Edward Snowden

June 15, 2023 | Dr. Georgianna Shea, Logan Weber

A smarter way to catch insiders who leak top secret information

How do you stop a 21-year-old national guardsman like Jack Teixeira from leaking classified information? Wrong answers to this question have quickly become very popular. One theory is there are...

November 8, 2021 | Samantha Ravich, Dr. Georgianna Shea

How to Free Business From the Ransomware Dystopia

It’s past time for the business owners of America to demand that Washington do more to end the scourge of ransomware attacks by gangs of cyber marauders and their state sponsors. Imagine if armed mercenaries...

August 4, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Bogus foreign-policy debates: How we’re helping our enemies fool us

World news has become complicated lately. Or has it? Consider these headlines: Abu Mohammed al-Julani, the leader of the Syrian al Qaeda affiliate group known as Jabhat al-Nusra...

November 16, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

After Paris, We Need A Strategy To Fight Islamic Jihad

I do not know for sure who masterminded and organized the terrorist assault on Paris, although most evidence points to ISIS. We will probably know a lot more in a few days. Multiple attacks requi...

July 30, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How the West Can Use the Iran Deal to Foster Regime Change

Since the comprehensive deal on Iran’s nuclear-weapons program was reached, technical aspects of the agreement have been discussed, but a crucially unremarked-upon topic deserves significan...

January 9, 2014 | Clifford D. May

The Sorrows of Young Snowden

If the attacks of 9/11 taught us anything, it’s that we must connect the dots. But before we can connect the dots, we must collect the dots. Those railing against...

November 20, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

The Anatomy of an Evolving Threat: Publication of Classified Information

Fast-paced technological advances have, for decades, been causing wrenching changes to national security and international affairs that are generally unappreciated until a crisis arrives. And eve...

September 3, 2013 | Claudia Rosett |

Next on Syria: Leading From Russia?

Having failed to obtain a United Nations resolution on Syria, or assemble a robust coalition of the willing, or provide the American public with any clear strategy surrounding his plans for a lim...

August 21, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

Anti-Americanism and Schadenfreude

The Edward Snowden surveillance affair opens a window onto bizarre manifestations of anti-Americanism in Germany. Take the example of Jakob Augstein, the Spiegel colum...

July 8, 2013 | Michael Ledeen

Obama’s New World Order: Power to Our Enemies, Death to Our Friends & a Fish in the President’s Face

The anti-Morsi, anti-Muslim Brotherhood, and therefore anti-Obama demonstrations in Egypt are the biggest in human history.  It’s quite something, an historic event.  Whatever the...

June 19, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

Is Obama a Berliner?

BERLIN — Obama: Ist er ein Berliner? The German weekly Die Zeit posed this question...

June 14, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

The Costs and Benefits of the NSA

Should Americans fear the possible abuse of the intercept power of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland? Absolutely. In the midst of the unfolding scandal at the IRS, we understan...