Thursday, August 10, 2017

This Is Fox News Analyst Thomas McInerney

Retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney is a Fox News contributor whose track record includes advising neoconservative advocacy groups like the Center for Security Policy and working as an executive in the defense industry [...] and supporting the discredited “Birther” movement.

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McInerney’s connections to military contractors and role as a public proponent of militarist defense policies have repeatedly received attention in the media.

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McInerney often promotes outlandish ideas about purported threats from Muslim countries.

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McInerney has also peddled the bizarre and thinly sourced theory, popularized by Frank Gaffney and other Islamophobic conspiracy theorists, that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the U.S. government in an effort to impose sharia law on the United States. [...] Pressed to elaborate on the allegation, McInerney added, “I haven’t got their names exactly but there’s a list of them, at least 10 or 15 of them in the U.S. government.”

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In a 2003 article for the Wall Street Journal, McInerney and coauthor James Woolsey, former CIA chief and a vocal hardliner with close links to several military contractors, discussed attacking North Korea over its nuclear weapons program. They argued that “the reflexive rejection in the public debate of the use of force against North Korea has begun to undermine U.S. ability both to influence China to act and to take the preparatory steps necessary for effectiveness if force should be needed.… It is not reasonable to limit the use of force to a surgical strike destroying Yongbyon [where a reprocessing facility is located]. … we must be prepared to win a war, not execute a strike.”

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