Until April 2014, John Napier Tye served as Section Chief for Internet Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the U.S. State Department, where he held a clearance to receive Top Secret and Sensitive Compartmented Information. Before leaving, he filed a complaint that overseas intelligence activities by the U.S. National Security Agency violate Americans’ constitutional rights. A Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate, John previously wrote about hate groups for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most recently, John worked as a campaign director at Avaaz, the global civic community with over 40 million members.