Aki Peritz

George Washington University

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A former CIA counter-terrorism analyst, Aki Peritz is a fellow at George Washington University's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security and the co-author of Find, Fix, Finish: Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns that Killed bin Laden and Devastated Al-Qaeda. 

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