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Reign of Terror

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by Spencer Ackerman


  Nevada had covered up: Graig Graziosi, “Trump Spokesman Lashes Out at Journalists Asking for Evidence behind Nevada Fraud Case: ‘You’re Here to Take in Information,’ ” Independent, November 5, 2020.

  In December, 18 Republican state attorneys general: Spencer Ackerman, “The GOP’s Replaying the Conspiracy that Predicted Rome’s Fall,” Daily Beast, January 7, 2021.

  “What is the downside”: Amy Gardner, Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, and Emma Brown, “Top Republicans Back Trump’s Efforts to Challenge Election Results,” Washington Post, November 9, 2020.

  “Democracy isn’t the objective”: David Morgan, “ ‘Democracy Isn’t the Objective’: Republican U.S. Senator Draws Democrats’ Ire,” Reuters, October 8, 2020.

  “Yes, it’s illegal”: Craig Timberg and Drew Harwell, “Pro-Trump Forums Erupt with Violent Threats Ahead of Wednesday’s Rally Against the 2020 Election,” Washington Post, January 5, 2021.

  “bleed” for their freedom: Spencer Ackerman and Kelly Weill, “ ‘When the Bombs Go Off, the Blood Is on Mike Flynn’s Hands’: Retired Officers Blast His Calls for Martial Law,” Daily Beast, December 2, 2020. Dan Barry, Mike McIntire, and Matthew Rosenberg, “ ‘Our President Wants Us Here’: The Mob that Stormed the Capitol,” New York Times, January 9, 2021.

  “We don’t got your back”: Bob Price, “Watch: Violence Breaks Out as Cops Block Pro-Trump Protesters From BLM Plaza,” Breitbart, January 5, 2021.

  some arriving by private jet: Abigail Rosenthal, “The Texas Woman Who Took a Private Jet to D.C. to ‘Storm the Capitol’ Has Been Charged,” Houston Chronicle, January 8, 2021.

  “You’ll never take back your country”: Antonio Fins, “What Trump Said in Rally Speech to Spark U.S. Capitol Storming,” Palm Beach Post, January 6, 2021.

  A rising MAGA senator: Katie Bernard, “A Photographer and a Fist Pump. The Story behind the Image that Will Haunt Josh Hawley,” Kansas City Star, January 7, 2021.

  With that, a MAGA mob: Tom Jackman, “Numerous Capitol Police Officers Who Responded to Riot Test Positive for Coronavirus,” Washington Post, January 23, 2021.

  One shot dead Ashli Babbitt: Spencer Ackerman, “Why the ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Thugs Were So Quick to Kill a Cop,” Daily Beast, January 8, 2021.

  But other cops took selfies: Carol D. Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis, Dan Lamothe, and David Farenthold, “Capitol Breach Prompts Urgent Questions about Security Failures,” Washington Post, January 7, 2021. Spencer Ackerman and Adam Rawnsley, “Capitol Police Chief Quits after Pelosi Demanded He Be Fired for MAGA Riot,” Daily Beast, January 8, 2021. United States Capitol Police, “U.S. Capitol Police Arrests —January 6, 2021” press release, January 7, 2021, www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/us-capitol-police-arrests-january-6-2021, accessed February 11, 2021.

  smeared shit through the halls: Chris Sommerfeldt, “Pro-Trump Rioters Smeared Poop in Capitol Hallways during Belligerent Attack,” New York Daily News, January 7, 2021.

  a 950,000-volt stun gun: Josiah Ryan, “The Man Seen in Viral Photograph at Pelosi’s Desk Was Carrying a 950,000 Volt Stun Gun,” CNN, February 10, 2021.

  Washington mayor Muriel Bowser: Alex Marquardt, Barbara Starr, Alison Main, and Devan Cole, “Pentagon Approves D.C. Mayor’s Request to Deploy National Guard for Upcoming Demonstrations,” CNN, January 4, 2021.

  Major General William Walker: Paul Sonne, “Pentagon Restricted Commander of D.C. Guard Ahead of Capitol Riot,” Washington Post, January 26, 2021.

  Sund claimed “nothing”: Mark Mazzetti and Adam Goldman, “Hazy Warnings Missed Extent of Capitol Plot,” The New York Times, February 5, 2021.

  “coordinating, instigating and leading”: Unbylined, “Video Investigation: Proud Boys Were Key Instigators in Capitol Riot,” Wall Street Journal, January 26, 2021.

  Of the first 176 people charged: Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Grace Ashford, Denise Lu, Eleanor Lutz, Alex Leeds Matthews, and Karen Yourish, “Arrested in Riot: Organized Militants and a Mob of Radicals,” New York Times, February 6, 2021.

  Brock had carried flex cuffs: Ronan Farrow, “An Air Force Combat Veteran Breached the Senate,” The New Yorker, January 9, 2021.

  “I am not a terrorist”: James Gordon Meek and Catherine Sanz, “ ‘I Am Not a Terrorist’: Retired Navy SEAL Speaks after Capitol Siege,” ABC News, January 12, 2021. Dave Phillips, “From Navy SEAL to Part of the Angry Mob Outside the Capitol,” New York Times, January 26, 2021.

  Trump deserved a “mulligan”: Glenn Thrush, “Mike Lee Suggests Trump Should Get a ‘Mulligan’ for Capitol Riot Day Speech,” New York Times, February 9, 2021.

  “To remove the supportive environment”: Mary Louise Kelly, “Former CIA Officer: Treat Domestic Extremism as an Insurgency,” NPR, February 2, 2021.

  “an offense that people and organizations”: Masood Farivar, “Why Domestic Terrorism Is Not Specifically Designated a Crime in US,” Voice of America, February 10, 2021.

  “But at the same time, we must resist”: Spencer Ackerman, “The Last Thing We Need Is Another War on Terror,” Daily Beast, January 13, 2021.

  “The ‘post-9/11’ era”: Elissa Slotkin, “Slotkin to Take on Domestic Terrorism as Head of Counterterrorism Subcommittee,” press release, February 1, 2021, https://slotkin.house.gov/media/press-releases/slotkin-take-domestic-terrorism-head-counterterrorism-subcommittee, accessed February 11, 2021.

  New York University professor Nikhil Pal Singh: Nikhil Pal Singh, Race and America’s Long War (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2019), Kindle location 496.

  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

  INDEX

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  al-Abadi, Haider, 232

  Abbott, Greg, 240

  Abdi, Mazloum, 280

  Abdulmutalab, Umar Farouk, 132–33, 373n

  Abedin, Huma, 180, 249, 253

  Abu Ali, Ahmed Omar, 105–6

  Abu Ghraib, 79–80

  Abu Qatada, 229–30, 233

  Acheson, Dean, 92

  Acosta, Alex, 106

  ACT for America, 140, 159, 167, 180, 254, 267

  Addington, David, 32, 34, 211

  Adelman, Kenneth, 65

  Adlouni, Mohammed Akram, 168, 180

  al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad, 229

  Afghanistan, 15, 32, 34, 57, 193

  Soviet invasion of, 14–15, 102

  Tora Bora, 38–39, 64

  Afghanistan war, xi, 24, 37–39, 46, 57, 91, 96, 140–48, 191, 195, 218, 223–25, 268, 271

  atrocities in, 147

  Bush and, 37, 39, 44

  Obama and, 113, 115, 142–44, 157, 274

  surge in, 123, 143–47

  Tarek Kolache in, 145

  Trump and, xi–xiii, 241, 274–75, 287

  Agamben, Giorgio, 36

  Ahmed, Ibrahim Abdullah Hassan, 6

  Ajami, Fouad, 97

  Alam family, 60–61

  Alexander, Keith, 204–6

  al-Hajj, Sami Muhyideen, 48–49

  Al Jazeera, 23–24, 48, 77

  Allen, John, 232, 239–40, 320–21

  al-Qaeda, 14–15, 17, 23–24, 26, 30, 37–39, 40, 46, 48, 58, 65, 76, 94, 105, 106, 112, 115, 123, 128, 130, 131, 135, 139, 142, 143, 155–56, 167, 171, 176, 178, 183, 185, 189, 221, 228, 230, 231, 233, 235, 238, 266, 268, 274, 278, 282, 284, 323, 338, 353n

  affiliates of, 135, 137

  bin Laden’s death and, 148, 149

  Khadr and, 49

  Obama’s focus on, 135–37

  Saddam and Iraq as connected to, 64–67, 71, 72, 238, 309

  al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), 64, 77,
79, 109, 150, 228, 230

  Alter, Jonathan, 93

  alt-right, 243, 246, 283, 284

  Amash, Justin, 204

  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 10, 52, 134, 135, 192, 216, 298

  American Conservative, 57, 118

  American exceptionalism, xv–xvi, xviii, 13–14, 16, 18, 63, 81, 92, 108, 113, 150, 157, 182, 241, 302, 331

  Amnesty International, 196, 216, 269

  al-Anbari, Abu Ali, 230

  Ansar al-Islam, 72

  Antifa, 282, 285, 317–18, 321–23, 325

  Antle, W. James, III, 118

  Anton, Michael, 255–56, 261, 273

  Arab Spring, 153, 179–80

  Arbery, Ahmaud, 316

  Arcuri, Michael, 163

  Armitage, Richard, 71

  Ashcroft, John, 27, 28, 35, 51–53, 55, 84, 133, 134, 136, 150, 174, 189, 235, 253

  Asian Americans, 308

  al-Assad, Bashar, 43, 179, 239, 280, 300

  Assange, Julian, 194–96, 199, 202, 203, 207, 251, 255, 267

  Atkinson, Michael, 293

  Austin, Lloyd, 232, 239

  Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), 25, 123, 181, 238

  Awad, Nihad, 51–52, 104

  al-Awlaki, Abdulrahman, 135, 330

  al-Awlaki, Anwar, 29, 133–35, 150, 172, 201, 266, 330, 373n

  al-Awlaki, Nasser, 134, 135, 266

  al-Awlaki, Nawar, 266, 287

  Ayers, Bill, 119

  Babbitt, Ashli, 334

  Bachmann, Michele, 249

  al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr, 228–31, 280–81, 327

  Baker, James, 99

  Bakos, Nada, 72, 238

  Bales, Robert, 147

  Balko, Radley, 217

  Bannon, Steve, 271, 273

  Barakat, Barakat Ahmad, 280–81

  Barakat, Deah, 234

  Barnes, Fred, 81–82, 84

  Baroud, Ramzy, 287

  Barr, William, 35, 291–92, 318–25

  Barreto, Ximena, 282

  Barrett, Amy Coney, 305

  Barrett, Timothy, 214

  Barrett, Wayne, 21

  Barron, David, 134

  Bartlett, Dan, 84

  Bates, John, 134–35, 201, 205

  Bauer, Gary, 61

  Bauer, Jack, 21–22

  Bawer, Bruce, 186

  Bayh, Evan, 214

  Beam, Louis, 7

  Beamer, Todd, 256

  Beaver, Diane, 47

  Beers, Rand, 63

  Belew, Kathleen, 4

  Belhaj, Abdul-Hakim, 45

  Benghazi, 153, 181–83, 226, 231, 247–49

  Benjamin, Medea, 188

  Ben-Veniste, Richard, 94–95

  Bergdahl, Bowe, 147

  Berman, Geoffrey, 322

  Berntsen, Gary, 39

  Beschizza, Rob, 196

  Biden, Hunter, 293–94

  Biden, Joe, xii, 94–99, 108, 118, 142, 179, 196, 232, 254, 262, 264, 292–94, 314–15, 331, 333, 336, 338

  Bigelow, Kathryn, 179

  Bikowsky, Alfreda Frances, 128, 314

  al-Binali, Turki, 228–30

  bin Laden, Osama, 14–16, 22, 23, 26, 40, 54, 71, 84, 94, 101–2, 106, 112, 115, 150, 155–56, 167, 178, 228, 353n, 357n

  Bush and, 64

  death of, 148–50, 152–53, 178

  escape of, 39

  Saddam and, 65

  in Tora Bora, 38–39

  and U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, 38

  Zarqawi and, 77

  Black, Bryan C., 269

  Black, Cofer, 42

  Black Lives Matter, 215–16, 218, 219, 243, 246, 251, 282, 283, 285, 315–27, 334

  Blackwater, 75, 77

  Blackwill, Bob, 244

  Blair, Dennis, 125

  Blair, Tony, 77–78

  Blake, Jacob, 323

  Bloomberg, Mike, 131–32

  Boal, Mark, 179

  Boehner, John, 179, 204

  Bolduc, Donald, 268, 269

  Bologna, Joseph, Jr., 325

  Bolton, John, 163, 264, 278, 293

  Boot, Max, 57, 58, 271

  Boston Marathon bombing, 225–26

  Boudchar, Fatima, 45–46

  Bowdich, David, 318

  Bowers, Robert, 285

  Bowser, Muriel, 334

  Boxer, USS, 131

  Boyd, Latherial, 47

  Boykin, Jerry, 59, 168–69

  Bradley, Daina, 5

  Bradley Foundation, 169–70

  Breitbart, 237, 245, 264, 271

  Breitbart, Andrew, 159

  Breivik, Anders, 185–86, 236, 285

  Bremer, L. Paul “Jerry,” 73–75

  Brennan, John, 116, 125–27, 135, 149, 155–56, 158, 187, 212–14, 240, 263, 267, 291, 294

  Brewer, Jan, 171

  Brock, Larry Rendell, 335

  Brooks, David, 72

  Brooks, Vincent, 321

  Brown, Michael, 215

  Buchanan, Bay, 84

  Buchanan, Pat, 10, 53, 56, 57

  Burlingame, Debra, 178

  Burnham, James, 52

  Burns, Bill, 62

  Burr, Richard, 227

  Bush, George H. W., 55, 291

  Bush, George W., 21, 55–56, 89, 101–3, 111, 112, 115, 126, 128, 129, 158, 178, 294

  Afghanistan war and, 37, 39, 44

  approval ratings of, 17, 53, 54, 68

  bin Laden and, 64

  immigration plan of, 85, 172

  Iraq war and, 64, 68–74, 77–79, 81, 83, 98, 99, 101, 110, 230, 295

  Islam as viewed by, 54, 85, 176

  9/11 and, 14, 17–19, 22, 53, 95, 306

  Saddam and, 64–65

  War on Terror of, xvi, 24–27, 30, 32, 35, 37, 38, 46, 56, 58–62, 65, 82–85, 87, 88, 91, 93, 94, 105, 107, 133–35, 148, 187, 188, 192

  Bybee, Jay, 44, 134

  Cain, George, 161

  Cain, Rosemary, 161

  Caner, Ergun and Emir, 58

  Cantor, Eric, 178

  Capitol, march on, 333–36

  Carle, Glenn, 214

  Carlson, Tucker, 65, 82, 84, 93, 310, 321, 323, 324

  Castro, Fidel, 47

  Center for a New American Security (CNAS), 115–16, 143

  Center for Security Policy, 159, 166–70

  CENTCOM, 39, 64, 142, 144, 232, 239, 266

  Césaire, Aimé, xviii

  Chauvin, Derek, 316

  Cheney, Dick, 22, 32, 33, 56–57, 64, 66, 67, 70–72, 74, 81, 127, 157, 177–78, 211, 242, 309

  Cheney, Liz, 178

  China, 271, 308–9

  Christian Identity, 1–2, 8

  Christians, Christianity, 26, 56, 58–62, 82, 138, 165, 318, 319

  CIA, 13–15, 18, 33, 37–40, 48, 83, 102, 116, 117, 127, 131, 134, 142, 149, 153, 156, 158, 192, 202, 232, 264, 267, 269, 282, 285, 286, 291, 295, 315

  drones and, 124, 125

  Iraq and, 62, 63, 66–68, 71, 72, 110

  torture by, see torture

  Cimino, Richard, 58

  Citizens for National Security, 170

  Cizik, Richard, 62

  Clapper, James, 203–6, 209, 225, 226, 233, 253–54, 263, 279, 286, 291

  Clarke, Richard, 15, 64

  Clarke, Victoria, 24

  Cleland, Max, 68

  Clinton, Bill, 3–4, 10, 11, 15, 70, 89, 93, 98

  Clinton, Hillary, 95, 96, 98–99, 103, 113–16, 118, 142–44, 180, 181, 183, 189, 247–56, 285, 286, 287, 292

  email server of, 249–50, 273

  Obama and, 247

  in presidential election of 20
16, 247–56

  on torture, 112

  Coats, Dan, 295

  Cohen, Michael, 247, 250

  Cold War, 52–56, 66, 92, 93, 242

  Cole, USS, 44

  Collyer, Rosemary, 135

  Comey, James, 35, 36, 189, 235–36, 252–53, 264, 272, 287–88

  communism, 55, 83, 92

  Constitution, xvi, 28–29, 33, 35, 48, 135, 165, 167, 181, 233, 285, 290, 292, 321

  First Amendment, 31

  Fourth Amendment, 30, 289

  Fourteenth Amendment, 171

  Conway, Butch, 218–19

  Conyers, John, 11

  Cooke, Marcia, 107

  Cordoba House (Park51; Ground Zero Mosque), 160–64, 176, 178, 226

  coronavirus pandemic, 303–13, 315, 321, 327, 328

  Cotton, Tom, 82, 320

  Coulter, Ann, 58

  Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), 51, 59, 61, 104, 168, 176, 226, 282

  Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord (CSA), 3, 4, 6, 7

  Crenshaw, Dan, 317

  Crocker, Ryan, 114

  Crowley, Candy, 183

  Crowley, P. J., 189, 197

  Crozier, Brett, 313

  Crusius, Patrick, 285

  Crumpton, Hank, 39

  Cruz, Ted, 237

  D’Andrea, Michael, 123, 128, 214, 255, 267

  Danison, Monique, 20

  Daschle, Tom, 88, 94

  David, Christopher, 326

  Davidson, Warren, 296

  Dean, Howard, 100

  Dearlove, Richard, 67–68

  DeLay, Tom, 61–62, 94

  democracy, xvi, xviii, 69, 94, 113, 192–93

  Democrats; liberals, xii, xiii, 55, 81

  Iraq war and, 95–101, 107–8

  War on Terror and, 52–54, 82, 85, 87–120, 187–219, 263

  Dempsey, Martin, 139–40, 142, 232

  Denvir, Daniel, 242

  DeSantis, Ron, 309, 310

  Devereaux, Ryan, 216

  Didion, Joan, 22–24

  Dobbs, Lou, 264

  Dobson, James, 58–59, 118

  Doherty, Glen, 153

  Domscheit-Berg, Daniel, 196

  Dooley, Matthew, 139–40

  Dowd, Maureen, xiii, 243

  Downer, Alexander, 252

  Draper, Robert, 72

  drones, 122–26, 128, 135, 136, 157, 188, 265, 267–69, 315

  Drumheller, Tyler, 68

  Dubai Ports World, 103, 163

  Duckworth, Tammy, xii

  Duffy, Elana, 312

  Dunford, Joseph, 146, 270

  Durham, John, 128, 192

 

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