Overview
- Sebastian Gorka said in a Breitbart interview that President Trump signed a new counterterrorism strategy and claimed recent operations killed hundreds of jihadists and freed more than 100 American hostages.
- The Guardian, as reported by Alternet, described a 16-page memo that broadens targets to Mexican cartels and left‑wing extremists while leaving out far‑right or white supremacist threats.
- The same reporting said the document singles out what it calls radically pro‑transgender and anti‑American ideology for neutralization, a framing critics argue shifts national security toward culture‑war enemies.
- Security analysts quoted by The Guardian blasted the memo as light on concrete plans and heavy on politics, with Soufan Center’s Colin Clarke calling it transparent to allies and labeling it largely slop.
- ProPublica presented a conflicting picture by saying the promised strategy had not appeared publicly and documenting Gorka’s hostile posts on X after a request for comment, even as a White House spokesperson praised his work; such disputes matter because a national CT strategy sets agency priorities, budgets, and allied cooperation during wartime.