Jeffrey Breinholt

Jeffrey Breinholt has been an attorney with the Department of Justice, National Security Division since 1990. In 2008 he joined the International Assessment and Strategy Center for a one year stint as Senior Fellow and Director of National Security Law. [ [ http://www.strategycenter.net/scholars/scholarID.16/scholar_detail.asp ] ]

Breinholt holds a B.A. (Yale University, 1985) and a J.D. (UCLA School of Law, 1988)

Breinholt has been Deputy Chief of the Counterterrorism Section at the U.S. Department of Justice and head of the Department of Justice’s terrorist financing enforcement program since shortly before 9/11. He helped to create a special FBI unit devoted to U.S.-based fundraising by international terrorist organizations and the team of financial prosecutors he headed within the Counterterrorism Section is dedicated to prosecuting material support crimes.

He was previously Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Utah.

A profile of Breinholt's legal work in the "New York Times" described Breinholt as believing that "terrorism prosecutions work" and that "American Muslims are prickly, litigious and poorly integrated into American society." New York Times, Impressions of Terrorism, Drawn From Court Files,By ADAM LIPTAKPublished: February 19, 2008

Breinhold is the older brother of Utah based folk muscian Peter Breinholt [ [http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,485033195,00.html "Deseret News", April 26th, 2003] ] and is the husband of prominent international attorney, Moni SenGupta.

Criticism

Breinholt attracted public attention [ [www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/05/AR2005110501366_4.html Washington Post, November 5th, 2005] ] when an article he published described public criticism of civil liberties as an "exxentric" concern.

Jeffrey A. Breinholt, "Getting Real About Privacy: Eccentric Expectations in the Post-9/11 World" (September 10, 2005). bepress Legal Series. Working Paper 770.http://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps/770

Books

* "Counterterrorism Enforcement: A Lawyer’s Guide" (DOJ Office of Legal Education 2004)
* "Taxing Terrorism, From Al Capone to Al Qaida: Fighting Violence Through Financial Regulation" (2007)

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