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Juliette Kayyem served as Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and as a congressional appointee to the National Commission on Terrorism. She is currently the national security and foreign policy columnist for the Boston Globe and Lecturer in Public Policy for the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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