President Trump issued a statement saying, “it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!” Former FBI counterterrorism agent Ali Soufan tells Ali Velshi that the president’s statement is “the most un-American” he’s ever read.
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Ali Soufan’s Profile Piece Titled Iran’s Power Player Published on CTC SENTINEL
In our cover article, Ali Soufan profiles Major General Qassem Soleimani, the long-serving head of Iran’s Quds Force who the U.S. government has accused, among other things …
Read MoreColin Clarke Cited by U.S. News: Amid Khashoggi Criticism, Saudi Arabia Shows No Signs of Changing
“My own take is that the Saudis were really caught off guard with the reaction from the international community,” says Colin Clarke, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Politics and Strategy. “They’ve done so many things before that would likely be considered more severe.”
Read MoreAli Soufan Quoted by The Daily Beast: Counterterrorism Pros Warn That Trump’s Rhetoric Will Yield Violence
No one yet knows who sent improvised bombs to current and former Democratic Party leaders, CNN, George Soros, and now Robert De Niro. But counterterrorism professionals are warning—tentatively—that the incendiary rhetoric from President Trump is conducive to political violence.
Read MoreAli Soufan Quoted by NBC News: Trump May Have Lost his Risky Bet on Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Other former officials said the demotion of Mohammed bin Nayef was an ominous sign. “Letting Mohammed bin Salman push out Mohammed bin Nayef is the original sin of this relationship,” said Ali Soufan, a former FBI official who has written extensively about counterterrorism in the Middle East
Read MoreAli Soufan Interviewed by Der Spiegel: Former FBI Agent on Saudi Crown Prince’He Wanted to Send a Message’
Why would someone want Saudi Arabian Jamal Khashoggi dead? The former FBI agent Ali Soufan says that the journalist posed a threat to the House of Saud
Read MoreJeffrey Ringel Quoted by Wired: The Collateral Damage of Trump’s Extreme Declassifications
“I do not recall anything like this happening in the past,” says Jeffrey Ringel, director at the intelligence consultancy The Soufan Group, who spent 21 years as a national security specialist at the FBI
Read MoreAli Soufan Interviewed on MSNBC: Yemen is a Forgotten War
Ali Soufan, founder of The Soufan Group joins Ali Velshi to talk about The funerals of 40 children, killed during a Saudi-led air strike, has put renewed focus on Yemen.
Read MoreAli Soufan Interviewed on ITV: Al Qaeda More Widespread and Dangerous Than Ever, Warns Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan
The Soufan Group CEO Ali Soufan Interviewed on ITV
Read MoreAli Soufan Interviewed by The Guardian: Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan: ‘ISIS is not Over – it Will Take a Different Shape’
Some American teenagers dream of a glamorous career in the FBI, a chance to shoot guns and catch criminals, but the idea had not occurred to Ali Soufan. At least, not until The X Files. “Mulder and Scully were going round the world looking for aliens,”
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