Nevada had covered up: Graig Graziosi, “Trump Spokesman Lashes Out at Journalists Asking for Evidence behind Nevada Fraud Case: ‘You’re Here to Take in Information,’ ” Independent, November 5, 2020.
In December, 18 Republican state attorneys general: Spencer Ackerman, “The GOP’s Replaying the Conspiracy that Predicted Rome’s Fall,” Daily Beast, January 7, 2021.
“What is the downside”: Amy Gardner, Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, and Emma Brown, “Top Republicans Back Trump’s Efforts to Challenge Election Results,” Washington Post, November 9, 2020.
“Democracy isn’t the objective”: David Morgan, “ ‘Democracy Isn’t the Objective’: Republican U.S. Senator Draws Democrats’ Ire,” Reuters, October 8, 2020.
“Yes, it’s illegal”: Craig Timberg and Drew Harwell, “Pro-Trump Forums Erupt with Violent Threats Ahead of Wednesday’s Rally Against the 2020 Election,” Washington Post, January 5, 2021.
“bleed” for their freedom: Spencer Ackerman and Kelly Weill, “ ‘When the Bombs Go Off, the Blood Is on Mike Flynn’s Hands’: Retired Officers Blast His Calls for Martial Law,” Daily Beast, December 2, 2020. Dan Barry, Mike McIntire, and Matthew Rosenberg, “ ‘Our President Wants Us Here’: The Mob that Stormed the Capitol,” New York Times, January 9, 2021.
“We don’t got your back”: Bob Price, “Watch: Violence Breaks Out as Cops Block Pro-Trump Protesters From BLM Plaza,” Breitbart, January 5, 2021.
some arriving by private jet: Abigail Rosenthal, “The Texas Woman Who Took a Private Jet to D.C. to ‘Storm the Capitol’ Has Been Charged,” Houston Chronicle, January 8, 2021.
“You’ll never take back your country”: Antonio Fins, “What Trump Said in Rally Speech to Spark U.S. Capitol Storming,” Palm Beach Post, January 6, 2021.
A rising MAGA senator: Katie Bernard, “A Photographer and a Fist Pump. The Story behind the Image that Will Haunt Josh Hawley,” Kansas City Star, January 7, 2021.
With that, a MAGA mob: Tom Jackman, “Numerous Capitol Police Officers Who Responded to Riot Test Positive for Coronavirus,” Washington Post, January 23, 2021.
One shot dead Ashli Babbitt: Spencer Ackerman, “Why the ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Thugs Were So Quick to Kill a Cop,” Daily Beast, January 8, 2021.
But other cops took selfies: Carol D. Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis, Dan Lamothe, and David Farenthold, “Capitol Breach Prompts Urgent Questions about Security Failures,” Washington Post, January 7, 2021. Spencer Ackerman and Adam Rawnsley, “Capitol Police Chief Quits after Pelosi Demanded He Be Fired for MAGA Riot,” Daily Beast, January 8, 2021. United States Capitol Police, “U.S. Capitol Police Arrests —January 6, 2021” press release, January 7, 2021, www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/us-capitol-police-arrests-january-6-2021, accessed February 11, 2021.
smeared shit through the halls: Chris Sommerfeldt, “Pro-Trump Rioters Smeared Poop in Capitol Hallways during Belligerent Attack,” New York Daily News, January 7, 2021.
a 950,000-volt stun gun: Josiah Ryan, “The Man Seen in Viral Photograph at Pelosi’s Desk Was Carrying a 950,000 Volt Stun Gun,” CNN, February 10, 2021.
Washington mayor Muriel Bowser: Alex Marquardt, Barbara Starr, Alison Main, and Devan Cole, “Pentagon Approves D.C. Mayor’s Request to Deploy National Guard for Upcoming Demonstrations,” CNN, January 4, 2021.
Major General William Walker: Paul Sonne, “Pentagon Restricted Commander of D.C. Guard Ahead of Capitol Riot,” Washington Post, January 26, 2021.
Sund claimed “nothing”: Mark Mazzetti and Adam Goldman, “Hazy Warnings Missed Extent of Capitol Plot,” The New York Times, February 5, 2021.
“coordinating, instigating and leading”: Unbylined, “Video Investigation: Proud Boys Were Key Instigators in Capitol Riot,” Wall Street Journal, January 26, 2021.
Of the first 176 people charged: Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Grace Ashford, Denise Lu, Eleanor Lutz, Alex Leeds Matthews, and Karen Yourish, “Arrested in Riot: Organized Militants and a Mob of Radicals,” New York Times, February 6, 2021.
Brock had carried flex cuffs: Ronan Farrow, “An Air Force Combat Veteran Breached the Senate,” The New Yorker, January 9, 2021.
“I am not a terrorist”: James Gordon Meek and Catherine Sanz, “ ‘I Am Not a Terrorist’: Retired Navy SEAL Speaks after Capitol Siege,” ABC News, January 12, 2021. Dave Phillips, “From Navy SEAL to Part of the Angry Mob Outside the Capitol,” New York Times, January 26, 2021.
Trump deserved a “mulligan”: Glenn Thrush, “Mike Lee Suggests Trump Should Get a ‘Mulligan’ for Capitol Riot Day Speech,” New York Times, February 9, 2021.
“To remove the supportive environment”: Mary Louise Kelly, “Former CIA Officer: Treat Domestic Extremism as an Insurgency,” NPR, February 2, 2021.
“an offense that people and organizations”: Masood Farivar, “Why Domestic Terrorism Is Not Specifically Designated a Crime in US,” Voice of America, February 10, 2021.
“But at the same time, we must resist”: Spencer Ackerman, “The Last Thing We Need Is Another War on Terror,” Daily Beast, January 13, 2021.
“The ‘post-9/11’ era”: Elissa Slotkin, “Slotkin to Take on Domestic Terrorism as Head of Counterterrorism Subcommittee,” press release, February 1, 2021, https://slotkin.house.gov/media/press-releases/slotkin-take-domestic-terrorism-head-counterterrorism-subcommittee, accessed February 11, 2021.
New York University professor Nikhil Pal Singh: Nikhil Pal Singh, Race and America’s Long War (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2019), Kindle location 496.
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INDEX
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al-Abadi, Haider, 232
Abbott, Greg, 240
Abdi, Mazloum, 280
Abdulmutalab, Umar Farouk, 132–33, 373n
Abedin, Huma, 180, 249, 253
Abu Ali, Ahmed Omar, 105–6
Abu Ghraib, 79–80
Abu Qatada, 229–30, 233
Acheson, Dean, 92
Acosta, Alex, 106
ACT for America, 140, 159, 167, 180, 254, 267
Addington, David, 32, 34, 211
Adelman, Kenneth, 65
Adlouni, Mohammed Akram, 168, 180
al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad, 229
Afghanistan, 15, 32, 34, 57, 193
Soviet invasion of, 14–15, 102
Tora Bora, 38–39, 64
Afghanistan war, xi, 24, 37–39, 46, 57, 91, 96, 140–48, 191, 195, 218, 223–25, 268, 271
atrocities in, 147
Bush and, 37, 39, 44
Obama and, 113, 115, 142–44, 157, 274
surge in, 123, 143–47
Tarek Kolache in, 145
Trump and, xi–xiii, 241, 274–75, 287
Agamben, Giorgio, 36
Ahmed, Ibrahim Abdullah Hassan, 6
Ajami, Fouad, 97
Alam family, 60–61
Alexander, Keith, 204–6
al-Hajj, Sami Muhyideen, 48–49
Al Jazeera, 23–24, 48, 77
Allen, John, 232, 239–40, 320–21
al-Qaeda, 14–15, 17, 23–24, 26, 30, 37–39, 40, 46, 48, 58, 65, 76, 94, 105, 106, 112, 115, 123, 128, 130, 131, 135, 139, 142, 143, 155–56, 167, 171, 176, 178, 183, 185, 189, 221, 228, 230, 231, 233, 235, 238, 266, 268, 274, 278, 282, 284, 323, 338, 353n
affiliates of, 135, 137
bin Laden’s death and, 148, 149
Khadr and, 49
Obama’s focus on, 135–37
Saddam and Iraq as connected to, 64–67, 71, 72, 238, 309
al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), 64, 77,
79, 109, 150, 228, 230
Alter, Jonathan, 93
alt-right, 243, 246, 283, 284
Amash, Justin, 204
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 10, 52, 134, 135, 192, 216, 298
American Conservative, 57, 118
American exceptionalism, xv–xvi, xviii, 13–14, 16, 18, 63, 81, 92, 108, 113, 150, 157, 182, 241, 302, 331
Amnesty International, 196, 216, 269
al-Anbari, Abu Ali, 230
Ansar al-Islam, 72
Antifa, 282, 285, 317–18, 321–23, 325
Antle, W. James, III, 118
Anton, Michael, 255–56, 261, 273
Arab Spring, 153, 179–80
Arbery, Ahmaud, 316
Arcuri, Michael, 163
Armitage, Richard, 71
Ashcroft, John, 27, 28, 35, 51–53, 55, 84, 133, 134, 136, 150, 174, 189, 235, 253
Asian Americans, 308
al-Assad, Bashar, 43, 179, 239, 280, 300
Assange, Julian, 194–96, 199, 202, 203, 207, 251, 255, 267
Atkinson, Michael, 293
Austin, Lloyd, 232, 239
Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), 25, 123, 181, 238
Awad, Nihad, 51–52, 104
al-Awlaki, Abdulrahman, 135, 330
al-Awlaki, Anwar, 29, 133–35, 150, 172, 201, 266, 330, 373n
al-Awlaki, Nasser, 134, 135, 266
al-Awlaki, Nawar, 266, 287
Ayers, Bill, 119
Babbitt, Ashli, 334
Bachmann, Michele, 249
al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr, 228–31, 280–81, 327
Baker, James, 99
Bakos, Nada, 72, 238
Bales, Robert, 147
Balko, Radley, 217
Bannon, Steve, 271, 273
Barakat, Barakat Ahmad, 280–81
Barakat, Deah, 234
Barnes, Fred, 81–82, 84
Baroud, Ramzy, 287
Barr, William, 35, 291–92, 318–25
Barreto, Ximena, 282
Barrett, Amy Coney, 305
Barrett, Timothy, 214
Barrett, Wayne, 21
Barron, David, 134
Bartlett, Dan, 84
Bates, John, 134–35, 201, 205
Bauer, Gary, 61
Bauer, Jack, 21–22
Bawer, Bruce, 186
Bayh, Evan, 214
Beam, Louis, 7
Beamer, Todd, 256
Beaver, Diane, 47
Beers, Rand, 63
Belew, Kathleen, 4
Belhaj, Abdul-Hakim, 45
Benghazi, 153, 181–83, 226, 231, 247–49
Benjamin, Medea, 188
Ben-Veniste, Richard, 94–95
Bergdahl, Bowe, 147
Berman, Geoffrey, 322
Berntsen, Gary, 39
Beschizza, Rob, 196
Biden, Hunter, 293–94
Biden, Joe, xii, 94–99, 108, 118, 142, 179, 196, 232, 254, 262, 264, 292–94, 314–15, 331, 333, 336, 338
Bigelow, Kathryn, 179
Bikowsky, Alfreda Frances, 128, 314
al-Binali, Turki, 228–30
bin Laden, Osama, 14–16, 22, 23, 26, 40, 54, 71, 84, 94, 101–2, 106, 112, 115, 150, 155–56, 167, 178, 228, 353n, 357n
Bush and, 64
death of, 148–50, 152–53, 178
escape of, 39
Saddam and, 65
in Tora Bora, 38–39
and U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, 38
Zarqawi and, 77
Black, Bryan C., 269
Black, Cofer, 42
Black Lives Matter, 215–16, 218, 219, 243, 246, 251, 282, 283, 285, 315–27, 334
Blackwater, 75, 77
Blackwill, Bob, 244
Blair, Dennis, 125
Blair, Tony, 77–78
Blake, Jacob, 323
Bloomberg, Mike, 131–32
Boal, Mark, 179
Boehner, John, 179, 204
Bolduc, Donald, 268, 269
Bologna, Joseph, Jr., 325
Bolton, John, 163, 264, 278, 293
Boot, Max, 57, 58, 271
Boston Marathon bombing, 225–26
Boudchar, Fatima, 45–46
Bowdich, David, 318
Bowers, Robert, 285
Bowser, Muriel, 334
Boxer, USS, 131
Boyd, Latherial, 47
Boykin, Jerry, 59, 168–69
Bradley, Daina, 5
Bradley Foundation, 169–70
Breitbart, 237, 245, 264, 271
Breitbart, Andrew, 159
Breivik, Anders, 185–86, 236, 285
Bremer, L. Paul “Jerry,” 73–75
Brennan, John, 116, 125–27, 135, 149, 155–56, 158, 187, 212–14, 240, 263, 267, 291, 294
Brewer, Jan, 171
Brock, Larry Rendell, 335
Brooks, David, 72
Brooks, Vincent, 321
Brown, Michael, 215
Buchanan, Bay, 84
Buchanan, Pat, 10, 53, 56, 57
Burlingame, Debra, 178
Burnham, James, 52
Burns, Bill, 62
Burr, Richard, 227
Bush, George H. W., 55, 291
Bush, George W., 21, 55–56, 89, 101–3, 111, 112, 115, 126, 128, 129, 158, 178, 294
Afghanistan war and, 37, 39, 44
approval ratings of, 17, 53, 54, 68
bin Laden and, 64
immigration plan of, 85, 172
Iraq war and, 64, 68–74, 77–79, 81, 83, 98, 99, 101, 110, 230, 295
Islam as viewed by, 54, 85, 176
9/11 and, 14, 17–19, 22, 53, 95, 306
Saddam and, 64–65
War on Terror of, xvi, 24–27, 30, 32, 35, 37, 38, 46, 56, 58–62, 65, 82–85, 87, 88, 91, 93, 94, 105, 107, 133–35, 148, 187, 188, 192
Bybee, Jay, 44, 134
Cain, George, 161
Cain, Rosemary, 161
Caner, Ergun and Emir, 58
Cantor, Eric, 178
Capitol, march on, 333–36
Carle, Glenn, 214
Carlson, Tucker, 65, 82, 84, 93, 310, 321, 323, 324
Castro, Fidel, 47
Center for a New American Security (CNAS), 115–16, 143
Center for Security Policy, 159, 166–70
CENTCOM, 39, 64, 142, 144, 232, 239, 266
Césaire, Aimé, xviii
Chauvin, Derek, 316
Cheney, Dick, 22, 32, 33, 56–57, 64, 66, 67, 70–72, 74, 81, 127, 157, 177–78, 211, 242, 309
Cheney, Liz, 178
China, 271, 308–9
Christian Identity, 1–2, 8
Christians, Christianity, 26, 56, 58–62, 82, 138, 165, 318, 319
CIA, 13–15, 18, 33, 37–40, 48, 83, 102, 116, 117, 127, 131, 134, 142, 149, 153, 156, 158, 192, 202, 232, 264, 267, 269, 282, 285, 286, 291, 295, 315
drones and, 124, 125
Iraq and, 62, 63, 66–68, 71, 72, 110
torture by, see torture
Cimino, Richard, 58
Citizens for National Security, 170
Cizik, Richard, 62
Clapper, James, 203–6, 209, 225, 226, 233, 253–54, 263, 279, 286, 291
Clarke, Richard, 15, 64
Clarke, Victoria, 24
Cleland, Max, 68
Clinton, Bill, 3–4, 10, 11, 15, 70, 89, 93, 98
Clinton, Hillary, 95, 96, 98–99, 103, 113–16, 118, 142–44, 180, 181, 183, 189, 247–56, 285, 286, 287, 292
email server of, 249–50, 273
Obama and, 247
in presidential election of 20
16, 247–56
on torture, 112
Coats, Dan, 295
Cohen, Michael, 247, 250
Cold War, 52–56, 66, 92, 93, 242
Cole, USS, 44
Collyer, Rosemary, 135
Comey, James, 35, 36, 189, 235–36, 252–53, 264, 272, 287–88
communism, 55, 83, 92
Constitution, xvi, 28–29, 33, 35, 48, 135, 165, 167, 181, 233, 285, 290, 292, 321
First Amendment, 31
Fourth Amendment, 30, 289
Fourteenth Amendment, 171
Conway, Butch, 218–19
Conyers, John, 11
Cooke, Marcia, 107
Cordoba House (Park51; Ground Zero Mosque), 160–64, 176, 178, 226
coronavirus pandemic, 303–13, 315, 321, 327, 328
Cotton, Tom, 82, 320
Coulter, Ann, 58
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), 51, 59, 61, 104, 168, 176, 226, 282
Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord (CSA), 3, 4, 6, 7
Crenshaw, Dan, 317
Crocker, Ryan, 114
Crowley, Candy, 183
Crowley, P. J., 189, 197
Crozier, Brett, 313
Crusius, Patrick, 285
Crumpton, Hank, 39
Cruz, Ted, 237
D’Andrea, Michael, 123, 128, 214, 255, 267
Danison, Monique, 20
Daschle, Tom, 88, 94
David, Christopher, 326
Davidson, Warren, 296
Dean, Howard, 100
Dearlove, Richard, 67–68
DeLay, Tom, 61–62, 94
democracy, xvi, xviii, 69, 94, 113, 192–93
Democrats; liberals, xii, xiii, 55, 81
Iraq war and, 95–101, 107–8
War on Terror and, 52–54, 82, 85, 87–120, 187–219, 263
Dempsey, Martin, 139–40, 142, 232
Denvir, Daniel, 242
DeSantis, Ron, 309, 310
Devereaux, Ryan, 216
Didion, Joan, 22–24
Dobbs, Lou, 264
Dobson, James, 58–59, 118
Doherty, Glen, 153
Domscheit-Berg, Daniel, 196
Dooley, Matthew, 139–40
Dowd, Maureen, xiii, 243
Downer, Alexander, 252
Draper, Robert, 72
drones, 122–26, 128, 135, 136, 157, 188, 265, 267–69, 315
Drumheller, Tyler, 68
Dubai Ports World, 103, 163
Duckworth, Tammy, xii
Duffy, Elana, 312
Dunford, Joseph, 146, 270
Durham, John, 128, 192