{{Short description|Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation}} {{For|the British politician|Mike German, Baron German}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=February 2022}} {{Third-party|date=February 2022}} }} {{Infobox person | name = Michael German | image = Michael German 2022 (cropped).jpg | caption = German in 2022 | occupation = FBI agent<br>Security consultant<br>Writer }} '''Michael German''' is a retired American [[FBI agent]], scholar, and writer. He is a fellow in the [[Brennan Center for Justice]]'s Liberty and National Security program.
== Life == During his 16-year career as a Special Agent in the [[FBI]], German spent many months undercover, first among [[white supremacist]]s and then among right-wing [[militants]]. German left the FBI in 2004 as a whistleblower, alleging misconduct and mismanagement in counterterrorism cases. German reported this mismanagement to Congress.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brennancenter.org/expert/mike-german|title=Michael German|date=27 January 2015|publisher=Brennan Center for Justice|access-date=2017-07-12|archive-date=2017-07-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170715120150/http://www.brennancenter.org/expert/mike-german|url-status=live}}</ref>
His 2008 book, ''Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent'', was about his experiences as a special agent. He spent seven years as a Senior Policy Counsel at the [[American Civil Liberties Union|ACLU]]’s Washington Legislative Office, working on issues relating to national security policies and civil rights. German joined writer and director Daniel Ragussis in creating the screenplay for ''[[Imperium (2016 film)|Imperium]]'', starring [[Daniel Radcliffe]] as an undercover FBI Special Agent under an FBI case agent played by [[Toni Collette]].<ref name="Taught">{{cite web|url=http://www.laweekly.com/film/fbi-agent-michael-german-taught-hollywood-how-to-get-counterterrorism-right-7244235|website=LAweekly.com|date=August 15, 2016|title=FBI Agent Michael German Taught Hollywood How to Get Counterterrorism Right|first=April|last=Wolfe|access-date=August 19, 2016|archive-date=August 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818180303/http://www.laweekly.com/film/fbi-agent-michael-german-taught-hollywood-how-to-get-counterterrorism-right-7244235|url-status=live}}</ref>
His work has appeared in the ''Guardian'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/mike-german|title=Mike German {{!}} The Guardian|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2019-10-22|archive-date=2019-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022160740/https://www.theguardian.com/profile/mike-german|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Time'',<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/author/michael-german/|title=Michael German|magazine=Time|language=en|access-date=2019-10-22}}</ref> ''The Cipher Brief'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecipherbrief.com/experts/michael-german|title=Michael German|website=The Cipher Brief|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-22|archive-date=2019-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022161003/https://www.thecipherbrief.com/experts/michael-german|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''Defence One''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.defenseone.com/voices/michael-german/7742/|title=Michael German|website=Defense One|date=26 March 2015|access-date=2019-10-22|archive-date=2019-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022161124/https://www.defenseone.com/voices/michael-german/7742/|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Works ==
*''Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent,'' University of Nebraska Press, 2008. {{ISBN|9781597970266}} *''Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy,'' The New Press, 2019. {{ISBN|9781620973790}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theintercept.com/2019/09/14/fbi-mike-german-book/|title=How the FBI Increased Its Power After 9/11 and Helped Put Trump in Office|last=Devereaux|first=Ryan|date=2019-09-14|website=The Intercept|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-22|archive-date=2019-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022160541/https://theintercept.com/2019/09/14/fbi-mike-german-book/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{C-SPAN|1018664}} *[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/michael-german-on-religious-terrorism/ Michael German on Religious Terrorism], ''Amanpour & Co''. 04.29.2019
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