Chuck Rosenberg held numerous senior positions in the United States Department of Justice – as the United States Attorney in both the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Texas, as the senior counselor for national security to one Director of the FBI, and as the Chief of Staff to another FBI Director, as counselor to the Attorney General of the United States, as the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and as the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration – a position from which he resigned in 2017.

Rosenberg joined the Department of Justice directly out of law school, through the Attorney General’s Honors Program, and quickly found the job he enjoyed most – as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, in Norfolk and Alexandria. There, he tried dozens of criminal cases before juries and briefed and argued many of those cases to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Chuck prosecuted complex financial fraud crimes, public corruption, violent crimes, and national security cases.

Rosenberg currently works as a legal analyst for MSNBC and NBC, as a senior counsel for a Washington, D.C. law firm and as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, where he teaches National Security Law and Policy. He is a graduate of Tufts University (BA), Harvard University (MPP) nd the University of Virginia (JD). Chuck also hosted the acclaimed podcast, The Oath, which finished a four-season run with more than ten million downloads (available at msnbc.com/theoath).

Rosenberg briefed National Press Foundation fellows in October 2022: What News Media Misses About Trump, Mar-a-Lago. 

He also briefed NPF fellows in March 2025: Ex-DOJ Official to Reporters: ‘There Are 2 Things Left – The Courts and You.’