Exiled Emissary

Christopher J. Farrell is the Director of Investigations & Research for Judicial Watch and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute. Chris is a native of Long Island, New York. He was a Distinguished Military Graduate from Fordham University with a B.A. in History, whereupon he accepted a Regular Army Commission and served as a Military Intelligence Officer - specializing as a Counterintelligence Special Agent and Counterespionage Case Officer. He was also trained as a Clandestine Human Intelligence Case Officer. Chris was an adjunct professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia (2013 - 2018) where he taught Journalism Law.” He also served as a Senior Staff Associate of Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Mailman School of Public Health (2005 - 2008) where his research focused on terrorism. Chris is a graduate of the Military Intelligence Officers Basic and Advanced Courses, the U.S. Army Advanced Counterintelligence Training Course, the Combined Arms Services Staff School of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Defense Intelligence Agency's Military Operations Training Course, and the Haus Rissen Institut für Politik und Wirtschaft in Hamburg, Germany. His command and staff assignments included three tours of duty in the Federal Republic of Germany, and one tour at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. He is a specialist in national security matters, focusing on unconventional warfare and terrorism. Chris appears regularly on numerous national TV and radio shows, and maintains a busy lecture schedule on both government corruption issues and intelligence matters.