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Leadership Council
Board of Advisors
In Memoriam
Staff and Senior Fellows
Adjunct Fellows

Leadership Council

Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky
Fmr. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs

Steve Forbes
Board Member
CEO Forbes Magazine

Judge Louis J. Freeh
Fmr. Director of the FBI

Newt Gingrich
Fmr. Speaker of the House

Max M. Kampelman
Fmr. Ambassador

Bill Kristol
Editor
Weekly Standard

Sen. Joseph Lieberman
(ID-CT)
U.S. Senate

Robert "Bud" McFarlane
Fmr. National Security Advisor

R. James Woolsey
Fmr. Director of the CIA



Board of Advisors

Hon. Charles E. Allen
Principal at the Chertoff Group and
Former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security


Gary Bauer
President
American Values

Rep. Eric Cantor
Chairman (R-VA)
Task Force on Terrorism

Gene Gately
Former Intelligence and Defense Official

General P.X. Kelley
USMC (RET)

Charles Krauthammer
Syndicated Columnist

Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland
Former Defense Department Official

Richard Perle
Former Chair of the Defense Policy Board and FDD Advisor

Steven Pomerantz
Former Assistant Director
FBI

Oliver "Buck" Revell
Former Associate Deputy Director
FBI

Bret Stephens
Columnist and Member of
the Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board

Hon. Francis J. "Bing" West
Author and former Assistant Secretary of Defense



In Memoriam

Jack Kemp
Chairman, 2001-2007
Chairman Emeritus, 2007-2008

Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Founding Member, 2001-2006
Fmr. Ambassador to the UN



Staff and Senior Fellows

Khairi Abaza
Senior Fellow

Tony Badran
Research Fellow, Levant

Amb. Richard Carlson
Vice Chairman

Noah Chestnut
Communications and Technology Manager

Mark Dubowitz
Executive Director

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Director, Center for Terrorism Research

Reuel Marc Gerecht
Senior Fellow

Dr. Sebastian Gorka
Military Affairs Fellow

Laura Grossman
Research Analyst

Thomas Joscelyn
Senior Fellow

Jonathan Kay
Visiting Fellow

Orde Kittrie
Senior Fellow

Burak Kuntay
Visiting Fellow

Dr. Michael Ledeen
Freedom Scholar

Clifford D. May
President

Judy Mayka
Director of Communications


Andrew C. McCarthy
Co-Chair, Center for Law and Counterterrorism

Bill McCarthy
Senior Vice President of Communications and Operations

Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi
Senior Fellow


Dr. J. Peter Pham
Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Dr. Walid Phares
Director, FDD's Future of Terrorism Project

David B. Rivkin, Jr.
Senior Fellow and Co-Chair,
Center for Law and Counterterrorism

Stephanie Robson
Director of Policy Coalitions

Cara Rosenthal
Senior Manager, Development

Claudia Rosett
Journalist-in-Residence
Director, FDD's Investigative Reporting Project

Jonathan Schanzer
Vice President of Research


Jean Thurman
Manager of Operations


Sara R. Westfall
Special Assistant to the VP of Research



Adjunct Fellows

Dr. Jonathan Adelman
Professor
University of Denver

Ethan Gutmann
Adjunct Fellow
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Rebeccah Heinrichs
Adjunct Fellow


Joel Mowbray
Journalist

Bill Roggio
Editor, The Long War Journal

Benjamin Weinthal
Adjunct Fellow


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Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor and a Contributor at National Review Online. From 1993 through 1996, while an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he led the prosecution against the jihad organization of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, in which a dozen Islamic militants were convicted of conducting a war of urban terrorism against the United States...more

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A videotape released by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) earlier this week says that a former Guantanamo detainee is now a commander within the terrorist organization...more

From The Weekly Standard Blog: Inside the Gitmo Task Force's Final Report by Thomas Joscelyn, 05/27/2010
On January 22, President Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force completed its final report, which outlined the administration's plan for the remaining detainees held at Guantanamo...more

From NRO The Corner: The Grand Jihad by Andrew C. McCarthy, 05/26/2010
Sorry for the radio silence the last few days, but I'm delighted to report that my new book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, is doing well - even though it only came out officially yesterday...more

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