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30yrs of public service @WhiteHouse, @StateDept & @DeptofDefense security, cyber, terrorism; author; @GHSRM @MiddleEastInst,
Jan 6, 2019 17 tweets 3 min read
Terrorists at the Border, Not

The Administration is attempting to persuade the American people that terrorists are flooding our southern border. They have been quite specific, claiming 3,755 terrorists were rounded up. You may not remember the press conferences when these... 1/ terrorists were arrested, the plots that were revealed. That would be because the Administration's statement was a lie. There is no other word for it. The 3,755 "terrorists" caught at the southern border were mainly individuals who showed up at airports around the world... 2/
Nov 5, 2018 25 tweets 5 min read
On Election Day The Constitution is at Risk

In a discussion with Madeleine Albright (@madeleine) this Fall on the Future State podcast, we noted that the insidious thing about authoritarianism or fascism is that it creeps into a society....1/ ... and you may not know when you have past the point of no return, when real democracy and civil liberties have been cast aside. Like the proverbial frog in the ever warmer water, we may think that the individual increments of change in the way our government works are not...2/