Former Senior Executive (SES) FBI agent Christopher O’Leary, whose two-decade career focused on counterterrorism probes for the bureau, appeared blame Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for inviting attacks against its officers - urging the agency to overhaul its enforcement strategies such as 'wearing masks' (a nod to California) - to curb violence from radical leftwing extremists.
During an appearance on MSNBC's "Katy Tur Reports" Wednesday, O’Leary weighed in on the brazen shooting at an ICE facility in Texas, conceding that overheated rhetoric should be dialed back while shockingly pinning the blame on ICE's own playbook.
“You also have to start looking at what policies you’ve implemented and what tactics you’re using, because, if you tone down the rhetoric, but you leave those other pieces in place, nothing’s going to change,” O’Leary, who now is a MSNBC analyst, told Tur.
"Terrorism is theater. It’s intended to influence an audience beyond its immediate victims,” O’Leary said. "It’s putting a message out, and terrorism falls into really three categories: It’s either religiously motivated, ideologically motivated, or, in this case, politically motivated.
"The politically motivated ones, it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It happens because conditions have been set that people start acting out against,” he added.
The former FBI agent doubled down, seemingly painting ICE as the villain in a narrative straight out of the progressive grievance handbook: “Distrust in institutions - that’s been building for quite some time - attacks on institutions, the wealth gap, oppressive policies - at least this is what people perceive - and then the militarization of ICE and other federal law enforcement, the wearing of the masks, the aggressive tactics. So, the people who are starting to act out against this feel it’s their only recourse.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/former-fbi-official-says-left-wing-terror-will-continue-unless-ice-changes-tactics
O'Leary seems to think that antifa are unstoppable, ultimately fated to win.
History suggests that violent actors are always constrained by limited resources.
