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Former Obama counterterrorism chief says jihad terror threat is getting worse, without naming it

Jan 4, 2019 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Former Obama White House homeland security and counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco is warning that “the terror threat getting worse.” She is referring, of course, to the jihad threat that neither she nor any other Obama official dares to name. It was the Obama Administration that tied the hands of counter-jihad analysts by scrubbing all reference to Islam from counterterror training materials, making it nearly impossible for intelligence and law enforcement agents to know and understand the people they were trying to stop. While serving as FBI director, Robert Mueller “decided to purge hundreds of counter-terrorism training materials that arguably rendered America less safe in the face of a growing domestic Islamic extremist problem.”

Today the media is quick to attack Trump as racist when he speaks about the jihad threat. Had Trump said the same thing Monaco said, he would be accused of stoking irrational fears.

Monaco also stated that “the U.S. government today is ‘not equipped’ and inadequately focused on domestic terrorist issues in particular, and that the risks of radicalization outside of jihadist violence remained pervasive.”

“Outside of jihadist violence,” that is, she is referring to the so-called “right-wing extremist” threat.

“Terror threat is ‘getting worse’ says former homeland security adviser,” by Olivia Gazis, CBS News, January 2, 2019:

Conditions that allowed foreign terrorist organizations like ISIS and al-Qaeda to seed and grow their ideologies persist across the Middle East, according to former White House counterterrorism chief Lisa Monaco. And although the U.S. has made meaningful strides in preventing attacks on its soil that originate overseas, Monaco warned that the risks of radicalization for potential domestic terrorists may be increasing.

“The good news is that the threat as we saw it, post-9/11, of command-and-control, complex, foreign directed attacks is greatly diminished,” said Monaco, who served from 2013 to 2017 as homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama. She credited the work of multiple administrations over the past 17 years with preventing elaborate attacks and, more recently, in rolling back the territory once occupied by ISIS.

“The bad news is that the conditions that made it possible for al-Qaeda to take root, that made it possible for ISIS to expand and occupy the territory to recruit and radicalize – all of those things still exist in the Middle East, in other regions,” Monaco said. “And those things are not going away.”

There were more than 8,500 terrorist attacks worldwide in 2017, according to a State Department report, though the total declined 23 percent from the previous year. The report also found that terror threats had grown more complex as ISIS lost territory and sought to inspire simpler but still deadly attacks on Western targets.

In an interview with Intelligence Matters host and CBS News senior national security contributor Michael Morell, Monaco said the U.S. government today is “not equipped” and inadequately focused on domestic terrorist issues in particular, and that the risks of radicalization outside of jihadist violence remained pervasive…..

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 2:32 pm

    In the book written by the scholar on Islam and Islamic terrorism Jamie Glazov , which has the title of JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH on page 9, the reader is informed that “America’s suicidal disposition in the terror war reached a crisis level under Obama when American officials actually started seeking advice and direction from precisely those forces seeking to destroy the country …With Obama in the White House , therefore ,the enemy was in effect , advising Americans and formulating their policy on how to promote their cause.”

    This is an absurdly of madness. This reveals the Obama was, as President, far worse than grossly incompetent, Obama was traitorous to both the American people a as well as to the United State of America. Obama was therefore an affront and disgrace to the office of Chief Executive in the White House

    • mortimer says

      Jan 4, 2019 at 4:43 pm

      Obama assumed that enemies of America would tell him the truth about their conspiracy. Someone more naïve about Islamic terror could not be imagined.

      • Warmac9999 says

        Jan 4, 2019 at 7:10 pm

        You assume he was naive. I do not.

  2. Dawne says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 6:16 pm

    These people are really not very bright and there is a groupthink going on, where they all spout nonsense, but in doing so validate each others’ opinions and they clearly lack the ability to think critically and objectively.

  3. Warmac9999 says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 7:08 pm

    She could have simplified this by saying that Islam isn’t going away and the response to that is growing. Welcome to growing civil strife.

    • JM says

      Jan 5, 2019 at 12:14 pm

      Exactly! Right-wing responses are a reaction to islamic terrorism. Whilst I don’t condone any kind of violence, I understand the former (which, incidentally, is growing in Europe, too), as it is in response to violent islamist movements. What else are people to do? Just sit back and let the islamists kill them?

  4. 762x51FMJ says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 7:41 pm

    One of the best reasons for open borders, gun confiscation and a new world order is that everyone is then exterminated in death camps because cow farts are now more important then your own nasty breath.
    .your choice is either pink or purple Kool-aid
    and only one tastes the best with cyanide.

    • 762x51FMJ says

      Jan 4, 2019 at 7:44 pm

      Momma Mia..

  5. gravenimage says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 9:44 pm

    Former Obama counterterrorism chief says jihad terror threat is getting worse, without naming it
    …………………………….

    This should surprise no one…

  6. mummymovie says

    Jan 4, 2019 at 11:44 pm

    The B. Hussein O. Admin also pushed, and is no doubt still lobbying behind the scenes to have “MENA” designated as a bonafide race of humans, thereby entitling the majority of violent Middle Eastetn / North African (“MENA”) jihadist scum to special protected status (as if they didn’t already enjoy that) that would be afforded them via hate crimes laws, and other special accommodations afforded races of people in areas of active islamic conquest; or pretty much the entire planet. (It would then be difficult to counter racism charges by stating that ‘islam is not a race, because it, in effect, then would be, and criticism of these migrants or their extended family members could be construed as racism and prosecuted under federal hate crimes legislation.)

    If, that is, the objectives in this regard of the B. Hussein O. Admin were EVER in question in your mind

    Piss on ‘em!

  7. Richard Courtemanche says

    Jan 5, 2019 at 6:30 pm

    The jihad threat they didn’t dare to name, was it Obama?

  8. Islamaphone says

    Jan 5, 2019 at 7:52 pm

    ‘There were more than 8,500 terrorist attacks worldwide in 2017, according to a State Department report, though the total declined 23 percent from the previous year. ‘
    So 23% less terrorist attacks in President Trump’s 1st year. Uh-huh.

  9. Paul M Mugerwa says

    Jan 5, 2019 at 8:35 pm

    I remember a certain old lady who during senator John McCain presidential campaign town meeting, asked JM whether B Hussein O was a Muslim. She was right on the money . Obama became the 1st Muslim president of USA period.

    • mummymovie says

      Jan 5, 2019 at 11:51 pm

      Yeah, she was ridiculed beyond belief for saying it. Hell, I even joined in on the laughter at the time, but I’m not laughing anymore.

      That woman was absolutely spot-on right, and if she’s out there somewhere, please relay my sincerest of apologies to her.

      She called him an “Arab”, but we knew what she meant.

      The only president who did more for the global jihad than B. Hussein O. was your favorite undead, pulseless, purely evil geezer Dick Cheney. If it weren’t for him and his invasion of Iraq, we might still be at jihad defcon 5 or 4, instead of 2 today, watching Muhamar Qaddafi’s prediction manifest itself.

      The devil’s work is their stock and trade, and their wretched teamwork has brought the civilized world to its knees.

  10. mummymovie says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 12:23 am

    Western Europe has become a war zone.

    A war indeed, by any definition, except that only one side is fighting it.

    Soon, but gradually, this will come to the U.S. the radica left and cultural Marxists who have taken over the Democrat party, the entire mainstream establishment media, as well as the education system will make sure of that.

    Trump has done nothing substantial to prevent them from upending everything with their demographic and institutional revolution.

  11. Cindy Coker says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 8:56 am

    Quit calling them extremists. They are just ordinary Muslims! They all hold the same beliefs and worldview! They are Muslim terrorists or they aren’t Muslims!

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