Rita Katz is Director SITE Institute, which she co-founded in 2002 with Josh Devon.

„Since well before September 11, she has personally briefed government officials, including former terrorism czar Richard Clarke and his staff in the White House, as well as investigators in the Department of Justice, Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Homeland Security on the financing and recruitment networks of the terrorist movement. Many of her leads have prompted the government to investigate and take legal action against individuals and organizations suspected of ties to terrorism,“ the SITE website states.[1]

Prior, Katz „served as Research Director“ of Steven Emerson‘s The Investigative Project on Terrorism[2] in Washington, DC. „Born in Iraq and a graduate of the Middle Eastern Studies program at Tel Aviv University, Katz speaks both Arabic and Hebrew with native fluency.“[1]

Katz was identified as one of the attorneys, „counsel for the plaintiffs“—“Families of victims of September 11 terrorist attacks are suing, among others, various Saudi princes for $116 trillion of damages from the loss of life in September 11.“—in an August 16, 2002, video clip shown on CNN‘s Crossfire with Robert Novak.[3]

Katz is the author of Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America published 2003 by HarperCollins (owned by Rupert Murdoch).