31 Facts About Michael Scheuer

Michael Scheuer served as Special Advisor to the Chief of Alec Station from September 2001 to November 2004.

In February 2009, Michael Scheuer was fired from his position as a senior fellow of the Jamestown Foundation by the foundation's president.

In December 2013 and January 2014, Michael Scheuer was criticized for seeming to advise American citizens to seriously consider assassinating US President Barack Obama.

Michael Scheuer was born in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Canisius College with a BA in History in 1974.

Michael Scheuer went on to earn an MA in American History from Niagara University in 1976 and another MA in American Canadian Relations from Carleton University in 1982.

Michael Scheuer served in the CIA for 22 years before resigning in 2004.

Michael Scheuer was chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station at the CIA's Counterterrorism Center from 1996 to 1999, and worked as Special Adviser to the Chief of the bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004.

Michael Scheuer is known to have been the anonymous author of both the 2004 book Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror and the earlier anonymous work Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America.

Michael Scheuer made radio and television appearances and taught a graduate-level course on Al-Qaeda at Georgetown University.

In 2009, Michael Scheuer reported that he had lost his position as a Senior Fellow with the Jamestown Foundation, after "several major financial donors to Jamestown threatened to withdraw funding" if he continued in that role.

Michael Scheuer's first book, published anonymously, is an analysis of the public discourse available on al-Qaeda's ideology and strategy.

Michael Scheuer began the book in 1999 as an unclassified manual for counterterrorism officers.

Michael Scheuer's main thesis in the work is that the view of bin Laden as a lunatic is a form of "myopia" that limits Western military thinkers' ability to respond to the bin Laden phenomenon.

Michael Scheuer contends that Al-Qaeda is following a martial strategy that is more rational than it is given credit for among Western politicians and media.

Michael Scheuer cites Carl von Clausewitz's dictum that one must strike one's enemy's "center of gravity", and pairs it with an al-Qaeda writer's assertion that "the American economy is the American center of gravity".

Michael Scheuer's book Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq was published on February 12,2008.

Michael Scheuer argues that the instability in the Iraq War has benefited Al-Qaeda without serving any US interests.

Michael Scheuer's views emphasized the danger of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, as well as the ineffectiveness of US policy against these imminent threats.

Michael Scheuer has set out the Muslim world's problems as he sees them; determined that they are caused by the United States; explained why they must be remedied; and outlined how he will try to do so.

Michael Scheuer has been critical of the Clinton and Bush administrations for not having killed bin Laden, for costly and disastrous policy missteps, and for not taking decisive measures to defend the country.

Michael Scheuer has stated that the Mearsheimer and Walt paper The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy is essentially correct.

Israel, according to Michael Scheuer, has engaged in one of the most successful campaigns to influence public opinion in the United States ever conducted by a foreign government.

Michael Scheuer wrote about a relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda in his 2002 book.

Tim Russert asked Michael Scheuer to explain the seeming contradiction on Meet the Press :.

Michael Scheuer explains more fully in the revised edition of his 2002 book the exhaustive study of the evidence of the alleged Iraq-al-Qaeda cooperation that eventually led him to the conclusion that there was no relationship between the two forces:.

Michael Scheuer penned an editorial in late December 2011 endorsing US presidential candidate Ron Paul.

Michael Scheuer expressed his support for US presidential candidate Donald Trump in multiple blog postings on non-intervention.

Michael Scheuer based his support on, in his view, Trump's strong support of the Second Amendment, Trump's proposed wall along the Southern Border, Trump's skepticism of NATO and military intervention in the Muslim World, and Trump's unpopularity with neoconservatives and their media outlets such as The Weekly Standard, National Review, and much of the mainstream media.

In July 2018, Michael Scheuer called upon "those millions of well-armed citizens who voted for Trump" to be ready to kill "a long and very precise list" of those who oppose Trump.

Michael Scheuer's list included the entire mainstream media and two former Presidents.

In March 2018, Michael Scheuer claimed that the European Union was in the process of "falling apart", saying that British Prime Minister Theresa May was "siding with the EU" during the future relation talks of the UK leaving the European Union.