Speaker Information

Global Issues 2012

Dr. Michael Scheuer

Dr. Michael Scheuer is the former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit, where he also ran the Rendition Program. He resigned from the CIA in November 2004 after nearly two decades of experience in covert action and national security issues related to Afghanistan, South Asia, and the Middle East. He is the author of Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq (Free Press, 2008). He also wrote Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terrorism (Potomac Books, 2004), and Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America (Potomac Books, 2002). His biography, Osama bin Laden, was published in February, 2011 by Oxford University Press.

Scheuer’s writings also have appeared in the Atlantic, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Antiwar. com, New York Times, American Conservative, Dallas Morning News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, India Today, Washington Post, Non-Intervention.com, the National Interest, and the American Interest. Scheuer has been featured on the major national television news programs such as Meet the Press, as well as on international television news programs in many other nations. He has been interviewed for broadcast media and documentaries and has been the focus of print media worldwide. Scheuer holds a B.A., two M.A.’s, and a Ph. D. He is an Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University.