J. Michael  Waller

J. Michael Waller

J. Michael Waller is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of International Communication at the Institute of World Politics, a graduate school of national security and international affairs in Washington, DC, where he heads a program on the study of propaganda and political warfare. He is also Vice President for Information Operations at the Center for Security Policy. He holds a Ph.D. in international security affairs from Boston University. Author of several books, Dr. Waller has written for the Los Angeles Times, Reader's Digest, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, and other newspapers and magazines.
J. Michael  Waller

Why It’s Important To Show The Evidence Of Bin Laden’s Death

The US should have an information strategy to match its effective intelligence and military capabilities. Providing the American public and the world with proof of Osama bin Laden's death would go far to bring closure to victims, quell skeptics of America's capabilities and resolve, and undermine the enemy.
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Display Bin Laden’s Body At Ground Zero. Then Destroy The Al Qaeda Legacy.

Leave no room for conspiracy theorists to say the CIA faked bin Laden's death, and for al Qaeda to find some propaganda benefit. Americans are entitled to view Osama bin Laden's naked body on display in Lower Manhattan. The body should then be burned and its ashes flushed into the New York City sewer system. After that, the US should expose all possible derogatory information about bin Laden to make his followers ashamed to raise their heads again.
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Here’s to you, Big Sis!

Public protest against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s electronic strip-search/grope ‘n go airport “security” policy is making way to public ridicule of “Big Sis” herself. Nobody can lampoon stupid big government policies better than Oleg Atbashian, who lived through daily bureaucratic nightmares in his native Soviet Union. The creative genius behind the satirical People’s Cube website, Atbashian [...]
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Muslim Brotherhood Rallies to Ground Zero Mosque

After initially staying away from the controversy, the Muslim Brotherhood has embraced the cause of the Ground Zero mosque and some of its US-based front groups are now engaged. A summit of Muslim organizations in the US met in New York City on Sunday, September 19, to discuss what sponsors perceive as increased anti-Islamic rhetoric, much [...]
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More Muslims Speak Out Against Ground Zero Mosque

Muslims across the U.S. and around the world are speaking out against building an Islamic center and mosque near the mass murder site at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. Many Muslim voices are echoing conservative critics of the Cordoba Initiative’s attempt to build the 13-story facility just 600 feet from where the twin towers of the [...]
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Odd Connections of Some GOP Backers of Ground Zero Mosque

Looking ahead at the November midterm elections and the Ground Zero mosque controversy, a group of Arab-American and Muslim Republicans wrote in an open letter, “we cannot support victory at the expense of . . . the Arab and Muslim community in America.” Read those words carefully. These self-styled Republicans, who are criticizing those who object [...]
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Rove: ‘I Don’t Want the Mosque to be Built There’

Senior Republican strategist Karl Rove says he opposes the planned construction of a mosque near the site of the September 11, 2001 al Qaeda terrorist attack in lower Manhattan. He tells George Stephanopoulos on ABC News, “I don’t want the mosque to be built there.” Rove is considered the architect of former President George W. Bush’s outreach [...]
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Special Ops Forces Should Snatch WikiLeaks Founder, Counterspy Says

The United States government should issue an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian who published tens of thousands of classified U.S. military documents on his website, and try him on espionage charges. And if Assange doesn’t face the charges voluntarily, the U.S. should send in a commando team to snatch him anywhere [...]
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Spy-Hunter: WikiLeaks Should Be Handled as Espionage Case

One of the nation’s highest-ranking former spy hunters says that the individuals responsible for the theft and publication of tens of thousands of secret military documents should be prosecuted under federal espionage laws. The Obama Administration is pursuing the disclosure of more than 90,000 secret documents to WikiLeaks.org as merely the mishandling of classified information – [...]
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Did Russian Spies Unwittingly Kill Arms Control Treaty?

An elaborately planned strategic influence effort went awry for the former KGB last month when the FBI busted 11 Russian agents after a decade-long investigation. Many of the Russian spies, who had spent years assuming American and other western identities, were emplaced to influence U.S. national security decision making over the courses of their professional [...]
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