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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

Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't care about a victory by Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election, according to a consensus. Moscow's goal was to sow doubt in the integrity of the Democratic process. (Associated Press/File)

Russia’s meddling in U.S. election worries world

What the Russians did, according to a leading international political consultant, was create a blueprint for 21st-century subversion that is now being mimicked by spin doctors and elusive digital data firms to sow chaos in elections wherever they can.

December 28, 2017
President Barack Obama meets with members of his national security team to discuss developments in the Boston bombings investigation, in the Situation Room of the White House, April 19, 2013. Pictured, from left, are: FBI Director Robert Mueller; Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; Attorney General Eric Holder; Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken; and Vice Persident Joe Biden. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Barack Obama used classified intelligence leaks for political gain

By the end of President Obama's second term, the practices of leaking, ignoring and twisting intelligence for political gain were ingrained in how the administration conducted national security policy, according to sources who spoke anonymously with The Washington Times.

December 21, 2017
President Trump decribed Russia and China as "rival powers" challenging "American influence, values and wealth" on Monday during his speech on national security. (Associated PRess)

Donald Trump national security blueprint criticized by Russia, China

President Trump's new national security blueprint labeling Russia and China "strategic competitors" struck a nerve in Moscow and Beijing, with both criticizing the "America First" approach as isolationist and reminiscent of Cold War-style posturing by Washington.

December 19, 2017
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

November 26, 2017