Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen… Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela
The US president said that he “considered foreign policy, national security, and counterterrorism goals” in deciding the scope of the ban.
I interpreted that as “the US president said that he ‘considered how likely it was that someone in one of those countries had a damn good reason to flee, so, stay lost.’”
A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise is now a Department of Homeland Security official overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million grant program intended to help communities combat violent extremism.
The White House appointed Fugate, a former Trump campaign worker who interned at the hard-right Heritage Foundation, to a Homeland Security role that was expanded to include the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships. Known as CP3, the office has led nationwide efforts to prevent hate-fueled attacks, school shootings and other forms of targeted violence.
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Typically, people familiar with CP3 say, a candidate that green wouldn’t have gotten an interview for a junior position, much less be hired to run operations…
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Accounts of Fugate’s arrival and the dismantling of CP3 come from current and former Homeland Security personnel, grant recipients and terrorism-prevention advocates who work closely with the office and have at times been confidants for distraught staffers. All spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal from the Trump administration.
In these circles, two main theories have emerged to explain Fugate’s unusual ascent. One is that the Trump administration rewarded a Gen Z campaign worker with a resume-boosting title that comes with little real power because the office is in shambles.
The other is that the White House installed Fugate to oversee a pivot away from traditional counterterrorism lanes and to steer resources toward MAGA-friendly sheriffs and border security projects before eventually shuttering operations. In this scenario, Fugate was described as “a minder” and “a babysitter.”
Gosh, neither of those possibilities is reassuring…
What I’m expecting is that because the ability to detect and prevent domestic extremism is being destroyed, the feds will be totally unprepared for the coming explosion of domestic terrorism, and then some future government will be playing desperate catch-up to recreate the programs it once had to deal with the issue (and getting the blame for it). Which is pretty much what’s going to happen with a lot of issues (destroying the ability to detect/prevent disasters, then the disasters happen), though some of those chickens will come home to roost in a matter of months and some will take decades…
One year to the next Football World Cup. It will be a funny tournament without sport fans.
(iv) any athlete or member of an athletic team, including coaches, persons performing a necessary support role, and immediate relatives, traveling for the World Cup, Olympics, or other major sporting event as determined by the Secretary of State;
I graduated from med school in 1990, from West Virginia University, and we had nutrition taught as a core part of the curriculum, because of course we did. It is a core part of medicine, and disruption of nutrition causes a hell of a lot of bad stuff. I have no idea what the hell he is talking about. Of course, neither does he, so I guess it fits.
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