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Montoya is full of crap. Period. He and Watts are two examples of what was wrong with Comey’s FBI, and some of his predecessors, “No Threat From The Left” mentality.
The Far Right (Nazis, neo-Nazis, white racists and suprematcist) do exist and are a limited but dangerous threat to the US society but not its’ national security, per se.
There were more communist and anarchist terrorists actively striking America from the old SDS/Weatherman/PFOC/New Dawn/Black Panthers and RNA/RAM groups, and affinity groups (mainly white Marxists on the East Coast with the small SLA on the West Coast) in the late 60’s/70/s and into the early 80s (the WUO became the white faction of the maoist May 19th Communist Organization along with the old Black Liberation Army/RNA remnants at the Nyack, NY killings and assassinations of NYPD police officers).
I was briefly involved in work that included these groups and some you never heard of, from the formation of the SDS/WUO to the Black Panther killing of Officer Sager in Baltimore and an attempt to bomb a major landmark in NYC. An old school friend of mine (as we discovered laughingly at an unplanned reunion)was on the Buck/Clark surveillance of the 1980’s old SDS/WUO network of bombers, including the BLM’s Susan Rosenberg finances handling of today).
Wont’ even mention a few small Hispanic terrorist groups (Young Lords, some of La Raza, etc., the Puerto Rican nationalists turned Marxists of the FALN (Fraunces Tavern bombing/killings) the MIRA? killing of two US sailors in Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (Cuban-trained), and smaller PR terrorist cells.
Today’s ANTIFA was significantly organized and trained by Filipino Marxist (NPA supporter) Walden Bello (Seattle 1999 riots and WTO riots 2000, World Bank protests in the US, etc)., and a handful of younger Marxist/anarchist radicals.
We also have the terrorists (aka in DC as “protestors”, aka “rioters) of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) and their front “Fight Fascism” (aka “Resist Fascism”).
There are also the Marxist Red Block anarchists (who seem to have merged into ANTIFA) and the old Black Bloc psychopathic anarchists (now in Antifa - Seattle and Portland).
Seems the FBI, Watts and Montoya missed these during their careers. That would explain why some of the leadership of the FBI/DNI/DOJ, etc. were so fixated on bringing down the elected president of the US, Donald Trump and not looking at Russian, Iranian, No. Korean, Red Chinese, and Cuban disinformation and hacking/trolling operations in the U.S. Watts, Montoya, Brennan, Clapper, Strzok, McCabe, etc. were guilty as hell of “dereliction of duty”, “malfeasance of office”, and quite literally treason for falling for Russian, etc. disinformation programs while ignoring their real threats, along with those of the Antifa/BLM movements and their riots, arson, attacks on the police, and calls for the destruction of the constitutional governance of America.
Other than that, Watts and Montoya and others did a really good job of protecting America from the “alt-right”, whatever the heck that is.
Been in this field of research for over 50 years. I stand by what I’ve seen and learned during that period of time.