Posted on 08/31/2018 6:27:44 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A former staffer with the Department of Homeland Security who resigned Tuesday after ties to white nationalists were exposed reportedly attended policy meetings at the White House.
Ian Smith, who emails reveal was in contact with a number of white nationalists, was at multiple policy meetings regarding immigration, The Washington Post reports.
He did not provide significant input at the meetings and was mainly there as a placeholder for his boss, an official told the Post.
Smith resigned prior to the emails being published by The Atlantic earlier this week. DHS distanced itself from his reported views.
“The Department of Homeland Security is committed to combating all forms of violent extremism, especially movements that espouse racial supremacy or bigotry,” DHS spokesman Tyler Houlton said in a statement reported by The Atlantic on Tuesday.
“This type of radical ideology runs counter to the Department’s mission of keeping America safe,” he added.
In one email, Smith responded to a group dinner invitation that the host indicated would be “judenfrei,” a German word used by the Nazis to indicate an area that no longer contained any Jewish people.
Smith was also in email chains with Richard Spencer, leader of the white nationalist alt-right movement. While the two apparently never met, Smith was reportedly very familiar with Spencer’s work.
Smith denied to The Atlantic that he attended any of the events.
While at DHS, he focused mainly on immigrant and refugee policies. Though he didn’t hold a senior position, he “wasn’t just some low-level schlub who didn’t do anything,” a government official told The Washington Post.
The White House and Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Hill.
Is there any proof this individual was involved in any acts of "violent extremism, especially movements that espouse racial supremacy or bigotry”?
Well being born white appears to be in this day and age. I’m
La Raza?
That’s all the Media needs, now they have SOLID proof that Trump is a racist!
You cannot control who SENDS you anything.
I wonder how many of us have stuff that went into our spam filters that we never even knew about.
But if you get attacked by the media, they will find you ‘had contact with’ a number of penis-growth companies.
I don’t know anything about this guy (whether he is racist or not)- but I do know the media is really the misleadia.
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A white nationalist named Ian Smith like Rhodesia Ian Smith who’s dead and gone. Is this #FakeNews?
Ian Smith...... Like the late Ian Smith who used to run Rhodesia when it was a prosperous nation. Their tobacco was supposed to be highly desirable. Rhodesia now Zimbabwe has many high cool elevations.
Shytehole Zimbabwe will soon be run by Chinese masters along with other African nations that have good resources or gold mine potential like Ghana. ChiCom gold miners are all over Ghana.
“””””You cannot control who SENDS you anything.
I wonder how many of us have stuff that went into our spam filters that we never even knew about.
But if you get attacked by the media, they will find you ‘had contact with’ a number of penis-growth companies.
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I must be a transvestite or something then because I have been getting numerous emails lately for good deals on plus sized bras. At least I know that if I make the change I will have big hooters.
I am rather curious as to how the Atlantic came in to possessions of this man’s email.
Seems to me that their are laws about intercepting private email.
Unless someone in lawful possession of those emails gave them to the Atlantic, someone broke the law.
Only the Government even has “some low-level schlub who didn’t do anything”, everyone in business knows what their job is.
Well, at least he is moving the country in that direction. < / sarcasm >
Well, he’s certainly no Senator Byrd.
Where’s the outrage about black nationalists that were in the Obama administration?
Black socialists?
Chinese communists?
Many communists visited the Obama WH.
Government is so full of those schlubs, the “government official” had to offer clarification.
(NYT: The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult)
(Chelsea Clinton, Facebook team up on censorship plan)......See the pattern here....social media nits keeping you busy looking the other way perhaps they don't want Muller disturbed at his witch hunt............
The crime is to be white. They add the word nationalist.
Gee. And a President was elected who hung out extensively with two virulent racists, Jerimiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan...not to mention the open racists inside his White House.
And we have a low level staffer who WENT to a meeting at the White House who was tied in some way to a racist organization by knowing the WORK of a racist, and wrote what might be construed as a racist email?
This is all they have.
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