The Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan

287 points by propublica_ 10 days ago on reddit | 25 comments

TransitJohn | 10 days ago

He can't say what the agenda is, because it's treating the American people as terrorists. That's the 'counterterrorism' plan, and it's being implemented.

hausmaus07 | 10 days ago

Beat me to it. The only plan is to label anyone who disagrees with MAGA as terrorists and chuck em in those ICE warehouse camps they've been buying all over the friggin place. These people are fucking menaces.

SunkEmuFlock | 10 days ago

NSPM-7 says you're 100% correct. These violent losers in power ain't focused abroad. They want a dictatorship, and that'll require turning everyday Americans into terrorists and criminals.

xdr567 | 10 days ago

And now watch none of them face any real consequences if and when the Democrats come back in power.

SunkEmuFlock | 10 days ago

powercow | 10 days ago

Wow people really are playing the "both sides" card in 2026..amazing.

thepasttenseofdraw | 10 days ago

Yeah this moron is one of those “I’m not voting because democrats don’t cater specifically to me” people.

powercow | 9 days ago

dems also put people in charge of the labor board that actually follow through on complaints.

Dems gave us the consumer financial protection bureau which the right are hobbling.

tried to give us student loan relief, but the supremes over ruled.

and dems most recently were fighting for healthcare subsidies which republicans let expire.

they constantly work for the worker, you just got to pay attention

GlockAF | 10 days ago

Only the non-MAGA portion, naturally

[OP] propublica_ | 10 days ago

Amid an intensifying war in Iran and an exodus of intelligence staffers, Trump’s counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka has asserted for months that a blueprint for fighting terror threats is “imminent.” To this day, he still has not released it.

We interviewed more than two dozen national security specialists across party lines to trace Gorka’s path to one of the most sensitive jobs in government. His ascent, they said, tells the story of a startling transformation of the U.S. counterterrorism agenda in Trump’s second term.

Read our full investigation: https://www.propublica.org/article/sebastian-gorka-trump-counterterrorism-czar-iran-terrorism

ProPublica sought an interview with Gorka directly and via the White House. He did not respond to a detailed list of questions but assailed the requests in two posts on X. The first was a “no,” along with insults, addressed to several journalists who had asked him to comment on his strategy. In the second post, directed at ProPublica, Gorka accused our reporter of writing a “putrid piece of hackery.”

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in an email that the administration’s restructuring of intelligence agencies “has made the entire foreign policy apparatus even more responsive to potential threats” and praised Gorka for “an incredible job” leading interagency talks.

Hangry_Howie | 10 days ago

My greatest achievement on old Twitter was having this sack of shit block me

Loggerdon | 10 days ago

Badge of Honor I would say.

powercow | 10 days ago

>Nearly a year ago, Gorka declared a national counterterrorism strategy “imminent.” By July, he was “on the cusp” of unveiling the plan — a phrase he repeated three months later in October. And again in January.

all republicans do this and it would be nice if the media called them out on it. Still waiting on their ACA replacement, the proof iran was behind the insurgency in iraq, and the proof 2020 was stolen, all coming soon

MarsupialMadness | 9 days ago

It'd be nice if the voters noticed any of this and started asking questions and not accepting "Because Democrats" as an answer for why these things keep failing their way out of Republican trifectas.

Reasonable_Scar3339 | 10 days ago

Pod casters have inherited the earth

Shindogreen | 10 days ago

Of all the useless people in this admin, he may really be the most useless.

RedWire75 | 10 days ago

The bar is in hell.

Beiki | 10 days ago

Trump officials don't have plans, they have schemes.

penny-wise | 10 days ago

Gorka is a straight out Nazi. He’s a stain on humanity.

SauntOrolo | 10 days ago

Holy fuck this guy - https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-awkward-links-between-a-trump-aide-and-hungarian-nazis/

https://forward.com/news/369683/exclusive-sebastian-gorkas-ties-to-nazi-allied-group-stretch-back-decades/

havenoir | 9 days ago

Oh jeezus. Gorka. I forgot about that idiot.

Yoojine | 9 days ago

I still crack up when thinking of Jon Lovett's impression of him. "Oopsie doopsie I've joined a Neo nazi group. Oopsie doopsie!"