Ryan Mauro

<youtube size="medium" align="right" caption="Ryan Mauro appears on Fox News">C6AMqTfdhGk</Youtube> Ryan Mauro is the founder of WorldThreats.com, and the 'national security analyst' for the Clarion Project.

A recent biography describes him as 'a consultant to various government agencies, political campaigns and policy-makers and an adjunct professor of homeland security and counter-terrorism' and that he 'has made over 1,000 appearances on radio and TV programs from both the left of the right'.

Recent activities

In 2015 Mauro was a speaker at ACT! for America's 2015 National Conference and Legislative Briefing held 8-9 September 2015 in Washington. Keynote speakers included Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Brigitte Gabriel, Bill Whittle, Erik Stackelbeck, Deborah Weiss, Ann Corcoran, Captain Charles T. “Chuck” Nash USN (RET), Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney USAF (RET).

In 2011 he was also the 'national security adviser for the Christian Action Network and an analyst with WikiStrat and he is a former intelligence analyst and director of the Asymmetric Warfare and Intelligence Center'.. During that time, he helped produce a film, 'Sacrificed Survivors: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Mega-Mosque', on the Park51 development project. However, contrary to what the title suggests, the Park51 development was neither a mosque, nor was it located at Ground Zero.

He has written for Pajamas Media and FrontPage Magazine, among other publications including the 'peer-reviewed journal', Middle East Quarterly. In 2011 he claimed to have made over 200 TV appearances as an expert on terrorism including appearances on Fox News.

Background

Ryan Mauro claims to have been studying international affairs since he was 12 years old. Mauro created a 'homemade dossier' while he was in High school which caught the attention of Joe Tenaglia who paid Mauro as a researcher. Tenaglia explains meeting Mauro:

'He didn't say too much and he hands me this article and goes, 'It was on the Singapore Times for 15 minutes.' And I said, 'Holy shit! This is Al Qaeda's nuclear attack plan on America!'

Mauro was 16 at the time and was hired by Tenaglia who suggested that he set up WorldThreats.com, which is 'a compendium of analysis and commentary about the forces that may (or may not) be menacing the globe, from Iraqi sympathizers in Russia (see: "Russia Moved Iraqi WMDs") to bird-borne bioterrorism (see: "West Nile Virus: The Underreported Allegations").

Biography

According to his biography on WorldThreats:

In 2002 he became the youngest geopolitical analyst in the US after being hired by Tactical Defense Concepts, a maritime-related security group, believed to be the youngest hired geopolitical analyst in the country at that time. Mauro’s reports were often forwarded to members of the law enforcement and intelligence communities with great response.

In June 2003, Mauro founded WorldThreats.com to promote news and analysis he wrote and ones he felt needed more exposure. He has also done volunteer work for the Reform Party of Syria, a group dedicated to bringing democracy to that country.

In 2005, Mauro published his first book, Death to America: The Unreported Battle of Iraq. It is about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (and their possible movement to other countries), the Baathist regime’s involvement with terrorism, corruption at the UN, and how Iran and Syria were engineering the insurgency in Iraq.

Affiliations

WorldThreats.com | Pajamas Media | FrontPage | Christian Action Network | WikiStrat

Resources

• Jessica Bruder, Township Teen Tracks Geopolitical Threats, New York Observer, 25-July-2005