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CIA Counterterror Chief Suggests Going To War Against ‘Domestic Insurgents’
Summit News ^ | 4 Februrary 2021 | Steve Watson

Posted on 02/04/2021 7:10:00 PM PST by amorphous

The former head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center has suggested that counterinsurgency tactics used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan should be applied to ‘domestic extremists’ inside the US.

NPR reports that Robert Grenier, who directed the CIA’s Counterterrorism program from 2004 to 2006, declared “We may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained wave of violent insurgency within our own country, perpetrated by our own countrymen.”

In an op-ed for The New York Times last week, Grenier suggested that “extremists who seek a social apocalypse … are capable of producing endemic political violence of a sort not seen in this country since Reconstruction.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 01readpost101; 2004; 2006; cc; cia; ciactc; ctc; domesticterror; georgiagirl2; grenier; robertgrenier
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To: amorphous

Gonna be kind of difficult to do there since Trump pulled CIA’s military access before he left office.


41 posted on 02/04/2021 7:36:33 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: dpetty121263

yes. it will.


42 posted on 02/04/2021 7:37:04 PM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: going hot

They claim to hate straw purchasing of guns and gun violence but then they sing praises about Angela Davis.

Yoko Ono posted Happy Birthday Angela Davis on her facebook wall. Facebook didn’t think that was celebrating violence by celebrating a criminal who’s actions directly contributed to death and injury.


43 posted on 02/04/2021 7:37:56 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: GardenerForLife

Can’t fight without organization and leadership. Otherwise, armed individual citizens are not an effective counter to tyranny and will be picked off and slaughtered easily.


44 posted on 02/04/2021 7:38:50 PM PST by myerson (Viva Trump!)
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To: amorphous
?... former head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center

"FORMER"... probably because he's a nutcase hater.

45 posted on 02/04/2021 7:39:09 PM PST by GOPJ (If I self-identify as a child can I demand a place on a little league team?)
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To: amorphous

Well, the CIA is the sponsor of revolutions, insurgencies and terrorism. What scares the CIA is now they very things the CIA through the US government has sponsored is now happening here. The CIA chickens have come home to roost


46 posted on 02/04/2021 7:39:15 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: amorphous

NPR sees a threat to their funding!

So any response, no matter how disruptive or dishonest is justified!

LOL!


47 posted on 02/04/2021 7:39:53 PM PST by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: amorphous

Bazaaro world...

This kind of talk should be a crime.


48 posted on 02/04/2021 7:40:00 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: amorphous

This is the call to arms of the Globalists against American Patriots. These people are the actual insurgents claiming that American Patriots are insurrectionists. Why? Because they thought they had our country on the way to a Socialist Central Government Control system.
Then, President Trump awakened Patriotic Americans. This scared the crap out of them. Their reaction of the last 5 years which continues to this day is their abject fear of US and what President Trump alerted us to.
The Socialist/Communist contingency in our country has been inexorably invading the USA for decades. They thought they had finally succeeded with the election of Obama and planned to seal our fate with Hillary.
When their plans were foiled by US and Donald Trump they went stark raving mad and plotted for years to get their revenge. They think they now have it.
A great many in the upper echelons of our gov’t AND our Military are among them. The USA is unique in all history. Gov’t of, by, and for the people has never been done before and it has been under attack since its creation.
In all of history, Control Freaks (Tyrants) has been the rule. They want it to be so again. They want to wipe out all semblance of the effectiveness of our Republic System of Gov’t.
This is not a new thing. Our Republic form of gov’t has been under assault for a very long time. The difference is, that those who hate it feel that they are finally in a position to destroy it. And, they will if we let them. They are deamonizing all who Love our Republic and oppose their Socialist/Communist aspirations in order to intimidate we who Love our Republic into silence.


49 posted on 02/04/2021 7:40:14 PM PST by ocrp1982 ( Long before the Wuhan Virus )
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To: amorphous
What this is really, is the start of the war on Christianity in America.

Not really, more like an attempt at the killing blow; war against Christianity in the United States has been going on since WWI and the Age of Anxiety.
50 posted on 02/04/2021 7:40:35 PM PST by rollo tomasi
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To: amorphous

This person is evil and a traitor. Should be locked immediately if we actually had a judicial system.


51 posted on 02/04/2021 7:41:29 PM PST by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: ifinnegan

This is the same bunch of idiots who got us into Iraq and when Dimwit Bush asked them for their confirmation that Iraq had nonexistent WMDs assured him: “you can take it to the bank, Mr. President”.


52 posted on 02/04/2021 7:42:27 PM PST by laconic
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To: Trumpisourlastchance
They have more firepower & armor.

Not really enough to impose martial law on 330 million citizens in 50 states. The US army couldn't occupy Arkansas let alone the ENTIRE USA.

53 posted on 02/04/2021 7:43:03 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: amorphous

So this was a Bush era CIA guy? Probably knew GHWB pretty well....


54 posted on 02/04/2021 7:45:50 PM PST by Eagle of Liberty
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To: amorphous

Very dark times ahead


55 posted on 02/04/2021 7:48:26 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade (NATIONALISM IS RIGHT WINGED MARXISM GO BACK TO AMERICANISM /REAGANISM IT WORKS )
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To: ladyjane

YES. Perpetrated by our own CIA and FBI.

The only saving grace is the extreme stupidity and incompetence of those two agencies.


56 posted on 02/04/2021 7:53:56 PM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: puppypusher
It will not be like the first Civil War; Army vs Army.

The current "North" will suffer loss of their lieutenants, generals and their mouth piece (the press).

Walling off the Capital means nothing.

People come & go and thus are exposed.

57 posted on 02/04/2021 7:55:49 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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The NPR Rats are thirsty for blood — found some jackass to fondle their fantasies.


58 posted on 02/04/2021 7:57:10 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Deaf Smith
It will not be like the first Civil War; Army vs Army.

I disagree. It will be very organized and very destructive. Like the first one.

59 posted on 02/04/2021 7:57:49 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: amorphous

Good Luck on apprehending 75 million insurgents.

Buahahahahahaha!

President Trump sure scared the hell out of these progressive one world lefties. We want him back.

They are certified NUTZ


60 posted on 02/04/2021 7:59:06 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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