Michael Allen is a founder and managing director of Beacon Global Strategies LLC. Allen has spent his career in the national security arena including in the White House, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the private sector. Allen is a frequent commentator on national security and foreign policy issues on CNN, MSNBC and Fox and is the author of "Blinking Red, Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11." (Potomac Books, 2013). He is @michaelallenJMA on Twitter.