Biography
Jay Bratt is the Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) of the National Security Division, where he oversees all of CES’ operations. Mr. Bratt is also CES’ Principal Deputy Chief, and he was previously CES’ Deputy Chief for Export Control and Sanctions, with responsibility for reviewing and approving all export control and sanctions prosecutions the Department of Justice brought. He previously served as the Deputy Chief of the National Security Section in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. At the U. S. Attorney’s Office, he prosecuted a wide variety of Espionage Act, export enforcement, and counterterrorism matters. Mr. Bratt has also served as the National Security Counselor to the Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Deputy Director of the Guantanamo Review Task Force, and Chief of the Litigation Section in the Office of Intelligence at the Department of Justice, where he oversaw requests for the use of information obtained through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in connection with judicial and other proceedings. Before that, Mr. Bratt had many years of experience as a line prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and within the Department of Justice. Mr. Bratt is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Brandeis University.