Matthew G. Olsen

April 12, 2022 | Annie Fixler, Graham Kennis

Justice Department Disrupts Russian Malware With Help from Private Sector

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last Wednesday it had detected and preemptively disabled Russian-installed malware on thousands of network devices in the United States and around the world. The...

December 11, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

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...

September 19, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn |

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...

September 18, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

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....

September 18, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

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....

September 10, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Don’t Forget About Al Qaeda

President Obama is set to discuss his plan for confronting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in a primetime speech this evening. According to ...

April 1, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal Fox News |

Most of Europe Reluctant to Crack Down on Hezbollah Despite Growing Threat

A House hearing on Hezbollah as a global terrorist threat coupled with Thursday’s prison sentence of a Hezbollah member — the first in a European court — brings into sharp focus...

February 15, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

February 4, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Report Shows Hezbollah, Iran Join Forces

The head of the Washington Institute’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, Dr. Matthew Levitt, on Wednesday issued a report detailing the intensified and reorganized collabo...

July 30, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

NCTC Director: ‘We Remain at War with al Qaeda’

During testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security on July 25, National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) director Matthew Olsen testified that while al Qaeda's central leadership...

July 14, 2011 |

Questioning ‘High’ Risk Gitmo Detainee Transfers

On July 1, President Obama announced that he was nominating Matthew Olsen for the position of National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) director. Olsen has served in a number of national security-r...

May 29, 2010 | The Weekly Standard

The Risks of Gitmo Transfers

The New York Times has now published its take on th...