{"id":60687,"date":"2021-02-05T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=60687"},"modified":"2021-02-05T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:40:50","slug":"cia-counterterror-chief-suggests-going-to-war-against-domestic-insurgents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=60687","title":{"rendered":"CIA Counterterror Chief Suggests Going To War Against &#8216;Domestic Insurgents&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mmm hmm.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/02\/04\/cia-counterterror-chief-suggests-gong-to-war-against-domestic-insurgents\/\">Summit News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The former head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center has suggested that counterinsurgency tactics used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan should be applied to \u2018domestic extremists\u2019 inside the US.<\/p>\n<p>NPR reports that Robert Grenier, who directed the CIA\u2019s Counterterrorism program from 2004 to 2006, declared \u201cWe may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained wave of violent insurgency within our own country, perpetrated by our own countrymen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an op-ed for The New York Times last week, Grenier suggested that \u201cextremists who seek a social apocalypse \u2026 are capable of producing endemic political violence of a sort not seen in this country since Reconstruction.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/featured-articles\/2021\/february\/01\/libertarian-terrorists\/\">Libertarian Terrorists?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mmm hmm. Via: Summit News: The former head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center has suggested that counterinsurgency tactics used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan should be applied to \u2018domestic extremists\u2019 inside the US. NPR reports that Robert Grenier, who directed the CIA\u2019s Counterterrorism program from 2004 to 2006, declared \u201cWe may be witnessing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,27,22,14,10,4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cointelpro","category-covert-operations","category-dictatorship","category-false-flag-operations","category-social-engineering","category-surveillance","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60689,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60687\/revisions\/60689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}