I mean, it's trite to say that we need a national conversation, but in fact, that's what we need.Īnd so it's people, it's all of us who really need to be engaging with one another in a very sincere way, admitting what we don't know and trying to seek out the truth together. And I think there are a great many people who don't trust you, Mary Louise, I hate to be the one to break it to you, who don't trust NPR or The New York Times.īut again, I think this is the work of a nation. There are members of my family who have very strong doubts. There are friends of mine who believe that the election was stolen. We're not talking about an alien population here. I think the most important element of the struggle, if you will, is information. I think what is most important is that we drive a wedge between those violent individuals and the people who may otherwise see them as reflecting their interests and fighting on their behalf. And that's what I'm primarily concerned with here. But what enables them to carry forward their program is a large number of people from whom they can draw tacit support. So I think as in any insurgency situation, you have committed insurgents who are typically a relatively small proportion of the affected population. But what I think is useful is to have some way of thinking about the problem and thinking through the elements of the solution. I don't want to be one to suggest that somehow the United States is going to in any way resemble Iraq or Afghanistan at the height of violence. In an interview with All Things Considered, Grenier discusses what that national action would mean.Īs someone who has watched many violent insurgencies unfold in various countries around the world, what felt the same to you? What felt different? are capable of producing endemic political violence of a sort not seen in this country since Reconstruction." And without national action, he argues, "extremists who seek a social apocalypse. "We may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained wave of violent insurgency within our own country, perpetrated by our own countrymen," Grenier wrote in The New York Times last week. He went on to become the CIA's Iraq mission manager and then director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center from 2004 to 2006. Robert Grenier served as the CIA's station chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001. That means using counterinsurgency tactics - similar in some ways to those used in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. When it comes to domestic extremists such as those who stormed the Capitol, a longtime CIA officer argues that the U.S. He's been a supporter of President Trump.Ĭopyright 2020 KUAR.
House prior to his 2014 election to the Senate. Senator Cotton graduated from Harvard Law School, served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as an Infantry Officer, and represented Arkansas's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. Cotton's office tells KUAR, "Senator Cotton is focused on serving Arkansans in the Senate." Responding to the New York Times report, Sen. Senate election in 2018 would see many people throw their hats in the ring." Democratic Party of Arkansas spokesman Graham Senor says, "There's a long line of people who have expressed interest in running against Senator Cotton in 2020, so we expect that a U.S. Powell says, "if the vacancy occurs more than four months before the next general election then an election would be held to to select a Senator to fill the remainder of the vacated term."ĭemocrats hope to take advantage of the unexpected electoral opening if the Cotton-to-CIA scenario does pan out. Arkansas Secretary of State spokesman Chris Powell says if the seat is left vacant, Governor Asa Hutchinson would be charged with appointing an interim Senator. If the Republican from Yell County does end up heading the intelligence service it'll open up a U.S. Under his plan, the shake-up of the national security team would happen around the end of the year or shortly afterward." Kelly, the White House chief of staff, developed the transition plan and has discussed it with other officials. Tillerson and in general is ready to make a change at the State Department. Trump has given final approval to the plan, but he has been said to have soured on Mr. Cotton has signaled that he would accept the job if offered, said the officials, who insisted on anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations before decisions are announced. Senator Tom Cotton to replace Pompeo as head of the Central Intelligence Agency. It's reported that President Trump wants Arkansas U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
The New York Times reports today on a White House plan to replace U.S. Tom Cotton touring military vehicle prototypes in Little Rock.
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