Frederick H. Fleitz, Jr. (born February 24, 1962) is a former U.S. government official, serving since January 2022 as Vice Chairman of the America First Policy Institute Center for American Security.

[1] He previously served as the Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary of the National Security Council from May through October 2018, during the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Most contemporaneous press accounts in 2005 portrayed this matter as a personnel dispute over a disagreement with two intelligence officers over assertions Bolton wanted to make in the speech.

In 2011, Fleitz was hired by the organization Newsmax Media to found the Langley Intelligence Group Network (LIGNET), an online international analysis and forecasting service.

He served as the LIGNET Director until 2013 when he was named a senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy (CSP),[11] run by Frank Gaffney, an anti-Muslim activist and conspiracy theorist.

[20] According to Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow and Washington Post columnist Max Boot, Fleitz "has a record of trafficking in virulent Muslim hatred.

[22][23][24][25] He left his position on October 31 of that year to rejoin the Center for Security Policy[26][27][28] and was succeeded by Joan Virginia O'Hara.