!POTUS aide who ended funding to stop White Supremacy Violence is Katherine Gorka, Sebastian's wife!

[kpete]

Last edited Tue Aug 15, 2017, 12:32 PM - Edit history (2)

Wow. @POTUS aide who ended funding to stop White Supremacy Violence is Katherine Gorka, Sebastian's wife.

Controversial Trump Aide Katharine Gorka Helped End Funding For Group That Fights White Supremacy
Life After Hate works to de-radicalize neo-Nazis. The Trump administration decided it wasn’t a priority.





WASHINGTON ― Weeks before a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, led to three deaths and 19 injuries, the Trump administration revoked a grant to Life After Hate, a group that works to de-radicalize neo-Nazis.

The Department of Homeland Security had awarded the group $400,000 as part of its Countering Violent Extremism program in January, just days before former President Barack Obama left office. It was the only group selected for a grant that focused exclusively on fighting white supremacy. But the grant money was not immediately disbursed.

Trump aides, including Katharine Gorka, a controversial national security analyst known for her anti-Muslim rhetoric, were already working toward eliminating Life After Hate’s grant and to direct all funding toward fighting what the president has described as “radical Islamic terrorism.”

In December, Gorka, then a member of Trump’s transition team, met with George Selim, the DHS official who headed the Countering Violent Extremism program until he resigned last month, and his then-deputy, David Gersten.

Gorka told Selim and Gersten she didn’t agree with the Obama administration’s approach to countering violent extremism ― particularly the way the administration had described the threat of extremism, according to Nate Snyder, an Obama administration DHS counterterrorism official who was an adviser on Countering Violent Extremism efforts and was given a readout of the meeting. The Trump administration has repeatedly criticized the previous administration for avoiding terms like “radical Islam” out of concern that it could alienate Muslims in the U.S. and abroad.




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[dalton99a]

1. Katharine Gorka: Obama allowed Islamists to dictate national security policy

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-national-security-gorka-234950
The husband-and-wife team driving Trump's national security policy

[Fred Sanders]

2. Yes, indeed, many white hoods are being torn off. Will the corporate media take any mind?

[Scarsdale]

24. What a gig for him,

being paid very well by TAXPAYERS!! Someone should get his fat arse out of there.

[Achilleaze]

3. republican TreasonWeasels against America should be

shipped off to Siberia for eternity, where they can hang with their hate-filled comrades. Especially the slobby and ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[yardwork]

4. See the connections to Putin?

[WePurrsevere]

26. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who sees this...

It's a convoluted mess but IMO there's enough 'there' now that the bigger picture is starting to form as the pieces fall into place.

[brush]

5. What, nazi Gorka's wife works in the White House too?

God, what with Javanka and now this, nepotism is as rampant in that White House as white supremacy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. His wife was how he got into the USA.

He had no discernible skills for proper employment. He'd failed, first in the UK where he was born, then in Hungary where his parents came from, and he tried to get political jobs after the fall of communism. But he'd married an American, so he was able to move to the USA and hunt for like-minded right wingers in think-tanks and low-level military jobs who'd pay his way.

[meow2u3]

12. ICE should deport him to England

Let the Brits handle him--he'll be in prison lickety-split if and when he starts his shit over there AFAIK.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. He's got US citizenship now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Gorka

You can get that with an American spouse after living in the USA for some time.

[meow2u3]

14. AFAIK, he can be denaturalized

http://immigration.findlaw.com/citizenship/can-your-u-s-citizenship-be-revoked-.html

One such grounds for denaturalization:

Membership in Subversive Groups: Your citizenship may be revoked if the U.S. government can prove that you joined a subversive organization within five years of becoming a naturalized citizen. Membership in such organizations is considered a violation of the oath of U.S. allegiance. Examples include the Nazi Party and Al Qaeda.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Sadly, the Trump regime has not yet been declared a subversive group

We can hope, though.

[Scarsdale]

23. You still have to

take the test. It can be stripped away, too.

[Progressive dog]

7. Those are some of Trump's "best people",

just like he promised.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. Should be at the top of the news everywhere

Gorka working for Trump is insane. He is a literal Nazi. Why has the mainstream media largely ignored Gorka being an actual Nazi?

[bdamomma]

9. K&R

[Solly Mack]

10. K&R

[nolabear]

11. Spread this far and wide. Connect those dots.

This is an organized effort to destroy America.

[Lucinda]

15. KNR Thank you!

[Number9Dream]

17. The Bride of Gorka

They're both monsters.

[deminks]

18. kick

[Glimmer of Hope]

19. He has a wife?

[Timmygoat]

20. Every day

I think about the troops, thousands of them who gave their lives to fight the Nazis, I wonder what they would feel like if they knew there was a Nazi in the White House that they defended.

[snort]

21. What kind of a piece of shit

looks at a group of white supremacists and thinks to themselves "I like these guys"?

Oh yeah, a piece of shit.

[OutaHere]

22. There are girl nazis

Too...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

25. Doesn't want to offend his base.

[Gothmog]

27. Both Gorkas are nazis

[mahatmakanejeeves]

28. Re: context: "FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago"

FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago

Source: Foreign Policy

EXCLUSIVE

FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago

Trump doesn't want to call out white supremacists. The FBI already did.

BY JANA WINTER AUGUST 14, 2017

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security in May warned that white supremacist groups had already carried out more attacks than any other domestic extremist group over the past 16 years and were likely to carry out more attacks over the next year, according to an intelligence bulletin (1) obtained by Foreign Policy.

Even as President Donald Trump continues to resist calling out white supremacists for violence, federal law enforcement has made clear that it sees these types of domestic extremists as a severe threat. The report, dated May 10, says the FBI and DHS believe that members of the white supremacist movement “likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year.”
....

Since the outbreak of violence over the weekend, President Trump has been heavily criticized for not condemning racist groups. “We must remember this truth: No matter our color, creed, religion or political party, we are ALL AMERICANS FIRST,” he tweeted.

The FBI, on the other hand, has already concluded that white supremacists, including neo-Nazi supporters and members of the Ku Klux Klan, are in fact responsible for the lion’s share of violent attacks among domestic extremist groups. White supremacists “were responsible for 49 homicides in 26 attacks from 2000 to 2016 … more than any other domestic extremist movement,” reads the joint intelligence bulletin. ... The report, titled “White Supremacist Extremism Poses Persistent Threat of Lethal Violence,” was prepared by the FBI and DHS. ... The bulletin's numbers appear to correspond with outside estimates. An independent database compiled by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute found (2) that between 2008 and 2016, far-right plots and attacks outnumbered Islamist incidents by almost 2 to 1.

(1) https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3924852-White-Supremacist-Extremism-JIB.html

(2) https://apps.revealnews.org/homegrown-terror/

Read more: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/14/fbi-and-dhs-warned-of-growing-threat-from-white-supremacists-months-ago/

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Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/fahrenthold

EXCLUSIVE: FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago

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[BlancheSplanchnik]

29. sadly, angrily kicking. n/t

[Initech]

30. Fire that Nazi piece of shit now!!!!