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Michael Scheuer

Michael Scheuer is a twenty-plus-year CIA veteran. From 1996 to 1999, he served as the Chief of the bin Laden unit (aka Alec Station), the Osama bin Laden tracking unit at the Counterterrorism Center. He then worked as Special Adviser to the Chief of the bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004. He resigned from the CIA in 2004. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, writing regularly for its online publication Global Terrorism Analysis. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.

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Author Responds to Blurb by bin Laden
New York Times, September 16, 2009
...book club selections. In September 2007 a message was released that recommended we all read ?Imperial Hubris? (by Michael Scheuer). [...] Also, for readers interested to know how it feels, I?d recommend checking out . Mr. bin Laden by the former head of...
The Secret Government: What a Real Bipartisan Probe of Bush-era Crimes Should Look Like
AlterNet.org, September 2, 2009
...against a discredited Republican administration, but it is also necessary to understand the systemic problems and necessary reforms. Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit and author of several books sharply critical of Bush's...
The Nation: Shedding Light On Spooks And Secrets
NPR, August 28, 2009
...against a discredited Republican administration, but it is also necessary to understand the systemic problems and necessary reforms. Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit and author of several books sharply critical of Bush's...
Dealing With The Secret Government
CBS News, August 27, 2009
...against a discredited Republican administration, but it is also necessary to understand the systemic problems and necessary reforms. Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit and author of several books sharply critical of Bush's...
Torture-Spinning Punditry
Consortium News, April 23, 2009
...the plot feared political retaliation for providing a different characterization of the plan that that of the president.' Michael Scheuer, an al Qaeda expert in the CIA's counter-terrorism center, told the Voice of America: 'This doesn't sound like...
Spoiling for a fight
Asia Times Online, April 21, 2009
...into the strategic interests of its main foe, al-Qaeda, and its close affiliates. Along with the works of Michael Scheuer, the US Central Intelligence Agency's brutally-honest former Bin Laden station chief, Kilcullen's insightful work is a welcome...
Former CIA officer to give his take on War on Terror at U. Montana
U-Wire.com, February 20, 2009
...speak as part of the President?s Lecture Series in the University Center Ballroom at 8 p.m. Michael Scheuer worked as a senior adviser of a special CIA unit dedicated to tracking Osama bin Laden. ?No one in the Western World knows as much about...
Books Versus Bombs
World Press Review, February 11, 2009
...has done a wonderful job of uniting one billion Muslims against America for the next two hundred years.' Michael Scheuer, who tracked Osama bin Laden as a top CIA official, went so far as to describe Bush as bin Laden's 'only indispensable ally.' If one...
SCOTT HORTON?Six Questions for Louis Fisher, Author of The Constitution and 9/11
Harpers Magazine, January 5, 2009
...justice.? It was unclear whether that meant return to the United States or to other countries for trial. Michael Scheuer, who supervised the abduction of suspected terrorists, testified that the purpose was to take men off the street and seize...
Year in Review: Our favorite books of 2008
Chicago Sun-Times, December 28, 2008
...of the capabilities of the human imagination. Kevin Canfield Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq by Michael Scheuer: A penetrating and very uncomfortable look at American foreign policy, and what we are doing to lose wars and to create...
Author Responds to Blurb by bin Laden
The Lede, September 16, 2009
...book club selections. In September 2007 a message was released that recommended we all read “ Imperial Hubris ” (by Michael Scheuer). [...] Also, for readers interested to know how it feels, I’d recommend checking out Stephen Walt’s explanation ....
The Secret Government
American Everyman, August 28, 2009
...against a discredited Republican administration, but it is also necessary to understand the systemic problems and necessary reforms. Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit and author of several books sharply critical of...
Sandy Goodman: Stop the Presses: Cheney’s Re-emergence Is Finally Explained!
Sarah Palin, May 18, 2009
...it would be very unusual, since of CIA censorship of other former employes, including former director Tenet himself, Michael Scheuer and Valerie Plame, has been very effective. All complained that the agency unjustifiably cut out parts of their books....
The Mainstreaming of Ron Paul
Little Green Footballs, May 7, 2009
...And then there are the luncheons. The off-the-record talks have brought in speakers such as ex-CIA counterterrorism expert Michael Scheuer, libertarian investigative reporter James Bovard, iconoclastic terrorism scholar Robert Pape, and George Washington...
Ron Paul Tutoring Michele Bachmann At Fancy Lunches
Wonkette » top, May 5, 2009
...And then there are the luncheons. The off-the-record talks have brought in speakers such as ex-CIA counterterrorism expert Michael Scheuer, libertarian investigative reporter James Bovard, iconoclastic terrorism scholar Robert Pape, and George Washington...
Another Shock: Self-Righteous and Naive President Wrong on British WWII Torture
Ace of Spades HQ, April 30, 2009
...butler (New and Improved. Now with 20% more boobs!) at April 30, 2009 03:15 PM (qPIRP) 31 Michael Scheuer is on fire.  Bush and Obama are both Jacobins.  I think that's a tad harsh on Bush, but it's an apt way to describe Obama...
The Goldberg Syndrome
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED, April 3, 2009
...Next up – a virulent post , which excoriates former CIA officer and chief of the bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer, whom Goldberg describes – without any evidence – as "viscerally anti-Semitic." Scheuer’s crime? He told the National Journal the...
2008 Book Reading
Ben Turner's Blog, January 8, 2009
...The Post-American World 10 Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine 7 Jeffry Timmons - New Venture Creation 9 Michael Scheuer - Marching Toward Hell 9 Howard Rheingold - Smart Mobs 7 Katie Hafner - Where Wizards Stay Up Late 6 Judy Schachner - Skippyjon Jones 6...
For Some Secular Women’s Rights Defenders, The Secularism Comes First
The Art of the Possible, December 4, 2008
...of the problem. In the case of Muslim women, it looks as if (a) is the case. From Michael Scheuer, reporting  on the John Esposito book, What A Billion Muslims Really Think : The Gallup data also show that Muslims make a keen distinction between...