The CIA’s Interrogation Program Deserves a Public Airing
The Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence have bequeathed to the lucky few with clearances a...
National Counterterrorism Center
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...
Op-eds
Al Nusrah Front Claims Suicide Attack at Hospital, Joint Operation with Chechen Fighters
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, has claimed credit for yet another suicide attack as w...
Op-eds
Al Nusrah Front Launches Complex Suicide Assault on Syrian Air Force Intelligence HQ
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, has claimed credit for today's complex suicide as...
Op-eds
Al Nusrah Front Claims 2 Suicide, 2 Car Bombings in Aleppo
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, has claimed credit for four bombings in Aleppo today,...
Op-eds
Al Nusrah Front Claims Complex Suicide Assault on Syrian Army HQ
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, has claimed credit for the Sept. 26 complex suicide as...
Op-eds
The Terrorists Fight On
Eleven years after the most devastating terrorist attack in history, some in America pretend that the threat of jihad or Islamist terrorism has waned to such an extent that it is no long...
Op-eds
Analysis: The Taliban’s ‘Momentum’ Has Not Been Broken
"We've broken the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and begun the transition to an Afghan lead," President Obama said during his...
Op-eds
Suicide Bombings Become Commonplace in Syria
For years, Bashar al Assad's regime sponsored the flow of suicide bombers and foreign fighters into Iraq...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Interrogating Terror
How tough justice keeps us free.
Op-eds
Abu Zubaydah and Iran
At the Washington Free Beacon, Bill Gertz has a piece about Jose Rodriguez, the former chief of the CIA’s Counte...
Op-eds
Declassify Intelligence that Led to Bin Laden
Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and National Clandestine Service, has made quite a splash in the past couple of days. Building on arguments in his new b...
Op-eds
Strategic Retreat
The war on terror is far from over. Why are we coming home?
Op-eds
AQAP Releases 7th Edition of Inspire
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has released the seventh edition of its Inspire magazine. The publication, which was obtained by the SITE Intelligence Group, praises the Sept. 11 attacks...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda, the Internet, and the Arab Spring
On Thursday, I was a panelist at a National Counterterrorism Center-sponsored conference on the global threat posed by al Qaeda; my panel focused on terrorist use of the Internet. This entry is a...
Op-eds
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...
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
Rep. Peter King Seeks Answers on DOJ Decision Not to Prosecute Islamists
House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King has fired off a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, demanding answers about why political appointees in the Obama Justice Department stopped effort...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Martyrdom Tape Shows Nature and Extent of Terror Group’s Reach in Afghanistan
A recently released al Qaeda martyrdom videotape identifies five foreign commanders who have fought and died in Afghanistan within the past few years. The profiles of these commanders reveal that...