Last June, the jihadist terrorist Omar Mateen opened fire at a gay night club in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 and wounding several other revelers. It quickly became clear that Mateen was yet another âknown wolfâ â the term popularized by my friend and colleague Patrick Poole to describe the frequent phenomenon of terrorists who manage […]
Report: Hillary Clinton and Staff Compromised Counterterrorism Ops With ‘Sloppy Communication’
May 27, 2016 by
A new report suggests that at least two U.S. counterterrorism operations were compromised due to Hillary Clintonâs âsloppy communications with her senior staff” while she was secretary of State. Newsweek interviewed a retired military adviser for the unsubstantiated but plausible report. Bill Johnson, who was the State Departmentâs political adviser to the special operations section […]
Obamaâs New Counter-Terrorism Guru
November 26, 2015 by
Since the Islamic State attacks in Paris on November 13, we have seen the development of a new, and strange justification for the Obama administrationâs insistent refusal to jettison its manifestly failed strategy of contending with IS specifically and with Islamic terrorism generally. In broad terms, Obamaâs strategy for dealing with radical Islamic terrorism and […]