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Top Republicans Fume After Botched Army Terrorism Briefing Named Anti-Abortion Groups
« on: July 16, 2024, 01:12:08 pm »
Top Republicans Fume After Botched Army Terrorism Briefing Named Anti-Abortion Groups
 
 
Military.com | By Rebecca Kheel
Published July 15, 2024 at 4:46pm ET

Leading Republican lawmakers are demanding answers from the Army after gate security at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, was given an anti-terrorism briefing that lumped mainstream anti-abortion groups in with extremist groups.

The slide presentation was botched in many ways, including also labeling non-violent, left-wing groups as terrorists. But Republicans are homing in on the anti-abortion slide to charge that the Army is targeting conservative political beliefs.
 
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., personnel subcommittee Chairman Jim Banks, R-Ind., and other committee Republicans sent a letter to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth over the weekend calling for answers by July 25 on how the slideshow came to be.
 

"It is crucial that our military maintains political neutrality and respect for diverse viewpoints within the bounds of the law," the 25 lawmakers wrote in the letter to Wormuth. "Regardless of any base commanders' concern for protests from potential groups, the idea that such protected constitutional activities by lawful organizations qualifies them as terrorists is absurd."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/07/15/botched-army-terrorism-briefing-cited-anti-abortion-groups-sparks-congressional-inquiry.html
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Re: Top Republicans Fume After Botched Army Terrorism Briefing Named Anti-Abortion Groups
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2024, 01:15:02 pm »
It's good to see they don't engage in woke rhetoric when briefing. 8bs8
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Re: Top Republicans Fume After Botched Army Terrorism Briefing Named Anti-Abortion Groups
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2024, 02:52:31 pm »
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More than two dozen members of the House Armed Services Committee demanded answers from the U.S. Army after it acknowledged the veracity of slides in a domestic counterterrorism training module that referenced pro-life groups.

Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Personnel, led the letter to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth expressing outrage and calling for a more thorough explanation for the use of the teaching tools at Fort Liberty, formerly Fort Bragg, in North Carolina.

The letter said the slides indicated members of pro-life organizations could be threats to the safety of military installations and that regalia of such groups, like a pro-life license plate, could potentially indicate terrorism.

"This is truly shocking for an organization that insists on treating everyone with ‘dignity and respect’," Banks wrote of the slide deck, which was used as part of a larger training for military police tasked with manning base access points.

Banks told Fox News Digital Friday the slides date back to the summer of 2023, suggesting they’re not a case of sudden mistaken entry.

"For over a year, someone at Fort Liberty has been teaching our troops that pro-life Americans are terrorists, and the Biden Pentagon didn’t stop it until House Republicans and the public raised the alarm," Banks said. ...
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