Sam Taylor
Sam Taylor is a Media Analyst at the Washington Free Beacon. Before joining the staff at the Free Beacon, he worked at a media monitoring organization in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. State Department in Saudi Arabia. Sam speaks Arabic and specializes in the Middle Eastern media landscape. He graduated from Syracuse University in 2012 and from the University of Chicago in 2014. He hails from Houston, Texas, and can be found on Twitter @Tex_Taylor.
Islamic State, Assad Dancing Around Each Other on Battlefield
Islamic State Twitterati Use Senate Intelligence Report to Accuse U.S. of Terrorism, Recruit More Terrorists

On Tuesday, following the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA interrogation techniques, supporters of the Islamic State and other terror groups took to Twitter to decry the United States with the hashtag #Torture_Report, posting excerpts of stories in order to encourage violence against the U.S. and Western nations.