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John Anthony Rizzo (October 6, 1947 – August 6, 2021) was an American attorney who worked as a lawyer in the Central Intelligence Agency for 34 years. He was the deputy counsel or acting general counsel of the CIA for the first nine years of the War on Terror, during which the CIA held dozens of detainees in black site prisons around the globe. He was a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and Senior Counsel at the Steptoe & Johnson law firm.