Clete D. Johnson
Last Name:
Johnson
Clete Johnson is the Senate Intelligence Committee’s monitor for the Treasury Department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and covers threat finance and financial intelligence issues for the Committee. He is also Senator Jay Rockefeller’s staff designee. Clete joined the Intelligence Committee staff in 2008 after serving as Senator Rockefeller’s counsel for defense, foreign policy, and international trade.
Prior to coming to the Senate, Clete practiced law at Patton Boggs LLP in Washington, focusing on export controls and defense procurement, as well as other aspects of international trade and security. Earlier, Clete was an Army officer, serving first as a platoon leader and maintenance shop officer in South Korea, and later as a General’s aide in Germany. His time in Germany included service in NATO’s Operation Allied Force in Albania, Macedonia, and Kosovo.
Clete received his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was Editor in Chief of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. While on a Fulbright Fellowship, he earned an M.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He received his bachelor’s degree in History from Harvard University, where he played varsity football and was Executive Officer of the MIT Army ROTC Paul Revere Battalion.
Clete is married to Ginny Johnson.
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June 2009
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