Former CIA Officer: Treat Domestic Extremism as an Insurgency

Funny how the people NPR was excoriating as torturers and incompetents a decade ago for their role in the Iraq War are now considered trustworthy intelligence experts. Even trustworthy enough to advise on how to prosecute a campaign against an "insurgency" in our own domestic population! What could go wrong?

Never let a situation go by if it can be exploited to strip Americans of their rights.

Huh, this sort of rhetoric seems like it will only provoke the opposite of what they wa...<p>wait a second...

so, arm and fund them?

Treat and fight them like the US continues to treat and fight the Taliban?

CIA officers should mind their business. Their role is to collect information on foreign environments not give opinions.