“We Will Find You and We Will Kill You”

About this episode

The episode discusses the Trump administration's new counterterrorism strategy and its implications for both foreign and domestic targets.

RSVP for The Intercept Briefing Podcast’s Live Conversation on Gaza. Sign up to join us on Tuesday, May 19, at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT . Join The Intercept Briefing podcast for a special live episode taping with Intercept journalist Jonah Valdez and Tariq Kenney-Shawa, an Al-Shabaka U.S. policy fellow and co-host of Al-Shabaka’s Policy Lab series. Show description: In 16 pages, the Trump administration’s new official counterterrorism strategy outlines in broad terms who it views as terrorist threats and priority targets, ranging from anti-fascist activists to ISIS and so-called narco-terrorists. The line “We will find you, and we will kill you” appears in the memo . “[The] strategy brings together Trump's war on the wider world, which stretches from interventions and wars in Yemen and Somalia to Venezuela and the Caribbean Sea,” says Intercept senior reporter Nick Turse . “It combines it with the administration's war on dissent at home which has also been lethal, as we saw on the streets of Minneapolis . ... We can consider this strategy a new declaration of war by the Trump administration on its enemies both foreign and domestic, both real and imagined.” This week on The Intercept…

People in this episode

Host: Jessica Washington

Guests: Jonah Valdez, Tariq Kenney-Shawa

Topics covered

• Gaza
• counterterrorism strategy
• Trump administration
• war on dissent
• terrorism
• foreign policy
• domestic policy

Keywords

• Gaza
• counterterrorism
• Trump administration
• terrorism
• foreign policy
• domestic dissent
• ISIS
• Al-Shabaka
• war on dissent
• Minneapolis

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Organizations: The Intercept, Al-Shabaka, Trump administration, ISIS, Venezuela, Somalia, Yemen

Places: Minneapolis

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