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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

President Trump met last week with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office. Legal analysts say the president is the one U.S. official with the authority to declassify nearly anything he wants, whenever he wants to do it. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump’s intelligence sharing with Russians overhyped in media, officials say

Some of America's top intelligence officials are expressing frustration at the wave of media hysteria that has greeted reports that President Trump may have shared sensitive intelligence with top Russian diplomats last week, with some saying a handful of news organizations are guilty of hyping what amounts to a nonstory. Published May 17, 2017

FILE - In this Saturday, April 15, 2017, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder and grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. North Korea has accused the U.S. and South Korean spy agencies of an unsuccessful assassination attempt on leader Kim Jong Un involving bio-chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) **FILE**

Kim Jon-un claims he dodged a $100K U.S. death plot

North Korea's main secret police agency on Friday accused U.S. and South Korean intelligence agents of a failed but elaborate plot to assassinate the isolated nation's leader Kim Jong-un with "biochemical" and "nano poisonous substances." Published May 5, 2017

Iranian presidential candidates held a televised debate Friday. (Associated Press)

Obama nuclear deal on Iran presidential ballot

Iran's most famous hard-liner, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is off the ballot -- blocked by the ayatollahs who vet the Islamic republic's acceptable candidates, but the country's spirited presidential race is still shaping up to be a fierce battle over the nuclear deal with the Obama administration and its allies. Published May 1, 2017

At President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on April 7, he informed Chinese President Xi Jinping over a "beautiful" piece of chocolate cake that he had authorized airstrikes against Syria. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s foreign policy makes impact

It started with taking a protocol-shattering phone call from Taiwan. Then came an almost immediate realignment with Saudi Arabia against Iran, 59 Tomahawk missiles fired at Syria, an increasingly combative posture toward Russia, a massive military strike in Afghanistan and a level of North Korea brinkmanship not seen from U.S. administrations in decades. Published April 27, 2017

The flow of battle-hardened jihadis fleeing the black banners of the Islamic State in the face of the coalition onslaught in Syria and Iraq, seeking to rejoin their brothers in arms in al Qaeda, is already underway, a top national security analyst said. (Associated Press/File)

ISIS, al Qaeda in talks for terror merger

The Islamic State group and al Qaeda, long rivals for supremacy in the jihadi struggle, are feeling more pressure to combine as the Islamic State loses its territorial base in Syria and Iraq and the still-potent terrorist network founded by Osama bin Laden prepares to welcome legions of foreign fighters fleeing the advancing U.S.-backed coalition, analysts and officials in the region say. Published April 26, 2017

A U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane prepares to land at Osan Air Base in South Korea. South Korea's military said Tuesday that North Korea held major live-fire drills in an area around its eastern coastal town of Wonsan as it marked the anniversary of the founding of its military. (Associated Press)

Senate to meet for North Korea briefing at White House

President Trump's top security aides will host an unusual White House briefing on North Korea for the entire U.S. Senate on Wednesday amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and pressure on Washington to organize an effective response to Pyongyang's increasingly brazen military provocations and nuclear tests. Published April 25, 2017

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, welcomes Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, prior to the start of Mattis confirmation hearing before the committee.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

John McCain: Donald Trump needs to get tougher on China about North Korea

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain suggested Tuesday that he'll push the Trump administration to take a harder line toward China over North Korea's nuclear provocations when senators head to the White House Wednesday for an unusual group briefing on Pyongyang's activities. Published April 25, 2017

In this Feb. 5, 2016, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. Two media reports say U.S. prosecutors are preparing or closely considering charges against the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, including  Assange, for revealing sensitive government secrets. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) **FILE**

CIA employee or contractor believed by authorities to have leaked documents to WikiLeaks

Federal law enforcement authorities believe it was a vetted member of the U.S. intelligence community -- either an official CIA employee or a contractor -- who supplied WikiLeaks with a trove of documents that the anti-secrecy group published last month purporting to expose the agency's vast clandestine cyberoperations. Published April 20, 2017

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson criticized the Iran nuclear deal. "The Trump administration has no intention of passing the buck," he said Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Rex Tillerson promises hard look at Iranian aggression

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson slammed the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday -- just a day after the Trump administration had begrudgingly acknowledged that Tehran is complying with the terms of the 2015 multinational accord negotiated under former President Obama. Published April 19, 2017

This Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006, file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an F-15C Eagle from the 12th Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska, flying next to a Russian Tu-95 "Bear" bomber, right, during a Russian exercise which brought the bomber near the west coast of Alaska. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force) ** FILE **

U.S. intercepts 2 Russian bombers off Alaska’s coast

U.S. military officials said a pair of American fighter jets intercepted and escorted two Russian bombers away from Alaska's coastline during a high-stakes encounter in international airspace Monday. Published April 18, 2017

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, delivers a speech during a rally of supporters a day after the referendum, outside the Presidential Palace, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, April 17, 2017. Turkey's main opposition party urged the country's electoral board Monday to cancel the results of a landmark referendum that granted sweeping new powers to Erdogan, citing what it called substantial voting irregularities. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Donald Trump, unlike allies, congratulates Recep Tayyip Erdogan on referendum

Sunday's referendum narrowly granting expansive new powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may distance Turkey from the pro-democracy forces of Western Europe, but could bring it closer to Washington, where the Trump administration has shown itself eager to build counterterrorism alliances with perceived strongmen in the Middle East. Published April 17, 2017

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to supporters in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, April 16, 2017. Erdogan declared victory in Sunday's historic referendum that will grant sweeping powers to the presidency, hailing the result as a "historic decision." (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan granted sweeping powers in Turkish referendum vote

Turkish voters chose Sunday to fundamentally restructure their government from parliamentary rule to a presidential system that grants sweeping powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the nation's current ruler and driving force behind the change. Published April 16, 2017

President Donald Trump, joined by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, speaks during a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Trump was meeting again with his Chinese counterpart Friday, with U.S. missile strikes on Syria adding weight to his threat to act unilaterally against the nuclear weapons program of China's ally, North Korea. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

World divides over Trump Syria strikes, awaits next steps

Russia and Iran expressed outrage and U.N. officials responded with caution to President Trump's punitive missile strike against Syria Thursday evening over its suspected use of chemical weapons, but Mr. Trump's first use of U.S. military force also was met with expressions of support for the action from around the world. Published April 7, 2017

Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican, authored a letter seeking documents related to federal agencies' relationship with former British spy Christopher Steele, who authored a salacious dossier of President Trump's supposed activities in Russia. (Associated Press/File)

Devin Nunes: Susan Rice ‘unmasking’ revelation worth losing investigation leadership

Republican insiders say Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, got the "genie out of the bottle" regarding suspected misconduct by President Obama's top national security aide, Susan E. Rice, and that his surprise decision Thursday to step aside from leading the panel's probe into Russian meddling in the presidential election was worth it. Published April 6, 2017

As President Trump prepares to host his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, a reversal has emerged: The U.S. leader is seen as a wild card, skeptical of trade deals. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump, Xi Jinping to meet at Florida summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping's calculated style will come face-to-face with President Trump's off-the-cuff approach to diplomacy Thursday when the two gather at Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for what could be the highest stakes U.S.-China summit in more than a decade. Published April 6, 2017