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Senior Analyst for Strategy, Center for Security Policy. Author, "Big Intel: How the CIA & FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains" (2024).

Aug 4, 2020, 6 tweets

All 100 senators should be denouncing the organized Antifa violence and the wounding of 700 police officers, they aren't, @SenTedCruz says at hearing on Antifa. judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/the-r…

Senator @maziehirono claims nobody is condoning violence but changes the subject to blame federal troops for the uniforms and insignia that they use.

She blames "federal agents" for using "excessive and indistriminate force" in Portland.

Senator Hirono is furthering the scripted narrative to deny that Antifa is waging a campaign of organized violence, and is laying out all the blame on law enforcement action "against peaceful protesters.

@maziehirono is moving the chess board that Nadler started last week.

Hirono is covering for insurrection. By careful omission, she denies that Antifa's organized violence exists and blames federal agents for shooting peaceful protesters "in the face."

She highlights provocations against police, in which police responded with forces, as brutality.

This is a repeat of Weather Underground/Communist Party tactics in the 1970s to blame the FBI and other authorities, and apply restrictive laws to let the extremists go free.

Some of those extremists from the '70s are now congressmen, senior federal officials, and funders.

Senator Wyden, a native of Portland, Oregon, says the protesters are protecting civil rights, and calls federal officers "heavily armed secret police."

@RonWyden praises the "Wall of Moms" and blasts federal forces.

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