Posted on 01/29/2021 6:58:01 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
And the left shrieks about the right inciting violence? On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show Thursday afternoon, MSNBC contributor and former FBI agent Clint Watts said:
"If you took what President Trump said, and instead put it in Anwar Awlaki's mouth, we would be talking about a drone strike overseas."
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Who’s inciting violence now?
And the left shrieks about the right inciting violence??
On Nicolle Wallace’s MSNBC show Thursday afternoon, MSNBC contributor and former FBI agent Clint Watts suggested that President Trump’s language merited a “drone strike.”
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Leftists on facebook have been calling for Iranian drone strikes on Trump for quite awhile now.
Any excuse is okay by them. Orange man bad
Apparently they make no attempt at all to offer up a Trump quote that would justify a drone strike.
But, to them, I think if Trump said, “I’ll have eggs for breakfast”, they would consider that sufficient cause.
The media is so out of control that something MUST be done. There must be some legal recourse we the people can take. How can they hide behind the first amendment while taking away the people’s right to free speech.
The words of several of the MSNBC commentators would justify a drone strike in a relatively sane world. They are and have been inciters of violence most extraordinary ever since they began the duel with CNN for “least reliable news source”.
Which was just about from their inception.
Mr. FBI Agent, would a drone strike be enough? Are you sure you don't want to "nuke him from orbit--it's the only way to be sure"? You can't have that peacefully making your voices heard spread.
I don’t think it’s really Trump that they want to drone strike. Dig a little deeper and it’s all of us that they want to put to the sword. They hate us. Never underestimate them.
“former FBI agent”
former FBI agent Clint Watts
Means he is our nations enemy.
You mean “I know you will soon march up to the capitol soon peacefully to make your voices heard” isnt drone strikable?
Former FBI agent Clint Watts.
Do I have to say it . . FBI!
Bump
I’v never in my life seen a group of people just begging to get their asses physically kicked! They honestly think they would win!
“...former FBI agent Clint Watts said...”
And now you know why the FBI is such a corrupt agency with people like Watts as members/former members
Can’t make a omelet without breaking some eggs.
Yep, hang him.
So if Awlaki exhorted his followers to peacefully and patriotically march and protest western policies, we’d want to bomb him? What is this moron smoking?
“Make America Great Again”?
Watts, a disinformation specialist who helped cover for the Obama intelligence community on several operations, was deeply involved in the Russiagate hoax.
Watts wrote for The Daily Beast in August 2016 that Russian propaganda fabricated articles were popularized by social media.[38] Watts along with his colleague Andrew Weisburd documented how disinformation spread from Russia Today and Sputnik News, “the two biggest Russian state-controlled media organizations publishing in English”, to pro-Russian accounts on Twitter.[38] Citing research by Adrian Chen, Weisburd and Watts compared Russian tactics during the 2016 U.S. election to Soviet Union Cold War strategies.[38] They referenced the 1992 United States Information Agency report to Congress, which warned about Russian propaganda called active measures.[38] They concluded social media made active measures easier.[38]
Weisburd and Watts collaborated with colleague J. M. Berger and published a follow-up to their Daily Beast article in online magazine War on the Rocks, titled: “Trolling for Trump: How Russia is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy”.[3][39] They researched 7,000 pro-Trump accounts over a two-and-a-half year period.[39] Their research detailed trolling techniques to denigrate critics of Russian activities in Syria, and proliferate lies about Clinton’s health.[39] Watts said Russia’s goal was to elect Donald Trump as President of the United States and “to erode trust in mainstream media, public figures, government institutions”.[3] He claimed the propaganda targeted the alt-right, the right wing, and fascist groups.[3] After each presidential debate, thousands of Twitter bots used hashtag #Trumpwon to change perceptions.[40] In November 2016 the Foreign Policy Research Institute stated Russian propaganda exacerbated criticism of Clinton and support for Trump.[41][42] The strategy involved social media, paid Internet trolls, botnets, and websites in order to denigrate Clinton.[38][41][42]. . .
Watts testified before the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on April 5, 2016, about the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s November 2015 Paris attacks and the 2016 Brussels bombings.[10] He submitted testimony to the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs on June 23, 2016, on the subject of ISIS strategies, in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting.[11]
He testified as an expert witness about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, in a March 30, 2017 hearing before the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.[12][13][44] His testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee was well received, and made multiple headlines.[12][20] Slate referred to him in a headline as: “Clint Watts, Testifier Extraordinaire”, and “The star of March’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing”.[2] CNN profiled him after the testimony in a piece “Russia investigation: Who is Clint Watts”, where it was noted he gained knowledge in the field of Russian cyber hacking methods, after himself being a target in 2015 following his “Trolling for Trump” article; the FBI notified the Foreign Policy Research Institute of the attack.[1] Salon compared his testimony “follow the trail of dead Russians” to John Dean’s statement about “a cancer on the presidency”.[17] This phrase in testimony by Watts was highlighted by the media, including CBS News,[16] The American Interest,[18] and The Oregonian.[45] U.S. Senator Ron Wyden found the comment important to his investigation.[46] Mark Shields of PBS NewsHour found his testimony “compelling”,[47] and CNN called it “blistering”.[48] Jennifer Rubin wrote for The Washington Post that his testimony “laid out the most comprehensive look at the array of tools Russia used to influence our election”.[49] After his testimony, he appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press and explained ways the U.S. can better respond to cyberwarfare.[25][33]
He appeared before the United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity on April 27, 2017 on the subject of cyber warfare and national security, where he spoke on strategies by Russia using black propaganda.[14][15][50]
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