Clint Watts
 Clint Watts    (deep state operative, propagandist, spook) | |
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| Nationality | US |
| Member of | Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund |
Clint Watts is an US intelligence operative with significant ties to the Russiagate propaganda campaign and the drive for strengthening censorship. His most famous quote is “Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words. America’s war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.”[1]
Career
Clint Watts is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Instituteand Non-Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy. He is also a frequent commentator om NBC News and MSNBC. His writing and media commentary focuses on terrorism, counterterrorism, social media censorship and the fight against media not directly or indirectly controlled by the US government.
Watts’ tracking of terrorist foreign fighters allowed him to predict the rise of the Islamic State over al Qaeda in 2014. From 2014 – 2016, at the time when the US tried to use them to topple the Syrian government.
He worked with Andrew Weisburd and J.M. Berger to artificially create the Russian influence scare leading up to the U.S. Presidential election of 2016. This research led Watts to testify before four different Senate committees in 2017 and 2018 "regarding Russia’s information warfare campaign against the U.S. and the West."
In these hearings he stated “Stopping the false information artillery barrage landing on social media users comes only when those outlets distributing bogus stories are silenced — silence the guns and the barrage will end.”
As this “civil war” rages on, he said, “our country remains stalled in observation, halted by deliberation and with each day more divided by manipulative forces coming from afar.”[2]
His writing has appeared in a range of publications to include the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, Politico, Lawfare, War On The Rocks and the Huffington Post. Before becoming a consultant, Clint served as a U.S. Army infantry officer, a FBI Special Agent, as the Executive Officer of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC), as a consultant to the FBI’s Counter Terrorism Division (CTD) and National Security Branch (NSB), and as an analyst supporting the U.S. Intelligence Community and U.S. Special Operations Command.[3]
In 2019, he held a lecture for Norwegian editors and journalists, explaining the dangers of Russian influence "creating noise to sow doubts".[4]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Munich Security Conference/2023 | 17 February 2023 | 19 February 2023 | Munich Bavaria Germany | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere. |
