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| The '''Investigative Project on Terrorism''' (IPT) is a ]-based research organization founded in 1995 by ]. According to its website, the IPT "is recognized as the world's most comprehensive data center on radical Islamic terrorist groups". | |||
| ==History and mission== | |||
| The Investigative Project on Terrorism was founded by ] in 1995<ref name=about>{{cite web|publisher=IPT|url=http://www.investigativeproject.org/about.php |title=About The Investigative Project on Terrorism|accessdate=March 3, 2014}}</ref> after the release of his documentary file '']''.<ref name=international>{{cite journal|title=International jihadists infiltrating America?|author= Andrew H. Ziegler|journal=American Diplomacy|date=January 15, 2008|url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA174195670&v=2.1&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&asid=82460c5c2f8bedde376660701a4b95e3}}{{paywall}}</ref> It collects archival material about Islamic extremists and terrorists<ref>{{cite book|author=Jeffrey H. Norwitz|title=Pirates, Terrorists, and Warlords: The History, Influence, and Future of Armed Groups Around the World|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LZcp7qgzgzAC&pg=PA206|year=2009|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing Inc.|isbn=978-1-60239-708-8|page=206}}</ref> from a variety of sources: "websites, list-serves, publications, informants, undercover recordings, government records, court documents," and other sources.<ref name=international/> | |||
| In January 2014, Former Congressman Pete Hoekstra of Holland, Michigan became a Shillman Senior Fellow for IPT. Hoekstra will specialize in national security, international relations, global terrorism and cyber security. Hoekstra served in the U.S. Congress for 18 years (1993-2011), and was chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 2008 until he retired from office in 2011. He managed congressional oversight on modernization to confront the threats of the 21st century global war on terror, including restructuring the intelligence community with landmark legislation following the 9-11 Commission report.<ref name=Hoekstra>{{cite news|publisher=Holland Sentinel|date=16 January 2014 | title=Former 2nd District Congressman Pete Hoekstra will join research nonprofit Investigative Project on Terrorism | url=http://www.hollandsentinel.com/article/20140116/NEWS/140119267}}</ref> | |||
| ==Funding== | |||
| IPT is funded via the Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation, a ] tax-exempt organization established in 2006, and largely operated via SAE Productions, a ]-based company founded by Emerson in 1994.<ref name=about/><ref>Nathan Guttman and Larry Cohler-Esses, '']'', 17 November 2010, </ref><ref name=Tennessean>Bob Smietana, '']'', 24 October 2010, </ref> The arrangement avoids the need for the kind of public disclosure associated with tax-exemption, which IPT has argued is necessary for security reasons: "The very nature of our work mandates that we protect the organization and its staff from threats posed by those that are the subject or our research by preserving the confidentiality of our methods."<ref>Ray Locker, Managing director, IPT, Letter to '']'', 24 November 2010, </ref> | |||
| ==Criticism== | |||
| The '']'' has reported that Emerson transfers money from the non-profit IPT back to the for-profit SAE.<ref name=nashville>{{cite journal|author=John Sugg|title=What people in Nashville now know about Steven Emerson|journal=Washington Report on Middle East Affairs|date=Jan.-Feb. 2011|pages=25ff|url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA246256987&v=2.1&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&asid=89b9aae87cebce3b042dc4334c2da18c}}{{paywall}}</ref> The ''Tennessean'' quoted ] president Ken Berger's comment on this fact: "Basically, you have a nonprofit acting as a front organization, and all that money going to a for-profit. It's wrong. This is off the charts."<ref name=nashville/> IPT subsequently published a detailed response to the article, stating that "t issue in the Tennessean story is the relationship between the IPT Foundation, a tax-exempt charity, and SAE Productions, a for-profit company run by IPT Executive Director Steven Emerson. The foundation accepts private donations and contracts with SAE to manage operations. The Tennessean article pays only lip service to the legitimate security issues that dictated this structure and that the IRS has reviewed and approved it."<ref>{{cite web|title=Note to Readers on Tennessean Story|publisher=IPT|url=http://www.investigativeproject.org/2278/note-to-readers-on-tennessean-story|date=October 25, 2010|accessdate=March 5, 2014}}</ref> | |||
| IPT says it "accepts no funding from outside the United States, or from any governmental agency or political or religious institutions."<ref name=about/> IPT received $600,000 from the ] in 2002/3,<ref name=Tennessean/> as well as $400,000 from ] in 2007/8 and $250,000 from the ].<ref>], 26 August 2011, , p48</ref> | |||
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