War-Power Paranoia
Zero. If you’re keeping score, that would be the number of American citizens assassinated so far by President Obama. Oddly enough, it turns out to be the same number of our countrymen kille...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Awlaki’s Death a Delayed Counterterrorism Success
Anwar al Awlaki has reportedly been killed in an airstrike in Yemen, bringing an end to the life of one of al Qaeda’s most effective recruiters. Awlaki had an especially s...
Op-eds
Gitmo’s Indefensible Lawyers
Co-Authored with Debra Burlingame On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of...
Op-eds
The Daqduq Dilemma
He is an enemy combatant, so treat him as one.
Op-eds
The al Qaeda- Taliban Connection
Obama takes his eye off the ball.
Op-eds
NYT: Bin Laden’s Courier Tied to Pakistani-Backed Terror Group
Contacts between Harakat ul Mujahedin (HUM), a terrorist organization long sponsored by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, and Osama bin Laden's most trusted courier have...
Op-eds
9/11 Plotters Are Araigned
. . . and, finally, the commissions may prove their worth.
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
Are We Safer?
Yes, George W. Bush has made America more secure since 9/11.
Op-eds
Obama’s America Is September 10th America
This is June 2008. That means it marks the ten-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s indictment. He was first charged by my old office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Sou...
Op-eds
The CIA Interrogation Tapes
Remember when this was a real war?
Op-eds
Al-Qaeda’s Hope
As the sixth anniversary of September 11th, 2001 approaches, we should be grateful: al-Qaeda has not successfully attacked Americans a second time on American soil. We also should be distre...
Op-eds
Between Jack Bauer and Dan Abrams
We need a middle ground on terrorist interrogations.
Op-eds
Press That Shield Back
Reporters already have protection, and they owe the public their testimony … just like the rest of us.
Op-eds
The 9/11 Six: An Opportunity for Senator McCain
Whether capital military commissions really happen will be decided in November.
Op-eds
Two Americas
One is fighting a global war; one has better things to do.
Op-eds
Al Qaeda’s Resurgence
FOUR YEARS AGO, HIS WORDS WOULD have represented an almost unquestioned consensus view. In late January, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Dell Dailey, described al Qaeda&...
Op-eds
A Brave Journalist
Syed Saleem Shahzad was a rare journalist. His reporting on the Taliban, al Qaeda, and other heads of the jihadist hydra based in Pakistan was always essential reading. He never wavered, as far a...
Op-eds
Misled by Senator McCain?
After my column appeared yesterday, I did a follow up...
Op-eds
Why Was Key Source on Bin Laden’s Courier Freed?
Reuters has published its account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Like other versions of the story...