'Eric Rosand, a former senior State Department official, told BuzzFeed that Gorka “played a significant role in denying CVE grant funding to groups that work to de-radicalize neo-Nazis and other far right extremists.”' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
(This would be Katharine Gorka, Seb's wife, who is still a DHS adviser.) forward.com/fast-forward/3…
'The White House continues to ignore the congressional requirement to submit a “comprehensive, interagency national strategy for countering violent extremism,” which was due in June.' foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/01/whe…
Our write-up of the Trump administration's move to gut an Obama-era program dedicated to countering domestic terror: thinkprogress.org/trump-administ…
This quote from @cpicciolini about sums it up:
"It’s a complete failure of the administration to acknowledge that a domestic ‘white supremacist’ terrorist threat is already fertile within our borders.”
thinkprogress.org/trump-administ…
"It’s a complete failure of the administration to acknowledge that a domestic ‘white supremacist’ terrorist threat is already fertile within our borders.”
thinkprogress.org/trump-administ…
'Katharine Gorka, who once criticized the Obama administration for “allowing Islamists to dictate national-security policy,” made it clear, Nate Snyder recalls, that she didn’t like the phrase “countering violent extremism.”' nytimes.com/2018/11/03/mag…
'Other sources I spoke with specifically identified Katharine Gorka, the wife of former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka, as a driving figure behind efforts to de-prioritize white supremacist violence.' vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/t…
