Rowan Scarborough was formerly a Washington Times reporter for nearly two decades who wrote a weekly column with fellow reporter Bill Gertz

Bill Gertz

Bill Gertz is an American editor, columnist and reporter for The Washington Times. He is the author of six books and writes a weekly column on the Pentagon and national security issues called "Inside the Ring". During the administration of Bill Clinton Gertz was known for his stories exposing...

 called "Inside the Ring." In February 2007, he joined the Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

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as its national security correspondent. Scarborough currently writes freelance articles on national security issues for Human Events

Human Events

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and other publications.
Scarborough's books include the 2004 New York Times bestseller Rumsfeld's War: The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander about the tenure of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld

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 in the Bush administration. On July 16, 2007, Regnery Publishing

Regnery Publishing

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 released his second book "Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA," about anti-Bush elements within the CIA that leaked information to the media that hampered the Afghanistan and Iraq war efforts. The book also critiqued the ineffectual CIA special operators that had to be rescued by the military in Afghanistan.
He graduated summa cum laude

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from the School of Journalism at the University of Maryland

University of Maryland, College Park

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. He served in the United States Navy

United States Navy

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 as a Hospital Corpsman.