The Long War Continues
In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi...
George Tenet
Slam Dunk II: The Persian Version
“With this deal, we cut off ...
Op-eds
The Iraqi WMDs and Other Disgraces
We are beginning to learn that the Bush administration declined to talk about the discovery of thousands of WMDs in Iraq. But that’s only the beginning of the story, since that policy was j...
Op-eds
Islamist Foreign Fighters Returning Home and the Threat to Europe
Chairman Rohrabacher, Ranking Member Keating and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by Islamist foreign fighters returning home to Europe....
Op-eds
Islamist Foreign Fighters Returning Home and the Threat to Europe
Chairman Rohrabacher, Ranking Member Keating and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by Islamist foreign fighters returning home to Europe....
Congressional Testimonies
What Did Iran Know?
Last week, the U.S. government announced that Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden’s Kuwaiti-born spokesman and son-in-law, had been arrested in Jordan and is awaiting trial in New York Cit...
Op-eds
Former bin Laden Spokesman in US Custody
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a former spokesman for Osama bin Laden, was arrested in Jordan and is currently being held in New York City. Abu Ghaith was initially detained in Turkey,...
Op-eds
Pollard Defenders Vindicated
After 25 years, the CIA has declassified documents that show Jonathan Pollard never spied on the U.S. for Israel
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Lives
The real story behind Benghazi and the other attacks of 9/11/12
Op-eds
Al Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Incited Cairo Protest
Rifai Ahmed Taha Musa, one of Egypt’s most notorious al Qaeda-linked terrorists, attended the U.S. embassy protest in Cairo on September 11. Musa was just one of several al Qaeda-affiliated...
Op-eds
The New McCarthyism
THE MEDIA has been quick to lionize Mary McCarthy, the recently fired 61-year-old CIA analyst who allegedly leaked classified information to the Washington Post's Dana Priest. According to s...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Honcho Probably Not in Egyptian Custody
This morning, there was a curious report originating with the Egyptian state press and then repeated throughout the Western media that Saif al Adel, a longtime al Qaeda bigwig, had flown from Pak...
Op-eds
Still Clueless About Al Qaeda in Iraq
Speaking in Iraq, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reportedly told U.S. troops: “The reason you guys are here is because on 9/11 the United States got attacked. And 3,000 Americans — 3,...
Op-eds
Treachery
The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on prewar statements is a disgrace.
Op-eds
The CIA and Al-Qaeda
In intelligence it’s not so much what you don’t know as what you won’t know. Al Qaeda was initially formed in 1988, when the Soviet Union announced the humiliating with...
Op-eds
The CIA Interrogation Tapes
Remember when this was a real war?
Op-eds
Analysis: Al Qaeda’s Interim Emir and Iran
Saif al Adel has been named the interim emir of al Qaeda in the wake of Osama bin Laden's demise, according to multiple press reports. Al Adel is a longtime member of al Qaeda's militar...
Op-eds
Osama bin Laden’s Spokesman Freed by Iran
Iran has allowed an al Qaeda terrorist who served as Osama bin Laden's spokesman to return to Afghanistan. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti preacher who gained worldwide infamy after the Septe...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda in Iraq
In a campaign speech on July 14, 2007, Senator Barack Obama railed against the Iraq war and President Bush’s obstinate refusal to end it. “We cannot win a war against the terrorists i...
Op-eds
Sweet Home Iran
This past week, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman of the Associated Press reported a story that deserved to make a splash but didn’t. The CIA had a highly-classified program in place “to s...