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J Michael Waller
@JMichaelWaller
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).
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Oct 21 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 It's important for President Trump to restore the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine, which the neocons abandoned & the Left renounced.

He should update & adapt the Monroe Doctrine, modernizing it with a Trump Corollary to guide strategic thinking and action in our hemisphere. Image In his first term, President Trump pledged to "reject the interference of foreign nations in this hemisphere and in our own affairs" - nations like Russia, Iran, and China - but the State Department didn't get far.

Things just got worse.
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Oct 10 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 It can be a joy to read J. Edgar Hoover's speeches, articles, and books.

Here's a selection from "The Twin Enemies of Freedom," a 1956 speech the FBI Director made about Crime and Communism.

Excerpts below. Image J. Edgar Hoover:

"Communism, like crime, advances and takes hold because men ignore God."

"The real danger in Communism lies in the fact that it is atheistic and seeks to replace the Supreme Being."

"Either the Faith of our fathers will triumph or communism will engulf us."
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Oct 9 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 "Angelo Codevilla was one of the finest strategic minds America has ever produced, and his lessons are more urgent than ever," writes @ToryAnarchist in the @nypost.

A new @ClaremontInst book recalls his "scrappy rise from penniless immigrant to MAGA guru." Image @ToryAnarchist @nypost @ClaremontInst Character matters.

Angelo Codevilla was forged in a smithy for a purpose.

We can spend the rest of our lives learning from him and emulating him to get our country back. amazon.com/Fighting-Enemi…Image
Oct 9 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Terrorist groups and movements have their own family trees.

It isn't hard to track them.

Private experts are usually far ahead of national intelligence services.

To tear out these networks by the roots, follow the Red Thread.

h/t @realDianaWest. See comment below. Image @realDianaWest We've dusted off an unpublished paper I wrote in 2002, marking the first anniversary of 9/11. The paper was a 25-year retrospective on Stefan Possony's "International Terrorism - The Communist Connection," published in 1977.
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Oct 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 Core principles of Marxism include what Marx called imposition of "terror" and "dictatorship."

Anybody who even flirts with Marxist ideology implicitly accepts these notions, or will accept them as the price of staying in office. Image Marx: "When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror."

(Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 19, 1849)

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Oct 2 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 The Trump administration really knows what it's doing to smash violent anarchist and Marxist radicals and to go after their intellectual and financial sponsors.

National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 shows a comprehensive, legally based vision and action plan. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…Image "This political violence is not a series of isolated incidents and does not emerge organically. Instead, it is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society."
Sep 29 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 The most solid brief yet on the extremist networks in Utah. Law enforcement in other states can learn from this report. So can federal authorities. By my colleague @morganwirthlin at @securefreedom.

Armed Queers of Salt Lake City is a focal point. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/upl…Image Direct action: "In accordance with the concept of “diversity of tactics,” individuals are expected to participate in activities that they are comfortable with and align with their values and priorities, while at the same time refusing to judge, criticize, or even notify authorities about the criminal or violent activities of others."
Sep 18 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🧵 To make President Trump's desired Antifa terrorist designation stick, @SecRubio must first designate Antifa as a foreign terrorist entity.

He can do this easily. Antifa was founded a century ago in Germany. Germany's BfV considers it a "left-wing violent extremist" network. 2) Once the State Department designates Antifa as a foreign terrorist "entity," the administration can implement Executive Order 13224 to block assets, prohibit transactions, and penalize foreign supporters of Antifa in the United States - and the Americans who assist them. state.gov/executive-orde…
Sep 17 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
🧵 Fantastic piece by my colleague @ShidelerK on how the Trump administration can dismantle Far Left Extremist networks. americanmind.org/memo/how-to-di… @ShidelerK Federal law enforcement does not recognize Far Left Violent Extremism as a threat. It does not train its personnel to understand, designate, anticipate, identify, and defend society against these threats.

Shideler calls for a Far Left Violent Extremism category.
Aug 25 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🧵24 years ago this week, Vadim Bakatin was appointed chairman of the Soviet KGB.

Soviet Communist Party chief Mikhail Gorbachev, under duress from Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, reluctantly ordered that Bakatin be empowered to dismantle the KGB. Nobody was prepared for this. Image Bakatin wanted American help about what to do.

He had a modern but still Soviet worldview. He thought the KGB could be broken apart along functional lines so it could never abuse power again.

Bush41 feared a collapse of the USSR and its Communist Party, & provided no help. Image
Jul 28 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
President Trump zeroed out ALL funding for the Organization of American States after a Chinese proxy became secretary general, in league with Marxist Latin American regimes.

Republicans on House Appropriations Committee just restored full $46,504,000 funding to OAS.

The House Subcommittee on Appropriations Committee Chairman is Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart. @MarioDB
docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP…Image The OAS was already woke, but it's now super-woke under its new Chinese proxy leadership. It intends to use American tax dollars to spread DEI and wokeness throughout the hemisphere.
Apr 7 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🧵My Old School FBI mentors taught me that, to take over a hostile organization with very few people, the first thing to do is seek out insiders who had worked with the worst offenders.

This is how the old FBI took down the Communist Party and broke the back of the KKK. Image 2) There are always insiders with second thoughts & are looking for a way to do the right thing.

Or they just want to keep their jobs.

They know who did what. They can identify others who feel as they do.

They are the sherpas needed to work the networks of the bureaucracy.
Apr 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The USA pays half of the budget of the 34-member Organization of American States (OAS), yet has only 1 vote.

Countries that each pay 44/1000 of 1 percent formed a bloc to elect a Chinese proxy to run the organization. State Dept is in denial. @DOGE
oas.org/budget/2025/Ap…Image @DOGE We created the OAS to fight the spread of Communism. Over time, our leaders - Democrat and Republican - abandoned the OAS and, through design or neglect, allowed the Marxists to overrun it.
Feb 25 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The International Leadership School of Texas, with a campus at the illegal immigrant development of Colony Ridge, received funding from the Pentagon and support from the Chinese government.

General C.Q. Brown was a big supporter.
iltexas.org/news-media/new… x.com/JMichaelWaller… The International Leadership School's website describes its Pentagon funding for students to learn Mandarin. Trace this, and one can see that the program is accredited by the Chinese Communist Party's ministry of education. iltexas.org/about-us/grant…Image
Feb 4 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Senator and congressman who represent Beltway Bandits complains that they aren't allowed into an executive branch building, then move to regroup. Congressman Jamie Raskin, speaking at 0:40 on this video, represents the second largest USAID contractor, taking in $161.4 million in USAID "awards" in 2021. developmentaid.org/news-stream/po…Image
Jan 22 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
IRS is purging its DEI pages. irs.gov/about-irs/offi… IRS diversity pages are going down the memory hole. Here's another. irs.gov/about-irs/equi…
Jan 21 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
In late November, two intelligence community groups met separately in the homes of two former senior intelligence officials on how to infiltrate loyalists of Obama DNI James Clapper into the Trump administration.

One meeting took place at the home of former Obama official who was deputy director of ODNI. The other was at the home of a former senior national intelligence service member's home in McLean. The two individuals are linked through spouses/employees of a private intelligence contractor.

At the two gatherings, members discussed how to burrow in laterally and select the promotions of others to maintain the Obama/Clapper/Brennan networks at the top bureaucratic levels of the Trump intelligence community.

All of them had worked for Clapper and other senior Obama officials at ODNI, CIA, @NatReconOfc, or the Department of Defense.Image Did one of the meetings take place at this person's house? Image
Nov 20, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
If Senate Republicans don't confirm Matt Gaetz as attorney general & Kash Patel as FBI director, President Trump should sign an executive order to dissolve the FBI by rescinding the July 26, 1908 order that the FBI calls its founding document. Image The FBI cannot be reformed. We need better, more effective federal law enforcement and counterintelligence than the FBI provides - and one free of the taint of decades of abuses. Only Gaetz & Patel can do that. Here's how the process might look.
Nov 11, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 Destruction of federal records outside the confines of the Federal Records Act (FRA) is a crime.

That destruction is going on right now.

To report report unauthorized disposition, email UnauthorizedDisposition@nara.gov.

The FRA has not been enforced anywhere in the federal government over the last 16+ years. archives.gov/news/topics/fe… 2) Any federal employee altering or destroying a federal record, prior to meeting its appropriate National Archives & Records Administratin (NARA)-approved retention period, after November 5th should be caught and prosecuted for violating the Federal Records Act. Image
Oct 19, 2024 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
4 years ago today: @Politico breaks false story of the 51 intelligence and national security former officials saying Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. politico.com/news/2020/10/1…Image Most of them still won’t comment on what they did. nypost.com/2022/03/18/int…
Oct 9, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Rep. Higgins: “Did you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol on January 6?”

FBI Director Wray: “I have to be very careful about what I say.”

He did not say “no.”

Wray then re-worded the question and denied it. After Wray does not answer, @RepClayHiggins said, “It should be a ‘no.’ Can you not tell the American people, ‘No, we did not have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol on January 6?’”

One year has past since Higgins last put the simple “yes” or “no” question to FBI Director Wray.

“Still don’t have a definitive answer from you,” Higgins says. “We can’t get a straight answer.”