CIA to QAnon: Agent who hunted bin Laden now fans far-right hate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

During his 22 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael F. Scheuer became known for the time he spent tracking Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. But Scheuer left the CIA in 2004, and these days, he is best known for his violent rhetoric and fondness for far-right conspiracy theories. Journalist Spencer Ackerman wrote an in-depth article chronicling the story for the Daily Beast this week.

Ackerman, who specializes in national security issues, describes Scheuer's journey from CIA agent to conspiracy theorist — noting that these days, the blogger's activities including praising the QAnon cult and applauding vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse. And these days, according to Ackerman, Scheuer isn't shy about calling for violence against fellow U.S. citizens.

"The former senior CIA official once in charge of the hunt for Osama bin Laden has spent the summer calling for the slaughter of his fellow Americans," Ackerman explains. "Michael Scheuer calls Black Lives Matter a 'terrorist organization' and a 'semi-human mob.' On his blog and his podcast, Scheuer rages against a widespread, treasonous conspiracy targeting not only President Trump, but the fundamental character of the American republic. It deserves 'punishment…. we've not seen before in this country.'"

Ackerman notes that Scheuer has exalted Rittenhouse — who is facing murder charges for allegedly shooting two demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin — as a "young hero" and recently wrote, "Rittenhouse's necessary, patriotic and constitutional actions will power the formation of militias across the United States." Scheuer has described George Floyd, whose brutal killing at the hands of Minneapolis police officers on May 25 set off anti-racism protests around the world, as "felonious scum."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-qanon-agent-hunted-bin-090001584.html

[soothsayer]

1. The danger in chasing monsters is becoming one yourself

[BGBD]

6. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,

the abyss will gaze back into you.

- Nietzsche

[Celerity]

2. he has been a RWNJ since the mid-noughties (probably long before that)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I remember him from the Bush years, when he was critical

of the Iraq war, and at the time seemed at least relatively rational, though controversial. But lately he seems to have gone completely off the deep end, even advocating the killing of Trump's political enemies:

In July 2018, Scheuer called upon "those millions of well-armed citizens who voted for Trump" to be ready to kill "a long and very precise list" of those who oppose Trump. His list included the entire mainstream media and two former Presidents. "If Trump does not act soon to erase" his opponents, he wrote, "the armed citizenry must step in and eliminate them." Scheuer named those opponents as:

'thug-civil-servants like Strzok, Comey, McCabe, Page, and Rosenstein; worshipers of tyranny, like the Democratic members of Congress, the Clintons, the FBI, and the Obamas; apparent traitors like Brennan, Hayden, and Clapper; all of the mainstream media; and the tens of thousands of government-admitted-and-protected, violent, criminal, and illegal immigrants.'

Scheuer concluded by looking forward to the "utter joy and satisfaction to be derived from beholding great piles of dead U.S.-citizen tyrants."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scheuer

Yikes. I hope the Secret Service is keeping an eye on this loon.

[hedda_foil]

4. I fear his terrifying list is exactly who Trump is fully capable of getting his loons to execute.

Or telling his "law n order" AG to "handle." And I'm afraid that could be just the start. He's all too capable of going full Hitler, as many of us have said from the start.

[JI7]

7. Maybe he is profiting off of all of this in some way

[ck4829]

5. Very possible that other intelligence agents have fallen under the sway of QAnon