Brian Roehrkasse

Who is Brian Roehrkasse?

Brian J. Roehrkasse is from Urbandale, Iowa. Roehrkasse served as the Director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Justice during the last two years of the George W. Bush Administration.

Roehrkasse was on the campaign staff for George W. Bush in 2000. From 2001-2002, Roehrkasse served in the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Transportation. In 2002, he moved to the then newly created Department of Homeland Security where he served as press secretary. While at the Department of Homeland Security he was responsible for communicating sensitive intelligence and threat information to the press during several heightened periods of threat.

After serving as Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the Department of Jusctice during the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy, he was promoted to director in 2007.

While at the Department of Justice, he served as a communications strategist during the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization, the modernization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and other significant national security and counterterrorism laws that remain in place under the Obama Administration.