Foundation for Defense of Democracies

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies is one of the foremost authorities on the United States intelligence community, its cooperation with comparable services in allied countries, and the challenges of managing an apparatus that can monitor threats from large, conventional militaries and small, diffuse terrorist networks.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies is one of the foremost authorities on the United States intelligence community, its cooperation with comparable services in allied countries, and the challenges of managing an apparatus that can monitor threats from large, conventional militaries and small, diffuse terrorist networks.

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 employs Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA senior operative specializing in Middle East affairs, who has traveled widely in the region, and writes regularly for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Jonathan Schanzer, FDD’s vice president of research, served previously as a U.S. counterterrorism intelligence analyst for the Department of the Treasury, and understands the process of isolating terrorists from their sources of funding.

In addition, FDD senior fellow John Hannah served from 2005 to 2009 as senior foreign policy to Vice President Dick Cheney, in which capacity he acquired intimate knowledge of all manner of intelligence matters.