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Guy Taylor

Guy Taylor

Guy Taylor is the National Security Editor at The Washington Times, overseeing the paper's State Department, Pentagon and intelligence coverage and driving the daily Threat Status newsletter. He has reported from dozens of countries and been a guest on the BBC, CNN, NPR, FOX, C-SPAN and The McLaughlin Group.

A series Mr. Taylor led on Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. election was recognized with a Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, and a Society for Professional Journalists award. In 2012, he won a Virginia Press Association award reporting from Mexico.

Prior to joining The Times in 2011, Mr. Taylor was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Fund For Investigative Journalism. He wrote for a variety publications, from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to Salon, Reason, Prospect, the Daily Star of Beirut, the Jerusalem Post and the St. Petersburg Times. He also served as an editor at World Politics Review, wrote for America's Quarterly and produced videos and features for Agence France-Presse.

Mr. Taylor holds an M.S. in Global Security Studies from Angelo State University and a B.A. from Clark University. He was part of a team who won a Society of Professional Journalists award for their reporting on the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

He can be reached at gtaylor@washingtontimes.com.

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Articles by Guy Taylor

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ahead of an NCAA college football game between the Army and the Navy, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Rex Tillerson announces partial easing of State Department hiring ban

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson drew applause from U.S. diplomats Tuesday by announcing at a State Department townhall meeting that he was easing what had been a months-long hiring freeze at the State Department to aid families of department employees. Published December 12, 2017

President Trump said on Oct. 13 that Iran is not living up to the "spirit" of the nuclear deal that it signed in 2015. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s Iran nuclear deal deadline ignored in Congress

Congress is about to miss what was widely seen as a deadline to deal with President Trump's demands for a harder line on the Iran nuclear deal, failing to agree on new sanctions against Tehran and punting the future of the deal back to Mr. Trump. Published December 11, 2017

Mikhail Lesin (right) served as a top press aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin until 2009. As his broadcast network RT expanded, he had a falling-out with Mr. Putin, one American intelligence source said, and he moved his family to California. (REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/KREMLIN PRESS SERVICE)

Mikhail Lesin’s death swung attention to Russia after Obama’s intelligence fiasco

That so much of Mikhail Lesin's death remains unexplained more than two years later underscores the deep confusion in Washington over what American spies knew and didn't know about the depths of Russian subversion activities in 2015 and, more broadly, whether Moscow's subsequent election-meddling exposed a major hole in American intelligence. Published December 7, 2017

In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China bank sanctions as North Korea missile response risk backlash

North Korea's test of its most powerful and sophisticated ballistic missile to date has sparked a heated debate inside the Trump administration over whether to impose broad new sanctions against Chinese banks suspected of laundering money for the rogue regime. Published November 29, 2017

North Korea abruptly ended a 10-week pause in its weapons testing by launching what the Pentagon said was an intercontinental ballistic missile, apparently its longest-range test yet, a move that will escalate already high tensions with Washington. The Korean letters read "Fired ballistic missile." (Associated Press)

North Korea missile test flouts Donald Trump’s threats

North Korea fired what may be its most sophisticated ballistic missile ever Tuesday, flouting President Trump's threats and international efforts to halt the rogue nation's nuclear weapons program and kicking off what national security experts say is likely the first in a surge of new tests from the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the coming months. Published November 28, 2017

Kim Yong-nam (left), North Korea's No. 2 political leader and head of its legislature, has been meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The length of a visit in August raised alarm bells in Washington. (Associated Press/File)

Fresh concern over possible Iran-North Korea nuclear links

A series of high-level meetings between Iranian and North Korean officials has prompted fresh concern in U.S. national security circles about the depth of military and ballistic missile technology cooperation between the two American adversaries, according to a Washington think tank. Published November 28, 2017

Opposition Alliance presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla, center, talks to the press after a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. Hondurans waited anxiously with no results released hours after polls closed for Sunday's presidential election, while both the president and his main challenger claimed victory after what appeared to be a heavy turnout by voters. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Salvador Nasralla, Honduras TV host, might win presidency

An ostentatious TV show host held the lead Monday in Honduras' presidential election -- a surprise development that prompted concern among U.S. officials who'd hoped the Central American nation's current, pro-Washington president would cruise to a second term. Published November 27, 2017

With an appeal of "never again," Japanese visited Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima this year to mark the 72nd anniversary of the 1945 attack that killed 140,000 people. (Associated Press/File)

Japan debates constitution’s military passivism

A moral debate is raging across Japan over whether the pacifist constitution American occupiers installed 70 years ago after World War II should be revised so the nation can better prepare itself against a rising China and North Korean nuclear threats. Published November 26, 2017

In this Nov. 9, 2017, photo, Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, speaks during an event in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm) ** FILE **

Steve Bannon in Japan, rails against China’s ‘hegemonic’ ambitions

Former Trump administration chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon railed against China's "hegemonic" ambitions Wednesday, telling a crowd in Tokyo that the West and its Asian allies must wake up to communist Beijing's plan to "dominate" the world economy. Published November 15, 2017

Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon delivered the keynote address at the Global Rally for the Reunification of Korea at Seoul’s World Cup Stadium. (PHOTO CREDIT: HSA-UWC) **FILE**

Seoul interfaith rally calls for reunification of Korean peninsula

The risk is higher today than ever that threatening rhetoric between the U.S. and North Korea could spiral toward war, says a former CIA director who joined a massive rally here of religious leaders from around the world on Saturday in call for peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula. Published November 11, 2017

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, right, with CIA Director John Brennan, center, and FBI Director James Comey, left, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on cyberthreats. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Russia meddling report to Trump raises questions of motive

Fourteen days before President Trump took the oath of office, the Obama administration's intelligence chiefs made public a unanimous assessment claiming Russian operatives, under orders from President Vladimir Putin, had orchestrated an influence campaign to help Mr. Trump win the presidential contest. Published November 8, 2017