J. Patrick Laflin is a retired FBI Special Agent and contractor with over thirty-five years of operational, investigative, management, cyber and analytical experience. He spent eight years spent as the Counterintelligence (CI) and Cyber Threat Strategic Partnership Coordinator in Tampa, Florida and spent twenty-five years in counterintelligence and counterterrorism programs both as an investigator and supervisor. He has worked as a contract background investigator for KeyPoint Government Solutions since April 2016.