Steven Emerson

Steven "Steve" Emerson is a journalist who has written on terrorism for many years, and founded the Investigative Project on Terrorism in 1995. He began reporting for U.S. News and World Report and the New Republic.

Richard Clarke called him the "Paul Revere of terrorism", and he gained much of his reputation in the 1990s as an early commenter on radical Islam. While his critics agree that he has worked in mainstream media and indeed has excellent sources, which let him reveal questionable covert intelligence units in his 1988 book, The Secret Warriors, they also accuse him of pro-Israeli bias and slanted reporting. He is, however, widely used as a reference by groups that see an overall Muslim threat and are also critical of the American political left, such as Frontpage Magazine.

On MSNBC, he emphasized that Nancy Pelosi meeting with a "radical" Islamic group, the Council on American Islamic Relations, but did not mention that George W. Bush and Colin Powell met with the same group.