James Clapper

April 28, 2020 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Bradley Bowman

Iran military satellite launch requires US action

The Islamic Republic of Iran is at it again. In addition to resuming its longstanding maritime belligerence that instigated the latest war of words with President Trump, Tehran recently launched its...

November 9, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Iran’s New Missile Cap Offer Is a Total Sham

Co-authored by Richard Goldberg. Last week, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

April 28, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Missing the Point on Iran’s Ballistic Missiles

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani told a defense exposition this month that his country would &ldq...

April 24, 2017 | Anthony Ruggiero |

North Korea Takes another American Hostage

North Korea detained an American academic on Saturday as he was preparing to leave the country, joining two other Americans already serving harsh sentences there. His capture is part of a pattern...

April 3, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu

Increasing the Effectiveness of Non-Nuclear Sanctions Against Iran

Download the full testimony here.  Our...

March 23, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

What’s Really Behind Trump’s Laptop Ban

More than 15 years after the September 11 hijackings, the U.S. government has issued yet another warning about airline security. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced ne...

March 22, 2017 | Tzvi Kahn, David Andrew Weinberg

U.S. Sanctions Bahrainis Linked to Iran-Backed Group

The State Department on Friday designated two Bahrainis with ties to Iran as Specially Designated Global Terrorists, thereby den...

February 27, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Future of Counterterrorism: Addressing the Evolving Threat to Domestic Security

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February 6, 2017 | Mark Dubowitz, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Trump’s Iran sanctions signal return to coercion

On Friday the Treasury Department added 13 persons and 12 enti...

January 30, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Final Obama Scandal

Co-written by Stephen F. Hayes.  Less than 24 hours before the official end of the Obama presidency, while White House staffers were pulling pictures off the walls and cle...

January 23, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The New Bin Laden Documents

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released 98 additional items from Osama bin Laden's compound today. If the ODNI has its way, then these files will be th...

January 11, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Lost in cyberspace

Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee was mischievous. Did it change the outcome of the 2016 elections? No evidence suggests that and the intelligence community isn’t...

December 8, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Al Qaeda Assessment Off the Mark

Throughout his two terms in office, President Barack Obama faced an array of challenges from both al Qaeda and ISIS.  In an interview with The Cipher Brief, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Seni...

October 24, 2016 | Oren Kessler

The Truth About Egypt’s Revolution

The usual account of Egypt’s revolution goes like this: In February 2011, Hosni Mubarak resigned after 18 days...

October 14, 2016 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Tyler Stapleton

Exporting Iran’s Revolution to Space

Iran is seeking cooperation with NASA, the head of Tehran’s space agency said...

July 27, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Turkey tries to trap Obama with extradition demand

Is President Barack Obama willing to damage America’s relationship with a critical NATO ally over the fate of an elderly Muslim man living in the Poconos? Turkey is trying to find...

July 13, 2016 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Top Intel Official: Al Qaeda Worked on WMD in Iran

Al Qaeda operatives based in Iran worked on chemical and biological weapons, according to a letter written to Osama bin Laden that is described in a new book by a top former U.S. intelligence off...

March 11, 2016 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

America Risks Another Flawed Deal with Iran

Iran’s ongoing ballistic missile ...

November 20, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn |

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...

November 17, 2015 | |

Bearing Witness To A Nuclear North Korea

It’s a long way from Paris to Pyongyang, but as the world ponders the jihadi attacks on France, let us not lose sight of the menace emanating on the other side of the globe from a nuclear-a...