Brett Velicovich

Media Velicovich is a frequent guest on major national news outlets, including CNN and Fox News, where he provides commentary on national security related issues. He has regularly appeared on shows including Hannity, Gutfeld, Fox and Friends, CNN Newsroom, and CBS This Morning.

Velicovich became an official Fox News paid contributor in early 2022, focused on providing national security related commentary to the news network.

In January 2020, CNN interviewed Velicovich about the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and Velicovich's previous work tracking him, to which Velicovich replied that the intelligence community had been watching Soleimani for decades move around as if he was "untouchable" and "he had it coming to him."

Following the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in October 2019, Fox & Friends hosts interviewed Velicovich, where he discussed the significance of al-Baghdadi's death and the critical intelligence information behind the scenes that went into the special operations raid in Syria. Velicovich played a critical role in the death of al-Baghdadi's predecessor in 2010, the original leader of the Islamic State, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.

Velicovich has been quoted on various news outlets warning about the dangers of ISIS modifying consumer drones to conduct improvised attacks in the United States. On Fox News Fox & Friends, he noted that ISIS fighters overseas have been adapting easily accessible consumer drone technology to conduct attacks against security forces in Iraq and have returned home from the battlefield with the knowledge to conduct similar strikes.

Following the U.S. strike on Iran, Velicovich appeared on multiple news outlets discussing the significance of new U.S. military one way attack drones utilized in battle and modeled after Iranian Shahid variants.

Philanthropy

Velicovich has been affiliated with several nonprofits related to humanitarian and anti-poaching causes. He currently is supporting the Humanitarian Aid and Rescue Project, Mara Elephant Project, Bancroft Global Development and Global Outreach Doctors.