Well.... not exactly. The lists used are not approved in military lists because the military doesn’t have lists of terrorist-leaning organizations. Instead, they have an approved list of other people who list terrorist organizations, and one of the groups on that approved list is the Southern Poverty Law Center, which labels anybody who supports traditional marriage as terrorist-leaning.
So the military leaves it up to people to look at non-military lists like the SPLC list, and then when their people use that approved SPLC resource the military can always say the claims weren’t taken from military materials. The SPLC acts as a front company for the military so the military can say their hands are clean.
That is what this article said. The military folks responded to this issue because a bunch of Congressmen got wind of what was happening and made a stink. The military response was that it wasn’t their materials. And it never will be their materials; they will always just send people to the SPLC to get their lists, and the military will keep acting outraged and deny that their official approval of the SPLC as a source for terrorist labels has anything to do with what is happening in multiple places at multiple times.
They will hire people like you to write the “official” line, as a fig leaf, but will refer instructors to the SPLC and accomplish the same thing without getting their hands dirty. Plausible deniability.
Sir, I am not open to your personal attack on me. You do not know who I am, what I do, nor where my loyalties lay.
I gave my opinion based on 20 years military experience, and my technical expertise on how training is done. We can disagree on the interpretation of data, that's fine. I disagree with pretty much everything you said, because what you describe isn't the reality of how the Army, intelligence, or CI works; but I'm not going to attack you for your opinion. I expect the same.