Sebastian Gorka to accept position outside White House: report
Source: The Hill
Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to the president, will take a position that deals with the "war of ideas" regarding radical Islamic extremism, sources told The Washington Examiner on Sunday.
Gorka has served as both a national security adviser and on the Strategic Initiatives Group, which is an organization within the White House, according to the publication.
The news he is accepting an outside role comes after reports raising questions about his security clearance status.
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A spokesman for the National Security Council told the publication he did not "personally know" about Gorka's future.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/331318-sebastian-gorka-to-accept-position-outside-white-house-report
Suspected Nazi enthusiast & Fake Terror Expert Sebastian Gorka is OUT!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sebastian-gorka-to-accept-role-outside-white-house/article/2621719
{Other sources link to this report and though it is RW leaning it is probably correct when writing about an RW figure being ousted.}
Gorka has served for months on the Strategic Initiatives Group, an internal organization within the White House, and as a national security adviser. His exit from the White House comes amid increased speculation that a reported lack of a security clearance prevented him from fully performing in his job.
But a source told the Washington Examiner that Gorka's role in SIG was always meant to be temporary, and suggested he had been placed there while administration officials created a terrorism-related position for him elsewhere in the government. An official said Gorka has been in a "holding pattern" while he waited for the position, which will not be at the State Department, to be established.
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)Looks like the whole fake-PhD thing finally caught up to him.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Nice guy...lots of life experience...good voice...good values
And VERY open-minded musically for a grey-bearded folkie.
Warpy
(111,383 posts)Even Pence and Kushner have been shown to be compromised, having lied about their own Russian contacts.
Seeing Gorka gone is a big deal. Looks like he's going into a far right oraganization that is so lunatic fringe he doesn't want to admit it. My best guess is that Stormfront will now have a new "expert," fresh from government service.
I shall refer to him as Dolt45 going forward.
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Warpy
(111,383 posts)Since I stole it from somebody else, you get to steal it from me.
Gothmog
(145,666 posts)My favorite line from the WHCD
Not See Bannon
SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)who says the right things to make the assholes all happy. He's just like that POS Wayne Simmons who pretended to be a CIA intelligence expert and played faux noise and all the RW asshats all the way to the bank.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/fox-news-analyst-still-wont-admit-he-was-not-in-cia/2016/07/14/eb61b5e4-478e-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html?utm_term=.d05e2f6c556f
The difference here is that Gorka is a legit fuckin' nazi, a true believer with a phony PhD and absolutely no experience in the mideast. The dumb fuck doesn't speak any Arabic and in fact has never been to the MidEast...Yet Trump and his minions at Faux have no problem trotting him out to warm of the creeping dangers of sharia or scary Syrian terror babies.
Gorka needs to be in prison, not in a cushy non clearance required Federal job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Gorka#Credentials
shraby
(21,946 posts)send them to Russia.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)bluedigger
(17,087 posts)Ka-ching.
Cattledog
(5,919 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)mtngirl47
(991 posts)Probably some place where he doesn't need a security clearance...but will still be advising Trump
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)and possibly traitorous behavior. And no one is doing anything about it.
This is hard to take. My imagination takes off sometimes, seeing a comparison to 1930s Germany. What I once thought was unthinkable in this country, I now see just how easy it is.
BigmanPigman
(51,640 posts)I know, I know...don't judge a book by its cover but even before I knew who he was I assumed he was a Russian spy. He could get a job as a KGB villain in a Bond film.
Gothmog
(145,666 posts)which doesn't stop him from swaggering around and being smug, arrogant and obnoxious.
A phony--no wonder he had an affinity with the dump admin.
Oh, and is the corporate media going to give this story the widespread exposure it deserves? Nahhh--what do you want to bet they sweep under the rug this embarrassing and revealing story about yet another example of malfeasance by the dumpsters?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)But that group fizzled out in the early months of the administration. Gorka was unable to get clearance for the national security council after he was charged last year with carrying a weapon at Ronald Reagan Washington national airport.
The Guardian reported in April that Gorka attempted to push a plan to partition Libya into three as part of an effort to be named special envoy to the country by Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/01/sebastian-gorka-to-leave-white-house-amid-accusations-of-links-to-far-right
If so, then good. I hated the way he got off apparently scot-free from that: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028628741