Jim Kouri
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a columnist for The Examiner (examiner.com) and New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he’s a blogger for the Cheyenne, Wyoming Fox News Radio affiliate KGAB (www.kgab.com). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.
He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer and columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. Kouri appears regularly as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Fox News Channel, Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, etc.
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Clifford D. May
Clifford D. May is the President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism created immediately following the 9/11 attacks on the United States. 
He is also the Chairman of the Policy Committee of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), an international, non-partisan organization based in Washington D.C. comprised of leading members of the national security community. The Daily Telegraph (U.K.) named May one of the “100 most influential conservatives in America” this year (as well as in its earlier tally).
Mr. May has had a long and distinguished career in international relations, journalism, communications and politics.
Fred Gedrich
Fred Gedrich is a foreign policy and national security analyst. He has appeared on the BBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC and has been a guest on hundreds of radio stations throughout the country discussing world affairs and the Global War on Terror. His articles have been published and used by, among others, CBS News, Le Monde, The Miami Herald, National Review Online, New York Post, New York Daily News, and the Washington Times. He is also a contributing author on “War Footing” and “Redefining Sovereignty.”
Fred served in the U.S. Departments of Defense and State for nearly 30 years. He traveled throughout the United States and to U.S. missions in over 50 countries. He evaluated many of the most sophisticated weapon systems in the DoD arsenal. And his notable State Department assignments include Beijing, China during Tiananmen Square Massacre; Beirut, Lebanon under hostile conditions; Haiti during the embargo; several African countries undergoing political, economic, and social turmoil; and newly independent states in the former Soviet Union shortly after the collapse of the communist empire. He has also attended UN World Summits in Monterrey, Mexico and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Fred received a bachelor’s degree from Wilkes College and a master’s degree from Central Michigan University. And he enjoys running, weightlifting, and traveling.
Scott Winchell
Is the Managing Director of the Scott Vallely Soldiers Memorial Fund He is also the CEO and Editor-In-Chief of Stand Up America US
Annie Hamilton
Is a frequent writer across the nation. Look for her work at the following locations:
www.StandupAmericaUs.com
www.SoldiersMemorialfund.org
www.TheBrainSociety.ning.com/
www.SaveOurDemocracy.org
www.goldcoastchronicle.com/
Diana West
Washington Times columnist Diana West writes a weekly commentary column for Newspaper Enterprise Association. A conservative with a strong bent for cultural commentary, Diana West explores topics few writers touch upon – from whether Islam is really a religion of peace, to whether Howard Dean was as good a governor as his campaign claims he was, to society’s bizarre efforts to protect children from Mother’s Day, to the rise of “PC” summer camps in Vermont – presenting all in a deft, often humorous manner.
She is the author of a recently released book: The Death of the Grown-Up 
Dr. Edwin X. Berry
His thesis is summarized in cloud physics textbooks and taught in university courses. My mathematical breakthrough to calculate collection of particles with a mass range of 12 orders of magnitude was used in astronomy to help calculate the formation of the universe. Chief scientist and manager of the Desert Research Institute‘s airborne research facility. National Science Foundation Program Manager for Weather Modification. Managed NSF‘s leading-edge national weather research projects, including the Metropolitan Meteorological Experiment (METROMEX) and the National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE). Since 2001, He has focused on the global warming problem. Global warming is intimately tied to my knowledge of cloud physics, numerical modeling, meteorology, weather modification and management of government weather modification research. Atmospheric Physicist, American Meteorological Society. Director Climate Physics, LLC.
Louis Rene Beres
Louis Rene Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) is a professor of Political Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. The son of Austrian Jewish refugees, he was born on August 31, 1945 in Zürich, Switzerland and earned a B.A. from Queens College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1971. Louis René Beres has written several books and currently writes editorials for various newspapers.
Louis René Beres has written ten books and several hundred scholarly articles and monographs. He also lectures widely on matters of terrorism, strategy and international law, including at such Israeli venues as the Dayan Forum (with Maj. Gen. Avihu Ben-Nun); the National Defence College (IDF); the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies; The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (Bar-Ilan University); Likud Chamber; Likud Security Group; the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. As an expert on nuclear war and nuclear terrorism, he is closely involved with Israeli security issues. He is Chair of “Project Daniel,” a group advising Israel’s Prime Minister on existential nuclear questions. The group’s final report, Israel’s Strategic Future has been discussed in major media.
Professor Beres can be reached at lberes@purdue.edu
Ronen Bergman
Bergman is an Israeli investigative journalist and the author of ‘The Secret War with Iran’. Currently the senior security and intelligence correspondent and analyst for Yedioth Ahronoth, and a former senior staff feature writer for Haaretz. He is also an anchor on an Israeli television news program and a frequent guest on talk shows.
Bergman is a member of the Israeli Bar, holds a M.Phil degree in international relations, and was awarded a Ph. D by Cambridge University for his dissertation about the Israeli Mossad, the first ever on that subject, written under the supervision of the esteemed Professor Christopher Andrew, chairman of the History Faculty. He is a member of the new Project for Security Studies at Cambridge and a lecturer in various forums. He also teaches investigative journalism at Tel Aviv University.
Ilana Freedman
Ilana Freedman is an internationally respected expert in counter-terrorism intelligence analysis and forecasting. The inter-relationships between developing trends in terrorism and their impact on global security is a special focus of her concern.
With over twenty years experience in the field, Freedman is best known for her unique and highly accurate approach to analyzing rapidly changing trends and assessing their impact on homeland security. In 1987, she pioneered a system of research, analysis, and trend forecasting designed to accommodate the impact of rapid and disruptive change. The Collaborative AnalyticsTM methodology facilitates the identification of key issues and the efficient elimination of distracting clutter in complex and volatile environments. Its multi-dimensional Over the last fifteen years she has forecast some of the most significant impacting trends in the global arena, including the globalization of terrorism and its impact on the world economy.
Freedman spent sixteen years in Israel, where she received training in counter-terrorism and where Gerard Group was founded. As head of the Jerusalem-based firm, she served as advisor to both government and industry. During this period, the firm carried out an ongoing, in-depth study of Israel’s approach to counter-terrorism and its potential for application in America.
After returning to the United States in 1995, and since 9/11 has been leading the company in the provision of counter-terrorism preparedness consulting services and intelligence analysis
She has been a featured speaker on the terrorist threat and counter-terrorism preparedness at international conferences throughout the United States and abroad.
Freedman’s columns on terrorism, civil defense, and security have appeared in the New York Post and other publications. She has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Inc. Magazine and has been a frequent guest on national radio talk shows.
Tom McInerney
Lt. General US Air Force (retired) Tom McInerney is the founder of Government Reform Through Technology, a consulting firm that works with high-tech companies. GRTT conducts business with federal, state, city and local governments to help them introduce advanced technology into the public sector.
Prior to this, he was the CEO and the president of Business Executives for National Security, a national, nonpartisan organization of business and professional leaders.
For 35 years, General McInerney served as a pilot, commander, and strategic planner in the U.S. Air Force.
He retired from military service as Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Director of the Defense Performance Review, reporting to the secretary of defense. He led the Pentagon’s Reinventing Government effort, visiting more than 100 leading-edge commercial companies to assimilate their ideas about business re-engineering.
General McInerney graduated from the United States Military Academy and earned a master’s degree in international relations from George Washington University. He also attended the Armed Forces Staff College and National War College.
Caroline Glick
About Me
I grew up in Chicago’s ultra-liberal, anti-American and anti-Israel stronghold of Hyde Park. Hyde Park’s newest famous resident is Barack Obama. He fits right into a neighborhood I couldn’t wait to leave.
I made aliyah to Israel in 1991, two weeks after receiving my BA in Political Science from Beir Zeit on the Hudson—otherwise known as Columbia University. I joined the Israel Defense Forces that summer and served as an officer for five and a half years.
From 1994-1996, as an IDF captain, I served as Coordinator of Negotiations with the PLO in the office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. In this capacity I was a core member of Israel’s negotiating team with the Palestinians.
After leaving the IDF at the end of 1996, I worked as the assistant to the Director General of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
I then returned to geo-politics serving as Assistant Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in 1997-1998.
From 1998-2000 I went back to the US where I received a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in June 2000. Although I spent most of my free time hiking in New England, it did not escape my attention that the vast majority of the faculty at the Kennedy School were not particularly fond of America—or of Israel.
In the summer of 2000 I returned to Israel and began writing at Makor Rishon newspaper, (Hebrew). I served as chief diplomatic commentator and edited magazine supplements on strategic issues for Makor Rishon until March 2002.
In March 2002, I accepted the position of Deputy Managing Editor of The Jerusalem Post. At the Post I write two weekly columns. These columns are regularly syndicated.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, I covered the US-led war in Iraq as an embedded journalist with the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. Reporting for the Post, Maariv, Israel TV’s Channel 2 and the Chicago Sun Times, I was one of the only female journalists on the front lines with the US forces and the first Israeli journalist to report from liberated Baghdad.
My writings, which have also been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Journal of International Secrutiy Affairs, The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, The Jewish Press, Frontpage Magazine and Moment Magazine and numerous online journals focus on the strategic and political issues challenging the Israel and the United States. I have appeared on MSNBC, FOX News, Sky News, Christian Broadcast Network, Israel Television channels 1, 2, 3 and 10. I am a frequent guest on talk radio shows in the US, Britain, Australia and Israel.
In April 2004, in addition to my work at the Post, I resumed writing for Makor Rishon as the paper’s lead columnist and commentator.
I am the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC and travel several times a year to Washington where I routinely brief senior administration officials and members of Congress on issues of joint Israeli-American concern.
In its Israeli Independence Day supplement in 2003, Ma’ariv named me the most prominent woman in Israel. In December 2005, I was awarded the Ben Hecht award for Middle East reporting from the Zionist Organization of America. In January 2006, I was awarded the Abramowitz Prize for Media Criticism by Israel Media Watch.
In 2008, my first solo book – Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad was published by Gefen Publishers. You can purchase the volume here.
I live in Jerusalem.
Andrew C. McCarthy
Co-Chair, Center for Law and Counterterrorism
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.
Mr. McCarthy is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Justice Department’s highest honors: the Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award (1996) and Distinguished Service Award (1988). He has served as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and as an Associate Independent Counsel in the investigation of a former cabinet official. He has also been an Adjunct Professor of Law both at the Fordham University School of Law and at New York Law School.
He writes extensively on a variety of legal, social and political issues for National Review and Commentary, among other publications, as well as providing commentary for various television and radio broadcasts.
Kerry Patton
Mr. Kerry E. Patton is an internationally recognized security, terrorism, and intelligence expert. He has assisted and continues to assist in the research and development for an upcoming “National Security” degree program for a major University as well as serves as a Director, researcher and curriculum developer for a new U.S. Army Special Operations program out of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center School.
For over 18 years he has served in the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and as a contractor within the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Patton has taught members of the National Security Agency, Defense Security Services Agency, Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Agency, along with Domestic and International federal government organizations and numerous State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies to name a few in terrorism, intelligence, and physical security related issues.
He has briefed some of the highest of government officials ranging from Ambassadors, Congressmen, Senators, and Pentagon Staff. He has served his country honorably throughout South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe serving within multiple capacities ranging from human intelligence to dignitary protection of Afghan President Karzi. He has interviewed (outside interrogations) terrorists and former terrorists within Hezb Islami Gulbadine, Taliban, Maoists, and the Palestinian Liberation Organization as well as political party members associated to terrorist organizations.
He holds an Occupational Instructor Certification through the United States Air Force, two Associates Degrees from the Community College of the Air Force in Criminal Justice and Instruction of Technical Military Science, a Bachelors Degree from American Military University in Intelligence Studies Concentrating in Terrorism, and a Masters Degree in Strategic Intelligence concentrating in Global Terrorism. Most recently, Mr. Patton completed the manuscript for his upcoming book titled, “Sociocultural Intelligence: A New Discipline in Intelligence Studies” which will be publicly available June of 2010 through Continuum International Publishing Group.
Mr. Patton has several published articles written. He can often be heard as a guest on the John Batchelor, John Loftus, and or the Tom Marr radio shows. Mr. Patton is also the Vice President of Training and Public Relations for the Emerald Society of the Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, www.esflea.org. When time permits, Mr. Patton conducts guest speaking engagements for Universities throughout the United States on “Cultural Complexities throughout Afghanistan.” He currently teaches terrorism, intelligence, and protection management courses for Henley Putnam University.
