Exclusive: Trump team seeks names of officials working to counter violent extremism

[alp227]

Source: Reuters

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has asked two Cabinet departments for the names of government officials working on programs to counter violent extremism, according to a document seen by Reuters and U.S. officials.

The requests to the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security involve a set of programs that seek to prevent violence by extremists of any stripe, including recruitment by militant Islamist groups within the United States and abroad.

Reuters could not determine why the Trump team asked for these names. The Trump team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump has frequently criticized President Barack Obama for not doing enough to battle Islamic militants and for his refusal to use the term "radical Islam" to describe Islamic State and other militant groups.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-islam-exclusive-idUSKBN14D00N

[potone]

1. You know, if it were anyone else...

it might sound like a good thing, a genuine attempt to find out who was working on these problems to solicit their advice. But with Trump, it is as likely to be the first step toward a purge to remove everyone who knows anything and replace them with Trump's lackeys.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. tRump regime will "miss the briefings" and look the other way on christian terrorism at

Christian terrorism against abortion clinics (Planned Parenthood), mosques, federal buildings with daycare centers, ....

[C_U_L8R]

3. They probably want the alt-nazi list

to invite them to the inauguration.
They got a lot of empty seats to fill
and, in true rightwing fashion, an
overabundance of Portapotties.
Alt-yeehaw.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. Trump doesn't seem to believe in conventional reality in any form.

You have to wonder what he's drinking the way he throws these kinds of accusations around. Its as if he thinks anyone who's a professional diplomat, scientist or lawyer working in government is some kind of scam artist.

[DK504]

15. I don''t think

"He who shall not be named" doesn't live in any kind of reality.

[Ligyron]

5. Don't give it to them!

[Aimee in OKC]

13. ... and remember Valerie Plame ? {eom}

[PatrickforO]

6. He wants to round them up and start camps.

[Initech]

7. Violent extremism *IS* terrorism

So Donald Trump is OK with terrorists in our country? He's fine with those assholes in Whitefish? Fucking great!

[Fast Walker 52]

8. I can't think of any benevolent reason for doing this

what a horrible shitshow that is only going get worse

[MBS]

9. Me either.

And - yes - I also fear that it will continue to get worse with every day that goes by.
Unless, that is, we Dems can create, and put into action, daily, many creative and effective strategies to resist and protest and overcome every single action of this wretched country- and democracy-wrecking crew.

That counter-Inaugural concert planned for Miami is a start.
So also are Pres. Obama's defiant end-of-presidency actions. (Yes, many may be overturned, but Obama is planting his flag - our flag - and making it clear where he stands and we stand. And both Pres. Obama and Sec. Kerry have said explicitly that they plan activist roles after Jan 2017 (I haven't seen any public statements from Biden, but I assume that his plans are the same - certainly at least on the cancer front, but I assume also on several other fronts.)

[Mc Mike]

10. Obvious why dRumpf's team asked for the names of our officials.

They're far less interested in the names of the extremists. They already have those, in their campaign's supporter list.

[malthaussen]

11. Information, I want information...

-- Mal

[BainsBane]

12. This is the third such request.

1. Climate change.
2. Gender and violence against women

And now this. The fascists are preparing for a Stalinist purge of the civil service. (And yes, I realize I mixed metaphors).

[Wuddles440]

14. Anyone that believes that this is routine...

and purely innocent is delusional! The agenda is clearly to identify any possible dissenting voices, remove the threat, and replace them only with loyalist. I would anticipate this to be aggressively pursued by the republiCONS in 2017 as they have already expressed their desire to "reform" the non-partisan policies and practices of the Civil Service Commission.

[Crash2Parties]

16. Considering Pence's Cabinet choices, it's to remove the homegrowns from the list.

Specifically, the anti-abortion, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBT American Christian terrorists.

[treestar]

17. Names, people. Everything is personal.

Always about punishing someone.

[Sunlei]

18. list all 10,000 Fed. gov. Officials. They're all supposted to "counter" violence! trump an(R)- dummy