# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-soufan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:00:10.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-soufan"
name: "Ali Soufan"
slug: "ali-soufan"
description: "Ali H. Soufan is a Lebanese-American former FBI agent who was involved in a number of high-profile anti-terrorism cases both in the United States and around the world. A 2006 New Yorker article described Soufan as coming closer than anyone to preventing the September 11 attacks and implied that he would have succeeded had the CIA been willing to share information with him. He resigned from the FBI in 2005 after publicly chastising the CIA for not sharing intelligence with him which could have prevented the attacks. He is a former and founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity."
tagline: "Former FBI Agent, founder of the Soufan Center in 2017"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ali_Soufan%2C_official_portrait%2C_Homeland_Security_Council.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.1
  momentum:             1.610942249240122
  historical:           6.687197333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Ali_H_Soufan"
    handle:    "Ali_H_Soufan"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Soufan"
    title: "Ali Soufan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "علي صوفان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "على صوفان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Soufan"
    title: "Ali Soufan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Soufan"
    title: "Ali Soufan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%9F"
    title: "עלי סופאן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Soufan"
    title: "Ali Soufan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4725227"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump