Foundation for Defense of Democracies

On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda killed more Americans than any other terrorist group in the history of the United States. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies employs several notable experts on the threat of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence challenges it poses to the United States and other democracies.

On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda killed more Americans than any other terrorist group in the history of the United States. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies employs several notable experts on the threat of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence challenges it poses to the United States and other democracies.

FDD Chairman R. James Woolsey served as U.S. Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995, in which capacity he followed al-Qaeda through its first attack on the World Trade Center.

FDD also supports the work of senior fellow Bill Roggio, and his Long War Journal, the definitive source on the whens, wheres, whos and hows of U.S. drone strikes, and the actions of al-Qaeda writ large.

Reporters at top media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press and ABC News read and rely on Roggio’s work, as do U.S. congressional staffers, and allied soldiers in the field.

FDD also employs Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, director of the Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization, one of the foremost experts on the processes by which al-Qaeda recruits and indoctrinates new members.