Tama (Edition1) by John Stephen Farmer

From 2003 to 2004, John Farmer was Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, where he assisted in the writing of The 9/11 Commission Report. His responsibilities included reviewing the national response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, evaluating the current state of national preparedness, and assessing the current state of private sector preparedness for terrorist attacks. He was cleared to the top secret/SC1 level. From 1999 to 2002, he served as Attorney General of the State of New Jersey, overseeing approximately 10,000 people (including more than 700 lawyers and almost 3,000 state troopers) in ten divisions of the Department of Law and Public Safety, including the Divisions of Law, Criminal Justice, Civil Rights, Consumer Affairs, Gambling Enforcement, Highway Traffic Safety, Juvenile Justice, State Police, Elections, and the Office of the Attorney General. Farmer also managed New Jersey's Office of Emergency Management and directed the state's reaction to Hurricane Floyd in 1999; worked to prepare for Y2K and the potential emergency impact of the millennium; and coordinated the state's response to both the 9/11 assaults and the anthrax attacks later that year. Farmer has also worked as the chief of staff for New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, as a federal prosecutor, and as a security specialist for the United Nations Special Envoy for Middle East Regional Security.

Farmer has taught and written widely on post-9/11 safety and security concerns over the last six years, with pieces appearing in the Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, Newark Star Ledger, the New Jersey Lawyer, and other publications. He's also given talks at Harvard Law School, the University of Southern California, Willamette Law School, and the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Farmer has counseled with a wide range of institutions and officials on anything from port security challenges to private sector readiness. He is FEMA-certified in all-hazards disaster planning and mitigation. In July 2009, he resigned as a founding partner of a New Jersey legal firm to take a position as Dean of Rutgers School of Law in Newark, where he had previously taught national security law.