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|alma_mater = [[University of London]]<br> [[Corvinus University of Budapest|Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration]]
|alma_mater = [[University of London]]<br> [[Corvinus University of Budapest|Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration]]
|occupation = Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States, Professor, Author
|occupation = Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States, Professor, Author
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}}'''Sebastian Lukacs Gorka''' ({{lang-hu|Gorka Sebestyén}}; born 1970)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hungarianspectrum.org/2017/02/02/sebastian-l-von-gorkas-encounter-with-the-hungarian-national-security-office/|title=Sebastian L. von Gorka’s encounter with the Hungarian National Security Office|first=Eva S.|last=Balogh|date=February 2, 2017|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{citeweb|url= http://hungarianspectrum.org/2017/01/31/sebastian-gorkas-road-from-budapest-to-the-white-house/|title=Sebastian Gorka's road from Budapest to the White House}}</ref><ref>[http://www.hunsor.se/csapotudositasai/gorkajelenseg070307.htm ''A Gorka-jelenség''], HUNSOR, February 15, 2007</ref> is a national security professional specializing in [[irregular warfare]], including [[counterinsurgency]] and [[counterterrorism]] who is currently serving as Deputy Assistant to [[Donald Trump]]. He was a full-time Professor of Strategy and Irregular Warfare and Vice President for National Security Support of the [[The Institute of World Politics|Institute of World Politics]]<ref name=":6">{{cite web|url=http://www.iwp.edu/news_publications/detail/sebastian-gorka-to-join-iwp-faculty-full-time-this-august|title=Sebastian Gorka to join IWP faculty full-time this August|last=Phillips|first=Quinn|website=www.iwp.edu|access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref> in Washington, DC and the Chairman of Threat Knowledge Group. Previously he served as the Major General Matthew C. Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at the [[Marine Corps University]] Foundation. He is a founding member of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs<ref name=":2" /> and has served as the Associate Dean for Congressional Affairs and Relations to the Special Operations Community at the [[National Defense University]]. Gorka is also currently affiliated with [[United States Special Operations Command|USSOCOM]]’s [[Joint Special Operations University]], and <ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=http://www.iwp.edu/faculty/detail/sebastian-gorka|title=Sebastian Gorka|website=www.iwp.edu|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=February 2017}} is a regular instructor for the [[John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School]] in [[Fort Bragg]], as well as the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]’s Counterterrorism Division. Born in the United Kingdom to Hungarian parents, Gorka became an American citizen in 2012.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621574571/|title=Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War|last=Gorka|first=Sebastian|date=April 11, 2016|publisher=Regnery Publishing|isbn=9781621574576|language=English}}</ref>
|website = {{url|http://thegorkabriefing.com}}
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}}'''Sebastian Lukacs Gorka''' ({{lang-hu|Gorka Sebestyén}}; born 1970)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hungarianspectrum.org/2017/02/02/sebastian-l-von-gorkas-encounter-with-the-hungarian-national-security-office/|title=Sebastian L. von Gorka’s encounter with the Hungarian National Security Office|first=Eva S.|last=Balogh|date=February 2, 2017|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{citeweb|url= http://hungarianspectrum.org/2017/01/31/sebastian-gorkas-road-from-budapest-to-the-white-house/|title=Sebastian Gorka's road from Budapest to the White House}}</ref><ref>[http://www.hunsor.se/csapotudositasai/gorkajelenseg070307.htm ''A Gorka-jelenség''], HUNSOR, February 15, 2007</ref> is a national security professional specializing in [[irregular warfare]], including [[counterinsurgency]] and [[counterterrorism]] who is currently serving as Deputy Assistant to [[Donald Trump]]. He is a full-time Professor of Strategy and Irregular Warfare and Vice President for National Security Support of the [[The Institute of World Politics|Institute of World Politics]]<ref name=":6">{{cite web|url=http://www.iwp.edu/news_publications/detail/sebastian-gorka-to-join-iwp-faculty-full-time-this-august|title=Sebastian Gorka to join IWP faculty full-time this August|last=Phillips|first=Quinn|website=www.iwp.edu|access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref> in Washington, DC and the Chairman of Threat Knowledge Group. Previously he served as the Major General Matthew C. Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at the [[Marine Corps University]] Foundation. He is a founding member of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs<ref name=":2" /> and has served as the Associate Dean for Congressional Affairs and Relations to the Special Operations Community at the [[National Defense University]]. Gorka is also currently affiliated with [[United States Special Operations Command|USSOCOM]]’s [[Joint Special Operations University]], and <ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=http://www.iwp.edu/faculty/detail/sebastian-gorka|title=Sebastian Gorka|website=www.iwp.edu|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=February 2017}} is a regular instructor for the [[John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School]] in [[Fort Bragg]], as well as the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]’s Counterterrorism Division. Born in the United Kingdom to Hungarian parents, Gorka became an American citizen in 2012.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621574571/|title=Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War|last=Gorka|first=Sebastian|date=April 11, 2016|publisher=Regnery Publishing|isbn=9781621574576|language=English}}</ref>


==Personal life and education==
==Personal life and education==
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He holds a Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration. After that institution was renamed the [[Corvinus University of Budapest|Corvinus University]] of Budapest, he went on to study for, and receive a Ph.D. in Political Science, writing a dissertation on the strategic differences between the politically motivated terrorism of the Cold War and religiously motivated terrorists such as Al Qaeda.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gorka|first=Sebestyén L. v.|date=2007|title=Content and End-State-based Alteration in the Practice of Political Violence since the End of the Cold War: the difference between the terrorism of the Cold War and the terrorism of al Qaeda: the rise of the "transcendental terrorist|url=http://phd.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/314/2/gorka_sebestyen_ten.pdf|journal=Corvinus University of Budapest|doi=|pmid=|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=February 2017}}
He holds a Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration. After that institution was renamed the [[Corvinus University of Budapest|Corvinus University]] of Budapest, he went on to study for, and receive a Ph.D. in Political Science, writing a dissertation on the strategic differences between the politically motivated terrorism of the Cold War and religiously motivated terrorists such as Al Qaeda.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gorka|first=Sebestyén L. v.|date=2007|title=Content and End-State-based Alteration in the Practice of Political Violence since the End of the Cold War: the difference between the terrorism of the Cold War and the terrorism of al Qaeda: the rise of the "transcendental terrorist|url=http://phd.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/314/2/gorka_sebestyen_ten.pdf|journal=Corvinus University of Budapest|doi=|pmid=|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=February 2017}}


Gorka was also a Kokkalis Fellow at the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]] at [[Harvard University]] but abandoned his studies after only one year without earning a degree.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
Gorka was a Kokkalis Fellow at the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]] at [[Harvard University]] but abandoned his studies after only one year without earning a degree.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}


===2016 airport gun incident===
===2016 airport gun incident===
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In 1997 Gorka was awarded the second Partnership for Peace International Research Fellowship at the [[NATO Defense College]] in Rome.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2006/Invokation-Article-5/Invocation_context/EN/index.htm|title=Invocation of Article Five: Five Years On|last=Gorka|first=Sebestyén|date=1997|website=NATO Review|publisher=NATO|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref>
In 1997 Gorka was awarded the second Partnership for Peace International Research Fellowship at the [[NATO Defense College]] in Rome.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2006/Invokation-Article-5/Invocation_context/EN/index.htm|title=Invocation of Article Five: Five Years On|last=Gorka|first=Sebestyén|date=1997|website=NATO Review|publisher=NATO|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref>


In 1998 Gorka was awarded the Kokkalis Fellowship at [[Harvard University]] [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]]. At Harvard he became one of the founding members of the Council on Emerging National Security Affairs, CENSA.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=http://www.censa.net/Board-of-Advisors|title=The Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA) - Board of Advisors|website=www.censa.net|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref> Before starting the second year of his public policy fellowship, he was hired by the [[RAND Corporation]] in the fields of transatlantic security and counterterrorism. In 2000 Gorka moved back to Budapest to establish and head the Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy, where he continued his work on security.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
In 1998 Gorka was awarded the Kokkalis Fellowship at [[Harvard University]] [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]]. At Harvard he became one of the founding members of the Council on Emerging National Security Affairs, CENSA.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=http://www.censa.net/Board-of-Advisors|title=The Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA) - Board of Advisors|website=www.censa.net|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref> Before starting the second year of his public policy fellowship, he was hired by the [[RAND Corporation]] in the fields of transatlantic security and counterterrorism, but after less than a year at [[RAND Corporation]] Gorka moved back to Budapest in 2000 to establish and head the Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy, where he continued his work on security.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}


After the September 11 attacks of 2001, Gorka became a public figure in Hungary when he was asked by [[Magyar Televízió]], the Hungarian National Television Corporation, to provide live commentary on the events occurring in the United States, and then later in Afghanistan and around the world as part of the [[War on Terror|Global War on Terror]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2017}} One year later he was asked to serve as an official expert on the parliamentary investigatory committee created to uncover the Communist background of the new Hungarian Prime Minister [[Péter Medgyessy]]. It had been revealed, soon after the 2002 general election, that Medgyessy, who had served in the Communist government prior to 1989, had been an undercover officer in the Secret Police, the organization which had maintained the previous dictatorship and helped crush the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mno.hu/migr_1834/titkos-ugynok-a-kormany-elen-791262|title=Titkos ügynök a kormány élén|last=Matild|first=Torkos|website=mno.hu|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref> Gorka rejected Medgyessy's claims of having not spied on people when he was a secret policemen.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/secret-service-past-returns-to-haunt-hungarys-leaders-174738.html |title=Secret service past returns to haunt Hungary's leaders |date=August 26, 2002 |work=The Independent |location= London |access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref>
After the September 11 attacks of 2001, Gorka became a public figure in Hungary when he was asked by [[Magyar Televízió]], the Hungarian National Television Corporation, to provide live commentary on the events occurring in the United States, and then later in Afghanistan and around the world as part of the [[War on Terror|Global War on Terror]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2017}} One year later he was asked to serve as an official expert on the parliamentary investigatory committee created to uncover the Communist background of the new Hungarian Prime Minister [[Péter Medgyessy]]. It had been revealed, soon after the 2002 general election, that Medgyessy, who had served in the Communist government prior to 1989, had been an undercover officer in the Secret Police, the organization which had maintained the previous dictatorship and helped crush the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mno.hu/migr_1834/titkos-ugynok-a-kormany-elen-791262|title=Titkos ügynök a kormány élén|last=Matild|first=Torkos|website=mno.hu|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref> Gorka rejected Medgyessy's claims of having not spied on people when he was a secret policemen.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/secret-service-past-returns-to-haunt-hungarys-leaders-174738.html |title=Secret service past returns to haunt Hungary's leaders |date=August 26, 2002 |work=The Independent |location= London |access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref>


After the committee's mandate elapsed, Gorka and his wife [[Katharine Gorka]] established The Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security, an independent think-tank. The group focuses on issues of international security and democratic transition in post-dictatorial regions. Katharine Gorka had been the director of the USAID-funded Democracy Network program for Central and Eastern Europe. All through the 1990s and early 2000s, Gorka was a contributor to the ''[[Jane's Defence Weekly]]'' group of publications out of the UK, writing for ''[[Jane's Intelligence Review]]'' and others.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
After the committee's mandate elapsed, Gorka and his wife [[Katharine Gorka]] established The Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security, an independent think-tank. The group focused on issues of international security and democratic transition in post-dictatorial regions. Katharine Gorka had been the director of the USAID-funded Democracy Network program for Central and Eastern Europe. All through the 1990s and early 2000s, Gorka was a contributor to the ''[[Jane's Defence Weekly]]'' group of publications out of the UK, writing for ''[[Jane's Intelligence Review]]''{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}


In 2004, Gorka joined the faculty of the new US initiative, the Program for Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS), a Defense Department-funded program based out of the [[George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies]] in Garmsich-Partenkirchen, Germany. At the same time Gorka began to teach for [[United States Special Operations Command|USSOCOM]]'s [[Joint Special Operations University]], [[MacDill Air Force Base]]. He served on the faculty of the PTSS until he and his family moved to the United States in 2008. In America Gorka joined the [[United States Department of Defense|US Defense Department]] as a professor for the [[National Defense University]], [[Fort Lesley J. McNair|Fort McNair]], Washington D.C. There he taught on the ASD(SOLIC)-funded Masters Program in Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism as part of the Combating Terrorism Fellowship Program,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dsca.mil/programs/combating-terrorism-fellowship-program|title=Combating Terrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP) {{!}} The Official Home of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency|website=www.dsca.mil|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref> where he was named Associate Dean of Congressional Affairs and Relations to the [[Special operations|Special Operations]] Community. Gorka then left government service in order to assume the privately-endowed Major General Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at the [[Marine Corps University]] Foundation. In August 2016, he joined [[The Institute of World Politics]] on a full-time basis as Professor of Strategy and Irregular Warfare, and also serves as Vice President for National Security Support.<ref name=":6" />
In 2004, Gorka served as an adjunct to the faculty of the new US initiative for the Program for Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS), a Defense Department-funded program based out of the [[George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies]] in Garmsich-Partenkirchen, Germany. At the same time Gorka began to teach for [[United States Special Operations Command|USSOCOM]]'s [[Joint Special Operations University]], [[MacDill Air Force Base]]. He served on the faculty of the PTSS until he and his family moved to the United States in 2008. In America Gorka joined the [[United States Department of Defense|US Defense Department]] as a professor for the [[National Defense University]], [[Fort Lesley J. McNair|Fort McNair]], Washington D.C. There he taught on the ASD(SOLIC)-funded Masters Program in Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism as part of the Combating Terrorism Fellowship Program,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dsca.mil/programs/combating-terrorism-fellowship-program|title=Combating Terrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP) {{!}} The Official Home of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency|website=www.dsca.mil|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref> where he was named Associate Dean of Congressional Affairs and Relations to the [[Special operations|Special Operations]] Community. Gorka then left government service in order to assume the privately-endowed Major General Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at the [[Marine Corps University]] Foundation. In August 2016, he joined [[The Institute of World Politics]] on a full-time basis as Professor of Strategy and Irregular Warfare, and also served as Vice President for National Security Support.<ref name=":6" />


With his wife, Katharine Gorka, he also runs the private Virginia-based company Threat Knowledge Group. TKG provides training and strategic support to the armed services, the FBI, elements of the [[United States Intelligence Community|US Intelligence Community]], and state and local law enforcement.{{Citation needed|date=February 2017}} He is co-author and editor of several reports through TKG.
With his wife, Katharine Gorka, he ran the private Virginia-based company Threat Knowledge Group. TKG provided training and strategic support to the armed services, the FBI, elements of the [[United States Intelligence Community|US Intelligence Community]], and state and local law enforcement.{{Citation needed|date=February 2017}} He was co-author and editor of several reports through TKG.


Between 2011-2013 Gorka taught US National Security and Foreign Policy for [[Georgetown University]]'s [[McCourt School of Public Policy]].<ref name=":3" />
Between 2011-2013 Gorka was an adjunct at [[Georgetown University]]'s [[McCourt School of Public Policy]].<ref name=":3" />


Since 2014 Gorka has acted as editor for National Security Affairs for the [[Breitbart News Network]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sebastian-gorka-public-face-donald-trump-foreign-policy|title=Breitbart Staffer Turned Trump Aide Is Posterboy For New Admin’s Nationalism|newspaper=Talking Points Memo|access-date=2017-02-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/sebastian-gorka-trump-breitbart-2017-1/|title=Breitbart national security editor and Fox News contributor expected to join Trump White House|website=Business Insider France|language=fr-FR|access-date=2017-02-11}}</ref>
From 2014-2016, Gorka was an editor for National Security Affairs for the [[Breitbart News Network]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sebastian-gorka-public-face-donald-trump-foreign-policy|title=Breitbart Staffer Turned Trump Aide Is Posterboy For New Admin’s Nationalism|newspaper=Talking Points Memo|access-date=2017-02-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/sebastian-gorka-trump-breitbart-2017-1/|title=Breitbart national security editor and Fox News contributor expected to join Trump White House|website=Business Insider France|language=fr-FR|access-date=2017-02-11}}</ref>


On February 7, 2017, Gorka asserted that the White House would continue to call all media criticism of Trump "[[fake news]]" until the media learned to publish only positive commentary on White House actions.<ref>On-line article by CNN's Chris Massie at http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/kfile-gorka-on-fake-news/index.html</ref>
On February 7, 2017, Gorka asserted that the White House would continue to call all media criticism of Trump "[[fake news]]" until the media learned to publish only positive commentary on White House actions.<ref>On-line article by CNN's Chris Massie at http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/kfile-gorka-on-fake-news/index.html</ref>

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Sebastian Gorka
Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 20, 2017
Personal details
Born
Gorka Sebestyén Lukács[1]

1970 (age 53–54)
London, England
EducationPh.D. in Political Science
Alma materUniversity of London
Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration
OccupationDeputy Assistant to the President of the United States, Professor, Author

Sebastian Lukacs Gorka (Hungarian: Gorka Sebestyén; born 1970)[2][3][4] is a national security professional specializing in irregular warfare, including counterinsurgency and counterterrorism who is currently serving as Deputy Assistant to Donald Trump. He was a full-time Professor of Strategy and Irregular Warfare and Vice President for National Security Support of the Institute of World Politics[5] in Washington, DC and the Chairman of Threat Knowledge Group. Previously he served as the Major General Matthew C. Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University Foundation. He is a founding member of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs[6] and has served as the Associate Dean for Congressional Affairs and Relations to the Special Operations Community at the National Defense University. Gorka is also currently affiliated with USSOCOM’s Joint Special Operations University, and [7][non-primary source needed] is a regular instructor for the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School in Fort Bragg, as well as the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. Born in the United Kingdom to Hungarian parents, Gorka became an American citizen in 2012.[8]

Personal life and education

Sebastian Gorka is the son of Paul and Susan Gorka who escaped from Communist Hungary during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He was born and raised in the U.K. where he attended St Benedict's School, Ealing and received his first degree from the University of London.[citation needed]

Gorka married Katharine Cornell on July 6, 1996 in Hungary.[9]

Gorka is a graduate of the University of London where he received his Bachelor of Arts honors degree in Philosophy and Theology. At university, he joined the British Territorial Army reserves, serving in the Intelligence Corps.[citation needed]

He holds a Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration. After that institution was renamed the Corvinus University of Budapest, he went on to study for, and receive a Ph.D. in Political Science, writing a dissertation on the strategic differences between the politically motivated terrorism of the Cold War and religiously motivated terrorists such as Al Qaeda.[10][non-primary source needed]

Gorka was a Kokkalis Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University but abandoned his studies after only one year without earning a degree.[citation needed]

2016 airport gun incident

Gorka was detained January 31, 2016 at the Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington D.C. for attempting to board a plane with 9mm handgun in his luggage. The gun was confiscated by Transportation Security Administration officers and Gorka was permitted to board his plane after showing his U.S. Department of Defense identification.[11] He was charged with a weapons offense. Gorka entered an Alford plea. The charges were dismissed on February 3, 2017 by Judge William T. Newman Jr., husband of Sheila Johnson, who is an acquaintance of President Donald J. Trump [12][13][14][15]

Career

Sebastian Gorka briefing at SOCOM Wargame Center
Gorka briefing at SOCOM Wargame Center

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, Gorka left the UK to work in the first freely-elected government of the newly democratic Republic of Hungary. In Budapest he served in the Ministry of Defense for 5 years working on international security issues and Hungary’s future accession into NATO.[citation needed]

In 1997 Gorka was awarded the second Partnership for Peace International Research Fellowship at the NATO Defense College in Rome.[16]

In 1998 Gorka was awarded the Kokkalis Fellowship at Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. At Harvard he became one of the founding members of the Council on Emerging National Security Affairs, CENSA.[6] Before starting the second year of his public policy fellowship, he was hired by the RAND Corporation in the fields of transatlantic security and counterterrorism, but after less than a year at RAND Corporation Gorka moved back to Budapest in 2000 to establish and head the Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy, where he continued his work on security.[citation needed]

After the September 11 attacks of 2001, Gorka became a public figure in Hungary when he was asked by Magyar Televízió, the Hungarian National Television Corporation, to provide live commentary on the events occurring in the United States, and then later in Afghanistan and around the world as part of the Global War on Terror.[citation needed] One year later he was asked to serve as an official expert on the parliamentary investigatory committee created to uncover the Communist background of the new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Medgyessy. It had been revealed, soon after the 2002 general election, that Medgyessy, who had served in the Communist government prior to 1989, had been an undercover officer in the Secret Police, the organization which had maintained the previous dictatorship and helped crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.[17] Gorka rejected Medgyessy's claims of having not spied on people when he was a secret policemen.[18]

After the committee's mandate elapsed, Gorka and his wife Katharine Gorka established The Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security, an independent think-tank. The group focused on issues of international security and democratic transition in post-dictatorial regions. Katharine Gorka had been the director of the USAID-funded Democracy Network program for Central and Eastern Europe. All through the 1990s and early 2000s, Gorka was a contributor to the Jane's Defence Weekly group of publications out of the UK, writing for Jane's Intelligence Review[citation needed]

In 2004, Gorka served as an adjunct to the faculty of the new US initiative for the Program for Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS), a Defense Department-funded program based out of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmsich-Partenkirchen, Germany. At the same time Gorka began to teach for USSOCOM's Joint Special Operations University, MacDill Air Force Base. He served on the faculty of the PTSS until he and his family moved to the United States in 2008. In America Gorka joined the US Defense Department as a professor for the National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington D.C. There he taught on the ASD(SOLIC)-funded Masters Program in Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism as part of the Combating Terrorism Fellowship Program,[19] where he was named Associate Dean of Congressional Affairs and Relations to the Special Operations Community. Gorka then left government service in order to assume the privately-endowed Major General Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University Foundation. In August 2016, he joined The Institute of World Politics on a full-time basis as Professor of Strategy and Irregular Warfare, and also served as Vice President for National Security Support.[5]

With his wife, Katharine Gorka, he ran the private Virginia-based company Threat Knowledge Group. TKG provided training and strategic support to the armed services, the FBI, elements of the US Intelligence Community, and state and local law enforcement.[citation needed] He was co-author and editor of several reports through TKG.

Between 2011-2013 Gorka was an adjunct at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy.[7]

From 2014-2016, Gorka was an editor for National Security Affairs for the Breitbart News Network.[20][21]

On February 7, 2017, Gorka asserted that the White House would continue to call all media criticism of Trump "fake news" until the media learned to publish only positive commentary on White House actions.[22]

Controversy over "expert witness" claim

Gorka has claimed repeatedly to have been an "expert witness" at the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, including during televised news-appearances and in opinion articles. But in February 2017, reports emerged that Gorka had fabricated these claims. According to the U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts, Gorka never testified at the trial and prosecutors didn’t use his expertise in preparing or presenting any part of the case. Gorka's name also does not appear in the trial record as a witness.[23]. Instead, contrary to his claim, Gorka only had submitted an "expert report" to the court that ultimately was not used at the trial in any way. Gorka also made the "expert witness" claim on his personal website, which has since been taken offline.[24]

Publications

References

  1. ^ "Egy Orbán ellen szervezkedő magyar lehet Trump tanácsadója". HVG.hu (in Hungarian). January 24, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  2. ^ Balogh, Eva S. (February 2, 2017). "Sebastian L. von Gorka's encounter with the Hungarian National Security Office".
  3. ^ "Sebastian Gorka's road from Budapest to the White House".
  4. ^ A Gorka-jelenség, HUNSOR, February 15, 2007
  5. ^ a b Phillips, Quinn. "Sebastian Gorka to join IWP faculty full-time this August". www.iwp.edu. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  6. ^ a b "The Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA) - Board of Advisors". www.censa.net. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
  7. ^ a b "Sebastian Gorka". www.iwp.edu. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
  8. ^ Gorka, Sebastian (April 11, 2016). Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 9781621574576.
  9. ^ "WEDDINGS;Katharine Cornell, Sebestyen Gorka". The New York Times. July 7, 1996. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
  10. ^ Gorka, Sebestyén L. v. (2007). "Content and End-State-based Alteration in the Practice of Political Violence since the End of the Cold War: the difference between the terrorism of the Cold War and the terrorism of al Qaeda: the rise of the "transcendental terrorist" (PDF). Corvinus University of Budapest. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
  11. ^ Bill Gertz (January 31, 2015). "White House National Security Official Cleared of Gun Charge". Freebeacon.com. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
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