Talk:Clint Watts

Article note
Started article with some content from article, Fake news website.

I was also the one that had added all that content to that other article initially anyways. Sagecandor (talk) 20:09, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Kept after Prod
Article was prodded, but kept after prod. Sagecandor (talk) 19:45, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Controversy section.
"...and his testimonies to the US Congress on the subject of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections..."

Aren't we beyond "alleged Russian interference" by now? President Trump seems to be the only one in North America who refuses to admit it. Our security agencies all agree that Russia has interfered and the CIA has launched a program to try to block that country from a repeat performance. Other countries have experienced interference, too, so we are not an isolated case: this includes France, England, and of course, the poor Ukraine.

Thank you, 69.114.121.244 (talk) 09:03, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Sorry. I never logged in for the above query. This is me ---> Wordreader (talk)


 * Alternet.org and off-guardian.org are patently unreliable sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilky (talk • contribs) 19:47, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry but it's time to bring back the controversy section.
 * https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-president-ed-note.php
 * Columbia Journalism Review isn't a fringe or conspiracy source. There was little to nothing in the way of "Russian collusion" or "Russian tampering" and it's public record now. Time to fix your page. 71.11.169.197 (talk) 05:52, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The CJR series doesn't name Clint Watts directly. The "Twitter Files" do: https://www.racket.news/p/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton
 * This merits the inclusion of at least a minor section on the now disproven Russian bots claims that were promulgated by Watts despite pushback from Twitter that no such bot networks existed. To make the assertion that Russia, and Russia alone "interferes" in other countries' elections ignores the US, UK, Israel, Saudi Arabia and other countries that do it much more effectively and insidiously; i.e., virtually every 'major' country does it.
 * There was no collusion between Trump, his people and the Russian government or actors directly tied to the Russian government. In fact the persons indicted as employees of the IRA all filed for disclosure and the case was dropped for supposed "national security" reasons - as though anything would be compromised by providing the evidence for these allegations - something that has been pretended numerous times in the media by way of selective leaks from Democrats in Congress and the FBI. 71.11.169.197 (talk) 06:08, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Finally there is no section or even mention of "Hamilton 68" and its "dashboard" that was the brainchild of Clint Watts. This shadowy Internet presence was cited as fact by numerous mainstream media outlets and government officials despite providing no backing proof of its claims.
 * https://www.racket.news/p/responding-to-hamilton-68?
 * https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/left-wing-think-tank-responsible-for-fake-russia-stories/
 * "The Hamilton 68 “dashboard” was the brainchild of former FBI special agent and MSNBC contributor Clint Watts and operated under the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a think tank founded in 2017 — shortly after former President Trump took office."
 * On the body of evidence available, it is clear that Mr. Clint Watts engaged in McCarthyite slander and falsely accused multiple legitimate Twitter users of being "Russian bots" or paid Russian propagandists. This is incredibly important as it relates directly to - in fact is the proof of the groundwork being laid - the current conflict in Ukraine. 71.11.169.197 (talk) 06:15, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Why "despite"?
The author wrote:

Clint Watts is a senior fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University and a Foreign Policy Research Institute fellow. He previously was an infantry officer in the United States Army, and was the Executive Officer of the Combating Terrorism Center at United States Military Academy at West Point (CTC). He became a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation where he served on the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). He has consulted for the FBI Counterterrorism Division (CTD) and FBI National Security Branch (NSB). DESPITE THIS HISTORY, Watts has given expert testimony to the U.S. Congress multiple times, including: to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on April 5, 2016, about the ISIS's November 2015 Paris attacks and the 2016 Brussels bombings. (emphasis added)

Why did you write, "Despite this history"?

Did Watts' "history" somehow make him less-than-qualified to give expert testimony on those issues?

I removed this as an unsupported implication. — Gowser (talk) 12:53, 25 September 2023 (UTC)