Rocker Jeff Baxter
Moves and Shakes
In National Security
Once With Doobie Brothers,
Now in Counterterrorism,
He Has Ear of Pentagon
By YOCHI J. DREAZEN
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 24, 2005; Page A1
Jeff Baxter played psychedelic music with Ultimate Spinach, jazz-rock with Steely Dan and funky pop with the Doobie Brothers. But in the last few years he has made an even bigger transition: Mr. Baxter, who goes by the nickname "Skunk," has become one of the national-security world's well-known counterterrorism experts.
A wiry man who wears a beret to many of his meetings, Mr. Baxter, who is now 56 years old, has gone from a rock career that brought him eight platinum records to a spot in the small constellation of consultants paid to help both policy makers and defense contractors better understand the way terrorists think and plan attacks...
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