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The Hunt: Was the National Guard attack in DC a terror plot?

By J.J. Green

Why did Rahmanullah Lakanwal, allegedly gun down two National Guard personnel on the street in D.C.?

On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans Jakob-Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, says this case carries the hallmarks of a terror plot.

Analysis: The iron law doctrine; Trump signals a new American order built on power, not permission

By J.J. Green
By any historical measure, the words mattered as much as the action. In the wake of the U.S. operation that seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller did something no senior White House official had done so bluntly in decades: he articulated a doctrine. Not a talking point. Not a trial balloon. A worldview.
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