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Rowan Scarborough

Rowan Scarborough

rscarborough@washingtontimes.com

Rowan Scarborough spent over 30 years at The Washington Times covering national security, including the Democrats' "Russia Hoax." He wrote two books, "Rumsfeld's War" and "Sabotage." A Navy veteran, Mr. Scarborough graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland. He reported for The Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times, Wilmington (Del.) News Journal and Defense Week.

Articles by Rowan Scarborough

Illustration: Google by John Camejo for The Washington Times

Google has found a favorite in comrade Mamdani

I recently took a look at two telling online posts about Zohran Mamdani's background. I then asked Google's generative "AI Overview" about them and received sanitized replies.

July 20, 2025
Audrey Strauss, acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a news conference, July 2, 2020, in New York. Social media is abuzz with news that a judge is about to release a list of "clients," or "associates" or maybe "co-conspirators," of Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. While some previously sealed court records are indeed being made public, the great majority of the people whose names appear in those documents are not accused of any wrongdoing. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Ex-Florida police chief: No ‘client list’

With the new outrage over Jeffrey Epstein, I decided to reach out to some of the players in the 20-year saga who investigated the pedophile's crimes in state, federal, civil and news media arenas.

July 18, 2025
This combo of pictures shows President Donald Trump, left, addressing a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, March 4, 2025, and a handout of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attending a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis - Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

The Cruz-Carlson debate and Iran’s bounty on Trump

Hiding out in Iran is a U.S.-deported Afghan national who today is a historical footnote in the "never-ending war" versus Tehran "can never have nuclear weapons" debate dominating American politics.

June 22, 2025
FILE - In this image taken from police body camera video and released by the Martin County, Fla., Sheriff's Office, law enforcement officers arrest Ryan Routh, the man suspected in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Ryan Routh, duct tape assassin

The barrel protruding from trees at the sixth hole at Trump International Golf Club on Sept. 15 was mounted with an ad-lib attachment: a puttied, taped rifle scope.

June 5, 2025
Qatar Air Force F-15 jets perform a flyover as Air Force One is ready to depart from Al Udeid Air Base, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump, Al Jazeera and Qatar’s Air Force One

Qatar is a bed-and-breakfast for terrorist groups such as Hamas and its savage leaders who grew grotesquely wealthy in Doha as the Gaza Strip sank year after year into Jew killing, tunnels and poverty.

May 19, 2025
FBI, Steele dossier and Trump-Russia hoax illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

FBI unmasks its Trump-Russia hoax

For nearly a year, dossier creator Christopher Steele entertained eager FBI agents with tales of a super-source who had all sorts of dirt on Donald Trump.

April 21, 2025
European NATO navy illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Europe’s navies no match for Houthi sea power

One revelation in leaked Signal war council chat: NATO's European militaries don't have the technological power to defeat the terrorist Houthis in Yemen and reopen the Red Sea to commercial shipping.

April 1, 2025
Censorship of conservative news and new media illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The dawn and dusk of Biden censorship age

How President Biden and left activists built the censorship conglomerate is the story of government activists, taxpayer slush funds and a determination by liberals not to share journalism with unwashed conservatives.

March 25, 2025
Biden and the Mexican cartels illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden legacy: Bigger, richer cartels

President Biden's de facto alliance with Mexican drug gangs on his four-year open southern border brought millions of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs and cartel wealth.

March 17, 2025
Federal Aviation Administration and air traffic controllers illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden’s FAA stonewalled air controller candidates

Years before diversity, equity and inclusion became the official woke battle cry for race-based everything, the Federal Aviation Administration suddenly began hiring based on skin color for the critically important job of air traffic controller.

March 10, 2025