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Listen to White House Terrorism Expert Sebastian Gorka's Unhinged Call to a Critic

Much like the president, he used an unsecure phone for his rants.
By Jeff Stein / Newsweek
February 23, 2017
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An embattled White House terrorism advisor whose academic credentials have come under widespread fire telephoned one of his main critics at home Tuesday night and threatened legal action against him, Newsweek has learned. Sebastian Gorka, whose views on Islam have been widely labeled extremist, called noted terrorism expert Michael E. Smith II in South Carolina and…

Stein is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun and the author of "A Murder in Wartime: The Untold Spy Story that Changed the Course of the Vietnam War" (St. Martin's Press 1992).


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