Greta Van Susteren
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Greta Van Susteren joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in January 2002 as the host of the prime-time news and interview program, "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" (10-11 p.m. ET/PT Mondays through Fridays), which launched in February 2002. "On the Record" is the highest rated cable news program in the 10 p.m. timeslot.

While at FOX News Channel Van Susteren has covered a wide range of high-profile court cases including the trials of Scott Peterson and Michael Jackson as well as the trials following the death of Anna Nicole Smith. While covering the disappearance of Natalee Holloway from Aruba, she secured an exclusive interview with the father of a leading suspect, Paul van der Sloot, which led to his detainment as a suspect in the disappearance.

Most recently, Van Susteren provided on-site coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre, including hosting a one-hour special where she interviewed students, families and others directly affected by the shootings.

Prior to joining FNC, Van Susteren served as host of CNN's prime-time news and analysis show, "The Point with Greta Van Susteren." She also co-hosted the network's daily legal program, "Burden of Proof." Van Susteren joined CNN in 1991 as a legal analyst and, during her tenure with the network, contributed analysis to high-profile cases including the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials and the Elian Gonzalez custody battle. She also played an integral role in the legal analysis of CNN's coverage of Election 2000, for which she earned the American Bar Association's Presidential Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Van Susteren has represented various clients in civil and criminal cases during her career as a trial attorney. In addition to arguing cases in federal appellate courts and state supreme courts, she is the author of a chapter on witness and client representation in "Federal Enforcement 1992: Defense Strategies for Winning White Collar Trial."

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Van Susteren received a bachelor's degree with distinction in economics. She earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law in 1979 and a Master of Law from the school in 1982. Van Susteren was the first Stuart Stiller Fellow at Georgetown Law Center and was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree from Stetson Law School.

She served as an adjunct professor at the Law Center from 1984 through 1999.

Recently dubbed one of the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes Magazine, Van Susteren is the recipient of both the 2000-2001 Sandra Day O'Connor Medal of Honor from Seton Hall University and the American Bar Association Presidential Award for "Excellence in Journalism." (2001).

She was also awarded the first place 2002 National Headliners Award as part of an investigative team covering the "Attack on America."

In addition, Van Susteren is the co-author of "My Turn at The Bullypulpit: Straight Talk About The Things That Drive Me Nuts." Greta is married to John P. Coale and lives in Washington, D.C.

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Blog Entries by Greta Van Susteren

No Illegal Immigrant in His Right Mind Would Sign Up for President Obama's Temporary Immigration Policy Change

(45) Comments | Posted June 20, 2012 | 4:04 PM

Why would anyone illegally in this country like and participate in the president's new change in immigration policy? It is an ICE bull's-eye on an undocumented immigrant's back -- and could convert that so-called dream into a giant nightmare.

Think about this:

Under the president's new immigration policy, those...

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Who Will Speak Out Against an Outrageous Insult to Former First Lady Laura Bush?

(559) Comments | Posted June 18, 2012 | 10:00 PM

This (below) is outrageous.

22 women have written a letter to a museum protesting an award to Former First Lady Bush. The award, the Alice Award, is to honor a woman for advancing women. This year's recipient is the Former First Lady.

I can't decide if the 22 protesting women...

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Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?

(421) Comments | Posted June 13, 2012 | 12:10 PM

Of course I don't care how much the candidates raise for their campaigns (they have a right to raise as much money as they want) but, at best, this fundraising stuff has reached the silly point; and, more importantly, the 24/7 fundraising has a giant cost for the American people,...

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If You Can't Beat Him, Smear Him?

(22) Comments | Posted June 4, 2012 | 2:35 PM

Over the weekend I caught up on some reading and noticed the level of swipes recently taken at Fox's CEO Roger Ailes. I thought, really? Why are some so obsessed with Roger -- obsessed to the point that they are so so so busy taking swipes at him? Is it...

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Genocide and Starvation in Sudan Is Getting Worse... and There Is Something We Can Do

(78) Comments | Posted May 29, 2012 | 9:46 AM


As you know, I traveled recently with Reverend Franklin Graham (and Samaritans Purse) to South Sudan and Sudan. In Sudan, home of dictator-president Omar al-Bashir, I saw starvation -- people eating bugs and leaves after their own president bombed their villages and continued to kill them from the air. Words can't adequately describe the cruelty... and it gets worse every single day. You can't live without food and water (and let me remind you, the temperatures can get over 100 degrees and these people don't even have shoes as they walk the rough terrain hoping to find food and water.) This is so so so cruel.

I know we are all war weary -- and for good reason. But I also know we have a giant collective heart and when we can do something that makes sense -- including that we have the ability and it is practical -- we want to. In looking at this crisis, I asked Reverend Graham what the world could do short of war. He had a rather simple answer: spike (damage) the runways of President Bashir so his planes can't take off... and then humanitarian groups can drop food and water for these people. Bashir's only way of attack is by the air -- and he is killing (and scaring) his people and making it unsafe for humanitarian organizations to drop food and water from the air or attempt to drive food into the Nuba Mountain area. Ruin his runways and it will be years before he can get them fixed.

You know this crisis is not imagined -- you have seen it with your own eyes in my pics and video. I know you hate the cruelty inflicted, too. You know that President Bashir is cruel beyond words to his own people -- look what he did in Darfur. And do I need to remind you that President Bashir is under indictment already in the International Criminal Court for genocide? No... of course... you know that. Bashir can't even travel outside his own country because he fears arrest.

Our politicians are consumed with the crisis in Syria and the suffering there -- and there is much there -- but I would like to draw their attention to this crisis, too. I know we can't police the world, but Reverend Graham's solution is a simple one and worth exploring.

One other thing: the people of the Nuba Mountains, numbering about 1.2 million, are NOT asking for money from us. They just want to live. Stop the bombing and the burning of their villages and they can take care of themselves as they have for decades. They just want the chance to live their lives and raise their families.

[The source of the posted video is Ryan Boyette. He is the American living in the Nuba Mountains. Click here for his website.]

Cross-posted from

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The Taliban Is Aggressively Back in Action -- Are We Turning Our Back on the Women and Girls?

(31) Comments | Posted May 24, 2012 | 2:29 PM

First... no, I don't have the answers and I don't pretend to have them. But I also am not delusional -- thinking things are different in Afghanistan and the Taliban than they are. I don't know about you, but I don't think looking the other way changes the reality of...

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In Defense of Robin Roberts

(233) Comments | Posted May 11, 2012 | 4:20 PM

Have you noticed? No one (absolutely no one) said ABC's Robin Roberts' interview of the president was in any way less than professional, thorough and news making.

But I have seen many snarky-ish references from snarky journalists' hypotheses about how ABC's Robin Roberts got the big interview with President Obama...

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Senator Marco Rubio and Elizabeth Warren! Can We Call It Even and Drop It?

(253) Comments | Posted May 8, 2012 | 8:37 AM

In the 1990′s, Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said she was part Native American. It now appears she is not part Native American or if she is, it is 1/32. Her political opponent wants her to answer more questions about it and she is getting lots of heat.

So who...

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Bashir's Bombing Drives South Sudan's People Into Caves

(0) Comments | Posted April 18, 2012 | 10:41 AM

Watch this video: Reverend Franklin Graham at the caves where the people of South Sudan are hiding from President Bashir's bombings and burnings:

Cross-posted from GretaWire.

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Who Do You Believe? War Crime Indicted Sudan President Bashir? Or Your Eyes and Ears?

(76) Comments | Posted April 17, 2012 | 1:00 PM

As you know, I went to South Sudan and Sudan over the past weekend with Reverend Franklin Graham and Samaritans Purse.

The President of Sudan, President Bashir, is under indictment for war crimes and genocide for atrocities he committed in the western part of his country (Darfur.)

Now...

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My Friend, Hilary Rosen

(270) Comments | Posted April 12, 2012 | 12:05 PM

I am rushing to draft this -- I have a flight to South Sudan in hours -- but I wanted to briefly weigh in on this latest storm. If I indelicately draft this, cut me some slack since I am rushing and have little time (none?) to spare, which I...

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Should We Not Report It Factually Correct? (And Many of You May Not Agree With Me on This One)

(16) Comments | Posted April 9, 2012 | 10:25 AM

I see that CNN's Susan Candiotti is getting some criticism for correctly -- factually -- stating what the Tulsa shooters said. It is disgusting what they said. It was both racist and crude.

I know it offends many, but why should the media sugarcoat the grotesque statements and make it...

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First the President Is a Bully... and Now the Judiciary -- Here Is My Free Advice to AG Holder

(1222) Comments | Posted April 4, 2012 | 12:07 PM

What President Obama did two days ago when he bullied the Supreme Court and called them "unelected" -- and essentially threatened them -- was wrong. It also made him look like a fool. He was certainly not acting like a leader, but a schoolyard bully who wants his way at...

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Oh My... Did President Obama Forget Marbury v. Madison? What's Up With Harvard Law School?

(666) Comments | Posted April 2, 2012 | 5:38 PM

Tune in to On the Record at 10pm tonight... if we have time, I am going to discuss this.

Every law school -- yes, even Harvard Law School -- teaches the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It was decided in 1803 (yes, 1803!). You read it your first year...

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Am I Wrong About This?

(1178) Comments | Posted April 1, 2012 | 1:29 PM

Yes, of course the president wants his signature health care law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court... but I suspect (suspect, since no honest person can say he knows) that it would help him politically if the statute were to be struck down in its entirety. This November election could...

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