Why Was a Key Benghazi Suspect Free?
On Monday, the Pentagon announced that Ali Ani al Harzi was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Mosul, Iraq. For those who...
John O. Brennan
What else is Iran hiding?
We don’t know all that has transpired in the talks on Iran’s nuclear program being conducted in Switzerland, but we do know that the White House has shied away...
Op-eds
How America Was Misled on al Qaeda’s Demise
Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes In the early-morning hours of May 2, 2011, a small team of American military and intelligence professionals landed inside the high white walls of...
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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...
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They Have a Strategy
During a press conference on August 28, Barack Obama had a rare moment of candor. “We don’t have a strategy yet,” the president said in response to a question about the prospect...
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Their 9/11 Role
One of the five senior Taliban leaders transferred to Qatar in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl played a key role in al Qaeda’s plans leading up to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks....
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Obama’s Performance At West Point
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to bring us together and, on foreign policy, he may be making belate...
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Al Qaeda’s Nigeria Franchise
When Hillary Clinton tweeted her support for the more than 200 Nigerian girls held by the extremist group Boko Haram, she probably did not expect that her tenure as secretary of state would soon...
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Exploiting Osama Bin Laden’s Files
Top U.S. intelligence officials revealed new details about the exploitation of Osama bin Laden’s extensive archive during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday. The officials r...
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John Brennan and the Bin Laden Files
During a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center on April 30, 2012, John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, discussed “The Ethics and Efficacy of the U.S. Pres...
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Why Doesn’t Europe Think Hezbollah Is a Terror Group?
The rift over counterterrorism strategy between the United States and its trans-Atlantic partners will likely be on display next week in Brussels, where European foreign ministers are slated to d...
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The ‘Targeted-Killing’ Memos
Why shouldn’t the public get to read them?
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The Unchanging CIA
Technology and spies go well together.
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Blaming Terrorists for Terrorism
Yesterday the Bulgarian government announced the results of its investigation into...
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Three Cheers for Bulgaria’s Indictment of Hezbollah’s Terror
Sofia, Bulgaria — Defying substantial German and French pressure to not explicitly name Hezbollah as the terror group behind the bombing of a tour bus that killed one Bu...
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The Nonexistent Red Line
Last week, we learned of a secret State Department assessment that forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad had recently used chemical weapons. The State Department cable, signed...
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Osama and the Two Nazirs
Their deaths are instructive.
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Interrogate Brennan
President Obama’s nominee for CIA director, John Brennan, has been one of the president’s closest advisers over the last four years. So it should come as no surprise that O...
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Assad’s Cabinet
Syria’s dictator’s, and the rest of the Iranian-led resistance bloc’s, well-placed advocates in Washington.
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Joe Lieberman’s Legacy: The Battle Against Hezbollah
European officials can and must do more to root out the terrorist group.