Gregory D. Lee

Gregory D. Lee is a nationally syndicated columnist for The North Star National, www.northstarnational.com/category/gregorydlee, and writes weekly newspaper columns covering criminal justice, foreign affairs, national security and politics. He is also a contributing editor for www.FamilySecurityMatters.org. He has appeared on CNN, Larry King Live, and Fox News Channel's On The Record, with Greta Van Susteren. He is a frequent radio talk show guest, and has been quoted many times in both domestic and international newspapers and magazines. His website is: .
He is a retired Supervisory Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S. Department of Justice, and was last assigned to the Los Angeles Division as the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Program Coordinator. He is a graduate and was a counselor for the 160th session of the FBI National Academy.
After initially being assigned to the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Mr. Lee became the Resident Agent in Charge of DEA’s Karachi Office, and worked in Pakistan between 1994 and 1998, experiencing terrorism first-hand. He appeared on the Discovery Channel’s documentary show, The FBI Files, concerning his contributions in the arrest of Mir Aimal Kanzi, the terrorist who murdered two CIA employees outside their headquarters in 1993. While in Karachi, he was involved in the initial investigation of the terrorist murder of four U.S. citizens and their Pakistani driver. Further, in 1995 while in Islamabad, Mr. Lee directly participated in the arrest of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, collected critical evidence, and later testified at his trial.
Prior to his assignment in Pakistan, Mr. Lee was an instructor at DEA’s Office of Training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia where he trained many domestic and foreign law enforcement counterparts around the world. Throughout his DEA career he wrote numerous articles for professional law enforcement publications and is the author of three Criminal Justice textbooks. Global Drug Enforcement: Practical Investigative Techniques,is published by CRC Press (2004). Prentice Hall is the publisher of Conspiracy Investigations: Terrorism, Drugs and Gangs (2005), and Practical Criminal Evidence, (2006). At the invitation of the U.S. Military Academy’s Center for Combating Terrorism, he authored The Global Drg Trade and Its Nexus to Terrorism, which is Chapter 11 of Volume II, Part II, of Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives Praeger Security International/Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (2007).
Mr. Lee is a Reserve Chief Warrant Officer 5/CID Special Agent with the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, better known as CID. After being called to active duty as a result of the events of September 11, he was a staff officer at the Pentagon for the Army Operations Center’s Anti-Terrorism Operations Intelligence Cell. He has a combination of over 37 years of active duty and reserve military service and is a Subject Matter Expert on Terrorism and Counter-Drug Operations for the U.S. Army Military Police School. He has also been a guest speaker on terrorism issues for the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Joint Military Intelligence Training Center in Washington, DC, the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, and the Department of Defense National Security Studies Program.
He earned a Master of Public Administration degree in Justice Administration from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California.

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