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Susan Hennessey

Susan Hennessey is an American lawyer and commentator, managing editor of Lawfare, and Fellow in National Security Law in Governance at the Brookings Institution. She formerly served as a staff attorney at the National Security Agency.

Education
Hennessey received a Bachelor of Arts in Italian from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. Hennessey contributed to Harvard Law School's National Security Journal, graduating in 2013.

Career
From 2013 to 2015, Hennessey worked as a staff attorney in the National Security Agency's Office of General Counsel.

One of the first student contributors to Lawfare, a blog dedicated to U.S. national security law, Hennessey became the publication's managing editor in November 2015. She is also general counsel of the Lawfare Institute, the non-profit organization through which the blog operates.

Hennessey has written for The Huffington Post, among other publications, and provided commentary on legal and national security matters to a number of television programs, including PBS Newshour. In May 2017, Hennessey joined CNN as a national security and legal analyst.