Joel Mowbray

Joel Mowbray is an award-winning investigative journalist and nationally-syndicated columnist. He first came to prominence with his exposés of the State Department that led to the end of Visa Express in Saudi Arabia and the firing of the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, Mary Ryan. In 2005, he uncovered the fact that the Bureau of Prisons was allowing Islamic terrorists in federal prison to communicate with the outside world -- yet the agency did not have a single full-time Arabic translator to monitor the phone calls and letters of over 100 Islamic terrorists. More recently, he revealed in a series of stories in the Wall Street Journal that U.S. taxpayer funded Arab TV network Al-Hurra had become a platform for Islamic terrorists and Holocaust deniers, and his reporting led to the forced resignation of news director Larry Register.

Joel was named “Journalist of the Year” at the Conservative Political Action Conference and won the Eugene Katz award for excellence in immigration coverage, both in 2003, and he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award -- that industry’s Pulitzer Prize -- for outstanding investigative journalism. He is also the author of Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens America’s Security.

His work has been published in a wide variety of top publications, including the Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, National Review, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Diego Union-Tribune, Investors Business Daily, Philadelphia Inquirer, Arizona Republic, Manchester Union Leader, FrontPage magazine, Jewish World Review, and Washington Times.

Since 2002, Joel has made over 300 appearances on TV news programs, ranging from ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “World News Tonight” to Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” and “Fox & Friends.”

A graduate of the University of Illinois (with a degree in economics) and Georgetown Law School, Joel worked on Capitol Hill for former Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC), where he primarily handled Social Security privatization. Earlier he spent two years working for Pioneer Strategies under now-ABC News reporter Heather Nauert.