{"id":2061606,"date":"2023-10-10T07:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T11:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/imagine-if-our-intel-agencies-targeted-more-actual-terrorists-instead-of-conservative-americans\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T07:08:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T11:08:01","slug":"imagine-if-our-intel-agencies-targeted-more-actual-terrorists-instead-of-conservative-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/imagine-if-our-intel-agencies-targeted-more-actual-terrorists-instead-of-conservative-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine if our intelligence agencies focused on targeting real terrorists rather than conservative Americans."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fimagine-if-our-intel-agencies-targeted-more-actual-terrorists-instead-of-conservative-americans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2061606&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>The Shocking\u2064 Intelligence Failure in the Hamas Attack on Israel<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The barbaric\u2062 attack on Israeli\u200b civilians over\u200c the\u200d weekend by Hamas terrorists has left people wondering, as we\u2063 often do after mass \u200btragedies: How did no one see this coming? As a surprisingly \u2063sophisticated, coordinated surprise attack left nearly \u200c1,000 people dead and countless more innocents wounded or kidnapped, anyone \u200dcan recognize the massive intelligence \u200dfailure without calling into question who is morally culpable \u200bfor the invasion. Iran-backed \u200bmilitants attacked civilians\u200d from multiple points of entry, hang-gliding into a music \u2062festival and dragging the bodies \u200bof murdered women through the streets, all effectively\u2064 livestreamed \u200bon the internet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A\u2063 Global Intelligence Failure<\/h3>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t just an intel failure on\u200c Israel\u2019s part\u200b \u2014 as a close ally with an intelligence presence all over the world,\u2063 the United States also failed to foresee the attack. A \u200dsenior U.S. military official admitted \u200bto NBC \u2063News that \u201cWe \u2063were not tracking this.\u201d\u200d CIA counterterrorism veteran Marc Polymeropoulos told the \u200coutlet he\u200d was \u201cstunned\u201d that American intel agencies were caught\u200b off guard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1891054314\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-633644cbbb664f98d4b42409c599434f fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-633644cbbb664f98d4b42409c599434f\"><\/div>\n<h3>The Disturbing Priorities\u200d of the Biden Administration<\/h3>\n<p>Intelligence operatives are fallible, yes. But instead of identifying the threat from Hamas terrorists, \u200bthe Biden administration was \u2064busy sending money to their state sponsors in\u2063 Iran and employing Iranian\u2064 conspirators \u2062at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another task that\u2019s been keeping America\u2019s \u200cso-called \u201ccounterterrorism\u201d apparatus busy\u2063 lately, though. \u2063Instead of focusing their efforts on actual terrorists \u2014 \u2062those abroad and those doubtless infiltrating our porous southern border \u2014 the Biden administration has continued,\u200b and escalated, the trend \u200bof turning \u200cour post-9\/11 surveillance state against Americans, smearing them as \u201cterrorists\u201d for their political beliefs.<\/p>\n<h3>The Targeting of\u2064 Political Opponents<\/h3>\n<p>Just last\u200d week, Newsweek reported that the FBI is targeting Trump supporters as\u2062 \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d ahead of the 2024 election.\u200b The universal line from the Biden \u200badministration is that \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d and \u200cits\u200d aliases \u2014 all of \u200dwhich are used as code for political\u2062 right-wingers\u2064 \u2014 \u2063are the No. 1 threat\u200c to national security. The effort to make an example out of Trump supporters who \u2063demonstrated at the Capitol \u200con\u200c Jan.\u2062 6, 2021, is only one of numerous instances in which \u200dDemocrats within and beyond \u200cintelligence agencies are working to equate \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d with their political\u2064 opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Two\u2064 years ago, Biden\u2019s Education Department infamously planted\u2063 a letter \u2062from \u200bthe\u2062 National \u200bSchool Boards\u2062 Association \u200cto Attorney General Merrick Garland, urging\u200b him \u2063to target concerned parents who\u200c showed up at school board meetings\u2064 to protest Democrats\u2019 Covid policies\u2064 and their racialist and \u2062sexually graphic curricula \u200bin public schools. The letter smeared those parents as domestic terror threats and urged the Department of Justice to wield counterterrorism laws against \u2064them, and Garland happily acted on the \u200dsuggestion.<\/p>\n<h3>The Erosion of Civil Liberties<\/h3>\n<p>A few months later, the politicized Department of Justice announced a new \u201cdomestic terrorism unit\u201d to deal with\u200b \u201can elevated threat from domestic violence extremists,\u201d including \u201cthose who ascribe to extremist \u200canti-government and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doj-to-establish-specialized-domestic-terrorism-unit\/\" title=\"Biden DOJ To Establish Specialized Domestic Terrorism Unit\">anti-authority ideologies<\/a>.\u201d Taking things a \u200dstep further, disgraced former Deputy\u2064 FBI Director Andrew \u2062McCabe claimed that targeting the \u201cfringes of the right-wing movement\u201d was insufficient to \u201ccatch \u200bthis\u200d threat,\u201d and\u2064 instead called for federal suspicion of\u200d \u201cmainstream\u201d conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200d June 2021, the Biden administration released a \u201cNational Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.\u201d It proposed \u2062to \u201ccounter domestic terrorism by addressing underlying racism \u200band bigotry\u201d \u2014 and they weren\u2019t talking about the racism that led \u2064Hamas militants to slaughter Israeli\u2063 civilians this past weekend and has driven violence against Israel in the region \u2062for\u200c decades. A National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin issued the same year lumped\u200c \u201cconspiracy theories on perceived election\u200d fraud\u201d and\u2062 \u201cresponses to anticipated restrictions relating to the increasing COVID cases\u201d in the\u200d same\u200b sentence as \u201cdomestic violent extremist ideologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Misuse of Intelligence Resources<\/h3>\n<p>Our intelligence apparatus expends resources on\u2064 things like\u200c telling Big Tech companies which \u2064free-thinking Americans\u2019 social media posts to censor, as we \u200bdiscovered via\u2063 the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d and Missouri v. Biden. It\u2019s actively researching how \u2064to most efficiently \u2063surveil \u200dwhat you say online. The FBI has been putting\u2063 its resources to work targeting \u2014 and likely \u201cinfiltrating\u201d \u2014 traditional \u2062Catholic congregations, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/imagine-if-our-intel-agencies-targeted-more-actual-terrorists-instead-of-conservative-americans\/\" title=\"Imagine if our intelligence agencies focused on targeting real terrorists rather than conservative Americans.\">terrorizing peaceful pro-lifers<\/a> like Mark Houck, a pastor who was dragged away in a \u2062surprise raid at \u2062his home in front of his\u200c family.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s \u200dnot just domestic \u200dintel\u2062 agencies being \u200dwielded against Americans; the \u2064CIA did its part to help Twitter censor speech, and even solicited signatures to help falsely smear damaging reporting about the Biden family as disinformation ahead of the 2020 election. (For some reason, none of those\u200b involved are being arrested\u2063 for \u201cconspiracy against voting rights.\u201d)<\/p>\n<h3>A Safer World with Proper Priorities<\/h3>\n<p>Across the\u2063 board, we\u2019ve seen\u200b the people we elected,\u200d and countless bureaucrats we did not, weaponizing supposedly counterterror laws like the Patriot Act against Americans\u2019 First and Fourth Amendment freedoms (at least).<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if those resources\u200d were redirected away from targeting ordinary, law-abiding Americans for their political views and aimed\u200d at stopping actual terrorists who seek to harm us and\u200c our allies. Contrary to the pretense that surveilling Americans as walking national security threats is for our own protection, our world would be \u2062a lot safer.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does the erosion of civil liberties in the name of national security impact the fight against \u2064global acts\u2062 of\u200b terrorism?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Global \u200dacts of\u200b terrorism. No, they were talking about targeting Americans with differing political beliefs and labeling them\u2063 as domestic terrorists. This erosion of civil liberties in the name of national\u2063 security is deeply concerning and diverts attention and resources away from real threats.<\/p>\n<h3>The Need for Effective Intelligence Gathering<\/h3>\n<p>The shocking \u2062intelligence failure in the Hamas attack on Israel \u2063highlights the critical need for effective intelligence gathering and analysis. It is clear that both Israeli and American intelligence agencies were caught off guard, despite the advanced surveillance capabilities at their \u2063disposal. The failure to \u200cdetect and prevent such a devastating attack\u200c raises serious\u2064 questions about the effectiveness\u200d and \u2063efficiency of our intelligence systems.<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence agencies play a crucial role in identifying and preventing acts \u200cof terrorism. Their primary responsibility is to\u200b gather and analyze information to provide \u200daccurate assessments of potential threats. However, it \u2064is evident that these agencies need to improve their capabilities and enhance their coordination in order to adapt to the ever-evolving tactics of terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n<h3>The Role\u2064 of Politics in Intelligence<\/h3>\n<p>One of the underlying issues in the intelligence failure is the politicization of intelligence agencies. Instead of focusing on their core mission of protecting national\u2062 security, intelligence agencies \u2063have been subverted\u200b by political agendas. This is evident in the case of the Biden administration, which has directed \u2062its resources towards targeting political opponents rather than addressing \u2062real threats.<\/p>\n<p>Labeling Trump supporters as domestic terrorists\u2064 and \u2062equating political dissent with terrorism is a dangerous and misguided approach. It\u2063 undermines the fundamental principles of democracy and freedom \u2062of speech. It also distracts intelligence \u200bagencies from their primary mission and\u2062 compromises\u2064 their impartiality and credibility.<\/p>\n<h3>Moving Forward<\/h3>\n<p>In order to prevent \u2063future intelligence failures, it\u2064 is crucial\u2064 to address the\u2062 politicization of intelligence agencies \u2064and\u2064 prioritize their core mission of national security. Intelligence agencies \u200bmust \u200cbe\u200d free\u2062 from political interference and their focus should be solely on gathering and analyzing information to detect and prevent acts of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there needs to be improved coordination and\u200c information sharing between domestic and international intelligence agencies. The attack on Israel by\u200d Hamas demonstrates the importance of a global intelligence network to effectively combat terrorist threats. Enhanced collaboration and communication between countries will\u2062 enable early detection and prevention\u2064 of \u2062such attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, intelligence agencies must \u2064invest \u200cin \u2064advanced technologies and techniques\u200d to stay ahead of emerging threats. This includes the utilization of artificial intelligence, data analytics,\u2064 and other innovative tools to analyze vast amounts of information\u2062 and identify patterns and potential threats.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the shocking intelligence failure in the Hamas attack on Israel highlights the need \u200cfor improvements in intelligence\u2063 gathering, coordination, and impartiality. Political agendas must not \u200ccompromise\u2063 the effectiveness of intelligence agencies, and their focus should be solely\u200d on protecting national \u200dsecurity. \u200dBy\u200d addressing these issues and investing in advanced technologies, we can strengthen our intelligence capabilities and prevent future tragedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli civilians has raised questions about how such a tragedy could occur unnoticed. With a highly organized surprise assault resulting in numerous casualties and abductions, it is evident that the intelligence failure was significant. The incident has left people pondering how this devastating event went undetected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":2061607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}