Andrew Bringuel II

Andrew Bringuel is the Executive Director of the Behavioral Science Unit, LLC (BSU, LLC) a private security, training, consulting, and research firm located in central New York. He is currently a Special Investigator for the FBI’s Security Division, a local town Judge, a Board of Education member, a former analyst, and commentator for i24News, Law & Crime Media, and OpsLens Media, an Adjunct Research Analyst at RAND Corp., and an Adjunct Instructor for the National Command and Staff College.

Bringuel's is currently working a three-year contract through the Department of Justice studying Cold Case Civil Rights Homicides Pre-1979 in four US cities as part of the Emmitt Till Act. His company has completed contracts for physical security and force protection including developing and testing business continuity plans for a Credit Union in Central New York, a threat assessment for a large social media company, and has lectured around the world on topics ranging from the Science of Happiness to Violent Extremism. He has been interviewed by Newsweek, New York Times, and Huffington Post on issues ranging from workplace violence to terrorism. Bringuel has published articles and has written chapters in three books on the topics of terrorism and policing.

Andrew Bringuel, II, is a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) who managed teams at the FBI Academy’s National Domestic Preparedness Office, Investigative Computer Training Unit, Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) and Behavioral Analysis Unit -5 (BAU-5). Retired Agent Bringuel served over 27 years on squads investigating intellectual property theft, industrial espionage, public corruption, white collar crimes, terrorism, and foreign counterintelligence. He led two highly successful evidence-based research programs at the FBI Academy and was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award for research regarding work as program manager of the Terrorism Research Analysis Program (TRAP).

Bringuel’s investigative accomplishments include finding a key piece of evidence from a bomb that killed Federal Judge William Vance. He was the Case Agent in a five-year organized crime investigation involving associates of the Genovese crime family wherein Bringuel received the Attorney General’s Award for environmental crimes investigations. Bringuel worked as an undercover agent in a year-long operation involving intellectual property theft. He was a crisis negotiator during the Montana Freemen barricade, and a first responder to the Eric Rudolph abortion clinic bombing as well as a first responder to the Pentagon after the terrorist attacks on 09/11/2001.

Bringuel earned a bachelor’s from St. Leo University in Criminology and a master’s degree from the University of Virginia in Education. He instructed police officers and executives at the FBI National Academy as well as in-services around the world at the International Law Enforcement Academies. He is a former adjunct for the University of Virginia and Catholic University.