I’ve been working on a small research project for about 13 years. It is focused on a Marine who graduated from The Citadel and then went on to get a law degree and join @FBI. During his tenure as a Supervisory Special Agent along the coast of SC, the cocaine business boomed. … The primary corridor it runs through is Beaufort County at the southeast coastal area of the state, which is home to two well-known USMC bases, Parris Island and the Marine Air Station where the F-35 program was/is based. (Very big retired Marine community.)

My wife, a doctor who was adopted, got in contact with her biological mother 20 years ago. A relationship quickly bloomed. As of today, her mother is a hospitalized COVID patient. Unlikely she’ll survive. She was infected by a home nurse. @henrymcmaster could have prevented this. The home nurse, who works for a larger South Carolina-based company, started showing up without a mask several months ago. She also brought her 18-year-old son, who’s interested in nursing as a career path, into the home unmasked with her on numerous occasions.

When you see idiots like Kash Patel basically being appointed by Trump to serve as chief of staff to Trump’s replacement for Esper, your assessment of whether Trump is planning for civil war quickly shift from Remote towards Even Chance.

And, yeah, that shit just happened.

https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1326258800777682945

And now this

https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/1326282360015495169

Name that movie:

“I was instruct not to give the gift to Trump.” “GIFT OF SEXY MONKEY”

If this is true, this is a very big deal. Abu Mohamed al-Masri (aka Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah) has been among the senior-most al-Qa'ida members since the organization was created. Known to people who have tracked him in places like Iran as Triple A, he has been a key figure in al-Qa'ida since its inception. In 2015, @EricSchmittNYT and @rcallimachi noted it was believed he had been moved out of Iran in this story (I'm quoted in it). nytimes.com/2015/09/18/wor…

Perpetrator was shot, but not immediately killed. Reports suggest he remains alive.

While ISIS has been much more competent with inciting violence in France than al-Qa’ida during recent years, it’s unusual for ISIS to claim attacks like this when perpetrators aren’t killed...

https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1321750406087757830

“Meanwhile, two further attacks took place ... in France and one in Saudi Arabia.
A man was shot dead in Montfavet near Avignon after threatening police with a handgun. And a guard was attacked outside the French consulate in Jeddah.”

Just thought I’d share some examples of things I’ve been asking @DevinCow about @DevinNunes’ “work” on the farm. Stuff I’m sure the Congressman is losing sleep over.

I cannot yell this loud enough:
Islamic State has vigorously amplified guidance from foremost influential deceased al-Qa’ida members in its propaganda. Notably, bin Ladin and al-Awlaki. So it is stupid to assume this rules out an ISIS link. cnn.com/2019/12/07/us/… The profile picture in the Twitter account used by one of the Islamic State supporters responsible for the attack in Garland, Texas to pledge allegiance to Baghdadi was an al-Awlaki avatar.

THREAD As one of my grad students in a Global Security and Intelligence Studies program has retweeted this, I’m going to weigh in—rather than politely ignore this obfuscatory characterization of matters that has garnered much praise here on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/sharylattkisson/status/1194993237435600896?s=21

To begin, “dissenting diplomats” are not at odds with US foreign policy—at least not historically. The US has not been an autocracy—at least not historically. Indeed, dissenting views have often been expressed by career diplomats. More importantly, this has occurred by design.

THREAD Per growing reports indicating Baghdadi may have been killed in an operation in Syria today, it is important to note, since declaring its "caliphate" in 2014, Islamic State has been conditioning its members and supporters to expect to see the group's leaders killed. A notable example in 2014 is seen in the fourth issue of ISIS's ezine, Dabiq. Paraphrasing deceased al-Qa'ida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, ISIS argued prospective supporters can determine which group (ISIS or al-Qa'ida) is most deserving of support by examining military operations.

On Oct 31, 2017, @selectedwisdom and I testified during the @senjudiciary hearing focused on extremist content and Russian disinformation campaigns on social media. As the hearing concluded, @LindseyGrahamSC asked if we are prepared to address these issues... I noted in reply to his questions that the capabilities exist, but are not being utilized. Not too many days later, @YouTube highlighted what I was referring to by rapidly identifying and scrubbing virtually all content featuring guidance from al-Qa’ida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki...

Islamic State has not claimed attacks in Sri Lanka. Yet, for years, IS has considered Christians priority targets in the group's global terrorism campaign. After the 2017 Palm Sunday attacks in Egypt, targeting Christians and destroying churches was covered in IS's Rumiyah ezine. Much of Islamic State's propaganda legitimizing violence against Christians leverages guidance by the 13th-14th Century Damascus-based mufti Ibn Taymiyyah. He identified the Shia and Christians as key accomplices of the invading Mongols who refused to enforce sharia exclusively.