Christopher Stevens
Midterm Assessment: Libya
Trump Reportedly Considering Mike Rogers, Author of Scorned Benghazi Report, for FBI Director
Bloomberg is reporting that President Trump is considering former Rep. Mike Rogers to replace James Comey as FBI director. Rogers is a former FBI agent; by the end of his seven terms in Congress...
Op-eds
Iran Shipping Sanctions Run Aground?
Officially, the Obama administration remains committed to enforcing sanctions on Iran’s main merchant shipping fleet, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, also known as IRISL. But i...
Op-eds
Libyan Ansar al-Sharia Leader Gets Medical Treatment in Turkey
Ansar al-Sharia Libya confirmed this weekend that its leader, Mohamed al-Zahawi, had passed away from wounds sustained last year. Ansar al-Sharia is a jihadist group best-known outside of Libya f...
Policy Briefs
The Benghazi Report
Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes After a long day on November 13, 2013, Speaker of the House John Boehner walked down the marble hallways of the Longworth House Office Building t...
Op-eds
AQ Leader’s Arrest Highlights Turkey’s Terror Problem
A joint U.S.-Turkish operation last month led to the capture of a senior...
Policy Briefs
Ansar al Sharia Ally A Key Figure in Benghazi Security Failures
A key figure in the security failures surrounding the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya is fighting alongside members of Ansar al Sharia, which is one of the terrori...
Op-eds
A Road Map To Get To The Bottom Of Benghazi
CNN President Jeff Zucker says his network may not bother to report on the House...
Op-eds
Obama’s Kobe Bryant-Al Qaeda Flap
A long New Yorker profile of President Obama provides a g...
Op-eds
Spinning Al-Qaeda
Since June 2012, Peter Bergen, the swashbuckling reporter who serves as CNN’s national-security analyst and a director of the liberal New America Foundation, has been among those in the for...
Op-eds
Down the Times’ Benghazi Rabbit Hole
What was the commander-in-chief of the United States armed forces doing through the night of September 11, 2012, while he knew Americans were under jihadist siege in Libya? You won’t learn...
Op-eds
Settle Scores With Those Who Have Killed Americans
Fairly or not, in the eyes of the world President Barack Obama's handling of the Syrian crisis has laid waste to what little remained of his claim to be a credible commander in chief. How to...
Op-eds
Salafi Jihadism in the North African Regional Context
Chairmen Poe and Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Members Sherman and Deutch, distinguished members of the subcommittees, it is an honor to appear before you today to discuss the threat of jihadist terroris...
Legislative Testimonies
Al Qaeda vs. Hezbollah
Back during the Bush administration, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage famously called Hezbollah the “A Team of terrorists,” adding, “al-Qaeda is actually the B Team.&r...
Op-eds
Blame for Benghazi Goes Deeper Than a Conspiracy
Many conservatives suspect that the U.S. State Dep...
Op-eds
Black Swans, Icebergs and Benghazi
‘Humans are great at self-delusion,” the polymathic philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has observed. I’m confident he’d agree that the humans who populate the foreign-polic...
Op-eds
US Officials Denied Access to ‘Nasr City Cell’ Suspects
The US has not been granted access to the senior members of the so-called "Nasr City Cell" who were arrested late last year, according to several American officials familiar with the case. The Na...
Op-eds
Investigating ‘Command and Control’ in Benghazi Attack
The Accountability Review Board’s investigation into the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi says much about the deteriorating security situation surrounding the U.S. consulate...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Lives
The real story behind Benghazi and the other attacks of 9/11/12