology policy, and public-private investment for next generation research and development. He has extensive expertise in the application of political risk assessment to the development and implementation of international initiatives, and in designing programs and policies to account for those political risks.

Prior to entering government, Mr. Fredman was an attorney with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, and a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Charles M. Metzner of the Southern District of New York.

He previously served as adjunct faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he taught national security law, foreign intelligence, and the law of counterterrorism. He has been published in the Yale Law and Policy Review, the ABA National Security Law Report, and Studies in Intelligence, and co-authored the chapter on foreign and national intelligence in a legal casebook for the Carolina Academic Press.

Mr. Fredman graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude in Public and International Affairs, and from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Fredman has spoken at Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government; the Princeton University 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; 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.

Publications

Covert Action Policy and Procedure

Covert Action, Loss of Life, and the Prohibition on Assassination

Intelligence Agencies, Law Enforcement, and the Prosecution Team

Letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee

Princeton University Program in Law and Public Affairs

The Law of Foreign and National Intelligence

Citations

Designing Detention: A Model Law for Terrorist Incapacitation

Hypothetical Torture in the "War on Terrorism"

Intelligence and the Criminal Law System

Optimizing Criminal Prosecution as a Counterterrorism Tool