Rowan Scarborough is an American

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. For two decades, Scarborough worked as a ''

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'' reporter who wrote a weekly column with fellow reporter

Bill Gertz William D. Gertz (born March 28, 1952) is an American editor, columnist and reporter for ''The Washington Times''. He is the author of eight books and writes a weekly column on the Pentagon and national security issues called "Inside the Ring". Du ...

called " Inside the Ring", reporting on national security and defense issues. Starting in February 2007, he worked at the ''

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'' as its national security correspondent for a few months, before returning to the '' Times''. Scarborough also writes freelance articles on national security issues for '' Human Events'' and other publications. Scarborough's books include the 2004 book '' Rumsfeld's War: The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander'' about the tenure of former Defense Secretary

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in the Bush administration. On July 16, 2007,

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released his second book, ''Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA,'' which claims that anti-Bush elements within the CIA leaked information to the media and hampered the Afghanistan and Iraq war efforts. He graduated ''

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'' from the School of Journalism at the

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. He served in the

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as a Hospital Corpsman. In 2003, Scarborough was a Hoover Institution Media Fellow. He has had to publish an apology for falsely claiming that facial recognition technology had identified antifa activists amongst the pro-Trump 2021 Capitol building insurrection mob. Before the retraction, this false claim was spread widely including by Fox News host Laura Ingraham and was shared by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on the floor of Congress.

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Inside the Ring
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