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muriel_volestrangler

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9. A good TPM article on Sebastian Gorka, from yesterday
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 10:35 AM
Feb 2017
How Did Sebastian Gorka Go From The Anti-Muslim Fringe To White House Aide?

Sebastian Gorka never became a household name among the counterterrorism experts who populate K Street think tanks and university international relations departments during his years in Washington, D.C. Now he is President Donald Trump’s deputy assistant.

While Gorka, a former Breitbart News national security editor and fixture on Fox News, published the New York Times bestseller “Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War,” held various positions at military educational institutions and even testified before the House Armed Services Committee on the threat of “global jihadism,” he was little-known in mainstream D.C. circles before the 2016 election year.
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His book “is like reading a bad high school student’s paper that has been cribbed together from Wikipedia, and that’s with all due respect to Wikipedia,” Safi said.

“Frankly it is not only embarrassing, it is dangerous that someone like this has the ear of the President."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sebastian-gorka-washington-experts-dc-anti-islam-ties

As the article notes, the websites of the small think tanks he and his wife Katharine (who was in Trump's DHS "landing team&quot have been central in were taken offline around the end of January:

http://threatknowledge.org/
http://thegorkabriefing.com/
http://councilonglobalsecurity.org/

which rather implies they were purely run by and for the couple.

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