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THE INDOCTRINATION OF MONICA WITT
Powerline ^ | 20 Feb 2019 | Paul Mirengoff

Posted on 02/20/2019 5:39:30 PM PST by Rummyfan

I don’t believe we’ve written about Monica Witt, the former U.S. Air Force intelligence specialist accused of espionage for Iran. Witt, who now resides in Iran, out of our reach, is said to have caused significant damage to America. She is suspected, among other things, of revealing the names of double agents run by the United States.

Why did Witt become a traitor? Douglas Wise, former deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, rules out a monetary motive.

She wasn’t in it for the money; this wasn’t a fee-for-task thing. At some point, she took an ideological left turn to become aligned with the Persians.

At what point, and why, did Witt take that “ideological left turn”?

This account in the New York Times attributes the shift in part to her time in the military. According to the Times, Witt, who served in Iraq and other Middle East venues, was traumatized by “drone strikes, extrajudicial killings and atrocities against children.”

But the Times also says that Witt’s radicalization “accelerated while she was in graduate school” at George Washington University, where she gained a master’s degree in its Middle East Studies program. The Times describes that program as an “academic proving ground for aspiring diplomats and researchers near the State Department’s headquarters.”

The Times leaves it at that. It does not explore why Witt’s radicalization accelerated while at GW.

It does not point out, as the Daily Caller does, that Muslim-majority nations — plus a handful of private groups associated with them — have given $100 million to George Washington University in the form of gifts and contracts since 2011, according to Department of Education disclosures. This includes $80 million from Saudi Arabia, $14 million from Kuwait, $4.5 million from the United Arab Emirates, and $730,000 from Turkey.

Iran is not on this list, and its interests certainly don’t align with those of the biggest donor. But it’s not difficult to see why Witt’s anti-American radicalization might accelerate while she was a student in a program heavily subsidized by Islamist regimes.

The Times quotes one of Witt’s fellow GW students as saying that “everyone just kind of sat and watched” as Witt expressed strong feelings against American foreign policy in class. No one, it seems, pushed back with even a limited defense of America.

GW’s program is more apt to defend the Muslim Brotherhood. The Daily Caller notes that in 2011, Nathan Brown, who now directs the Middle East studies program, testified before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that the Brotherhood has no desire to push its agenda through forceful means. Brown went so far as to compare the Muslim Brotherhood with the Boy Scouts, though he did allow that the Brotherhood is “more ambitious.”

We’ll probably never know the degree to which George Washington University contributed to Monica Witt’s rabid anti-Americanism. It’s alarming, though, that an institution that shapes the thinking of future U.S. policy makers receives vast amounts of money from Middle East sources with interests quite different from America’s.

And GW isn’t the only such university. The Daily Caller, citing Department of Education data, says that nearly all of the schools empowered to shape understanding of the Middle East among U.S. graduate students receive significant funding from such sources. Georgetown University leads the way with $378,000,000.

We’ve written about a similar problem — Chinese funding of China studies in the U.S. through “Confucius Institutes.” Fortunately, Congress and the FBI are aware of this problem and there are attempts to deal with it.

Not so, as far as I can tell, with Middle East studies. Perhaps Monica Witt’s road to treason will change this.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; confuciusinstitutes; georgewashingtonu; gw; gwu; iran; islam; middleeast; monicawitt; muslimbrotherhood; muslimbrothrhoo; nathanbrown; spies; spooks; witt

1 posted on 02/20/2019 5:39:30 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

This is why we have stealth drones. Find her and make her go splat.


2 posted on 02/20/2019 5:44:21 PM PST by oldenuff35
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To: Rummyfan

May swine piss be upon her from 10,000 swine


3 posted on 02/20/2019 5:58:18 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: Rummyfan
These countries are smarter than we are. Their outlook is for the long term not just until the next election as we are.

We need to get a lot smarter in our outlook for the future. Trump I believe is trying to accomplish this.

4 posted on 02/20/2019 6:07:15 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: Rummyfan

Unlimited spending can only be continued if America continues to whore her war machine to Saudi Arabia et al.

We have population and gear, they don’t but are loaded with oil.

The Saudis pledge only to accept dollars for oil exports and in return we’re on permanent ON CALL status to fatalistic, modernity-hating boy lovers from hell who invent NOTHING.

So we’re ensnared in their politics and we’re sometimes forced to See Things Their Way.

Which is what Mizz Witt did.


5 posted on 02/20/2019 6:12:52 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Should we take her out? I don’t think so. We do owe Iran a punch in the nose and this would not be big enough. Maybe in conjunction with something else.


6 posted on 02/20/2019 6:43:01 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Absolutely yes we should take her out. We should have assassination squads, a drone, whatever it takes. She deserves death for what she did


7 posted on 02/20/2019 6:58:40 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Rummyfan

How do I volunteer to be on her firing squad? I will do the job gratis.


8 posted on 02/20/2019 7:05:16 PM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: Rummyfan
"The Times leaves it at that. It does not explore why Witt’s radicalization accelerated while at GW."

Easy to understand why... Just spend a couple of days walking around the campus...

9 posted on 02/20/2019 7:27:25 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Lion Den Dan

I’ll do the job gratis, plus I will provide my own rifle and ammo.


10 posted on 02/20/2019 8:29:07 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Rummyfan

The left automatically aligns with Islamists. What they have in common, is *us*. We are their common enemy. The left sees Islamism as a handy battering ram against us and what cultural and institutional structures we rely on. They don’t look to what happens after we are defeated. I don’t think the Islamists see the left in the same way: they see them as just as grotesque an enemy as we, but they’ll use them until they get in the way.


11 posted on 02/20/2019 9:00:32 PM PST by marron
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To: Rummyfan

Unless she is deep cover, we should have a team looking for her right now.


12 posted on 02/20/2019 9:02:38 PM PST by marron
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To: Rummyfan

“The Times quotes one of Witt’s fellow GW students as saying that “everyone just kind of sat and watched” as Witt expressed strong feelings against American foreign policy in class. No one, it seems, pushed back with even a limited defense of America.”


And in that paragraph is the reason she never was fully vetted before receiving a security clearance - which had to be of the SAP Top Secret variety given the access she had as revealed by he paper.

This sounds every bit like the Clinton era phone call clearance procedures, which nominally saves money and resources while allowing unstable people access to critical information. These sorts of very poor security vetting procedures will bring more like Witt and Snowden and we will all suffer as a result. Just part of the Plan to destroy America as founded - nothing to see - move along.


13 posted on 02/21/2019 1:49:00 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Rummyfan

She looks like she got cockeyed...


14 posted on 02/21/2019 1:50:15 AM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Rummyfan

bookmark


15 posted on 02/21/2019 1:50:29 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: SuperLuminal; All
As I recall GW has no real campus. Just a bunch of buildings near Washington Circle. By all accounts it is a ridiculously expensive crappy school that treats undergrads like sh*t. Its allure is it is a way station to getting started on the beltway whoring system. I thought it looked like excrement over 60 years ago when I attended debate tournaments there.
16 posted on 02/21/2019 2:03:58 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Rummyfan

President Trump needs to push to have a law created and voted on type of to disallow funding from Terror sponsoring States and communist States which have been shown to undermine the United States.


17 posted on 02/21/2019 4:37:41 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (But the noble man makes noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand. Isaiah 32:8)
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