Inside the Fiasco at the National Security Council

The national security adviser seemed at a loss. It fell to Michael Waltz to explain to handpicked members of his staff this month why the president had ordered their dismissal after a meeting with Laura Loomer, the far-right activist who rose to prominence by making incendiary anti-Muslim claims and who last year shared a video that labeled 9/11 an “inside job.” “He was upset and couldn’t explain it,” a person familiar with Waltz’s reaction told me. But the abrupt dismissals shouldn’t have come as a surprise at the National Security…

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EXCLUSIVE: Chattanooga ‘Council Against Hate’ Relies on Far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — Tennessee’s third-largest city launched a council to oppose “hate” and “extremism” in 2018, and that council has repeatedly collaborated with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, which is notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits “hate groups,” putting them on a “hate map” alongside the Ku Klux Klan. Then-Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke, a Democrat, launched the Council Against Hate in 2018. In doing so, he referenced a July 2015 shooting in the Tennessee city. “A city of creators will find new ways to…

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