Pasquale J. D'Amuro

Pat D'Amuro
Director of FBI New York
In office 2003–2005
Personal details
Born	Pasquale J. D'Amuro
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Niagara University
Occupation	FBI director Businessman
Awards	Four Freedoms Award in the category Freedom from fear

Pasquale J. (Pat) D'Amuro is an American terrorism authority, former intelligence agent and television analyst. In a career of 26 years he rose to the third position of the FBI. Since then he continues his career in business and education.

D'Amuro grew up in upstate New York and he passed for his bachelor degree at the Niagara University.

Since May 1979 he worked for the FBI. Here he got experienced in research of bank robberies, fraud, organized crime, drug traffic and comparable matters.

After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing took place, his research area changed to terrorist attacks. In the following years he was involved with the research of the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Aden, Yemen, and the destructive attacks of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. In course of the years he therefore became an expert on al-Qaeda.

After the attacks of September 11, D'Amuro was appointed assistant director of the counterterrorism division of the FBI. Here he led thousands of agents and implemented policy that resulted in a better exchange of data between the FBI, CIA, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense. He also ordered the composition of a centralized Terrorism Watch List that combined all the former registers into a single and comprehensive database.

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