David Aaron

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David Aaron (@davidcaaron) is a Senior Counsel at the Washington, D.C. and New York offices of Perkins Coie LLP and a Visiting Professor at Wesleyan University. David is a former federal prosecutor and intelligence attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), National Security Division (NSD) and a former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney. His experience includes investigating and litigating cases involving Espionage Act violations, malicious cyber activity such as data breaches and destructive attacks, economic espionage, insider threats, undisclosed foreign government influence, and export control violations. David also worked extensively on operations and oversight involving the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). At NSD, David served as a liaison to the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, National Coordinator for the Non-Traditional Collector Threat, and Acting Deputy Chief for Counterintelligence. He is also on LinkedIn.