Clifford D. May is the President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism created immediately following the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Cliff May is also the Chairman of the Policy Committee of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), an international, non-partisan organization based in Washington D.C. comprised of leading members of the national security community. Cliff May has had a long and distinguished career in international relations, journalism, communications and politics. A veteran news reporter, foreign correspondent and editor (at The New York Times and other publications), Cliff May has covered stories in more than two dozen countries, including Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, Ethiopia, China, Uzbekistan, Northern Ireland and Russia. Cliff May is a frequent guest on national and international television and radio news programs, providing analysis and participating in debates on national security issues. Cliff May writes a weekly column that is nationally distributed by Scripps Howard News Service and he is a regular contributor for National Review Online, The American Spectator and other publications. In 2006 Cliff May was appointed to a Military and Security Working Group of the United States Institute of Peace, an independent nonpartisan national institution established and funded by Congress. From 1997 to 2001, he served as the Director of Communications for the Republican National Committee. In that role, he was the Republican Party's staff spokesman, and appeared frequently on national television and radio programs. In addition, he managed all RNC communications activities, including long-range strategic planning; press, radio and television services; online services; TV and radio coaching; speech writing; advertising and marketing. He also served as the Editor of the official Republican magazine, Rising Tide. After leaving the RNC, Cliff May was named Senior Managing Director in the Washington, D.C. office of Weber Shandwick, a firm specializing in public affairs advocacy, public relations and media relations. Prior to coming to the RNC, Cliff May was the Associate Editor of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. While in Colorado, Mr. May hosted a talk radio program on the dominant station in the region, and produced and moderated an interview program on KRMA-TV (a PBS station). In addition, Cliff May served as host/moderator for the weekly, nationally distributed TCI cable television series, Race for the Presidency, which featured "resident analysts" Dick Lamm, Gary Hart and Don Hodel. Before moving to Colorado Cliff May spent nearly a decade with The New York Times as a reporter in both New York and Washington, an editor of The New York Times Sunday Magazine and a foreign correspondent. He established the Times' West Africa bureau and, as Bureau Chief, covered more than a score of African nations. Earlier in his career, Cliff May was the Roving Foreign Correspondent for Hearst newspapers, reporting from a variety of global hotspots. During that same period, Mr. May provided special coverage for CBS Radio News and Bill Moyers' Journal on PBS. Prior to that, Mr. May was Senior Editor of Geo Magazine, and an Associate Editor for international news at Newsweek. Cliff May holds masters degrees from both Columbia University's School of Public and International Affairs and its School of Journalism. Cliff May earned his BA from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y. In addition, he holds a certificate in Russian language and literature from the University of Leningrad. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 16 May 2013 14:56:00 GMT Thu, 16 May 2013 14:56:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Inspire is a glossy, English-language, online magazine published by al-Qaeda. It was conceived by Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric and al-Qaeda leader, who also contributed editorials. In 2011, President Obama... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/05/16/night-at-the-newseum-n1598475 21907f3a-e3fc-42ca-90a2-6d8a05ad0c0d Thu, 16 May 2013 14:56:00 GMT "Arming the rebels - that's an option. You look at and rethink all options. It doesn't mean you do or you will. . . . It doesn't mean that the president has decided on anything." -Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, May... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/05/09/the-unbearable-lightness-of-syria-policy-n1591777 ef14194d-f696-49b8-afee-789e99ee68ff Thu, 09 May 2013 14:59:00 GMT The detention camp at Guantanamo Bay was established in 2002 to hold the most dangerous of those captured in what the Bush administration called the Global War on Terrorism. Controversy over the facility has simmered... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/05/02/would-shutting-gitmo-satisfy-them-or-whet-their-appetites-n1585315 25911fbc-a70d-4704-a148-ef28858adbe7 Thu, 02 May 2013 15:03:00 GMT Defense policies are not created in a vacuum. They are designed to meet threats. Over time, threats change in ways that are difficult to predict. In the past, America's enemies generally wore uniforms and confronted... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/04/25/defense-in-the-age-of-jihad-n1578506 3f90944d-b328-4917-9adc-0cc3d1d82b0a Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:47:00 GMT Last year, the White House announced a "pivot" toward Asia, a "rebalancing" of what National Security adviser Tom Donilon called "all elements of U.S. power." There was to be less emphasis on the Middle East, where... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/04/18/the-problem-with-the-pivot-n1571838 f5907e08-8339-4883-a74d-1e0290ef7c48 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:33:00 GMT North Korea may be an economic basket case with a GDP that is less than half that of Ethiopia, and with much of the population malnourished and lacking even an electric light to turn on when darkness falls. Most North... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/04/11/lessons-in-supreme-leadership-n1564746 0362a011-5903-4883-9f89-e5f146bc71f5 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:10:00 GMT In much of what we now call the Muslim world, Muslims are fighting Muslims. The conflicts fall into two broad categories: those in which militants battle militants, and those in which militants battle moderates. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/04/04/holy-wars-n1557960 58d5ce9f-98ee-4dcb-9a1f-7ab02c85b2a8 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:02:00 GMT Meeting with King Abdullah II in Jordan last Friday, President Obama was gracious enough to mention the monarch's great-grandfather, King Abdullah I, who "gave his life in the name of peace." To Western ears, that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/03/28/crossing-jordan-n1551732 e6e3aa27-9081-489b-ae7f-45c54f4f8d8e Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:55:00 GMT Chuck Hagel deserves praise - four words I did not expect to be writing - for announcing an expansion of the U.S. missile-defense system. Fourteen additional ground-based long-range missile interceptors are to be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/03/21/the-return-of-missile-defense-n1545101 3259b0b1-b5b8-49ba-a8be-542ac497f072 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:53:00 GMT Perhaps because St. Patrick's Day is coming up, I've found myself re-reading Edmund Burke and Conor Cruise O'Brien - and drinking Irish whiskey. I first became acquainted with these three sources of stimulation back in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/03/14/st-patricks-day-with-edmund-burke-n1534265 285a664d-c784-4be9-b931-e3d02d8222f1 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:06:00 GMT If you suffer a heart attack but your doctor thinks you've got a nasty case of indigestion, the medicine he prescribes probably won't cure you. The same applies to policy-making and legislating: Misunderstand the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/03/07/how-to-beat-opec-n1528064 e4fe2931-3c8b-418a-9f51-29eb83090eea Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:47:00 GMT Two points are vital to understanding the sanctions being imposed on Iran: They are unlikely to succeed - if success is defined as stopping the regime's rulers from developing nuclear weapons - yet they are an essential... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/02/28/the-sanctions-paradox-n1522809 a6932890-0eb7-4dcb-82e5-ea5972541485 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:17:00 GMT Next month, both President Obama and newly minted secretary of state John Kerry head for the Middle East. They should listen to a range of views, see the sights, and pause to smell the hummus. As for policies, this... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/02/21/middle-east-tour-dhorizon-n1517463 8bf44556-b16f-4ad5-9cf2-7ef565a9bf85 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:45:00 GMT 'Think about the mothers!" That was the anguished cry of one of the protesters from Code Pink, the left-wing women's group that four times interrupted John Brennan's confirmation hearing last week. She was apparently... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/02/14/the-targetedkilling-memos-n1512519 8d00da13-7f57-42bf-b7c1-3ec8c93fd59d Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:35:00 GMT Ramallah, West Bank - It's difficult not to like Salam Fayyad. The prime minister of the Palestinian Authority has an avuncular demeanor and old-fashioned professorial charm. He boasts a doctorate in economics from the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2013/02/07/letter-from-the-west-bank-n1507369 fafe1cf9-96d4-4d1f-956d-ca195667cf87 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:43:00 GMT