Weekly Commentators

Gordon G. Chang is the author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World, released by Random House in January 2006. Showdown focuses on nuclear proliferation in general and the North Korean crisis in particular. His first book is The Coming Collapse of China (Random House, August 2001).

He is a columnist at Forbes.com. He lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie. His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and Barron’s. He has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities and at The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other institutions.

He has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the Pentagon. He has also spoken before industry and investor groups including Bloomberg, Sanford Bernstein, and Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia. Chang has appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He has served two terms as a trustee of Cornell University.

Gordon Chang on SFR

Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor and a Contributing Editor with National Review Online. He co-chairs the Center for Law and Counterterrorism, a joint project of FDD and the National Review Institute, where he also serves as a senior fellow. 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 that included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a plot to bomb New York City landmarks.

Mr. McCarthy also made major contributions to the prosecutions of the bombers of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the Millennium plot attack Los Angeles International Airport. Following the September 11 attacks, Mr. McCarthy supervised the U.S. Attorney’s Anti-Terrorism Command Post in New York City, coordinating investigative and preventive efforts with numerous federal and state law enforcement and intelligence agencies. From 1999 through 2003, he was the Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District’s satellite office, responsible for federal law enforcement in six counties north of New York City.

Andy McCarthy on SFR

Jim Hanson is an editor for Big Peace focusing on the practitioners of our national security policies on the ground. He served as a Weapons Sergeant in 1st Special Forces Group across most of the Pacific Rim and also spent three years with the Army in Germany and much of Europe prior to that. He also writes and produces videos for the award-winning military site BLACKFIVE. You can follow him on Twitter @Uncle_Jimbo.

 

Jim Hanson on SFR

Roger F. Noriega is a former assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs (Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean) and a former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States. He coordinates AEI’s program on Latin America and writes for the Institute’s Latin American Outlook series. Experience Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State, 2003-2005 U.S. Ambassador, 2001-2003; Senior Adviser, 1993-94, Organization of American States Staff Member, Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Senate, 1997-2001 Staff Member, International Relations Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, 1994-97 Senior Policy Adviser, U.S. Mission to the Organization of American States, 1990-93 Staff, U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of State, 1986-90

 

Roger Noriega on SFR

Formerly with the Los Angeles News Group and The Washington Times, Sara A. Carter is now the National Security Correspondent for The Washington Examiner. Carter makes guest appearances on Fox News, CNN, BBC International and C-Span. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook Author based RSS for your Feed Reader Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/people/sara-carter#ixzz1SCR6wyKQ

 

Sara Carter on SFR

Bill Gertz is Geopolitics editor, national security correspondent and columnist for The Washington Times, and has been with the newspaper since 1985. Bill is the author of six books, four of which were national bestsellers. His 1999 book, “Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security,” (Regnery, May 1999) was on the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks. His second book, “The China Threat: How the People’s Republic Targets America,” (Regnery) was released in November 2000. His book, “Breakdown: How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11,” was published in August 2002 and was a national bestseller.

 

Bill Gertz on SFR