Daniel J. Jones

Daniel J. Jones (born 1974 in Pennsylvania ) is a former employee of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence . He became known as the head of the investigation into the use of torture by the CIA following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . Jones is the founder and president of Advance Democracy, Inc. (ADI), a private research organization specializing in responsibility , transparency and good governance . Daniel is also the founder of Penn Quarter Group , a private research facility based in Washington, DC

Career

In the mid-1990s, he taught in Baltimore as part of the Teach For America program , which promotes service in inner-city schools. In 1997 he graduated from Elizabethtown College Pennsylvania with a degree in political science and studied at Johns Hopkins University and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University .

After September 11th, he recalled wanting to influence the politics of the nascent war on terrorism and sought work in the United States Congress area on Capitol Hill . Denis McDonough , then an employee of Tom Daschle , then leader of the Senate Democratic group, advised Jones to work for an anti-terrorist agency like the CIA or the FBI for several years instead . When Daniel J. Jones met Denis McDonough again, he was White House Chief of Staff from January 2013 to January 2017 during Barack Obama's administration . Jones spent four years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation before joining the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence under the direction of its then Chairman, Senator Jay Rockefeller . Jones then worked for Senator Dianne Feinstein when she became chair of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

See also

• The Report

Individual evidence

1. ^ Advance Democracy .
2. ^ The Penn Quarter Group - The PQG - Our Leadership ( en-US )
3. ↑ The Guardian , September 9, 2016, Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets, [1]