The Spy Who Came Home – Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.

"We have to stop treating people like we’re in Fallujah," he told me. "It doesn’t work. Just look what happened in Fallujah."

In time, he came to believe that the most meaningful application of his training and expertise–the only way to exemplify his beliefs about American security, at home and abroad–was to become a community police officer in Savannah, where he grew up.

By Ben Taub

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