[ April 23, 2024 ]
One of the best people in the Trump National Security Council on jihad terror and the threat to the West was fired by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster: Richard T. Higgins, who has been an outspoken critic about the “faulty strategic assessment that is the basis for current U.S. security.” “National Security officials are prohibited from developing a factual understanding of Islamic threat doctrines, preferring instead to depend upon 5th column Muslim Brotherhood cultural advisors.”
His expertise is political warfare and developing strategies to battle against the ideologies and tactics used to carry out terror attacks.
Political warfare includes both non-violent and violent actions working in synthesis, Higgins says. The left, with enemy-friendly Muslim Brotherhood allies, is able to control the dominant cultural narrative with the media and the government, blinding us in the war on terror and impacting how Americans think, he argues.Higgins calls for a “strategic and operational pause” in America’s misguided battle to stop the terror. He would, instead, ask new leadership to develop a comprehensive political warfare plan, while removing the subversive policies and personnel causing America to lose this paramount battle.
Story continues below advertisementHe cites the “purges” carried out by law enforcement and intelligence officials throughout government, which Phil Haney, Sebastian Gorka and Steve Coughlin have made public. (DC Caller)
Now Higgins, a Bannon ally, has been purged. As have a number of other Trump and Bannon loyalists at the NSC.
Higgins has worked with Steve Coughlin, author of Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad, and Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
Steve Coughlin, the Pentagon specialist on Islamic law and Islamic extremism, was fired from his position on the military’s Joint Staff back in 2008. The action followed a report in this space last week revealing opposition to his work for the military by pro-Muslim officials within the office of the Deputy Defense Secretary. Coughlin had run afoul of a key aide to Mr. England, Hasham Islam who sought to have Mr. Coughlin soften his views on Islamic extremism.
It appears Rich Higgins suffered the same fate. This is not what we expect from the Trump administration. Trump was elected to address the infiltration and islamization our counter terrorism and intel agencies.
Late on Wednesday evening, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster fired Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the National Security Council’s controversial top intelligence official. Cohen-Watnick was a hardcore Trump loyalist whom McMaster had long wanted to dismiss but who had kept the job because of strong support from senior administration officials — and President Trump himself.
Cohen-Watnick’s firing comes about a week after Derek Harvey, the NSC’s top Middle East official, was dismissed despite sharing Trump’s hawkish views on Iran. It comes less than a month after Rich Higgins, a member of the NSC’s strategic planning office, was dismissed for writing a memo alleging that “Islamists ally with cultural Marxists because, as far back as the 1980s, they properly assessed that the left has a strong chance of reducing Western civilization to its benefit.”
The moves suggest that McMaster, widely seen as one of the more conventional and sober foreign policy voices in the Trump White House, is clearing out the people in his office who are more aligned with radical figures like Steve Bannon. (VOX)
Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster is a longtime apologist for Islam, and I was deeply disappointed by his appointment. McMaster insists jihad terrorists were operating according to “an ideology that uses a perverted interpretation of religion to justify crimes against all humanity.” How many years and untold horrors must we suffer before our generals understand that our “Muslim allies” have quite different priorities from what we would wish to believe?
President Trump’s newly appointed national security adviser has told his staff that Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion, rejecting a key ideological view of other senior Trump advisers and signaling a potentially more moderate approach to the Islamic world.The adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, told the staff of the National Security Council , in his first “all hands” staff meeting, that the label “radical Islamic terrorism” was not helpful because terrorists are “un-Islamic,” according to people who were in the meeting.(more here)
The Atlantic reports that Rich Higgins, a former Pentagon official who served in the NSC’s strategic-planning office as a director for strategic planning, was ousted on July 21 over a memo he wrote.
From the uber-left Atlantic:
A top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics to defeat President Trump’s nationalist agenda.
His dismissal marks the latest victory by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster in the ongoing war within Trump’s White House between those who believe that the president is under threat from dark forces plotting to undermine him, and those like McMaster who dismiss this as conspiratorial thinking.
Rich Higgins, a former Pentagon official who served in the NSC’s strategic-planning office as a director for strategic planning, was let go on July 21. Higgins’s memo describes supposed domestic and international threats to Trump’s presidency, including globalists, bankers, the “deep state,” and Islamists. The memo characterizes the Russia story as a plot to sabotage Trump’s nationalist agenda. It asserts that globalists and Islamists are seeking to destroy America. The memo also includes a set of recommendations, arguing that the problem constitutes a national-security priority.
“Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed,” the memo warns. It argues that this has led “Islamists [to] ally with cultural Marxists,” but that in the long run, “Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety.”
Higgins wrote the memo in late May, and at some point afterwards it began circulating among people outside the White House associated with the Trump campaign to whom Higgins had given it.
Higgins, according to another source with direct knowledge of the incident, was called into the White House Counsel’s office the week before last and asked about the memo. On July 21, the Friday of that week, he was informed by McMaster’s deputy Ricky Waddell that he was losing his job.
NSC spokesman Michael Anton declined to comment on Higgins’s firing, saying that the White House does not comment on internal personnel matters.
“In Maoist insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to seizing state power,” the memo reads. “Functioning as a hostile complete state acting within an existing state, it has an alternate infrastructure. Political warfare operates as one of the activities of the ‘counter-state.’” I was able to review large portions of the memo, and to secure extracts for publication.
“Because the left is aligned with Islamist organizations at local, national, and international levels, recognition should be given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate through coordinated synchronized interactive narratives … These attack narratives are pervasive, full spectrum, and institutionalized at all levels. They operate in social media, television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media and are entrenched at the upper levels of the bureaucracies.”
Sources offered conflicting accounts of how the memo came to McMaster’s attention. Several sources with knowledge of the events said they believed the memo made its way to Trump’s desk, a version that others disputed.Higgins’s bosses at the NSC were not pleased with the memo, sources say, the creation of which was not part of Higgins’s job. Higgins, seen as an ally of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, had only served on the council for a couple months.
Higgins had also “pushed for declassification of documents having to do with radical Islam and Iran,” according to a source close to the White House. A source close to Higgins said that specifically, Higgins had been pushing for the declassification of Presidential Study Directive 11, a classified report produced in 2010 by the Obama administration which presaged the Arab Spring, outlining unrest throughout the Middle East. The directive has become a shibboleth of activists such as Frank Gaffney, who see it as evidence of the Obama administration’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups.
Higgins’s past writings focus on similar themes. “National Security officials are prohibited from developing a factual understanding of Islamic threat doctrines, preferring instead to depend upon 5th column Muslim Brotherhood cultural advisors,” he wrote in September. Higgins gave an interview to the Daily Caller News Foundation last year that outlines many of the same ideas laid out in the memo.
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62 Comments
6 years ago
I don’t believe McMaster doesn’t know what Islam stands for and against.
It’s just that for some reason he likes it.
And he is busy getting rid of everybody who doesn’t.
When McMaster will be fired (I hope it’s a “when,” not an “if”), all his appointees should be fired as well.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ego
The dope at Starbucks is truly ignorant and unaware, however, at McMaster’s level, it is not ignorance and/or lack of awareness. He is fully aware and entirely and willingly compliant. He seems to embrace, respect and perhaps even admire that Islamo-Arab worldview.
6 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
Then that would make McMaster a TRAITOR.
He needs to recognized and punished.
6 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
In other words…..he’s a dhimmi for the Muslims….apparently he didn’t get the memo along with all the other dhimmis in America that if the Muslims are ever able to take over here…the first people they kill are the dhimmis.
They reason correctly that if they will be traitors to their own people they could do the same to them some day…..
Read Michael Yousseff’s book: Jesus, Jihad, and Peace. He’s a former Muslim from the middle east….converted to Christianity…came to America and started the Church of the Apostles in Georgia. He tells you everything you need to know about how Islam plans to take over America. A very telling and revealing book. I found mine on Amazon very inexpensive.
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Hopefully American’s with guns will take action if the Muslims are able to take over.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ego
Most people didn’t know that Obummer put Muslims in top positions of a our government and military. John Brennan -unknown to most people – is Muslim. He converted to Islam when he was in Desert Storm under Bush. Head of the CIA a Muslim….anybody wonder how they got such a foot hold in our government and military?
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Yeah, one year I read a list of all that were attending the Ramadan dinner at the White House, quite a list. It also had what office they held.
6 years ago
The enemy within. Hopefully Trump will realize what a colossal mistake he made selecting this polished knob and fire him.
6 years ago
Reply to
Inmate of Diversityland
In a war with Islamic forces I’m guessing he would turn his guns on Americans.
6 years ago
Reply to
Craig
It still sounds like the armed forces and the general population of political heads and underlings are not getting the truth about islam. Trump seemed to understand the picture when he was campaigning and now that he is in office it seems like he is being misdirected.
Do they have information from Robert Spencer in use yet? BHO made it impossible to have the truth about islam dispensed and taught to the troops and in the schools . We on the civilian side are still under the Common Core nazi-islamic teachings from K-High School and then the Universities have Left pounding in the lies of islam . I hope that Trump can get the TRUTH going by appointing the right persons .
6 years ago
Reply to
notislam
My Demorat Governor is forming a group with the Colleges and University President’s to figure out how to get students involved in their communities. Just what we need, more Liberals making decisions in our states, snowflakes at that!
I heard that other Demorat Governor’s are doing the same.
6 years ago
Reply to
Craig
Very disappointed when Trump “selected” this mooslime sympathizer. And as far as McCain “demanding” him, Trump did not have to listen to McCain or anyone else. And look how McCain is repaying Trump. Trump needs the good people fired to be rehired and any one hired by McMaster need to be fired. New CoS Kelly, do your job.
6 years ago
Reply to
Craig
McCain -thankfully – is a dead man walking….he is an evil tool of K Street and the Globalists. When he is gone, so are all those he’s been propping up….including Grahamesty.
I intend to write President Trump at the White House and ask him “why”? Why are you keeping this Swamp Military Muslim sympathizer? And when will you wake up and get rid of him?
6 years ago
Reply to
Inmate of Diversityland
It won’t hurt to send him a message telling him to fire McMaster! WhiteHouse.gov Click top R corner
He has a tuff job and needs encouragement!
He needs to do this ASAP and take away Rice’s security clearance. She is unmasking Trump people. McMaster is firing all the Trump employees and keeping Obama’s!
6 years ago
Islam is a scourge. McMaster needs a new job.
6 years ago
Reply to
notme123
I am worried, some of the video’s that I have just watched are saying that Trump is being isolated in what is happening around him by McMaster and Gen. Kelly. The Deep State is in the process of taking over. Prepare for unrest.
6 years ago
Swamp creature; put him on the to do list.
6 years ago
Muslims always win. I had high hopes that the Trump administration would eschew entirely the Obama (and Bush to a lesser extent) worldview, but I am starting to realize it may have been wishful thinking on my part. 🙁
6 years ago
Seeds of evil planted with appointment of McMaster are coming to fruition now. ROOT IT OUT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!
6 years ago
Wildjew….neither did I vote for this.
Really making me wonder what wheels are spinning in Trump’s head.
6 years ago
I think we found our leak. He sure sounds like a radical jihad sympathizer.
6 years ago
“Islamist”, the dishonest neologism designed to shield muslums and islum from criticism.
6 years ago
It’s cold comfort indeed, but Shillariah would’ve been much worse.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
I never meant to rebuke you, that wasn’t the intent. I never realized Dubya’s treatment of Israel was practically on par w/the 0mahdi’s. You could always email Trump w/your concerns. I’ve been wanting to email Trump about my tax dollars going to support islamic terrorist, religious apartheid states. I think I’m going to do that today.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
I wrote him yesterday about tax dollars going to schools who are now havimg children in Virginia do posters about the Five Pillars of Islam under Secretary Devos. I even called her office and left a message of protest. All of that only took me five minutes…..
If anyone was paying attention you would know that the Bush Cartel has been in bed with the Middle East power families for decades…..Bushs do Oil….George W’s college roommate was a Saudi Prince….Daddy Bush should be tried as a criminal for all the things he was doing in the background with the powers of the Middle East…..he started a war to protect his buddies there.
NO MORE BUSH/CLINTON CARTELS, NO MORE LAWYERS, NO MORE “AFFIRMATIVE ACTION” PRESIDENTS IN OUR WHITE HOUSE……EVER AGAIN!
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
I live in VA and saw that article, would like to know which schools it was in so they can be exposed.
The Saudi’s give a lot of money to our colleges and universities!
6 years ago
The President is under sustained subversive attack! McMasters has got to go!
There is a biblical imperative:
“When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.. For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink saith he to thee: but his heart is not with thee!” Proverbs 23
6 years ago
I’m hoping Trump is feeding McMaster enough rope to hang his self.
6 years ago
McMaster is a traitor and anti-American activist.
McMaster was recommended by the traitor McCain. Anyone surprised?
6 years ago
Cowardice feeds the capitulation monster.
6 years ago
Since when does McMaster do the Justice Depts. job?
We elected Trump, but EVERYONE around him is an anti-American activist, save a very few.
6 years ago
Please Mr Trump, go canny.
6 years ago
Why does he still have a job????????
6 years ago
Ignorance is strength This only goes to prove that Trump is ignorant about Islam.
6 years ago
President Trump, you need to fire McMasters or find out his anterior motives.
6 years ago
Please remove this white Negro. So many of them up there. Man, that sodomite stuffed that place up there with hundreds of them.
6 years ago
Shut up Geller
6 years ago
Reply to
lovelydestruction
Go molest some unlucky little boy for allah back in:
Afghanistain
Pakistain
Iranistain
6 years ago
If McMaster is an officer in the Army and hasn’t studied Islam’s 1400 year attempt to conquer the world, well, that would be ludicrous. Maybe he secretly admires Muslims for their ability to follow a doctrine laid out in the Quran for world conquest. Isn’t that what Muslim apologist’s do, look for excuses to allow for the continued advances of Islamic doctrine. I mean if he’s read any history about Islams battles, he’s aware and he must side with Islam.
6 years ago
Reply to
nonleftist
Maybe he is a closet Antisemite / Nazi and jumping on the mislim band wagon, helps him advance his hateful ambitions in that respect…
6 years ago
McMaster out.
What is wrong with Trump?
6 years ago
I am concerned about this also….however, I am willing to admit that there are things going on in the background that I do not have access to that information. There may be unknown reasons for all of this.
The Swamp is deep, vast, and full of very dangerous and powerful people. Anyone who thought President Trump was going to be able to drain it all in his first term is naive at best. The Swamp has been there since this country began and the Clintons, Bushs, and their minions made it nearly undrainable….just keep the faith and pray for President Trump to have the strength and stamina to Drain the Swamp….one thuggy crocodile at a time.
6 years ago
McMasters MUST go!! There is no reason to apologize for terrorists!! McMasters needs to read The Koran then he will know the truth and stop apologizing for terrorists!!
6 years ago
Sounds as if McMaster have converted to Islam as others have in our intelligence community!
6 years ago
Jordan was involved in the weapons removal also and that was the cause of removal because a couple of their people were killed.
6 years ago
1. Retire McMaster. No Afganistan, just his pension and gone.
2. Rehire anyone he fired.
3. Do not listen to McCain or any Dem or RINO about ANYTHING, especially personnel appointments.
6 years ago
Fire this idiot Mc Master now. He is a political disgrace to America.
6 years ago
Higgins and several others being fired by McTraitor, kind of proves his point…
McMaster is a servant of the globalists / Islamo Nazis (with their petro $$$) and trump should get rid of him and his minions, pronto!!
