Author Trevor Aaronson

Trevor Aaronson

Executive Director

Trevor Aaronson is the executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and a 2020 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America. He is also a contributing writer at The Intercept and author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism. His 2015 TED Talk, “How this FBI strategy is actually creating U.S.-based terrorists,” has been viewed more than 1 million times and translated into 22 languages.

FCIR Refocuses on Three Separate Programs

March 22, 2016

Dear FCIR Supporter, We are making some changes to the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, and I want to explain where we’ve been and where we’re going. FCIR was founded in 2010 with a mission to ...

6 FCIR Investigations That Had Impact in 2015

January 5, 2016

These stories from 2015 made a difference in Florida and beyond.

Big Energy Pours $1.9 Million Into Anti-Solar Group

November 16, 2015

Utility companies operating in Florida have donated more than $1.9 million to the misleadingly named Consumers for Smart Solar, a political action committee set up to oppose a ballot initiative that would allow for third-party sales of rooftop solar energy.

FBI’s Key West Counterterrorism Sting Target ‘A Little Slow’

July 29, 2015

Harlem Suarez hardly looks the part of an Islamic State fighter. But he's the latest in a long line of questionably competent "terrorists" targeted by the FBI.

A New Look at FCIR

July 28, 2015

The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting unveiled a new website design.

Leaked Documents Reveal Surveillance Tools Orlando Investigators Want to Purchase

July 13, 2015

Leaked Hacking Team documents suggest MBI wants to purchase spyware called Galileo, which the Italian company describes as "the hacking suite for governmental interception."