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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 11:07 AM Sep 2017

Sebastian Gorka Gave A Classified Tirade About Radical Islam



The former Trump aide delivered a two-and-a-half-hour speech to students at a US Army elite special operations center, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show. People who were there said it was a fiery speech that covered everything from Sharia law to the war in Afghanistan.

Posted on September 22, 2017, at 9:06 a.m.

Jason Leopold
BuzzFeed News Reporter

A couple of weeks before he was ousted as deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, Sebastian Gorka gave an explosive two-and-a-half-hour speech to the US Army’s special operations school, which an officer who was present characterized as a “tirade” about the war in Afghanistan, Sharia law, radical Islamic terrorism, and the Trump administration’s aggressive policies to counter and “defeat it all.” It was “classic Gorka,” said another US Army special operations officer.

BuzzFeed News learned about the speech, which was classified, through documents obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

Gorka delivered the Aug. 9 lecture, titled “Transnational Terrorism/Insurgent Ideology,” via secure video teleconference from the White House to students at the US Army’s elite Special Operations Center of Excellence, in Fort Bragg.

Special operations command declined to disclose specific details about Gorka’s talk because, the emails say, it was classified as secret. A spokesperson for the Army’s Special Operations Center of Excellence would only say that Gorka spoke about “extremism in religion.”

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Sebastian Gorka Gave A Classified Tirade About Radical Islam (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2017 OP
WTF? How was this nazi allowed to give a speech, a 2 1/2 hour speech DK504 Sep 2017 #1
Gorka is a nazi Gothmog Sep 2017 #2
When will he be hosting his own MSNBC show? dogman Sep 2017 #3

DK504

(3,847 posts)
1. WTF? How was this nazi allowed to give a speech, a 2 1/2 hour speech
Fri Sep 22, 2017, 11:34 AM
Sep 2017

to "elite ops". The Armed Forces wish to keep Fasicism speechs "top secret". Thank God for FOIA.

Howsa about having a real theologist or a real religious studies expery/professor give an educational lecture. I'm sure it wouldn't have lasted two and a half hours either.

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