“When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they distinguished between, say, schizophrenia or bipolarity and a bedrock religious commitment to holy war, they couldn't answer.”

American diplomat and former political commentator

Monica Crowley is an American diplomat and former political commentator. Since 2025, she has served as the 35th Chief of Protocol of the United States. A Republican, she also held a post in the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the first Trump administration. She served as assistant secretary for public affairs from 2019 to 2021. Before that, she was a Fox News contributor from 1996 to 2017, and also worked as an opinion editor for The Washington Times. She has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.