WASHINGTON: The US government’s top counter-terrorism official will leave his post later this year, President Barack Obama announced yesterday.
Matthew Olsen, a former US prosecutor, Justice Department official and chief lawyer for the National Security Agency, has headed the National Counterterrorism Center for the last three years. The administration did not say who might replace Olsen.
The centre is an interagency unit set up by Congress after the September 11, 2001
Al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington to improve intelligence sharing between sometimes fractious agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
REUTERS
