Mr. Hale is a policy expert who has completed a 37-year career with the U.S federal government and who specializes in Mexico national security and U.S.- Mexico border issues. Hale began his career as a Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Operator with the U.S. Army Security Agency and worked on Soviet, Communist Bloc, Middle East and North Africa issues while stationed at a classified facility in Europe (1972 -1977). During his last assignment he served as an Executive Agent for the National Security Agency at the U.S. Air Force School of Applied Cryptologic Sciences, Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas (1977- 1978). Hale joined the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 1979 and rose to the rank of the senior-most DEA Intelligence Official operating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border during his last posting in Houston where he reported to the DEA and to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in Washington, D.C. He retired from the DEA in 2010.

Mr. Hale holds a B.S. in Computer Sciences from Franklin Pierce University, Nashua, New Hampshire and an LL.M (Legum Magister) in European Law and Judicial Policy from the Universidad de Almería, Spain. Hale is an alumnus of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Leadership. Hale is a native of Laredo, Texas, and is a polyglot who speaks English, Spanish, German and beginner level Arabic. He holds a current Secret level security clearance with the Department of Defense.