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Guy Taylor

gtaylor@washingtontimes.com

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

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pompeo dodges Dem grilling over report on Trump’s cellphone security

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dodged questions Wednesday about whether he's concerned President Trump may be making regular use of a cellphone that lacks top-level security features to protect his personal calls and tweeting from hackers and foreign surveillance.

May 23, 2018
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro arrives to the government-controlled National Electoral Council to be officially declared the winner of the presidential election, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, May 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Mike Pompeo vows reciprocal action to Venezuelan expulsion of U.S. diplomats

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday the Trump administration is preparing to "respond reciprocally" to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who kicked out the top two U.S. diplomats in Caracas Tuesday on allegations they tried to sabotage the presidential election there last weekend.

May 23, 2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo waits to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Mike Pompeo says ‘bad deal not an option’ with North Korea

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said North Korean denuclearization is the "top national security priority," but the Trump administration is also focused on "appropriate countermeasures" to anticipated Russian meddling in the 2018 midterms, knuckling down against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's power grab in Caracas and much, much more.

May 23, 2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy think tank, in Washington, Monday, May 21, 2018. Pompeo issued a steep list of demands Monday that he said should be included in a nuclear treaty with Iran to replace the Obama-era deal, threatening "the strongest sanctions in history" if Iran doesn't change course.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Iran pleads with Europe to stand against Donald Trump

A key Iranian political leader called Tuesday on European nations to stand with Tehran against Washington and "show their strength in the face of American pressure" in a bid to salvage the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal following President Trump's withdrawal of the accord.

May 22, 2018
A protester in Seoul held portraits of President Trump and National Security Adviser John R. Bolton during a rally Friday supporting the U.S. policy to put steady pressure on North Korea. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump, Moon Jae-in to meet on North Korea summit

President Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in spoke Sunday to ensure that the U.S. summit with North Korea is still on track, despite Pyongyang's threat to cancel the high-stakes meeting between Mr. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

May 20, 2018
A man watches a TV screen showing file footage of U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 16, 2018. North Korea's breaking off a high-level meeting with South Korea and threatening to scrap next month's historic summit with President Trump over allied military drills is seen as a move by Kim to gain leverage and establish that he's entering the crucial nuclear negotiations from a position of strength. Washington and Seoul, which have no intentions to overpay for whatever Kim brings to the table, say international sanctions forced Kim into talks after a flurry of weapons tests. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea summit threat used to hide nuclear weapons

North Korea's abrupt threat this week to pull out of the upcoming summit with President Trump was highly calculated, according to intelligence officials who say Pyongyang wanted to harden its negotiating position against a quick "Libya-style" surrender of its nuclear programs sought by the Trump White House and buy time to hide its nuclear weapons.

May 16, 2018
A combination of two file photos shows U.S. President Donald Trump, left, in Cleveland, Ohio, May 5, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, in Panmunjom, South Korea, April 27, 2018.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File) **FILE**

North Korea cancels talks with South, threatens to pull out of U.S. summit: Report

North Korea sent shock waves through the Trump administration's hope for a history-making summit with Kim Jong-un, angrily canceling a planned meeting with South Korean officials Wednesday to protest joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises and calling into doubt President Trump's announced meeting with Mr. Kim in Singapore in less than a month.

May 15, 2018
Iranian demonstrators burn representations of the U.S. flag during a protest in front of the former U.S. Embassy in response to President Donald Trump's decision Tuesday to pull out of the nuclear deal and renew sanctions, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, May 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran regime change seen as goal of Trump sanctions, demands

President Trump says he hopes "maximum pressure" sanctions will coerce Iran into accepting a better and stronger nuclear deal, but with Tehran unlikely to accept concessions being demanded by the White House, many are beginning to suggest that the administration's actual goal is regime change.

May 9, 2018
"We are not going to head down the path we headed down before," said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo regarding past attempts at diplomacy with North Korean leaders. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

Mike Pompeo visits North Korea for second time

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo embarked on his second surprise trip to North Korea in as many months, holding discussions ahead of a planned summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to discuss the North's nuclear program.

May 8, 2018
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani addresses a gathering at a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, in Scranton, Pa. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) **FILE**

Iranian-Americans plan rally for regime change

Iranian-Americans who want "regime change" in Tehran are holding a major conference in the District of Columbia this weekend to support the protests that have arisen inside Iran against the Islamic Republic's hard-line government in recent months.

May 3, 2018