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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Below are the video and transcript to Ronald Kessler&#8217;s address at the Freedom Center&#8217;s Dec. 10, 2014, gathering of the Wednesday Morning Club. </em></p>
<p><strong><em>To order Ronald Kessler&#8217;s &#8220;The First Family Detail,&#8221; click <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-First-Family-Detail-Presidents/dp/0804139210">here</a>. </em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Thank you so much for having me.  And it&#8217;s a real honor to be with such sophisticated people who understand everything, know everything.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And as you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects.  And this sometimes gets me into trouble.</p>
<p>One of my books, called &#8220;Moscow Station,&#8221; revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI.  And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him.  But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.  And I heard about it from the inside.  I heard the agents were going to come out and try to interview me.</p>
<p>And I went through in my mind how I would greet them &#8212; I would offer them coffee, I would schmooze them.  And of course, I would try to develop them as sources.</p>
<p>And a few days later, I was in my house in Potomac, Maryland, which is a quiet suburb; very few people ring the bell.  And I had this idea &#8212; since I&#8217;ve written so many books about the FBI, and covered it for so long, and interviewed so many agents, that I have an idea of what FBI agents look like, which is pretty silly.</p>
<p>But nevertheless, the bell rang, I opened the door.  And there were these two very intense-looking young men with narrow ties, white shirts.  And I said &#8212; well, where have you guys been?  I&#8217;ve been expecting you, come on in.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And they looked at me a little &#8212; almost a little afraid, a little strangely.  And they held out these pamphlets, the &#8220;The Watchtower.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>I like a challenge.  The fact that these are secret organizations, and also very important organizations that can engage in abuses that are so important to our national security &#8212; all that attracts me.  And in the case of the Secret Service, it is really the most secret of all the organizations, even more so than the CIA or the FBI, both of which I&#8217;ve written about.</p>
<p>And I began with a tip about mismanagement by the Secret Service.  And then, as I got into it, I found that was really the tip of the iceberg.  But at the same time, I got the cooperation of the Secret Service.  I think they felt that I would tell an honest story, which is what I try to do.</p>
<p>For example, with the FBI, when they do good, as they have since 9/11 &#8212; we have not had a successful foreign terrorist attack since 9/11, and it&#8217;s largely because of the FBI that I say that.  And that is unusual in journalism today, even though I&#8217;m actually much younger than Michael thinks.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>But on the other hand, when they engage in abuses, I reveal that.  In the case of the FBI, I revealed that William Sessions, the FBI director, had been engaging in abuses of all kinds, and I exposed that.  And that led to his dismissal by President Clinton.</p>
<p>In the case of the Secret Service books, I&#8217;ve now written two.  They both reveal the deficiencies in the agency and also what agents see behind the scenes.  I know this is too tawdry for all of you to hear, but there&#8217;s quite a bit that they see.</p>
<p>For example, actually before the first chapter, I began with a prologue which reveals that Bill Clinton has a mistress who has been unofficially codenamed by agents &#8220;Energizer.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And Energizer was chosen because the first letter of every family&#8217;s codename is always the same.  So in the case of the Clintons, Bill is &#8220;Eagle,&#8221; and Hillary is &#8220;Evergreen.&#8221;  And so the mistress, busty blonde mistress, became &#8220;Energizer.&#8221;</p>
<p>And as soon as Hillary leaves the home in Chappaqua, Energizer shows up.  Unlike Hillary, who&#8217;s so nasty to agents that being assigned to her detail is considered a form of punishment &#8211;</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>&#8211; the mistress is very nice to agents.  She&#8217;ll even bring them cookies sometimes.</p>
<p>One day, during the summer, she brought cookies, she drove up to the gate.  The agents are instructed not to ever ask for her ID or log her in, whereas even Clinton relatives have to be logged in.  And she held out this platter of cookies through the window of her vehicle to the agent.  And he noticed that she was wearing a low-cut tank top.  And he described in great detail her breasts, that they&#8217;re enhanced.  There was no question in his mind.  And so we have every single detail in this book, &#8220;The First Family Detail.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the case of Hillary, she&#8217;ll just make life miserable for agents.  She&#8217;ll blow up at them.  They can never do anything right.  She&#8217;ll even complain when the limousine goes over a bump in the road.  Being assigned is considered the worst assignment in the Secret Service to be assigned to Hillary&#8217;s detail.</p>
<p>And so yes, these stories are titillating; yes, they&#8217;re revealing.  But they also tell you something about our leaders and who we should be electing for President.  Should we elect someone who treats other people in such a shabby way, who at the same time claims to be compassionate, to care about the little people?  She&#8217;s going to be a champion of the middle class?  And yet, she cannot treat agents who are there to protect her, and even take a bullet to protect her, with decency.</p>
<p>And people just, you know, sort of ignore this.  They look at how well someone speaks, they look at what someone promises.  They&#8217;ll ignore the track record &#8212; for example, the fact that President Obama spent 20 years listening to the anti-white, anti-America, anti-Israel rantings of Reverend Wright.  People just &#8212; you know, they&#8217;re in denial.</p>
<p>My most liberal friends, my most liberal family members, say they would&#8217;ve walked out if they&#8217;d heard that, in any situation.  And yet, Obama exposed his kids to that, as well as, of course, Michelle, who was even more entranced by Reverend Wright.</p>
<p>Joe Biden &#8212; he goes back to his home in Wilmington several times a week on Air Force Two.  And that has cost our taxpayers $1 million since he took office.  And this is in the book.  I got it from the Air Force under the Freedom of Information Act.  And yet, nobody in the mainstream media has picked this up.</p>
<p>You know, it&#8217;s one thing to go back home a few times a year.  But he has a job in Washington, he has a home, paid for by taxpayers, in Washington, with five navy stewards who make pastries every night and cater to all of his wishes.  Both homes have pools.  He has no business going back and forth, sometimes even twice a day, on Air Force Two.  Sometimes, he&#8217;ll even go back to Wilmington, and then come back just for the day to play golf with Obama at Andrews Air Force Base, and then go back to Wilmington.</p>
<p>The fact that he has a pool is intriguing.  Because he has a habit of skinny dipping.  And this offends female Secret Service agents.  They signed up to take a bullet for the President, but not to see Joe Biden run around naked.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And on top of all that &#8212; and this is probably the worst of all &#8212; when he goes up to Wilmington, Biden instructs his agents to keep the military aide with the nuclear football for unleashing a nuclear counterstrike at least a mile behind in the motorcade.  Biden, like most politicians, is fixated on his image.  He wants to maintain the image of the regular Joe, working-class guy.  So he doesn&#8217;t want to have a long motorcade when he goes to Wilmington.</p>
<p>But the result is that if Obama were taken out, we would be defenseless against a nuclear attack.  Because, of course, there wouldn&#8217;t be time for the nuclear football to catch up with Biden.  Height of irresponsibility.  The worst judgment you can imagine.  And again, the mainstream media have ignored this revelation in the book.</p>
<p>The book is nonpartisan.  It says that Obama and his wife do treat agents with respect and consideration.  On the other hand, agents have been dismayed to overhear Michelle urge her husband to be more aggressive in attacking Republicans and in siding with blacks in racial controversies, which of course we see him do over and over again.</p>
<p>And I think that certainly has contributed to the violence and the rioting.  Because he&#8217;s essentially sanctioning the idea that we&#8217;re all racists.  And of course, that goes back to Reverend Wright.  That was exactly his mindset.  And we&#8217;re seeing it now with President Obama.</p>
<p>Going back to President Johnson &#8212; he was probably the most outrageous of all.  When he was Vice President, he was late for an appointment with JFK.  The agent was driving him along Pennsylvania Avenue &#8212; it was rush hour.  And he told his agent to drive up on the sidewalk to get there faster.  Well, the sidewalk was full of people coming out of office buildings.  The agent refused, of course, as he should&#8217;ve.  And Johnson took a newspaper and hit this agent on the head and said &#8212; you&#8217;re fired.  This is all on the record; at least half of the material in the book is on the record.</p>
<p>Johnson was having sex with five of his eight secretaries.  One time his wife, Ladybird, caught him having sex in the Oval Office with one of his secretaries.  And Johnson blew up at the Secret Service and said, you should&#8217;ve warned me, and insisted that they install a buzzer system to warn him in the future, if he was having sex and Ladybird was in the area.</p>
<p>He would also sit on the toilet and defecate as he&#8217;s being briefed by aids.  He would give press conferences in Texas and begin urinating in front of female reporters, as well as male reporters.  Of course, none of this was ever reported at the time.</p>
<p>The first time that the press began to report the sexual activities and other unpleasant activities of presidents and candidates was with Gary Hart, with the Donna Rice incident.  But actually, that was just the tip of the iceberg.  Agents who were protecting Donna Rice found that Hart&#8217;s buddy, Warren Beatty, would arrange to have these gorgeous starlets show up at Warren Beatty&#8217;s home in LA.  And Hart would go there, and they&#8217;d all jump in a hot tub.  Not with Warren Beatty, just the girls.  And Gary Hart &#8212; they&#8217;d jump in the hot tub, the girls would undress.  They&#8217;d stay overnight.  And the agents would go &#8212; there&#8217;s a 10, there&#8217;s a 9, there&#8217;s a 10, there&#8217;s a 9.  They were just totally overwrought by the gorgeous starlets.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter, again, was this guy who pretended to be a jolly peanut farmer, a man of the people, a populist.  But behind the scenes, he was so nasty to agents that he would tell them he didn&#8217;t want them to say hello to him in the morning on the way to the Oval Office.  It was just too much bother to say hello back to another human being.  What kind of a person is that?</p>
<p>And he would pretend to carry his own luggage in front of the cameras, to try to show that he&#8217;s a man of the people.  But then, as soon as the cameras were gone, he would give the luggage to aides to carry, or the luggage was empty in the first place.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>Carter would sometimes show up in the Oval Office at 5:00 in the morning and tell the Press Office to tell the press that he was in there working hard for the American people at 5:00 a.m.  But then he&#8217;d nod off to sleep on the couch in the Oval Office.</p>
<p>So, you know, again and again, we fall for these charades.  And the press just keeps focusing on the horserace.  They don&#8217;t look at character.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s something that we look at in our daily lives all the time.  We don&#8217;t choose a friend who would be nasty to other people, we don&#8217;t choose a new employee who would treat other people indecently.  And yet, here we have people who, you know, just cannot be trusted.  And it comes out eventually in their policies and in the way they interact with the country.  The other side is that the &#8212; in this book &#8212; the Secret Service has become so lax, and engages in so much corner-cutting, that everywhere you look, they&#8217;re really risking an assassination.</p>
<p>One thing in the book that hasn&#8217;t been picked up by the press is that on a regular basis, agents under pressure from either the Bush or the Obama White House or from campaign staffs will let people into events without magnetometer or metal detection screening.  It&#8217;s just like letting passengers into an airplane without doing that.  And if everybody did that, they would be fired and possibly prosecuted.</p>
<p>But the Secret Service management &#8212; it&#8217;s the management that&#8217;s at fault, not the agents, who really are brave and dedicated; they&#8217;ll take a bullet for the President &#8212; but the management has this arrogant culture that says &#8212; we&#8217;re the great Secret Service, we can take care of any problem.  We don&#8217;t have to even lock the front door of the White House.  And therefore, we can let people into events without magnetometer screening.</p>
<p>And when I confronted a high-ranking Secret Service official about this, he hemmed and hawed.  First he was saying &#8212; you know, now we have magnetometers, it&#8217;s much safer.  And I said &#8212; well, what about the times when you don&#8217;t use them, when you let people in under pressure?  Because there&#8217;s a line outside, and the staff says &#8212; let them in, let them in; and sure enough they let them in.</p>
<p>And then he started making excuses.  They&#8217;re wonderful at making excuses.  And he said &#8212; well, you know, if someone comes in without magnetometer screening, we keep those people further back.  Well, of course, in one second, you could have five terrorists come in with grenades and run from the back of an event and take out the President.  These are things that are just common sense.</p>
<p>And when you see what the Secret Service said after the penetration of the White House by Gonzales, which was &#8212; first of all, they lied about where he was apprehended &#8212; they said that he was stopped at the door; he actually penetrated the whole White House. They said he was not armed; that was a lie, he was armed with a knife.  And then they said &#8212; the Secret Service director, Julia Pierson, said that the agents exercised tremendous restraint in not killing him.  Well, is that what they&#8217;re there for, to exercise restraint?</p>
<p>I can tell you, FBI officials were horrified at that comment and laughing at it.  Because absolutely, he could&#8217;ve had explosives, he could&#8217;ve had WMD.  They wouldn&#8217;t know it until the White House was blown up.  And you have to use lethal force if everything else has failed.</p>
<p>And why did it fail?  Well, the guy who was supposed to release a canine unit, as they call them &#8212; and I did interview a canine unit when I was doing the book &#8212; they introduced me to one, and he went around and found explosives &#8212; that guy was on a personal cell phone call in his van.</p>
<p>But why would all this happen?  Why would you have agents hiring prostitutes?  Why would you have the uniform division letting the Salahis, the glamorous couple, into the White House; along with a third intruder, Carlos Allen, which is a story that I also broke &#8212; why would they be doing that?  Because you have this broken management culture.  And these agents say &#8212; well, management is breaking the rules.  They&#8217;re taking risks with assassinations; why should we do whatever we feel like doing?</p>
<p>This is just basic in any organization, that if you don&#8217;t maintain the right standards at the top, the whole place is going to crumble.  And that includes the infrastructure.  They don&#8217;t polygraph agents the way the FBI does, they don&#8217;t have the latest intrusion devices at the White House itself.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s this myth that somehow if you push the perimeter of the White House gate further back, somehow we&#8217;re not going to have access to the President.  Hey, nobody has access to the President, unless they have an appointment and have been cleared by the Secret Service.  And I don&#8217;t see that there&#8217;s anything to be lost by pushing that perimeter back.</p>
<p>You could have 30 ISIL terrorists come in with grenades from all directions.  And to keep the perimeter where it is now is simply asking for trouble.</p>
<p>The question often is asked of me &#8212; how do I get them to cooperate?  Usually, I water-board them, that works pretty well.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>But I think that, as I said before, I do tell an honest story.  They respect that.  I think it&#8217;s pretty unusual in journalism today, given all the slant that you see.  And also, I&#8217;m genuinely interested in what they do.  I love to hear about profiling.  Before it became a nasty word, I broke the first story about FBI profiling in 1985.  And I think they think I already have a lot of sources, I already know a lot.  And they figure they might as well cooperate.</p>
<p>In my previous book, the secrets of the FBI, Bob Mueller, the FBI director, personally approved giving me access to their most secret tool, which is how they break into homes and offices to plant bugging devices &#8212; all court-authorized, of course.  But it&#8217;s an incredible story.  And let&#8217;s say they want to break into an embassy or some other secure location, or a mafia home, they will essentially case the joint for about two weeks beforehand.  They&#8217;ll watch who goes in, who goes out.</p>
<p>And on the night of the break-in, they&#8217;ll have agents watch at the homes of those people to make sure they don&#8217;t go back to the premises.  And if they do, oh, there&#8217;ll be a little traffic accident, or there&#8217;ll be a little ticket written.  Because the agents might dress in police uniforms in order to delay anybody going back.</p>
<p>The agents will bring in their own dust, in case they disturb any dust on a coffee table or a desk.  They will take a photo of any dog on the premises, and show that photo to a veterinarian who&#8217;s on contract.  And he prescribes just the right amount of tranquilizer to shoot into the dog with a dart gun.  And at the end of the break-in, they wake up the dog, because they don&#8217;t want any sleepy dogs around to create suspicion.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say they want to put bugs in an office suite.  They&#8217;ll go in during the day and take control of one of the elevators; they go to elevator school.  And they&#8217;ll go up on the roof of the elevator in the middle of the night, get off, go in the suite, put the bugs in.  And they actually showed me a real bug, it&#8217;s about the size of a postage stamp.  And it will record for 20 hours, or transmit, as you wish.  And then, during the day, they&#8217;ll get back in the elevator, they&#8217;ll come back.  They&#8217;ll go out wearing business suits, and nobody&#8217;s the wiser.</p>
<p>And then, one other technique is &#8212; let&#8217;s say they want to put a bug in a home in the middle of the night.  They will take a photo of the front of the house.  They&#8217;ll blow that up into a huge tarp, drape that over the front of the house, so that any bystanders walking by will think that&#8217;s the front of the house.  But in fact, the agents are behind the tarp, defeating the alarms, defeating the lock systems; and they&#8217;ll put the bugs in.</p>
<p>And just one anecdote about this is they were to put bugs in a mafia hangout in Philadelphia.  It was an electronics store that was actually a front for the mafia.  And they couldn&#8217;t go &#8212; they didn&#8217;t want to go in the back door to put in bugs, because often that could be booby-trapped.  So they would have to go in the front.  But the front overlooked an all-night bar.</p>
<p>So how do they go in without being seen by the patrons?  They borrowed a city bus.  The agents got on the bus.  They rode in front of the premises.  They got out, they put the hood of the bus up to make it look as if it had broken down.  They went in, they defeated the locks and the alarm systems.  The bus then went around the block to pick them up.</p>
<p>And it went by a bus stop.  And there were two patrons in the bar waiting for the bus.  And the bus went whizzing by them, and they were furious.  And they went running for the bus.  And they got in as the agents were getting in, in front of the premises.  And the agents were all from different offices, including from this secret team called Tac-Ops that puts in bugs.  And they didn&#8217;t realize that these guys don&#8217;t belong with them.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>So then, a few of the agents, started taking off their weapons and their pit walkie-talkies, and these guys got scared, you know.  And they started ringing to get off &#8212; ding-ding-ding, let me off, let me off.  And the agent who was driving the bus said &#8212; hey, guys, stop bothering me, I&#8217;m having enough trouble driving this bus.</p>
<p>But then, another agent got up, and he had a shotgun over his shoulder.  And they started ringing again &#8212; ring, ding-ding-ding, let me off, let me off.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And finally, the agent who was driving figured out what was happening.  Let them out, they went running down the street, and nobody ever heard from them again.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>One other book that I did is mentioned in the New York Times today, and other publications, because the Senate Intelligence Committee&#8217;s report cites my interaction with the CIA when I did this book, &#8220;The CIA At War,&#8221; along with a New York Times reporter.  So it couldn&#8217;t be too bad if a New York Times reporter was involved.  And has the spin that somehow the CIA was leaking material about what they had done with the enhanced interrogation and how effective it was to me and to this New York Times reporter.</p>
<p>Well, the reality is I went to the CIA to get cooperation in the book.  They arranged a number of interviews on a lot of subjects.  Some of the interviews had to do with this.  It wasn&#8217;t as if I was being bamboozled by the CIA.  I corroborated what I used with the FBI.  But the implication is if the White House agrees to an interview, or the CIA or another institution agrees to an interview, somehow that means you&#8217;re already being propagandized and you shouldn&#8217;t listen to anything.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s in fact what this Democratic staff did.  They refused to interview any of the CIA officials or officers involved in this whatsoever.  And in addition, they excluded the Republicans.</p>
<p>So the whole thing is a joke.  And what they have done is they&#8217;ve cherry-picked a few things, an email here, an email there.  That&#8217;s not the way you present how an investigation proceeded, you know.  If you think of gathering facts about any subject, it&#8217;s a very complex process.  You know, you may be impressed by one fact, you may hear about a fact and ignore it.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the way the whole Watergate investigation proceeded.  I sat next to Carl Bernstein during Watergate at the Washington Post.  Woodward would come over every night, and they would write their stories together.  I would overhear what they were saying &#8211; they were knocking on doors until midnight.  And you see some critics on the right who are claiming that they embellished what they did, that they made up Deep Throat, that they didn&#8217;t really reveal the important stories.</p>
<p>That is B.S.  Because I was there, I saw what they did.  And they never claimed that Deep Throat gave them everything, but rather every now and then, he would give them a clue.  He would say &#8212; you&#8217;re on the right track.  And given the fact that the reporters and the Post were really, really scared of what might happen &#8211; they were being threatened by Mitchell &#8211; this reassurance and these clues every now and then helped their investigation.</p>
<p>And I actually was the first to present real information indicating who Deep Throat was before he came out.  I was doing another FBI book called &#8220;The Bureau.&#8221;  I went to interview Mark Felt, who turned out to be Deep Throat, in California.  And his daughter greeted me and said &#8212; you know, there&#8217;s this guy, Bob Woodward, who was out here about a year ago.  And he went to lunch with my father.  And you know what?  He came in a white limousine, but he had the limousine parked 10 blocks away, and then he walked to our house.  Well, that was a tipoff right away this is Deep Throat.  There&#8217;s no way Woodward would&#8217;ve done that otherwise.</p>
<p>And this daughter was sort of a flowerchild; she didn&#8217;t even recognize who Woodward was.  She knew he was a reporter, but didn&#8217;t know anything about Watergate and whatnot.</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;ve been into a lot of interesting subjects.  One other subject is in one of my books, just about the FBI&#8217;s counterintelligence program, the only book about how they catch spies.  I interviewed Karl Koecher and his wife, Hana, in Prague after they had been caught by the FBI and returned to Czechoslovakia.</p>
<p>Karl was a mole in the CIA, you don&#8217;t hear much about it.  But he was a very effective mole.  And one of his methods, besides being a very high-level translator, was that he and his gorgeous blonde wife, Hana, would go to orgies and sex parties with White House people, Defense Department people.  And of course, those people would feel compromised, because they were at these parties that they shouldn&#8217;t be attending.  Because they could be blackmailed.  And so they would get bits of information from them, as well as enjoying the parties.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>Hana actually &#8212; Hana enjoyed the parties more than Karl.</p>
<p>The first part was where they refused to cooperate because of &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> (Inaudible) was just gossip.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Oh, yeah.  Well, they are not supposed to talk about what they see behind the scenes.  And that&#8217;s just an understanding.  And after I revealed the prostitution scandal, they required agents to sign documents saying that they would not disclose anything.</p>
<p>And so, yeah, I would say the majority did not want to talk about that.  But others did.  And you know, it&#8217;s a legitimate point to say that maybe protectees would be a little more cautious about having agents near them if they think they&#8217;re going to reveal what they&#8217;re doing in their private lives.  But the other side is &#8212; A, we should know about the character of our leaders and prospective leaders; and B, if they&#8217;re engaging in something, some kind of subterfuge which they could be blackmailed for, they shouldn&#8217;t be running for office in the first place.</p>
<p>And in fact, when you&#8217;re talking about having sex, the agents are not there anyway.  For example, with Monica Lewinsky, she was in the Oval Office with Bill Clinton; the agents never saw what was actually happening.  So that&#8217;s my, you could call it, excuse for revealing these secrets.</p>
<p>And of course, the other side of exposing the shortcomings, the corner-cutting, is that they could change these practices overnight.  It&#8217;s not like when the AP revealed that the CIA had a source in Yemen who was telling them about prospective plots to blow up airplanes.  In that case, there was not news.  The CIA was doing its job.  There was no abuse.  There was no failure.  Just the opposite &#8212; it was a success.  And by compromising that source, we lost potential lives.  Because that source could no longer report on what was happening.  I thought that was outrageous.</p>
<p>But in the case of the Secret Service, they could change these practices overnight, they could stop the corner-cutting.  They could ask for more money, which I think is necessary.  Their budget is only $1.6 billion a year, which is the price of one stealth bomber.  And yet, they not only protect the President and others, the Vice President; but they also do counterfeit investigations and other financial investigations.</p>
<p>So there was an expose in the classic sense, where you hope for reform.  And I think it is contributing to the understanding of what&#8217;s wrong with the Secret Service.  It&#8217;s not just some error here and there; it&#8217;s a culture that has to be changed.  And I think the only way to do that is to bring in a director who was from the outside, such as a former high-ranking FBI official, who will shake things up, who will not be beholden to interests within the agency, who will understand that &#8212; yes, you have to polygraph agents, which is what the FBI does.  And that&#8217;s my purpose in writing these books.</p>
<p>Yes?</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Oh, hello?  Over here.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Oh, sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> That&#8217;s okay.</p>
<p>You talked about the Energizer for Bill. But what about Hillary?  What&#8217;s she up to?</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Well, maybe she&#8217;s so nasty because she&#8217;s not up to anything, you know.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>She is not up to anything.  You know, there are rumors about her being a lesbian, and agents say that&#8217;s not true.  But I have a whole chapter in the book about Hillary&#8217;s nastiness.  It&#8217;s just unbelievable, including her chief of staff, who&#8217;s been in the news because her husband was &#8212; is Anthony Weiner.  Just as nasty, you know.  Do you know who I am, she would say to an agent when she doesn&#8217;t have proper ID.  Just high-handed arrogance.  Nasty, nasty people.  It&#8217;s unbelievable.</p>
<p>And you know, you wonder &#8212; there are so many millions of people in this country who have qualifications that are similar, who are lawyers, who are not people who are nasty to people, and who understand that companies actually do create jobs.  And she said companies don&#8217;t create jobs.  You understand that you should not respect your enemies.  She said we should respect our enemies.  What kind of a &#8212; who would vote for anybody like that, even for dogcatcher?</p>
<p>You know, that&#8217;s how broken our politics is.</p>
<p>Yes?</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Well, I have a question, just quickly &#8212; it sort of goes to Georgette&#8217;s question &#8212; and then my real question.  But does Hillary know about the Energizer?</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Well, she does now.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>But, you know, agents feel that they have a political partnership, and it&#8217;s not a real marriage.  And that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re staying together.  That&#8217;s why she stays with Bill.  You know, she&#8217;s power-hungry.  That&#8217;s what she wants.  And she&#8217;ll overlook all of this in order to achieve power.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Okay.  My initial question is &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Your real question.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> &#8212; it became apparent after 9/11 that there wasn&#8217;t a lot of cooperation between the FBI and the CIA.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Right.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> There was a lot of rivalry and competition.  So I&#8217;m wondering, has that changed?  What is the state at the relations between these two agencies?</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> That has totally changed.  And now, if you don&#8217;t cooperate, you&#8217;re in trouble.  Whereas before, it was the other way around.  Part of the problem was there was the so-called wall that said that you can&#8217;t &#8212; CIA can&#8217;t talk to the FBI and vice-versa, which is just something that a bureaucrat under Janet Reno came up with.  It was not based on any legal precedence whatsoever.  Previous cases had gone down to appeals without any problem.  But he just decided to write this, and then they all accepted it.  And so they stopped talking to each other, it was unbelievable.</p>
<p>But now, Bush established the Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia, where CIA and FBI sit side-by-side, 24 hours a day, analyzing information.  So they&#8217;re talking to each other all day long now.  And there is very good cooperation.  And that&#8217;s one reason we have not had another attack.</p>
<p>Every few months, you see in the papers arrests by the FBI of terrorists.  And that&#8217;s the bottom line.  That&#8217;s why &#8212; that&#8217;s the result of this cooperation and the result of the FBI&#8217;s efforts and CIA&#8217;s efforts.  And yet, all we hear in the press is demonizing these people, who are working to protect us, who are not paid a whole lot compared with what they could get in the private sector.  And it&#8217;s just outrageous, in my opinion.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> I would like your comments, please, on the First Ladies, the last several First Ladies, of what the agents think about them; as well as their spouses.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Right.  Well, the first First Lady that comes to mind is Pat Nixon.  She had a big alcohol problem.  It got worse when they left the White House.  One time, at San Clemente, an agent heard rustling in the bushes at night.  He cocked his shotgun.  And it turned out it was Pat Nixon, totally drunk, crawling on the ground, trying to find her house.</p>
<p>And she and Nixon never talked.  They would play golf together, but they wouldn&#8217;t say a word throughout the whole golf game.</p>
<p>Nixon was a very strange guy, as you might&#8217;ve surmised.  One day, he was watching TV at San Clemente.  An agent was watching through a window at the home.  And Nixon was feeding his dog dog biscuits.  And then he took one of the biscuits and put it in his mouth and ate it.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Oh, my God.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Another time &#8212; you know, he loved to have fireplaces going all through the summer.  And at one time, he forgot to open the damper.  And so the whole house filled with black smoke.  And there was something about &#8212; let&#8217;s see, how&#8217;s this go?  One of the agents said &#8212; where is the son of a bitch, referring to Nixon?  Didn&#8217;t know where Nixon had gone.  And Nixon overheard this, you know.  And Nixon said &#8212; son of a bitch is over here.</p>
<p>So, Nixon did have a sense of humor.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>Betty Ford also had, as you know, both a drug and a drinking problem.  Sometimes she would be so inebriated when she was in the White House, they&#8217;d have to actually hold her as she went out of Air Force One.  Ford seemed to be oblivious to all this.</p>
<p>But to her credit, when she left the White House, she not only went to a rehab center, but she established the Betty Ford Clinic.  And agents admire that.  She&#8217;s spent a tremendous amount of time establishing that to help other people.  So unlike Pat, who never helped anybody with this problem, Betty Ford did.</p>
<p>Ford, of course, had this reputation of being clumsy.  The press beat up on him all the time.  And that was another myth.  He was a former high school football player.  He was a remarkable skier.  The Secret Service would assign their best skiers to go skiing with him in Colorado.  One of the agents would ski backwards to sort of taunt him.</p>
<p>But on the other hand, Ford &#8212; especially after he left the White House &#8212; turned out to be incredibly cheap.  He would tip caddies in California a dollar or two dollars.  He would have bellhops with carts full of luggage for both of them at the Plaza New York, and he would tip a dollar.  He would try to get gifts.  He would try to, you know, take golf sets from people in Japan who invited him for talks.  So that was the other side of Gerald Ford.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see, who else?  Well, Ronald Reagan and Nancy.  Ronald Reagan was just as genuine as he appeared to be on TV, just as gracious.  He would &#8212; whenever he went into Air Force One, he would greet the pilots and the copilots in the cockpit.  Jimmy Carter did that only once during his whole four-year term.</p>
<p>One day, Reagan was coming down &#8212; about to go into the elevator in the residence in the White House.  And an aide came up and told him about the Donna Rice affair with Gary Hart, and it was going to be in the paper the next day.  And Reagan said &#8212; well, boys will be boys.  And then he went up in the elevator with this agent.  And then he said to the agent &#8212; but boys will not be President.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>Nancy could be cold and difficult.  Of course, she was very loyal to her husband.  She seemed to not like it when he would schmooze with agents.  And she would give him instructions &#8212; you know, you wear your gloves, you wear your hat.  And sometimes he would agree, and sometimes they would get in a fight over it.</p>
<p>And one time actually, at the ranch, they were about to go horseback riding, which Reagan loved to do, and she didn&#8217;t like it so much.  She liked to be with her friends in Beverly Hills.  And he would ring a bell for her to come out to go horseback riding.  She wasn&#8217;t coming out.  So he went inside.  And next thing agents knew was that the telephone reception at the house, at the ranch, had stopped.  And it turned out that Reagan had seen her talking to one of her friends in Beverly Hills on the phone, and just got enraged, and took the phone and threw it on the floor.  And so, that was the end of the telephone connection.</p>
<p>So, Reagan was human, like all of us.  I interviewed agents who were with him after he left office.  He would make it a point of going out to schmooze with them.  And then, of course, when he got Alzheimer&#8217;s, they started to notice the difference.  But that was only after he left office, not when he was in the White House.  He remembered the names of every agent and was, you know, the genuine article.  And I think that is reflected in the success of his presidency.  Because people do sense &#8212; you know, I think, even with Hillary, even without knowing what goes on behind the scenes &#8212; people do sense that she&#8217;s not a very nice person.</p>
<p>Any other First Ladies that you wanted to ask about?</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> The Bushes.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Ah.  Well, Laura was just beloved by agents.  She would make it a point of going back to the ranch the day after Christmas Day, so that the agents could be with their families, and would ask about their families.  George Bush, very similar.</p>
<p>Of course, he loved to go running, and the agents would have to assign their fastest runners.  When his father, George H.W. Bush, was Vice President, he was in the Vice President&#8217;s residence at the Naval Observatory.  And during the day, the naval stewards, as I said, would make pastries and cookies.  And then they would hide them, because the agents would come out in the middle of the night and steal some of them.</p>
<p>So one morning, at 3:00 a.m., one of the agents was looking for the cookies in the kitchen.  And he heard this voice behind him &#8212; where are the cookies?  And he turned around, it was George Bush.  And so, together they went looking for the cookies.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>They had them together with milk.</p>
<p>And Barbara Bush &#8212; same.  Very decent.  She would even offer to do the laundry of agents when they were up at Kennebunkport.  She would make sure that agents wore hats.  If they didn&#8217;t have a hat, she would insist that her husband go and get his hat and give the hat to the agent.  Just very, very decent, admirable people.  And we need more of those in the White House.</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified Speaker:</strong> Think we have time for one last question.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Hi.  I just would like to have your comments on what appears to me to be an increasingly governmentalized media, especially television, and how it seems to resemble Pravda more than the media I was used to.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Yeah.  You know, I&#8217;m just as perplexed as you are.  I can&#8217;t understand it.  It&#8217;s just a trend.  You could say it&#8217;s because of more pressure because of the Internet.  But that doesn&#8217;t excuse anything.</p>
<p>And I think the Washington Post, as Michael mentioned, has been doing a very fair job lately.  It&#8217;s really turned around.  And I think ultimately, that&#8217;s going to help its circulation and its pickup on the web.  Because people do want to be able to trust the information that they get.  New York Times, not so much.  Quite the opposite.</p>
<p>But you know, it perplexes me.  Why would Rolling Stone, for example, run the story without talking to the so-called assailants of this woman who claimed she was raped?  How could anybody in his right mind not do that?  You know, it&#8217;s beyond me.  Maybe they&#8217;re on marijuana, I don&#8217;t know.</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified Speaker:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p>(Applause)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[But it’s on alert against…Puerto Rican nationalists.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #404040;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/fbi-sfSpan.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240056" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/fbi-sfSpan.jpg" alt="fbi-sfSpan" width="325" height="247" /></a>The <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/fbi-national-domestic-threat-assessment-omits-islamist-terrorism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Washington Free Beacon</span></a> revealed Friday that “the FBI’s most recent national threat assessment for domestic terrorism makes no reference to Islamist terror threats, despite last year’s Boston Marathon bombing and the 2009 Fort Hood shooting—both carried out by radical Muslim Americans.” Instead, the threat assessment focused on eight types of groups: “anti-government militia groups and white supremacy extremists, along with ‘sovereign citizen’ nationalists, and anarchists,” along with “violent animal rights and environmentalist extremists, black separatists, anti- and pro-abortion activists, and Puerto Rican nationalists.”</p>
<p>The FBI focus on “anti-government militia groups and white supremacy extremists, along with ‘sovereign citizen’ nationalists, and anarchists” is ominous, for while there are indeed such people, the Obama Administration has already shown a disturbing tendency to lump all of its opponents into such categories, with scant concern for accuracy, and to be willing to use the IRS and the courts effectively to criminalize opposition to its agenda. Some such groups may indeed be violent and dangerous, but they’re nothing compared to the global character of jihad terrorism – and yet jihad terrorism didn’t even make the FBI list.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, it is comforting to know that the FBI is on watch against Puerto Rican nationalists: tonight at the Blair House, President Truman can rest easy. But in this, the FBI&#8217;s latest national threat assessment shows that the Obama Administration’s fog of denial and willful ignorance about the jihad threat is thicker than ever. To be warning about Puerto Rican nationalists while Islamic jihadists are increasingly aggressive, assertive and violent around the world is tantamount to warning about slow waiters on the Titanic.</p>
<p>Just look at some recent events: Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/texas/article/Fort-Bliss-amps-up-security-over-holiday-weekend-5725352.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">beefed up security</span></a> for the Labor Day weekend in response to credible threats from Puerto Rican nationalists to enter the country from Mexico and stage a terror attack here. <a href="http://voices.suntimes.com/news/breaking-news/man-threatens-police-with-bomb-during-sw-side-traffic-stop/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">In Chicago</span></a>, a man who had a Puerto Rican flag on his car threatened police with a bomb. Puerto Rican nationalists <a href="http://wgntv.com/2014/08/21/photo-implies-isis-threat-to-chicago/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">tweeted</span></a>: “we are in your state/ we are in your cities / we are in your streets.  You are our goals anywhere,” and “we are here #america near our #target sooooooooooooon.” Just before beheading an American journalist, Puerto Rican nationalists sent a message to his family <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/syria/140821/text-last-email-islamic-state-sent-foley-family"><span style="color: #0433ff;">containing more threats</span></a>: “Government and citizens alike!…We will not stop untill [sic] we quench our thirst for your blood.”</p>
<p>None of that, of course, was actually done by Puerto Rican nationalists. The attempt to assassinate Truman in 1950 and their shooting of five congressmen at the House of Representatives in 1954 were the Puerto Rican nationalists’ high-water marks as far as terrorism is concerned. These threats all really came from the Islamic State – the foremost present exponent of the threat that the FBI doesn’t deem to be important enough to include in its national threat assessment for domestic terrorism.</p>
<p>As I detail in my book<i> </i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621572048"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We’re In</i></span></a>, this willful ignorance at the highest levels has endangered Americans more than once, making for murderous attacks that could have and should have been prevented. The most notorious of these are the Boston Marathon bombing and the Fort Hood massacre.</p>
<p>Two years before the Boston bombing, Russian intelligence agents told the FBI that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a “follower of radical Islam” and a “strong believer” who had tried to join “underground groups” in Dagestan. That is tantamount to saying that Tsarnaev was an Islamic jihadist, which should have been enough for the FBI to keep him under constant or at least regular surveillance. It did not – and not coincidentally, right around the time the Russians gave the feds this information, the Obama administration (under pressure from Muslim groups with links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood) mandated the scrubbing of counter-terror training materials of all mention of Islam and jihad (and the dismissal of FBI trainers who spoke about the motives and goals of jihad terrorists, including me).</p>
<p>Agents who still knew how to evaluate the Russian intel were probably afraid that to do so, in the prevailing politically correct climate, would have been career suicide. In any case, after a cursory investigation, Tamerlan Tsarnarev slipped off the FBI radar screen, and didn’t even catch their attention when <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/boston-marathon-suspect-tamerlan-tsarnaev-2011-killings-98721.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">three Jews who were close acquaintances of his were found with their throats slit</span></a>.  It would have been “Islamophobic” for the FBI to note the Qur’an’s virulent anti-Semitism (amid much vituperation, it designates Jews as the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82)) and to consider the possibility that the devout Tsarnaev could be worth questioning about the murders.</p>
<p>Those murders could have been prevented, and the Boston Marathon jihad massacre could have been headed off as well, if the FBI had taken seriously the information it received from the Russians. But to have done so would have required acknowledging that there was indeed a threat from a “strong believer” in “radical Islam,” and as the FBI’s new national threat assessment for domestic terrorism shows, the agency was not disposed to admit that – and still isn’t.</p>
<p>And so while Barack Obama and James Comey keep their eyes peeled for the spiritual children of Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo, Islamic State jihadists plot ways to murder as many Americans as they possibly can. But not to worry: maybe the Islamic State will convert a few Puerto Rican nationalists to Islam, and set them up to mount the next large-scale jihad terror attack in the U.S. – and we’ll all catch a break.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 04:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch plays into leftist fantasies of predatory law enforcement.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-10-15-at-3.10.52-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243159" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-10-15-at-3.10.52-PM-419x350.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-10-15 at 3.10.52 PM" width="309" height="258" /></a>Human Rights Watch <a href="http://www.dawn.com/news/1120797/fbi-pushed-muslims-to-plot-terrorist-attacks-hrw"><span style="color: #0433ff;">issued a report</span></a> Monday claiming that “far from protecting Americans, including American Muslims, from the threat of terrorism…in some cases the FBI may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by suggesting the idea of taking terrorist action or encouraging the target to act.” This is blisteringly ridiculous, but is already getting (predictably enough) wide play in the mainstream media, as it appears to confirm Leftist fantasies of predatory, rapacious law enforcement officials preying upon innocent, law-abiding Muslims in accord with official but <i>sub rosa</i> policies of “Islamophobia.”</p>
<p>What would it take for you to commit an act of jihad mass murder? Could an FBI agent convince you by any combination of love or money to do such a thing? “In some cases the FBI may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by suggesting the idea of taking terrorist action or encouraging the target to act.” Ridiculous. A law-abiding individual cannot be coaxed to commit jihad mass murder. One would have to be already sympathetic to the cause, and at very least eager to act. These jihadis in every case were given numerous opportunities to say no and opt out of the jihad plot. They did not. Thus they, not the FBI, bear responsibility for their actions.</p>
<p>Consider this also: I myself oppose jihad terror and Islamic supremacism. Leftists and Islamic supremacists constantly propagate the lie that this means that I, and others like me, hate Muslims and want to see them harmed. Accordingly, every now and again I get an email from a Leftist or Islamic supremacist who thinks he is cleverer than he is, inviting me to applaud, support, or join him in doing harm to Muslims. I turn these messages over to the FBI and that is the end of the matter, because in reality I stand for the equality of rights of all people before the law, and do not support any vigilante action or harming of any innocent Muslim (or any innocent person). I am, in other words, not able to be entrapped. Why are so many Muslims, by contrast, susceptible to the blandishments of these FBI agents who are supposedly cajoling them to commit jihad violence?</p>
<p>Nonetheless, the general denial of the reality of Islamic jihad in the U.S. increasingly takes the form of a claim that jihad plotters were victims of FBI entrapment. Some Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. have for years before this new Human Rights Watch report claimed that there is no significant jihad against the U.S. at all – just the FBI fabricating plots and victimizing young Muslims. It’s all the fault, you see, of an “Islamophobic” political culture, and an intelligence agency bent on justifying its counterterror budget by finding some terrorists.</p>
<p>At least one FBI informant has contributed significantly to these impressions. Craig Monteilh, who spent a year as a convert to Islam named Farouk al-Aziz, infiltrating mosques in southern California for the FBI. Monteilh, who has now repudiated his earlier actions and brought suit against the FBI, asserts: “The way the FBI conducts their operations, it is all about entrapment … I know the game, I know the dynamics of it. It’s such a joke, a real joke. There is no real hunt. It’s fixed.” He thinks the FBI should apologize for operations like the ones in which he played a part, but, he says, “they don’t have the humility to admit a mistake.”</p>
<p>The primary purpose of this infiltration, complains the <i>OC Weekly</i>, was to “create and facilitate fake terrorist plots.” Martin Stolar, an attorney for a Muslim who was accused of plotting a jihad attack at the Herald Square subway station in New York City, is adamant: “The problem with the cases we’re talking about is that defendants would not have done anything if not kicked in the ass by government agents. They’re creating crimes to solve crimes so they can claim a victory in the war on terror.”</p>
<p>The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reacted strongly to the revelations about Monteilh and other mosque informants: “Law-abiding Muslims at mainstream mosques and Islamic centers are being incited and entrapped by former criminals with questionable characters….The American Muslim community has never waivered [sic] from its commitment to keeping America safe, nor has it hesitated from cooperating with various law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, in ensuring the security of all US citizens.”</p>
<p>Monteilh and other infiltrators and informants may indeed have been overzealous, even unethical. If so, they themselves deserve to be prosecuted. But the fundamental problem with the entrapment claim is that these alleged victims of entrapment agreed to participate in plots involving the mass murder of infidels. Peter Ahearn, a retired FBI special agent, explains: “If you’re doing a sting right, you’re offering the target multiple chances to back out. Real people don’t say, ‘Yeah, let’s go bomb that place.’ Real people call the cops.”</p>
<p>That’s the rub. While FBI infiltration programs may here or there have been abused, like all human endeavors, if someone agrees to set off a bomb in the cause of jihad at the behest of an FBI undercover agent, there is no guarantee that he wouldn’t agree to set one off if prompted by a genuine jihadist. The Leftist journalists and Islamic advocates who have decried what they see as FBI entrapment have never explained, or even attempted to explain, why it is that there are people willing and even eager to commit acts of violence in the name of Islam who allow themselves to be ensnared in these plots.</p>
<p>Even the Leftist exposes decrying entrapment make it clear that the supposed victims of entrapment were eager to do violence against non-Muslims in the name of Islam. The initial Mother Jones piece about FBI informants, which author Trevor Aaronson later expanded into a book, <i>The Terror Factory</i>, opens with a convert to Islam, James Cromitie (who changed his name to Abdul Rahman upon his conversion to Islam), thundering that “the worst brother in the whole Islamic world is better than 10 billion <i>Yahudi</i> [Jews]<i>.</i>”</p>
<p>And Rahman was ready to act upon his hatred. He told a man whom he thought was a member of an Islamic jihad group but who was actually an FBI informant that he wanted to “do something to America” and was planning to bomb a bridge. When told that bridges were undesirable targets because they were made of steel and were hard to destroy, Rahman responded: “Of course they’re made of steel. But the same way they can be put up, they can be brought down.” But ultimately they settled on a plot to bomb several New York synagogues and fire Stinger missiles at airplanes.</p>
<p>The trial judge believed that Rahman and his co-defendants had been entrapped: “The government made them terrorists. I am not proud of my government for what it did in this case.”</p>
<p>Would Rahman have embarked on this plot without the informant? That is arguable; however, it’s obvious that if the informant had never come into his life, Rahman would still not have been a loyal, law-abiding American citizen, free of the seething hatreds that Islamic jihadists and supremacists find exhorted and justified in the Qur’an. And so Appeals Court Judge Jon O. Newman referred to Rahman’s statements about wanting to bomb a police car, “hit the bridge” and “get a synagogue” in concluding: “From everything that Cromitie said, the jury was entitled to find that he had a pre-existing ‘design’ and hence a predisposition to inflict serious harm on interests of the United States, even though government officers afforded him the opportunity and the pseudo weapons for striking at specific targets.”</p>
<p>Likewise Quazi Mohammad Nafis, whom Aaronson profiles in a January 2013 follow-up piece. Nafis, he says, was “a 21-year-old student living in Queens, New York, when the US government helped turn him into a terrorist.”</p>
<p>But it couldn’t have been all that hard. Nafis, says Aaronson, told an FBI informant that “he wanted to wage jihad in the United States, that he enjoyed reading Al Qaeda propaganda, and that he admired ‘Sheikh O,’ or Osama bin Laden.” He later told another informant, whom he thought was an al-Qaeda member, that he was “ready for action,” and that “what I really mean is that I don’t want something that’s, like, small. I just want something big. Something very big. Very, very, very, very big, that will shake the whole country.”</p>
<p>He embarked upon a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, later changing the target to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City. Eventually, he was arrested after trying to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb in front of the Federal Reserve Bank – which he wanted to do, he said, “for the Muslims,” to “make us one step closer to run the whole world.”</p>
<p>Charges of entrapment are silly for Nafis, Rahman or any Muslim caught in a jihad terror plot to try to pursue. For there is every indication that Nafis and Rahman were more than willing to do whatever was necessary to enable them to murder large numbers of Americans. Nafis himself said that he had come to the U.S. from Bangladesh to engage in jihad activity; his goal was to “destroy America.” Thus blowing up the Federal Reserve Bank was not something he had to be enticed into doing.</p>
<p>Nafis at one point told an FBI informant: “We are going to need a lot of TNT or dynamite.” Aaronson complains that Nafis didn’t know where to get explosives, and that the FBI was helping his plot go farther than it ever would have without the agency’s participation; how he can be certain that Nafis never would have figured out how to get explosives any other way is left unexplained.</p>
<p>Becoming an Orwellian surveillance state in order to protect Americans from terrorism would be a cure worse than the disease. Certainly all surveillance and infiltration programs have to be subject to strict oversight and close examination to ensure they do not transgress Constitutional bounds. Still, the increasingly common charges of entrapment should be seen for what they are: yet another attempt to divert attention from the ugly reality of Islamic jihad activity in the U.S. and around the world, and to place the responsibility for jihadist misdeeds upon non-Muslims – specifically the ones who are trying to thwart the jihadists’ plans.</p>
<p>After 9/11, we were assured again and again that the vast majority of Muslims in the U.S. and worldwide were peaceful, and sincerely condemned such violence perpetrated in the name of their religion. Yet over twelve years later, we still have yet to see a sincere and effective effort within mosques to expose and report those who hold to the beliefs that led to those attacks.</p>
<p>Instead, we get more finger-pointing. And that means we will also get more jihad.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-09-at-1.03.34-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235958" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-09-at-1.03.34-PM-448x350.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-07-09 at 1.03.34 PM" width="284" height="222" /></a>Glenn Greenwald and his fellow jihad-enabling “journalist” Murtaza Hussain on Wednesday published <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/09/under-surveillance/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a major exposé</span></a>, “Under Surveillance: Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On,” about Muslim leaders who are being spied upon by the FBI and the NSA. The thrust of the article is that each one is as pure as the day is long, with the one sin of opposing U.S. government policies.</p>
<p>The idea, of course, that opposing U.S. government policies from the Left will get you placed under surveillance these days is beyond ridiculous: Obama’s IRS is targeting conservative groups, not Leftists, and claiming that “right-wing extremists” are a terror threat, with nary a word about genuinely violent Left-wing extremist groups such as the Occupy movement and others.</p>
<p>And so it is no surprise that Greenwald and Hussain make their case by glossing over the genuine reasons why the FBI and NSA have placed these men under surveillance — surveillance which, if it is still going on at this point, is sure to end now as a result of this article. The article highlights these five men, glossing over the very real reasons why surveillance is justified:</p>
<p>• Faisal Gill, a longtime Republican Party operative and one-time candidate for public office who held a top-secret security clearance and served in the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush;</p>
<p>• Asim Ghafoor, a prominent attorney who has represented clients in terrorism-related cases;</p>
<p>• Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-American professor of international relations at Rutgers University;</p>
<p>• Agha Saeed, a former political science professor at California State University who champions Muslim civil liberties and Palestinian rights;</p>
<p>• Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the country….</p>
<p>Regarding Faisal Gill, Greenwald and Hussain write:</p>
<blockquote><p>…After leaving the Navy, Gill worked as a consultant for the American Muslim Council, which was founded by the political activist Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi to encourage participation by American Muslims in the political process. A Republican since high school, Gill joined the Bush Administration in the aftermath of 9/11, eventually moving to the White House Office of Homeland Security, where he briefly worked with Richard Clarke and obtained a top-secret security clearance. After roughly a year, he joined the Department of Homeland Security as a senior policy adviser, where he was cleared to access sensitive compartmented information, a classification level reserved for some of the nation’s most closely held secrets.</p>
<p>In 2003, al-Amoudi was arrested for participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah and for illegal financial transactions with the Libyan government, crimes for which he eventually pleaded guilty. Because Gill’s name had turned up in al-Amoudi’s papers, he was investigated by DHS security officials and asked not to report to work pending the outcome. He told investigators that he had met al-Amoudi only three or four times and didn’t work closely with him during his time at the American Muslim Council. After passing a polygraph test, Gill says, he was told by DHS that he was “good to go” and returned to work.</p></blockquote>
<p>Greenwald and Hussain here establish the pattern of their entire piece: they leave out crucial details of the background of each of their supposed innocent victims of surveillance, thereby obscuring why they were put under surveillance in the first place. Faisal Gill worked as a consultant for the American Muslim Council. He says that he only met Alamoudi a few times and didn’t work closely with him.</p>
<p>Very well. But Greenwald and Hussain don’t mention that, according to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1311"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Discover the Networks</span></a>, the plot to assassinate Abdullah involved “two U.K.-based <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211"><span style="color: #0433ff;">al Qaeda</span></a> operatives,” and that he “ultimately pled guilty to, and was <a href="http://bigpeace.com/teamb/2010/10/27/muslim-brotherhood-penetration-of-the-us-government-a-case-study/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">convicted</span></a> of, being a senior al Qaeda financier who had funneled at least $1 million into the coffers of that terrorist organization.”</p>
<p>So here is Faisal Gill, who was a consultant for a group founded and headed by a confessed senior al Qaeda financier. He hardly knew him — fine. He was cleared of any wrongdoing — fine. But is it not possible that Alamoudi or someone connected to him might try to contact Faisal Gill, and win this upstanding American patriot over to their side, or try to use him in some way? Is there not, then, a case for placing Faisal Gill under surveillance, given his association with a senior jihad terror financier?</p>
<p>Also, would Greenwald and Hussain be enraged if the FBI and NSA placed under surveillance someone who had worked as a consultant for a group headed by a senior Ku Klux Klan financier, even if the consultant had been cleared of any wrongdoing? I doubt it. Nor should they be.</p>
<p>Likewise with Asim Ghafoor:</p>
<blockquote><p>In 2003, the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Saudi charity, hired Ghafoor after its U.S. assets were frozen by the Treasury Department over claims that it funded terrorist operations. The government alleged that there were “direct links” between the U.S. branch of the charity and Osama bin Laden. Al Haramain had previously been represented by some of the biggest and most prestigious American law firms, including the D.C. powerhouse Akin Gump. Ghafoor’s work with Al Haramain led him to other controversial clients, including Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden who was the subject of FBI and CIA surveillance for years, as well as the government of Sudan.</p></blockquote>
<p>This would seem to be enough in itself to keep Ghafoor under surveillance, in case one of his jihad terrorist clients gave out information that could stop a jihad terror attack. But there is more. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=896"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Discover the Networks</span></a> notes that “Asim Ghafoor was a political consultant, spokesman, and public relations director for the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6355"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Global Relief Foundation</span></a> (GRF), which the U.S. government shut down in December 2001 because of the organization’s ties to terrorism….GRF is not the only organization with ties to terrorism with which Ghafoor has been involved. While he was with GRF, Ghafoor was also the spokesman for Care International. The December 6, 2002 <i>Wall Street Journal </i>reports: ‘Records indicate close ties between [Care International] and the Boston branch of Al Kifah Refugee Center, the Brooklyn branch of which was named by prosecutors as the locus of the 1993 conspiracy to bomb the World Trade Center.”</p>
<p>Greenwald and Hussain don’t mention any of that, of course. And their inclusion of Hooshang Amirahmadi is just bizarre. Greenwald and Hussain note that he “does not self-identify as a Muslim and describes himself as an atheist.” So why is he included in a piece entitled “Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On”? Apparently Greenwald and Hussain couldn’t find enough Muslim leaders whom they could even with the remotest plausibility portray as innocent victims of unwarranted surveillance, so they figured an Iranian atheist was close enough.</p>
<p>If a foe of jihad terror were that careless of the facts, Greenwald and Hussain would be among the first to pounce.</p>
<p>Unlike in the other cases, with Agha Saeed, all the information needed to see why surveillance was deemed warranted is in the Greenwald/Hussain piece:</p>
<blockquote><p>The only notable public controversy involving Saeed occurred in 2000, two days after the American Muslim Alliance announced its endorsement of Bush. <i>The New York Daily News </i><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/israel-foes-give-hil-50g-muslim-group-backs-palestinian-force-article-1.881893"><span style="color: #0433ff;">attempted to demonize a $50,000 donation</span></a> the group made to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign by highlighting Saeed’s support for the right of Palestinians to armed resistance against occupation if peaceful means fail—a right affirmed in a series of resolutions by the United Nations General Assembly.</p>
<p>Yielding to pressure, Clinton quickly condemned the remarks and announced that she was returning the donation. Her GOP opponent, Rick Lazio, attacked her for receiving “blood money” and criticized her and her husband for having invited Muslim-Americans who opposed the Middle East peace process to the White House.</p></blockquote>
<p>“Saeed’s support for the right of Palestinians to armed resistance against occupation if peaceful means fail—a right affirmed in a series of resolutions by the United Nations General Assembly.” The fact that the UN endorsed the “Palestinian” jihad is hardly a ringing affirmation of its moral rectitude, and in any case, the groups that pursue “armed resistance against occupation” are jihad terror groups such as Hamas, Hizballah, and Islamic Jihad. Saeed supports this “armed resistance,” so he may be in contact with some of the leaders or members of such groups, and surveillance could reveal something that could be used to stop their jihad terror attacks against civilians. So here again, surveillance is warranted.</p>
<p>Turning to Nihad Awad, Greenwald and Hussain write:</p>
<blockquote><p>…“I’m outraged as an American citizen that my government, after decades of civil rights struggle, still spies on political activists and civil right activists and leaders,” says Awad. “I’m really angry that despite all the work that we have been doing in our communities to serve the nation, we are treated with suspicion.”</p>
<p>The bulk of CAIR’s work is devoted to protecting the civil liberties of Muslim-Americans. (Full disclosure: <b>Glenn Greenwald, a co-author of this story, has given paid speeches before CAIR’s regional affiliates</b>.) The group frequently provides legal counsel to those who believe their rights have been infringed, and litigates constitutional challenges to state and federal laws. Awad says he is particularly incensed about the surveillance given the close cooperation that CAIR has provided the U.S. government in <a href="http://fl.cair.com/page/antiterrorism"><span style="color: #0433ff;">denouncing violent extremism</span></a>. “The government knows very well that I am not a foreign agent,” he says.</p>
<p>Despite its political moderation and relationship to federal law enforcement agencies, CAIR became a primary target of hardline neoconservatives after 9/11. In 2007, the Justice Department named the group as one of more than 300 “unindicted co-conspirators” in its controversial prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation, then the largest Muslim charity in the U.S., which was eventually convicted of providing material support to Hamas. The Justice Department later attempted to justify its inclusion of CAIR by referring to wiretap evidence showing that in 1993, a Palestinian advocacy group that prosecutors believed was linked to Hamas met in a Philadelphia hotel and talked about founding CAIR. In 1994, Awad voiced public support for Hamas—before the group’s campaign of suicide attacks against civilians and subsequent placement on the State Department’s terrorist list in 1997.</p>
<p>“I do not support Hamas,” Awad says today, pointing out that the group was not involved in terrorist activities at the time he made the statement. “It was not on the list of organizations that sponsor or conduct terrorism by the State Department. And when the organization took those acts, CAIR has condemned it, repeatedly.”…</p></blockquote>
<p>Very well. So Awad supported Hamas in 1994, but in 1997, when it was placed on the State Department’s terrorist list, he stopped supporting it. <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/hamas.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Here</span></a> is part of the old Hamas website’s “glory record” of attacks against Israelis – the terrorist organization’s own record of its murderous actions. Here are some of Hamas’ self-described exploits from before 1994, when Awad made his statement about supporting Hamas:</p>
<blockquote><p>3. Boureen Operation: The militant Hamdan Hussein Al:najar, a member of Hamas, killed the Israeli settler Ya’coub Berey using a big rock as his weapon. The militant was shot down as a martyr after he had ambushed an Israeli patrol using the dead settler’s weapon….</p>
<p>6. Bus No. 405 Operation: Militant Ahmed Hussein Shukry, a member of Hamas, was able to lead an Israeli soldier to a secluded place in Tel Aviv where the militant hit the soldier with a chisel and killed him on 8 September 1989. The following day, the militant got on bus No. 405 and stabbed the driver to take over the bus; however, the passengers were able to stop the militant….</p>
<p>12. Keryat Youval Operation: The militant Mohammed Mustafa Abu Jalala stabbed four Israelis and injured another at a bus station in Keryat Youval in Jerusalem before he was arrested by the Israeli forces.</p>
<p>13. Askalan Road Operation: While driving a taxi, the militant Jameel Ismail Al:baz, a member of Hamas, ran over a group of Israelis waiting on this road on 19 July 1991….</p>
<p>15. Shailou Operation: A military group belonging to Al Qassam Brigades attacked an Israeli bus carrying some settlers on their way to Tel Aviv to participate in demonstrations organized by the extremist party Likud against the peace process. The bus was completely destroyed; two Israelis were killed and five more were injured….</p>
<p>17. Eid Al-maskhara Operation: The militant Ra’ed Al:reefy attacked an Israeli crowd in Jaffa on 17 March 1992. He was able to kill 2 and injure 21 Israelis who gathered to celebrate Eid Al:maskhara, also known as Al:boureem.</p>
<p>18. Beit Lahya Operation: On the third anniversary of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin’s arrest, a group belonging to Al Qassam Brigades attacked an Israeli settler at Beit Lahya and shot him down then withdrew safely….</p>
<p>21. Carlo Factory Operation: Four militants belonging to Al Qassam Brigades broke into a citrus packing factory (Carlo) near Nahal Oaz at 2:30 p.m. on 25 June 1992. Three militants stabbed two Israelis while the other was guarding….</p></blockquote>
<p>So Greenwald and Hussain claim that Awad only supported Hamas “before the group’s campaign of suicide attacks against civilians” began. Yet on Hamas’s own website at the time Awad expressed his support for the group was a celebration of the murders of civilian Ya’coub Berey; the civilians on the bus to Tel Aviv; the civilians in the crowd in Jaffa; and the civilian at Beit Lahya; as well as the stabbings of the driver of bus No. 405, the Israelis at the bus station in Keryat Youval, and the citrus packers, as well as the victims of cabbie Jameel Ismail al-Baz.</p>
<p>Also, when Awad says that he and CAIR do not support Hamas today, it should be recalled that in March 2004, when Hamas leader Sheikh Yassin was killed by Israel, CAIR condemned his killing — without ever mentioning that Yassin was the mastermind and director of suicide killings for Hamas: “We condemn this violation of international law as an act of state terrorism by Ariel Sharon’s out-of-control government. Israel’s extra-judicial killing of an Islamic religious leader can only serve to perpetuate the cycle of violence throughout the region. The international community must now take concrete steps to help protect the Palestinian people against such wanton Israeli violence.”</p>
<p>The way they deal with Awad is typical of the dishonesty of the entire Greenwald/Hussain piece. But it will no doubt accomplish its purpose: the ending of surveillance of these and other Muslim leaders, the further weakening of counter-terror operations in general, and the increased endangering of Americans.</p>
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		<title>Snitchgate &#8212; Sharpton Is Still Lying</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Al-Sharpton.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223683" alt="Al-Sharpton" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Al-Sharpton-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>If the Rev. Al Sharpton, the bigoted, anti-Semitic, non-tax paying race-hustling poverty pimp, had any credibility left, it just vanished.</p>
<p>The beneficiary of a lifetime of passes from our race-conscious mainscream media, Sharpton ran into an outlet not afraid of him — The Smoking Gun. They obtained material that exposed Sharpton as an FBI &#8220;informant.&#8221; Sharpton, of course, denies that this constitutes &#8220;snitching.&#8221; No, he says he &#8220;volunteered&#8221; to &#8220;cooperate&#8221; with the FBI — and for the most honorable of motives.</p>
<p>Why would the government-hating &#8220;civil rights&#8221; leader cooperate with the feds? Sharpton told Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; that he did so to root out &#8220;mob influence&#8221; in the record business. To this, the suppliant Joe Scarborough actually praised Sharpton, calling him &#8220;a great example.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the problem. The &#8220;great example&#8221; apparently cooperated to avoid going to prison for dealing drugs.</p>
<p>A &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; outtake from CBS&#8217; 2011 Sharpton profile shows correspondent Leslie Stahl aggressively questioning him about being an FBI &#8220;informant.&#8221; Sharpton admits &#8220;cooperating,&#8221; but says he did so to expose &#8220;crack houses&#8221; and corruption in boxing. They show the lying, shifty, obviously uncomfortable Sharpton dodging and deflecting — clearly unhappy with the line of questioning. He told Stahl that the FBI asked him &#8220;what I know about (boxing promoter) Don King, but said nothing about the mob in the record business, the reason he gave to Scarborough.</p>
<p>In 2002, HBO aired 19-year-old FBI hidden camera video of Sharpton with a self-described mobster and an undercover FBI agent posing as a Latin-American &#8220;businessman.&#8221; The three discussed promoting boxing matches and musical events. It also shows the undercover agent trying to convince Sharpton to play a middleman in a big cocaine buy. They discuss &#8220;4 million&#8221; in &#8220;coke,&#8221; a &#8220;six week&#8221; time frame, a price tag of &#8220;$35,000 a kilo&#8221; with &#8220;$3,500&#8243; to Sharpton for &#8220;every kilogram&#8221; brought in.</p>
<p>Sharpton, on tape, was agreeable to all terms.</p>
<p>Sharpton later said he agreed because he was scared. But, according to the New York Post, a former Sharpton aide said: &#8220;It was greed. (Sharpton) just wanted money.&#8221; Sharpton cut a deal. The ex-aide said: &#8220;Sharpton moved on it, and they sprung the trap on him right away. They got him. Al told me himself. He bit and took the bait. &#8230; Sharpton said they could do whatever they wanted with him after that.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span>&#8230; Either he worked for them or they put that news out there that he was into coke.&#8221; The &#8220;civil rights&#8221; leader who condemned drugs while attempting to deal them snitched to save his hide — nothing more, nothing less, nothing noble.</p>
<p>Days after CBS released its 2011 outtakes, late-night host Arsenio Hall welcomed Sharpton with a flattering introduction. Only days earlier, Hall admitted to another guest that Sharpton suckered him with the fraudulent Tawana Brawley affair. Yet, in talking to Sharpton, Hall never mentioned the drug tape, never asked about the shifting reasons for &#8220;informing.&#8221; This, of course, is precisely why Sharpton chooses venues like that where he&#8217;ll be licked to death.</p>
<p>The &#8220;civil rights&#8221; leader became famous by falsely accusing a man of raping Tawana Brawley, only to be held liable for defamation. Since then, Sharpton has compiled an impressive and lengthy rap sheet of race-card hustles. This includes Crown Heights, to take just one.</p>
<p>Sharpton turned a tragic auto accident into a racial incident after a 7-year-old black child was killed in Crown Heights (in Brooklyn) when a car driven by a Hasidic Jew went out of control. Sharpton derided Jews as &#8220;diamond merchants&#8221; and led 400 protesters through the Jewish section of Crown Heights, with one protester holding a sign that read, &#8220;The White Man Is the Devil.&#8221; There were four nights of rock- and bottle-throwing. A young Talmudic scholar was surrounded by a mob shouting, &#8220;Kill the Jew,&#8221; and was stabbed to death. A hundred others were injured. Sharpton bellowed, &#8220;If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;civil rights leader&#8221; has also managed to avoid jail despite being millions of dollars light in federal and state income taxes. The New York Post reported in 2011 that Sharpton &#8220;owe(d) the IRS $2.6 million in income tax and nearly $900,000 in state tax.&#8221; Sharpton&#8217;s money-losing non-profit &#8220;civil rights organization,&#8221; called the National Action Network, has failed to pay payroll taxes. Last year&#8217;s state and federal filings showed NAN had more than $1 million in deficits and owed $871,688 in unpaid payroll taxes, including penalties and interest.</p>
<p>Sharpton&#8217;s busy life includes a daily hour-long show on MSNBC and a three-hour daily radio show. Plus, he claims to put in a 40-hour workweek at NAN, still manages multiple TV, radio and live guest appearances around the country.</p>
<p>The IRS, should it turn its attention away from tea party applications, might be curious. How does Sharpton manage to do all this and<i>still </i>put in 40 hours per week to justify his $250K CEO salary? Celebritynetworth.com clocks him in at $5 million, plus.</p>
<p>Not bad for &#8220;no justice, no peace.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Fox Haters Carrying Water for CAIR</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running interference for jihad instead of asking the real questions. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/National-Executive-Director-of-Council-on-American_Islamic-RelationsCAIR-Nihad-Awad-holds-a-translated-copy-of-the-Quran-as-he-speaks-news-conference-at-the-headquarters-of-CAIR.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220893" alt="The Council on American-Islamic Relations Announces Educational Initiative" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/National-Executive-Director-of-Council-on-American_Islamic-RelationsCAIR-Nihad-Awad-holds-a-translated-copy-of-the-Quran-as-he-speaks-news-conference-at-the-headquarters-of-CAIR-439x350.jpg" width="307" height="245" /></a>For some progressive writers, it’s more important to bash Fox News than to expose American Islamist groups&#8217; rejection of liberal values. In recent weeks, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has aggressively promoted articles by Fox haters who are more concerned with smearing CAIR opponents as anti-Muslim bigots than addressing facts and evidence.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The U.S. Justice Department </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/List+of+Unindicted+HLF+Co-conspirators.pdf">says</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> CAIR is a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and labeled it an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-financing trial. Federal prosecutors </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/542.pdf">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in a 2007 court filing that CAIR uses deception to “conceal from the American public their connections to terrorists.” CAIR’s </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/council-islamic-relations-cair">documented record</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> should alienate every progressive.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Part of those efforts is taking advantage of writers with influence in the media. Don’t take my word for it. Look at what CAIR Vice Chair Sarwat Husain </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://youtu.be/HHPWyMTGcN4">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> at another terror-tied conference:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Media in the United States is very gullible, ok? And they will see that if you have something, especially as a Muslim, if you have something to say, they will come running to you—and take advantage of that.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In a presentation by CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, he told supporters how to manipulate reporters. One of the slides was titled “Characteristics of a Journalist” and said, “They will expect you to do their work. Let them.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">CAIR also said to exploit the fact that journalists do “little primary research,” are “under extreme deadline pressure” and “fea[r] charges of inaccuracy.” This is especially true of CAIR’s media allies that choose political ideology over all else.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On February 20, CAIR distributed a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/20/meet-foxs-new-anti-muslim-national-security-ana/198148"><i>Media Matters</i> hit piece</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by Michelle Leung describing me as “Fox’s Newest Anti-Muslim ‘National Security Analyst,’” even though I am neither anti-Muslim nor “new” on Fox. If she had checked her own website’s archives, she would have seen a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/02/26/for-criticism-of-obamas-libya-policy-fox-turns/176950">hit piece from 2011</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> about an appearance. The premise of that article is that I am not a credible speaker on Libya because I opposed the Ground Zero Mosque.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">My </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/3230301823001/jihadist-enclave-in-heart-of-texas/">appearance</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> was about the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Clarion Project’s</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> disclosure of a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/exclusive-clarion-project-discovers-texas-terror-enclave">jihadist enclave in Texas</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> run by Jamaat ul-Fuqra/Muslims of the Americas. Her article didn’t even mention the topic I was discussing because that might wake readers up as to why this was a story worth covering.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Vice Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/texas-congressman-terror-enclave-discovery-appalling">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the discovery is “appalling.” Despite Leung’s description of </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Clarion</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and me as “anti-Muslim,” around a dozen Muslim organizations in the U.S. and Canada </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/muslims-join-clarion-call-ul-fuqra-be-foreign-terrorist-org">endorsed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a statement calling on the U.S. government to label Jamaat ul-Fuqra as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.</span></p>
<p>As evidence of my “Islamophobic” agenda, Leung cites my <a href="http://youtu.be/zvYRw8KWKPI">segment</a> about ul-Fuqra and Islamist patrols in London, a <a href="http://youtu.be/1ibaQZnIK04">segment</a> about Al-Qaeda recruiting among Somali refugees in the U.S. and one where I <a href="http://youtu.be/bl2_w-EucHo">mentioned</a> that Syrian jihadists belong to an anti-American alliance in the region. Every single one was about events that indisputably happened. If that’s anti-Muslim, then reporters and analysts who cover shootings must hate gun owners.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Then on March 6, CAIR promoted another </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.newshounds.us/20140305_fox_friends_foments_more_fear_of_islam_with_security_expert_from_anti_islamic_group">ridiculous article</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">NewsHounds</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, where the author seemed determined to prove her wit by including as many fact-free insults as possible. This time, CAIR and its ally said I was “fomenting fear of Islam” by talking about the U.S. military’s </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/us-military-hires-chaplains-endorsed-brotherhood-entity">decision</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to again hire chaplains endorsed by the Islamic Society of North America. You can watch the segment </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/3295829202001/us-military-chaplains-linked-to-terror-group/">here.</a></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We emphasized that I was not criticizing the use of Muslim chaplains, but rather the use of ISNA as the endorser. Like CAIR, the Justice Department labeled ISNA as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial and a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity. ISNA’s Fiqh Council is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/largest-us-muslim-org-courted-govt-dominated-isalmists">dominated by Islamists</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> with radical histories. The charitable status of ISNA’s Canadian affiliate was </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/isna-canada-loses-charity-status-over-terror-funding">revoked</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> because of its links to Pakistani terrorists and accounting discrepancies.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Clarion Project</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> also discovered that the U.S. Air Force paid ISNA almost $5,000 of taxpayer money for two advertisements in its magazine with the purpose of recruiting chaplains. </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">NewsHounds</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> described that as “whining.”</span></p>
<p><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">NewsHounds </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">also criticized my previous segment about ul-Fuqra and its communes in America, which was largely based on a declassified FBI document from 2007 that we obtained. The author disingenuously selected a single quote from the file stating that ul-Fuqra’s Texas site “may” be involved in terrorism and criticized my “unfounded fear.” She made a conscious decision to mislead her readers by leaving out the other incriminating quotes.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The FBI document reports that ul-Fuqra members in the U.S. have taken part in at least 10 murders, one disappearance and seven bomb plots. It states:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“The documented propensity for violence by this organization supports the belief the leadership of the MOA extols membership to pursue a policy of jihad or holy war against individuals or groups it considers enemies of Islam, which includes the U.S. Government. Members of the MOA are encouraged to travel to Pakistan to receive religious and military/terrorist training from Sheikh Gilani.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The criterion for being an “Islamophobe” is not to actually be an anti-Muslim bigot. It’s to be a critic of CAIR and Islamism. It wasn’t being used years before 9/11. They even claim that practicing Muslims like Zuhdi Jasser and the American Islamic Congress are part of the “Islamophobia” conspiracy. Despite that logical fallacy, Michelle Leung’s article at </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Media Matters</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> even called Jasser “anti-Muslim.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Former U.S. Muslim Brotherhood member Abdur-Rahman Muhammad </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/2217/moderate-muslim-speak-out-on-capitol-hill">says</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> he was at an Islamist meeting in the 1990s where they conceived of a strategy of using the term “Islamophobia” to neutralize opponents. In September, multiple Muslim activists </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/moderate-muslims-oppose-islamophobia-tactic">decried</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the “Islamophobia” strategy.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Any time you condemn them, any time you point out their machinations or their deceit, they are going to label you an Islamophobe and who wants to be that? It is just a technique to stigmatize their critics,” Muhammad says.</span></p>
<p><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Media Matters</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">NewsHounds</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> parrot the “Islamophobia” line because their primary goal is to attack FOX News Channel, even if it means declining to defend their own liberal-progressive values from Islamists.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This article was sponsored by the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy.</a></em></p>
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		<title>Farm Subsidies for the Muslim Brotherhood</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How American taxpayers' money is used to fund Islamist groups.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/nait.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-217856" alt="nait" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/nait.gif" width="400" height="180" /></a>The <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/north-american-islamic-trust-nait">North American Islamic Trust</a> (NAIT), a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity, has been given over $10,000 in farm subsidies since 1998. The payments are just another example of taxpayer money being spent to benefit Islamist groups.</p>
<p><i>Fox News </i><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/01/islamic-group-tied-to-terror-trial-receiving-thousands-in-farm-subsidies/">reports</a> that NAIT is being funded by 34 different government programs and receives subsidies for its two “agricultural” lands that are not being used for agricultural purposes. The report quotes an expert as assessing that NAIT’s activity in this regard is “probably legal,” as shocking as it seems.</p>
<p>NAIT was first identified as a Muslim Brotherhood front by the FBI in the 1980s. A <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/708.pdf">declassified FBI memo</a> documents that a source inside the American Muslim Brotherhood said that NAIT is “under the direction and control of the IKHWAN [Muslim Brotherhood] in the United States has as its ultimate goal political control of all non-Islamic governments in the world.”</p>
<p>Another declassified FBI <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/148.pdf">memo</a> from 1987 states that NAIT is receiving money from Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries and “many” of its leaders supported the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. The FBI’s source reported on NAIT’s “support of JIHAD (a holy war) in the U.S.” and “support of terrorism in the U.S. to further the revolution.”</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/Muslim_Brotherhood_Explanatory_Memorandum">1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood document</a> says its U.S. operations are “kind of a grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.” It lists NAIT as one of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends.”</p>
<p>In 2007, the U.S. government described NAIT as a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and labeled it an <a href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/List+of+Unindicted+HLF+Co-conspirators.pdf">unindicted co-conspirator</a> in a major terrorism-financing trial. The designation was <a href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/43380629-2009-order-on-Holy-Land-Foundation-unindicted-coconspirator-list.pdf">upheld</a> in 2009 by a federal judge, but he ruled against the previous public disclosure of the designation. This has been repeatedly misreported, including in the <i>Fox News</i> report, as a lifting of the designation.</p>
<p>NAIT <a href="http://www.nait.net/waqfservice.htm">says</a> it holds the titles to over 325 properties in 42 states. The <i>Fox</i> report states that NAIT uses Allied Asset Advisors, a company it owns and shares an address with, to buy mosques.</p>
<p>The subsidies to NAIT were sent to the Islamic Center of Central Missouri Mosque. The mosque’s <a href="http://www.theiccm.org/uploads/1/0/2/4/10242520/iccmconstitution_oct20071.pdf">constitution</a> says it is “entrusted” with NAIT and officially affiliated with the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/islamic-society-north-america-isna">Islamic Society of North America</a> (ISNA) and the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/muslim-students-association">Muslim Students Association</a>, two other groups with Muslim Brotherhood origins. Like NAIT, ISNA was also designated an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial.</p>
<p>According to <i>Fox</i>, the farm subsidies were temporarily halted between 2008 and 2011.</p>
<p>It cannot be argued that NAIT has shed its past extremism. One of its <a href="http://nait.net/NAIT_about_%20us.htm">current trustees</a> is Muzammil Siddiqi, a former president of ISNA. In 1996, while president of ISNA, he <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/profile/171">said</a> Muslims “should participate in the [democratic] system to safeguard our interest and try to bring gradual change…We must not forget that Allah’s rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction.”</p>
<p>In 2001, he even called for the brutal judicial system of Sharia to eventually be established in America. He said that Muslims are not required to follow Sharia’s criminal law when they live in a non-Muslim country, but “Once more people accept Islam, insha’llah, this will lead to the implementation of Sharia in all areas.”</p>
<p>NAIT isn’t the only radical group getting farm subsidies courtesy of American taxpayers. Last year, it was <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/365951/nation-islam-receives-farm-subsidies-andrew-johnson">discovered</a> that the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/nation-islam">Nation of Islam</a> was awarded $103,539 between 2008 and 2011. It also got a $26,357 “community loan” when the Bush Administration was in office.</p>
<p>The funding went to a Nation of Islam charity named Three Years Economic Savings, even though its status with the Illinois Secretary of State is “not in good standing.” The charity also operates under the name of “Muhammad Farms” in Georgia and is listed at Louis Farrakhan’s address.</p>
<p>The <i>Clarion Project</i> also discovered that the U.S. Air Force is <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/air-force-recruits-chaplains-mb-front-group">paying ISNA for advertisements in its magazine.</a> A spokesperson for the Air Force confirmed to <i>Clarion</i> that $4,800 was spent on two ads to recruit Air Froce chaplains. When <i>Clarion</i> provided the spokesperson with documentation about ISNA’s past and asked whether such payments would continue, the spokesperson said:</p>
<p>“The Islamic Society of North America is one of many religious organizations recognized by the Department of Defense that satisfy the ecclesiastical requirements to endorse qualified religious ministry professionals to serve as chaplains within the Military Departments.”</p>
<p>Another example is the radical mosque, <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/dar-al-hijrah-islamic-center">Dar al-Hijrah</a>, that has significant links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Its current imam is an <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/4195/dar-al-hijrah-imam-affirms-mb-sympathies-on">open supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood</a> and he <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/imam-preaches-armed-jihad-dc-high-school">preached</a> in favor of violent jihad last year inside a Virginia high school.</p>
<p>In 2010, it was found that the Census Bureau was <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/ryan-mauro/government-funded-jihad/%20">paying $23,000 <i>per month</i></a> since 2008 to rent space owned by the mosque. The total contract for the lease was $582,000 through 2010. The discovery prompted members of Congress to <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/05/ipt-report-on-census-lease-prompts-inquiries">demand accountability.</a></p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.usdebtclock.org/%20">U.S. Debt Clock</a> has the deficit at over $648 billion and the total debt at over $17 trillion. The Islamist cause is the last thing the U.S. government should be spending money on.</p>
<p><em> The <a href="http://www.theird.org">Institute on Religion and Democracy</a> contributed to this article.</em></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Holder.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217527" alt="Holder" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Holder.jpg" width="288" height="192" /></a>The Obama administration&#8217;s indictment of critic Dinesh D&#8217;Souza on campaign finance law violations is a reminder that it&#8217;s dangerous to be in the opposition when the president is a lawless strongman who knows the media will protect him no matter what.</p>
<p>Democratic malefactors remained at large on Friday as D&#8217;Souza <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/24/dinesh-dsouza-pleads-not-guilty-released-on-500000-bond-as-more-details-emerge-on-alleged-campaign-fraud/">pleaded</a> not guilty to charges that he directed two individuals to each make $10,000 donations to the campaign of Wendy Long, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, on the understanding he would reimburse them, which he did not long after.</p>
<p>The court in New York reportedly imposed unusually tough release conditions on the bestselling conservative author, ordering him to post a $500,000 bond and not to leave the country.</p>
<p>D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s attorney told U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman that the facts were more or less not in dispute. “I think there’s a dispute over how it happened and whether what happened violated federal law,” Benjamin Brafman said.</p>
<p>As The Blaze <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/24/dinesh-dsouza-pleads-not-guilty-released-on-500000-bond-as-more-details-emerge-on-alleged-campaign-fraud/">reports</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>Outside court, Brafman said there was no corrupt intent, a necessary component of the law, in his client’s actions, and he said the $20,000 in donations fell short of the $25,000 required to bring a criminal case. He said it was a situation that was normally resolved with a fine rather than criminal charges. He said there was no request by D’Souza that Long do anything, and the Senate candidate had no knowledge that campaign finance rules had been violated. Brafman said D’Souza and Long had been friends since college and &#8220;at worst, this was an act of misguided friendship by D’Souza.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>So why was D&#8217;Souza subjected to serial killer treatment, arrested, incarcerated, maybe perp-walked, for something that&#8217;s roughly the campaign finance law equivalent of a traffic ticket?</p>
<p>Could it be because D&#8217;Souza went too far in criticizing the notoriously thin-skinned Obama with his compelling, scathingly critical documentary, <i>2016: Obama</i><i>’</i><i>s America</i>? The movie <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/24/obama-administration-indicts-conservative-filmmaker-critical-of-obama/?print=1">brought in</a> an astounding $33 million in revenue, making it the second most popular political documentary in U.S. history behind Michael Moore&#8217;s lie-filled, anti-George W. Bush temper tantrum from 2004, <i>Fah</i><i>renheit 9/11</i>.</p>
<p>D&#8217;Souza is now arguably in trouble because Obama&#8217;s people promised retribution during the president&#8217;s second term. “After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time,” Valerie Jarrett, Obama&#8217;s close, trusted adviser, has been quoted saying in reference to the 2012 election. She warned:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Everyone not with us is against us, and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Some Obama apologists, incidentally, suggest the Jarrett quotation is apocryphal. They may be right. Even if it is made up, it doesn&#8217;t matter. Chicagoan Jarrett is every bit as devious and vindictive an Alinskyite as Obama is. Whether Jarrett used those exact words or not, the quotation exquisitely encapsulates the beliefs of Obama&#8217;s inner circle, whether it&#8217;s Rahm Emanuel or Hillary Clinton bragging about the opportunities for change that a crisis presents, or Anita Dunn praising Mao Zedong, or Justice Department nominee Debo Adegbile proclaiming the innocence of cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Jarrett and Obama&#8217;s other advisers clearly think these Machiavellian thoughts every day.</p>
<p>Obama himself does not forgive and he does not forget. Obama threatened Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) during a meeting of the House Democratic Caucus soon after his first inauguration. &#8220;Don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re not keeping score, brother,&#8221; Obama said in an effort to keep DeFazio, himself a radical leftist, in line.</p>
<p>An old associate of Obama and Bill Ayers from Chicago, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2436">Mike Klonsky</a>, wrote a blog post on Jan. 24 <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/m-did_mockery_of_obama_get_dinesh_dsouza_arrested.html">suggesting</a> he has special inside knowledge about why D&#8217;Souza was indicted.</p>
<p>&#8220;Note to Dinesh D&#8217;Souza &#8212; You probably shouldn&#8217;t have Tweeted that racist remark about Obama and Trayvon Martin. Shit like that sometimes comes back to haunt you.&#8221;</p>
<p>What was this &#8220;racist&#8221; remark exactly? Two days before Thanksgiving, D&#8217;Souza <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/11/26/dinesh-dsouza-and-his-vile-trayvon-tweet/">wrote</a> on Twitter, “I am thankful this week when I remember that America is big enough and great enough to survive Grown-Up Trayvon in the White House!”</p>
<p>Given that Obama famously likened himself to Trayvon Martin, it&#8217;s difficult for rational people to understand what the fuss is all about. D&#8217;Souza merely threw Obama&#8217;s own words back at him. The tweet may be biting or mordant but there is nothing even remotely racist about it.</p>
<p>Whiny Jonathan Capehart of the <i>Washington Post</i> was typical of the leftist lynch mob as he <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/11/26/dinesh-dsouza-and-his-vile-trayvon-tweet/">condemned</a> the tweet as &#8220;vile&#8221; and having &#8220;racist implications&#8221; but didn&#8217;t bother explaining what exactly those racist implications were. Among today&#8217;s radical left-wingers, racism is in the eye of the beholder, and if you can&#8217;t see it for yourself, then presumably you&#8217;re part of the problem.</p>
<p>Republican D&#8217;Souza may be feeling the fury of an angry Democratic president, but there are plenty of Democrats who have escaped investigation/prosecution for the wrongdoings attributed to them.</p>
<p>Here are just a few of such individuals:</p>
<p><strong>1) Eric Holder.</strong></p>
<p>Purveyor of unequal justice for all.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s attorney general is so contemptuous of the rule of law and the constitutionally-prescribed oversight authority of Congress that the House of Representatives &#8211;including almost two dozen Democratic lawmakers&#8211; <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/235475-house-votes-holder-in-contempt-of-congress">voted</a>  to find him in contempt of Congress on June 28, 2012. A hateful man who rhetorically <a href="http://spectator.org/articles/42248/holder-hater/">spits</a> on conservatives, Holder is a law enforcement chief who has made it clear he considers it his job only to protect the rights of minorities and left-wingers. If you&#8217;re not on his side or your skin is the wrong color, don&#8217;t even think about getting justice from his Justice Department.</p>
<p>As <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Injustice</i>, J. Christian Adams, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/ten-reasons-to-impeach-eric-holder/">writes</a></p>
<blockquote><p>“The havoc Holder has created goes far beyond corruption on any single issue. The damage he has done crosses all components of the Department of Justice, and has trickled down to infect the systems of law and legal jurisprudence throughout the country. He has tried to transform the federal agency intended to be above politics into an institution advocating radical change and extreme remedies.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The litany of prosecutorial abuses and selective prosecutions under Holder grows. There is the DoJ&#8217;s refusal to take up cases involving alleged civil rights victims when the victim is white. There is also: the crackdown on <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/volpe/gibson-guitar-and-the-politics-of-persecution/">Gibson Guitars</a>; the overzealous, possibly malicious, prosecution of investigative journalist James O&#8217;Keefe III; using federal resources <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/government-approved-race-riots/">to agitate</a> for a state-level prosecution of George Zimmerman based on trumped up charges; using federal resources to help anarchists and activists from the violent Occupy Wall Street movement <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/29/Is-Holder-s-DOJ-Community-Organizing-Occupy-Activists-at-the-RNC">agitate</a> at the Republican National Convention in 2012; the DoJ <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/j-christian-adams/seven-more-reasons-to-impeach-eric-holder/">vendetta</a> against Fox News and reporter James Rosen; and the DoJ&#8217;s flagrant <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/j-christian-adams/seven-more-reasons-to-impeach-eric-holder/">manipulation</a> of the 2012 election.</p>
<p>Holder also <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/ten-reasons-to-impeach-eric-holder/">spearheaded</a> an attack on the Second Amendment and lied to Congress about it. He flooded the U.S. border with Mexico with illicit firearms, leading to the deaths of a U.S. border patrol officer and many Mexican nationals.</p>
<p><strong>2) Maxine Waters.</strong></p>
<p>Race hustler and corrupt-o-crat.</p>
<p>Few politicians combine ignorance, obstinate self-righteousness, racial demagoguery, and extremism quite as perfectly as the congresswoman from South Central who has become a major force shaping federal banking policy. Rep. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/matthew-vadum/rising-waters/">Maxine Waters</a> (D-Calif.), a longtime cheerleader for Fidel Castro, was only too happy to use the 1992 Los Angeles riots as a political advertisement. She viewed the 53 deaths, thousands of injuries, and $1 billion in property damage as a shining example of participatory democracy. The word <i>riot</i> never escaped her lips. She called the unrest a “rebellion” and “a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration.”</p>
<p>“She is one of the most self-serving, hate-filled, race-obsessed politicians in America,” says columnist Michelle Malkin. “The Democratic Party doesn’t just embrace her. It kneels at her feet.”</p>
<p>A few years ago Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1264">named</a> Waters as one of the 13 &#8220;most corrupt&#8221; members of the U.S. Congress. CREW cited a <i>Los Angeles Times</i> investigation disclosing how a number of Waters’s relatives had made more than $1 million during the preceding eight years by doing business with companies, candidates, and causes that Waters had assisted. The lawmaker has had frequent run-ins with House ethics authorities.</p>
<p><strong>3) Harry Reid.</strong></p>
<p>Senate Majority Leader and rich guy.</p>
<p>For someone with a relatively clean reputation among the press, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) certainly has been involved in a lot of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2282">shady deals</a>. Reid has allegedly illegally accepted gifts, commingled personal and campaign funds, and made a handsome profit a decade ago on a questionable land deal. He misreported the transaction on congressional disclosure forms and stonewalled when pressed for details.</p>
<p>Between 2001 and 2004, Reid, in apparent violation of Senate ethics provisions, wrote at least four letters pressing the Bush administration to take action on issues  important to Indian tribes that were clients of the notoriously corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff. CBS News reports that “starting in the mid-1990s, he [Abramoff] became a master at showering gifts on lawmakers in return for their votes on legislation and tax breaks favorable to his clients.” Eventually Abramoff was convicted in federal court of corrupting public officials, tax evasion, and fraud, and he served three-and-a-half years in prison.</p>
<p>During the 2001-04 period, Abramoff&#8217;s staff was in regular contact with Reid’s office. Whenever Reid wrote a letter on behalf of the Indian tribes, he reportedly collected donations from Abramoff&#8217;s lobbying partners and clients around the same time period. These donations totaled nearly $68,000, yet the Abramoff affair has been labeled a &#8220;Republican&#8221; scandal.</p>
<p>In August 2012, the <i>Las Vegas Review-Journal</i> reported that Reid was strong-arming NV Energy, Nevada’s primary electricity provider, to purchase more “green energy” from a Chinese solar company named ENN Mojave Energy LLC. This happened even though NV Energy had already exceeded its state-mandated quota for green energy (which generated higher electric bills for customers). “There’s another factor, however,” noted the newspaper, “one more personal to Reid: His son, Rory Reid, is one of the attorneys for the ENN Mojave Energy project&#8230;. [S]uccess for ENN in finding customers helps Rory Reid, and its failure could cost him a client.”</p>
<p><strong>4) Lois Lerner.</strong></p>
<p>Tax bureaucrat from Hell.</p>
<p>Former Obama IRS Exempt Organizations Division Director Lois Lerner remains at large after (improperly) taking the Fifth Amendment at congressional hearings. Lerner earned her place in infamy when she presided over her IRS division&#8217;s targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups. Right-of-center nonprofit groups were subjected to extra scrutiny under Lerner and their applications for tax-exempt status were routinely delayed. Lerner <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obama-irs-polithug-promise-me-you-will-never-run-for-office-again-and-well-drop-this-case/">engaged</a> in similar shenanigans when she ran the Enforcement Division of the Federal Election Commission (FEC).</p>
<p><strong>5) Wade Rathke.</strong></p>
<p>Shakedown artist and coverup expert.</p>
<p>Eric Holder&#8217;s Justice Department has not investigated the man who founded the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in 1970 and ran it into the ground until its board fired him in 2008. Wade Rathke orchestrated a massive internal coverup after his brother Dale Rathke embezzled close to $1 million from ACORN around 2000. Some of the money was taken from ACORN employees&#8217; pension funds.</p>
<p>Before it filed for bankruptcy on Election Day 2010, ACORN was an essential part of the Democratic Party&#8217;s voter fraud apparatus for decades so it&#8217;s not surprising that Rathke got off scot-free. Rathke has even been <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/acorn-crooks-on-the-march-for-obamacare/">rewarded</a> by the Obama administration. United Labor Unions (ULU) Local 100 in New Orleans, which Rathke heads, has received federal funding to enroll people in Obamacare exchanges.</p>
<p><strong>6) David Brock.</strong></p>
<p>Character assassin, gun-toting hypocrite, and Obama publicist.</p>
<p>Media Matters for America (MMfA) founder and George Soros lieutenant David Brock is an <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=7186">admitted liar</a> who <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/media-matters-boss-david-brock-calls-benghazi-a-hoax/">claims</a> that Hillary Clinton&#8217;s enemies <i>invented</i> the Benghazi scandal to undermine her presidential run. But it&#8217;s not illegal to be a pathologically mendacious sleaze or to slither around on the same moral plane as a 9/11 truther conspiracy theorist.</p>
<p>Although MMfA constantly advocates for tougher gun laws, like many wealthy left-wingers, Brock doesn&#8217;t believe that gun laws apply to him. The Daily Caller reported that he told friends and co-workers that right-wing assassins were trying to kill him. Brock&#8217;s personal assistant reportedly carried a concealed Glock handgun around the District of Columbia, where it is illegal to do so, in order to protect Brock.</p>
<p>Because Brock is a friend of the Obama administration, no action has been taken against him. (Presumably if charges were to be pursued against Brock it would be done by the local government for the District of Columbia but it&#8217;s not as if the Obama administration has no pull with that Democrat-controlled local  government.)</p>
<p>It is also not illegal to operate political propaganda machinery while suffering from <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2039">serious mental illness</a> though one has to question why donors would keep funding an organization run by such an unstable individual.</p>
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<p>Will any of these shady Democrats be investigated or prosecuted during the balance of President Obama&#8217;s term in office?</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t count on it.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[An administration's shameless betrayal of Egyptian Copts.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/clinton-morsi.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-206251" alt="Hillary Clinton, Mohammed Morsi" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/clinton-morsi-450x350.jpg" width="315" height="245" /></a>This week&#8217;s Glazov Gang was joined by <b>Steven Emerson, </b>the Executive Director of <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/"><i>The Investigative Project on Terrorism.</i></a></p>
<p>He discusses <em>Hillary&#8217;s Secret Deal With Morsi</em> <strong>[starts at the 12:00  mark]</strong>. The discussion was preceded by a spotlight on <em>Who Is Eric Holder?</em> and <em>The Sordid World of CAIR</em>.   <strong><br />
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<p>Don’t miss the Glazov Gang’s other episode this week, also featuring<strong> Steven Emerson.  </strong>In this blockbuster episode, he takes us behind the scenes of how Islamists entrenched themselves on our soil:</p>
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		<title>Revealed: The Obama FBI&#8217;s Illicit Partnership with CAIR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 04:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report's disturbing findings on the ongoing outreach to a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/cair.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-204846" alt="The Council on American-Islamic Relations Announces Educational Initiative" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/cair-450x347.jpg" width="270" height="208" /></a>A government watchdog&#8217;s new report takes the FBI to task for violating its own policies by continuing to work with the Muslim Brotherhood’s front group in the United States, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).</span></b></p>
<p>The report came as CAIR issued a <a href="http://o.dailycaller.com/thedailycaller/#!/entry/cair-attacks-fox-news-limbaugh-levin-as-islamophobic,523b4dfbda27f5d9d022f22f/1">new report</a> denouncing the so-called &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; of the Fox News Channel, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, David the Horowitz Freedom Center, and others who dare to engage in an honest discussion of Islam and the politics surrounding it. <i>Islamophobia</i> is a concept invented to intimidate critics of Islam and Islamic jihad by implying that any and all criticism of the Muslim religion is animated by bigotry or ethnic animus. CAIR has urged Muslims not to cooperate with the FBI, which it characterizes as corrupt.</p>
<p>The report from the Justice Department&#8217;s inspector general faults FBI headquarters for repeatedly providing its field offices with conflicting information and pinpoints five examples in which FBI field office special agents-in-charge ignored or deliberately defied FBI policy.</p>
<p>Five years ago the FBI was directed to end its working partnership with CAIR that was part of the agency&#8217;s gooey, politically correct public relations effort in Muslim communities in the United States. The ban on contact with CAIR applies only to outreach efforts. The FBI continues its normal investigatory work, looking into criminal and civil rights complaints involving Muslims and working with any organizations to which they may belong.</p>
<p>FBI field office resistance to the policy goes back to late 2008.</p>
<p>&#8220;[W]e will decide how our relationship is operated and maintained with CAIR barring some additional instruction from FBI Headquarters,&#8221; wrote the head of the FBI&#8217;s field office in Los Angeles. &#8220;Please instruct your folks at this time that [we] are not to abide by the … [policy] but that their direction in regards to CAIR will come from the LA Field Office front office.&#8221;</p>
<p>Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.). blasted the FBI for its behavior.</p>
<p>These violations of the contact ban with CAIR are &#8220;intolerable,&#8221; Wolf wrote in a letter to new FBI Director James Comey. He demanded that those responsible be punished and be &#8220;separat[ed] from the FBI,&#8221; the Investigative Project on Terrorism <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/4165/wolf-demands-fbi-punish-agents-for-cair-contact">reports</a>.</p>
<p>When Wolf howls, the FBI listens. He chairs the House Appropriations Committee&#8217;s subcommittee in charge of the FBI&#8217;s budget. The investigation looked only at incidents in the FBI&#8217;s field offices in Chicago, Philadelphia and New Haven, Conn., in 2010, 2011, and 2012, so there may be many more that have yet to be uncovered.</p>
<p>Referring to the Los Angeles incident, Wolf criticized the &#8220;unacceptable and insubordinate behavior from a senior leader of the FBI.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Despite repeated efforts to communicate the policy to the field,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;this was undermined by conflicting guidance being inexplicably offered by the bureau&#8217;s Office of Public Affairs as well as outright violations from several field offices.&#8221;</p>
<p>The damning report was posted on the website of the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Justice yesterday and then abruptly taken down. Sources say the OIG&#8217;s office said there was a technical problem. A few hours later, the <a href="http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/2013/e0707r.pdf">report itself</a> and an <a href="http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/2013/e0707r-summary.pdf">executive summary</a> resurfaced on the DoJ Inspector General&#8217;s website.</p>
<p>While the FBI downplayed the findings of the report in its official reply to the OIG, the agency acknowledged its offices made mistakes and promised to do better.</p>
<p>&#8220;We note that the five incidents you reviewed are but a small fraction of the FBI&#8217;s outreach efforts with the Muslim community over the past five years,&#8221; Nancy McNamara, assistant director of the FBI&#8217;s inspection division, wrote in a Sept. 17 letter to DoJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz that was obtained by FrontPage Magazine.</p>
<p>&#8220;Outreach to the Muslim community remains critical to the FBI&#8217;s mission,&#8221; McNamara writes. &#8220;Accordingly, we will ensure our guidance on CAIR liaison is quickly updated and clarified. In that regard, the FBI agrees with your recommendations and has already taken steps to implement remedial actions.&#8221;</p>
<p>CAIR has been a shady operation from its creation nearly 20 years ago.</p>
<p>CAIR, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity, is the Islamofascist organization in the United States most favored by leftists, Islamist fellow-travelers, dupes, and useful idiots. It has enjoyed remarkable success in infiltrating the American political establishment.</p>
<p>CAIR applauded CIA director John Brennan and President Obama for following its recommendations by avoiding the perfectly useful word <i>Islamist</i>. “Islamist is a stealth slur,” according to CAIR. “It exists as a piece of coded language.”</p>
<p>CAIR poses as a civil rights organization in order to immunize itself from criticism. &#8220;We are similar to a muslim NAACP,&#8221; says CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper.</p>
<p>On more than one occasion CAIR has been compared to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund">German American Bund</a>, a U.S.-based organization created to promote a favorable view of Nazi Germany. The Bund, like CAIR, was created with the assistance of unfriendly foreign powers.</p>
<p>CAIR was <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6176">founded</a> in 1994 by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad, both of whom worked for a pro-Palestine group established by senior Hamas operative Mousa Abu Marzook, and functioned as Hamas’ public relations and recruitment arm in the United States.</p>
<p>&#8220;[U]ntil we can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS,&#8221; wrote an FBI official in 2009, &#8220;the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner.&#8221;</p>
<p>This latest development in the CAIR saga comes after a senior Muslim Brotherhood official who is also a member of the Clinton family&#8217;s political network was <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/clinton-muslim-brotherhood-operative-arrested-in-egypt/">arrested</a> in Egypt in an ongoing roundup of seditious Islamist militants. Charged with inciting violence, Gehad el-Haddad worked for the Bill, Hillary &amp; Chelsea Clinton Foundation from mid-2007 to mid-2012.</p>
<p><i>Gehad</i>, incidentally, is the Egyptian version of the Arabic word <i>Jihad</i>.</p>
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		<title>The FBI and the Muslim Brotherhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 04:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Mueller's dance with the Islamists.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ijg3D_mo9KB8.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-202627" alt="ijg3D_mo9KB8" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ijg3D_mo9KB8-450x333.jpg" width="270" height="200" /></a></i>A recent report in <em>Mother</em><i> Jones</i> magazine has <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/nidal-hasan-anwar-awlaki-emails-fbi-fort-hood">given the lie to</a> FBI Director Robert Mueller&#8217;s defense of his agency&#8217;s failure to take any action against Nidal Hasan, despite intercepting a series of emails between the mass murderer and terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, beginning as early as 2008. Appearing on CBS News last Thursday, Mueller was <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50153515n">asked</a> if his agency &#8220;dropped the ball.&#8221; &#8220;No, I think, given the context of the discussions and the situation that the agents and the analysts were looking at, they took appropriate steps,&#8221; he responded.</p>
<p>Mueller&#8217;s statements are shocking in light of the mountain of evidence showing FBI dereliction of duty, which is now finally getting the media attention it deserves. On the other hand, Mueller’s remarks make perfect sense given the Obama administration’s long and disturbing track record of allowing Islamists to shape U.S. national security policy, including at the FBI. Mueller himself has been Obama&#8217;s point man in that effort.</p>
<p>Recall that in 2012, the FBI <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/03/28/149564721/fbi-pulls-offensive-counterterrorism-training-materials">eliminated</a> 876 pages and 392 presentations from its counterterrorism training manuals. At the time, FBI spokesman Christopher Allen said that the Bureau found some of the material to be inaccurate, too broad or, in some cases, offensive, because it allegedly characterized Muslims as prone to violence and/or terrorism. Four criteria were used in the purge, including the politically incorrect metrics of “poor taste&#8221; and “stereotyping.” Former Congressman Allen West (R-FL) made a stir at the time for <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/muslim-brotherhood-takes-charge-fbi-counterterrorism-training#">characterizing</a> the purge as &#8220;cultural suicide&#8221; that was influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood and its associated groups.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, West was exactly right. On February 16, 2012 the <i>Washington Post</i> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/fbi-muslims-report-progress-over-training-materials/2012/02/16/gIQA7R7KIR_story.html">revealed</a> that the FBI met with a coalition of Muslim groups eight days earlier to consider a proposal that &#8220;a coalition of Muslim and interfaith groups &#8230; establish a committee of experts to review materials used in FBI anti-terrorism training.&#8221; Those meeting with Mueller included the Muslim Brotherhood front groups the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), despite its listing by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terrorism-funding trial, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). MPAC’s president, Salam al-Marayati, had previously written an LA Times <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/19/opinion/la-oe-almarayati-fbi-20111019">column</a> threatening the FBI with non-cooperation from the Muslim community if the FBI didn&#8217;t apologize to Americans Muslims and establish a proper vetting process along with an inter-agency task force to conduct an independent review of the training material.</p>
<p>Despite these revelations, the Obama administration has stonewalled investigation into FBI &#8220;guidelines&#8221; on Islam curricula, forcing the government watchdog group Judicial Watch to sue both the FBI and the DOJ for their failure to honor Freedom of Information Act requests. But remarkably, the FBI has continued to push the envelope. In late 2012, the Bureau <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/01/FBI-Protocol">released</a> a new document online called “Guiding Principles: Touchstone Document on Training.” The document contains a disturbing clause instructing agents that “mere association with organizations that demonstrate both legitimate (advocacy) and illicit (violent extremism) objectives should not automatically result in a determination that the associated individual is acting in furtherance of the organization’s illicit objective(s).” In other words, even those who may be involved with a terrorist group&#8217;s &#8220;charity arm,&#8221; which many groups have as a funding mechanism and as a means of cover, cannot be assumed to be supporting terrorism and must be given the benefit of the doubt.</p>
<p>In June of 2013, investigative journalist Patrick Poole revealed how far the Obama administration has taken its warped philosophy. In “Blind to Terror: The U.S. Government’s Disastrous Muslim Outreach Efforts and the Impact on U.S. Policy,” Poole extensively <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/the-u-s-governments-disastrous-muslim-outreach-efforts-and-the-impact-on-u-s-middle-east-policy-blind-to-terror1/">chronicles</a> the administration&#8217;s effort to take some of the same groups it has called terrorists in federal court and turn them into &#8220;outreach partners.&#8221;  Poole further cites the disturbing number of “leaders of American Islamic organizations that partner with the U.S. government” who later transitioned into officials for Muslim Brotherhood fronts.</p>
<p>Even many people under active federal investigation for terrorist activities were <i>simultaneously</i> meeting with government officials to help formulate U.S. policy (long before the Foot Hood massacre took place). According to Poole, this was part of &#8220;a full scale campaign of political correctness waged inside the [FBI] and throughout the U.S. government &#8230; against any attempt to link jihadi terrorism with anything remotely connected to Islam of any variety.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Nidal Hasan case is one disastrous result of this campaign. In 2009, when the agency first <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=9039742">revealed</a> that Hasan and al-Awlaki had communicated as many as 10 to 20 times, mostly by email, the Bureau claimed those communications were &#8220;benign and contained no threat,&#8221; and that they had insufficient information to commence a full investigation. &#8220;There was no indication that Maj. Hasan was planning an attack anywhere &#8230; or that he was directed to do anything,&#8221; a senior investigative official said at the time. Still, the FBI vigorously suppressed publication of those emails.</p>
<p>However, in July 2012, an unclassified report conducted by a commission chaired by former FBI director William H. Webster was <a href="http://news.intelwire.com/2012/07/the-following-e-mails-between-maj.html">released</a>. It contained the Hasan/al-Awlaki emails, but remained under the media&#8217;s radar until <i>Mother Jones</i> brought it to light. The 173-page <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/final-report-of-the-william-h.-webster-commission">document</a> reveals that Nidal Hasan first &#8220;tripped the wire&#8221; with his contact with al-Awlaki in December 2008. Another email was sent in January. Both were intercepted by FBI&#8217;s Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Diego, because they were tracking al-Awlaki. Yet the report reveals an inter-agency communication that comes to a remarkable conclusion: contact with the American-born terrorist, who was killed in a drone strike in 2011, &#8220;does not necessarily indicate participation in terrorist-related matters.&#8221;</p>
<p>Both bureaucratic inertia and the determination to cast Hasan&#8217;s communication with al-Awlaki as unthreatening caused a two-month delay in Hasan&#8217;s case being assigned to Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), a law enforcement agency that operates inside the Pentagon. The Washington-based official assigned to investigate Hasan shelved his inquiry for the 90 days because &#8220;no written FBI policy set a deadline for completing work on Routine leads&#8221; at that time. When the official did conduct his investigation, he searched a number of databases, and got Hasan&#8217;s personnel file from the Department of Defense. Six Officer Evaluation Reports (OERs) &#8220;contained almost uniformly positive reports of Hasan by his superior officers.&#8221; Yet the report further notes the investigating official &#8220;did not have any files maintained locally by Hasan&#8217;s command.” As a result, he missed learning that Hasan&#8217;s program directors at his fellowship and residency program ranked him in &#8220;the bottom 25 percent,&#8221; that he was placed on &#8220;probation and remediation,&#8221; and that he &#8220;often failed to meet basic job expectations[.]&#8221;</p>
<p>Based on the information he did gather, the investigator concluded that Hasan&#8217;s communications with the terrorist mastermind &#8220;were relevant to his research on Islam and the military.” Investigators declined to interview Hasan because they believed it would compromise their investigation of al-Awlaki and because it “would harm Hasan’s career.” The Webster report further notes that a Washington Field Office Task Force Officer, who was eventually tasked with investigating Hasan, was reluctant to proceed because subject was &#8220;politically sensitive for the WFO.&#8221;</p>
<p>All the while, Hasan continued to email al-Awlaki. on June 16, 2009, Hasan sent his last email to al-Awlaki regarding the perils that would befall any Muslim who failed to listen to Allah. On July 15, 2009, he was transferred to Fort Hood.</p>
<p>On November 5, 2009 he committed his atrocity.</p>
<p>Immediately after the incident, generals <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2009/11/08/general-casey-diversity-shouldnt-be-casualty-of-fort-hood/">rushed</a> to the press to lecture the public about the horrors of letting &#8220;diversity&#8221; become an unnecessary &#8220;casualty&#8221; of the shooting. The military&#8217;s reaction to the carnage was every bit as PC-infused as the missteps that allowed the shooting to occur in the first place. This is no coincidence, but an expression of the culture of fear and insanity carefully nurtured by the Obama administration and its terrorist &#8220;outreach partners.&#8221; Diversity will not be the last casualty of this misguided program.</p>
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		<title>FBI Ordered Al-Awlaki&#8217;s Release Despite Knowing He Bought 9/11 Hijacker Tickets</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FBI retrieved information identifying al-Aulaqi as a “terrorist organization member”  the day before al-Aulaqi spoke as an invited guest at a Pentagon luncheon.]]></description>
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<p>We <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-declassified-documents-reveal-fbi-warning-identifying-anwar-al-aulaqi-as-a-terrorist-day-before-he-spoke-at-pentagon-luncheon/">have the best law enforcement</a> that <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2013/07/declassified-docs-reveal-fbi.html">appeasement and political correctness</a> can find.</p>
<blockquote><p>Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealing that the agency had warned agents who spotted U.S.-born al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Aulaqi to “approach with caution” the day before he spoke as an invited guest at a Pentagon luncheon.</p>
<p>The documents obtained from the FBI include a computer database record showing that an FBI employee searching for al-Aulaqi’s criminal history on February 4, 2002 – the day before al-Aulaqi spoke as an invited guest at a Pentagon luncheon – retrieved information identifying al-Aulaqi as a “terrorist organization member” and containing the following alert: “Warning – approach with caution . . . Do not alert the individual to the FBI’s interest and contact your local FBI field office at the earliest opportunity.”</p>
<p>&#8220;According to FOIA documents previously obtained from the FBI by Judicial Watch, the FBI was aware as far back as September 27, 2001, that al-Aulaqi may have purchased airplane tickets for three of the 9/11 terrorist hijackers, including mastermind Mohammed Atta. On October 10, 2002, al-Aulaqi was detained at New York’s JFK airport under a warrant for passport fraud, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. However, the FBI ordered al-Aulaqi’s release, even though the arrest warrant was still active at the time of his detention.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s no surprise that terrorists still keep slipping through. Because we care more about offending Muslims than we do about fighting Islamic terrorism.</p>
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		<title>How Michael Jackson Got Away With It</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 04:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rich, famous, beloved child molester.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/michael-jackson.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-195272" alt="michael jackson" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/michael-jackson-256x350.jpg" width="256" height="350" /></a>According to new reports this week, pop icon Michael Jackson paid $35 million over the course of 15 years to cover up his pedophilia. Secret FBI files, the <i>Daily Mirror </i>(UK) reports, show that Jackson shelled out that cash to silence “at least two dozen young boys …. Agents have thousands of pages of evidence dating back to 1989 indicating Jacko groomed and molested children – sometimes right under the noses of their starstruck parents.”</p>
<p>Actually, the documents show more than that. They show that some of the parents were willing accomplices in the sexual exploitation of their own children. Jackson was apparently once caught by a member of his staff groping a child star; another time he was caught watching child pornography while touching another child; a third time, he was caught grasping at the genitals of a different child in his movie theater. The mother of one of these kids was in the theater at the time, supposedly unaware of all of this. Overall, at least 17 boys were abused, according to the files.</p>
<p>The files were gathered from Anthony Pellicano, former detective to the stars, who was often hired in order to cover up scandals. His files state that one mother “knew her son was being molested but turned a blind eye to it.” The witness to the molestation “confided because it didn’t bother her son, it didn’t bother her. Another email shows Jackson’s former lawyer negotiating a hush agreement with the family of an alleged victim, paying $600,000 to “refrain from any and all contact with media and communications, newspapers, television, radio, film, books.”</p>
<p>This week, former child friend Wade Robson also filed a lawsuit against Jackson’s estate alleging repeated molestation at the infamous Neverland ranch.</p>
<p>How did Jackson get away with this sort of activity for well over a decade? He was pampered by the media for his stardom, and treated with equanimity by parents who were happy to cash checks. Money and fame can go a long way in Hollywood.</p>
<p>Of course, in Hollywood, child molestation by the rich and famous is often overlooked. Roman Polanski received an Oscar for <i>The Pianist</i> in 2002, 24 years after fleeing the United States for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl at a party. Hollywoodites gave him a standing ovation. Only Jack Nicholson, who hosted the party at which the molestation took place, remained seated.</p>
<p>Former child star Corey Feldman now admits that he was abused while working in Hollywood, and says that he will write the names of his two abusers in a tell-all to be released. Feldman also says that his friend, Corey Haim, was abused. “I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia,” Feldman said. “That’s the biggest problem for children in this industry …. It’s the big secret.” He added, “I was surrounded by [pedophiles] when I was 14 years old …. Didn’t even know it. It wasn’t until I was old enough to realize what they were and what they wanted … till I went, Oh, my God. They were everywhere …. There was a circle of older men … around this group of kids. And they all had either their own power or connections to great power in the entertainment industry.”</p>
<p>It is no coincidence that more movies now deal with the sexualization of younger and younger children and teenagers. Where romance used to be the province of adults, it has now become the province of teens and pre-teens, who often are “in love” and engage in sexual activity with legal adults. None of this is commented upon, of course. “Sexual awakening” films almost always involve a minor having sex with a person of majority age. That’s Hollywood at its worst, legitimizing sexual activity for youngsters in the name of broadmindedness.</p>
<p>Or, perhaps, it’s artistic justification for a town in which sexual activity directed at minors has always been a nagging problem. Across America, children aren’t expected to work, and they especially aren’t expected to work with adults. But in Hollywood, that juxtaposition happens all the time. Further, parents in Hollywood – as was the case with Jackson – are often willing to sell out their own children for fame or money or both. Polanski’s victim’s mom knew where her child was late into the night, but she wasn’t there to protect her. Jackson’s victims had parents too. But stage parents are all too often stage first and parents second.</p>
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		<title>Erasing the &#8216;Faces of Global Terrorism&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 04:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FBI takes down photos of wanted terrorists to avoid giving offense.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/130621_Billboard_Terrorist_Wanted5_660.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-194817" alt="130621_Billboard_Terrorist_Wanted5_660" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/130621_Billboard_Terrorist_Wanted5_660-450x310.jpg" width="270" height="186" /></a>In the same war against truth that recently saw the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/antiground-zero-mosque-campaigners-pamela-geller-and-robert-spencer-barred-from-entering-britain-to-speak-at-an-edl-rally-8675251.html">UK ban</a> Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, the FBI <a href="http://www.king5.com/news/local/Faces-of-Global-Terrorism-bus-ads-being-pulled-213055901.html">announced</a> it will be pulling ads featuring wanted terrorists off Seattle-area buses, due to complaints that they stereotype Muslims.</p>
<p>The 46 ads are part of a campaign initiated by the Puget Sound Joint Terrorism Task Force for the State Department’s “Rewards for Justice” program. <a href="http://images.bimedia.net/images/062013terrorismfull.jpg">Sixteen photos</a> of wanted terrorists are featured beneath the heading, “Faces of Global Terrorism.” Below the photos, the tagline reads, “Stop a Terrorist. Save Lives. Up to $25 Million Reward.”</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Titan, the company handling King County Metro bus advertising, <a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021268829_fbiadsxml.html?syndication=rss">received</a> a request from the agency task force, asking that the ads be taken down, according to King County Metro spokesman Jeff Switzer. Switzer further revealed that King County Metro had receive six complaints about the ad on its customer information line. FBI Special Agent Fred Gutt said the pullback was “a result of our continued engagement with the community and the feedback we are getting.”</p>
<p>Part of that feedback came from Jeff Siddiqui, the founder of American Muslims of Puget Sound. Siddiqui said he had received phone calls from other Seattle Muslims concerned for their safety. He contended an ad posted by the government of men from another ethnic group on billboards with the tagline, “the face of murders in the United States,” would be just as objectionable. “It is affecting all kinds of people who have no experience with Muslims, who look at it and say, ‘Oh, Muslims are the face of global terrorism,’” Siddiqui contended.</p>
<p>Actually, according to a 2011 National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) report <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/sunni-muslim-extremists-committed-70-terrorist-murders-2011">published</a> in 2012, Muslims <i>are </i>the face of global terrorism. The report reveals that Sunni Muslims were responsible for “about 70 percent” of the 12,533 terrorist murders committed in 2011. This compares to 1,926 murders committed by “secular/political/anarchist” groups, 1,519 by “unknown” factions, 170 by a category described as “other”, and 77 by “Neo-Nazi/Fascist/White Supremacist” groups.</p>
<p>Muslims also comprised the largest number of victims. “In cases where the religious affiliation of terrorism casualties could be determined, Muslims suffered between 82 and 97 percent of terrorism-related fatalities over the past five years,” the report added.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, showing photos of wanted terrorists &#8212; and hence, showing the truth about Islamic terrorism &#8212; was vocally opposed by Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA). He wrote a letter to FBI director Robert Mueller last week, saying that such ads “only serve to exacerbate the disturbing trend against Middle Eastern, South Asian and Muslim-Americans.” “When you start saying that this is the face of terrorism, you are really stigmatizing a whole group of people,” he added.</p>
<p>McDermott took his criticism one step <a href="http://www.king5.com/news/cities/seattle/Racist-or-reality-Congressman-wants-terror-ad-pulled-212410161.html">further</a> in an interview with King 5 News reporter Eric Wilkinson, alleging, predictably, that the ads were racist. “You look at the pictures, they&#8217;re all one color of folks,” the Congressman contended. “Terrorists come in all shapes and sizes. If you&#8217;re gonna talk about terrorists, then don’t just talk about people with brown skin,” he said. “How many white faces were there on there?”</p>
<p>At least one. Omar Hammami, listed by the FBI, is a 29-year-old from Alabama. Three men of Asian descent were pictured as well. The complete breakdown is as follows: seven of the men are from countries in Africa, four are Filipino, three are U.S. born, one is Malaysian and one is Chechen. Furthermore, the FBI&#8217;s most wanted terrorist list is comprised of 32 people in total, only six of whom are not Middle Eastern in origin.</p>
<p>But according to McDermott, those looking at a poster on a bus moving at 35 mph can&#8217;t see the differences. “The impression you get is that terrorism is caused by brown-skinned men with beards, and occasionally they wear a turban&#8211;which isn’t true,” he insisted. McDermott&#8217;s office said State Department staff members attended a meeting last Monday with area community and civil rights organizations. As of now, two different ads will remain in place, posted on billboards, light rail and at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Yet in a move virtually guaranteed to render them ineffective, no photos will be included.</p>
<p>Telling the truth about global jihad is becoming a riskier and riskier business. Britain&#8217;s Home Secretary, Theresa May, has informed dedicated anti-jihadists Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer that they have been barred from entering the UK for three to five years. They were scheduled to speak an English Defence League rally in London this weekend. For merely conveying facts about Islamic jihad, the Home Office charged that Spencer and Geller have set up  “anti-Muslim hate groups&#8221; and that their presence in the UK would “not be conducive to the public good.” The denial was <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/26/the-uk-bans-two-prominent-american-bloggers-from-entering-the-country/">based</a> on ostensible violations of the British government’s “Unacceptable Behaviour” policy. One of the violations of that policy is to express views that &#8220;foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fostering hatred is a remarkably flexible term in Britain. While Spencer and Geller have been unfairly demonized, no action has been taken against a genuine hate-spewer, British cleric, Anjem Choudary. Choudary recently <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2300390/Anjem-Choudary-prosecuted-saying-followers-claim-jihad-seekers-allowance.html">told</a> his followers to claim welfare benefits and said that Prime Minister David Cameron should be killed. Yet Choudary is not only welcome to say whatever he wants, he is also welcome to take home more than $38,000 a year in welfare transfers, and live in a house in Leytonstone, East London worth more than $486,000. That he also <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/352156/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-mark-steyn">mentored</a> the terrorist thugs who hacked to death British soldier Lee Rigby in broad daylight on a London street is of no consequence as well.</p>
<p>Supports may justify the tolerance of Choudary&#8217;s hatred by the fact that he&#8217;s a British citizen whose father was a Pakistani immigrant who <a href="http://www.islam-watch.org/Ibrahim-Lone/Anjem-Choudary-hate-preacher-muslim.htm">sought refuge</a> in the UK. However, there are a <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/britain-bans-freedom-fighters/">multitude</a> of jihadi foreigners welcomed into the country. For instance, the Home Office allowed radical Saudi preacher Muhhamed al Arefe into the country, despite al Arefe&#8217;s <a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1106292/preacher-who-backs-wife-beatings-let-into-uk">statement</a> that a man &#8220;may use beatings to discipline his wife.&#8221; Arefe is known for promoting hatred against Shiites, and a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/19/saudi-preacher-mohammad-al-arefe_n_3465941.html">movement</a> developed to petition the Home Office to refuse him entry because he instigates &#8220;community tension.&#8221; The Home Office, of course, denied the request.</p>
<p>With respect to both the Seattle bus ad debacle and the banning of Spencer and Geller, the common denominator is the vicious effort to conceal the truth about terrorism and its primary cause, radical Islamic ideology. Meanwhile, those who oppose the true hate preachers and violence promoters are delusionally accused of the very crimes they seek to expose. Every one of the men pictured in the bus ads in Seattle is a dedicated terrorist. Yet as far as the unholy alliance of American leftists and Muslim activists is concerned, any depiction of that reality constitutes &#8220;Islamophobia.&#8221; The same unholy alliance in the UK countenances the likes of Choudary and al Arefe, while those who would challenge their despicable world view are literally barred from entering the country. The Orwellian paradigm of &#8220;war is peace &#8230; ignorance is strength&#8221; is rapidly becoming too hegemonic to combat.</p>
<p>Sadly, none of this is surprising. Islamists, like their leftist allies, have become well-versed in both newspeak and incrementalism. Grievance politics frees them to promulgate intolerant jihadism, even as those who challenge them are tarred as religious bigots. Incrementalism enhances that effort, as the West slowly capitulates in a variety of ways, the most distressing of which are the <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/training/the-fbis-guiding-principles">scrubbing</a> of references to jihad and Islamic terror FBI training manuals and the ongoing <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/the-u-s-governments-disastrous-muslim-outreach-efforts-and-the-impact-on-u-s-middle-east-policy-blind-to-terror1/">infiltration</a> of Islamists into the highest levels of U.S. government.</p>
<p>The Rewards for Justice program has been around since 1984. Approximately $125 million has been paid to more than 80 people for information that led to the arrests and convictions of those who would do Americans grievous harm. In 1995, it played a significant role in the arrest of Ramzi Yousef, one of the terrorists convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Despite that reality, the ads will be removed from Seattle buses in the next seven to ten days. What won&#8217;t be removed is the ongoing threat to this nation posed by Islamic terrorism and its perpetrators.</p>
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		<title>FBI Pulls &#8220;Faces of Global Terrorism&#8221; Ad Because It Features Too Many Muslims</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among those criticizing the ads was U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle, who suggested they gave the impression that “terrorism only comes from one religion or one color of people,”]]></description>
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<p>Why couldn&#8217;t we catch the Boston Marathon bombers? Here&#8217;s Exhibit 1.</p>
<p>Not only can&#8217;t we catch Muslim terrorists, <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/06/26/fbi-bows-to-democrats-pressure-pulls-racist-bus-ad-featuring-list-of-most-wanted-islamic-terrorists/">we can&#8217;t even talk about them</a>. I guess we&#8217;ll just have to wait around until the Buddhists or the Amish fly two planes into the World Trade Center and then the FBI can put the ad back up with their faces on it.</p>
<p>Until then&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>The FBI says it’s pulling some advertisements off buses in the Seattle area, after some people complained that they stereotyped Muslims.</p>
<p>The ads, which began running this month in connection with a State Department program, features pictures of 16 men wanted around the globe for terrorist activities below the words: “Faces of Global Terrorism.”</p>
<p>Among those criticizing the ads was U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle, who suggested they gave the impression that “terrorism only comes from one religion or one color of people,” and said the ads might increase the risk of hate crimes against Middle Eastern, South Asian and Muslim Americans.</p></blockquote>
<p>And ignoring and covering up Muslim terror increases the risk of Muslim hate crimes like the Boston Marathon massacre and September 11. But that doesn&#8217;t matter. It&#8217;s only Americans getting killed in Muslim terrorist attacks. Not people who really matter.</p>
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		<title>The Sound of (Muslim) Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FBI’s favorite imam takes a risk and gets hip.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/aza.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-193479" alt="aza" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/aza.jpg" width="280" height="207" /></a>The Salam Islamic Center, whose leaders have been praised by the FBI, staged a musical concert June 15 at the Crest Theater in Sacramento, California. <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/15/5498542/hip-hop-poetry-singers-classical.html">“An Islamic Expression of Traditional &amp; Contemporary Art,”</a> came billed as the first event of its kind and one that “challenges the belief among some orthodox Muslims that music can lead to sinful behavior.”</p>
<p>Mohamed Abdul Azeez, imam of the Salam Islamic Center and winner of the FBI’s community leadership award, told the <i>Sacramento Bee</i> that staging the event was “risky” but “why not present an alternative? Instead of listening to rap music filled with filth, why not listen to clean rap?” The event, Azeez said, “represents a paradigm shift in the Muslim community. Kids are listening to this stuff, so why not be proactive and expose them to beautiful, inspiring music that promotes love of religion and country?” Imam Mahmoud Abdel of the Masjid Annur Islamic Center has a different view on music.</p>
<p>“Music actually makes you high, 100 percent,” he told the <i>Bee</i>. “It’s a chain reaction – when people listen to music, they ask for alcohol, which will lead to adultery. One step leads to another in the majority of cases. It’s well known that anybody who listens to music a lot will be distracted from his or her mission, which is worshipping God Almighty.”</p>
<p>Imam Mumtaz Qasmi of Sacramento’s Downtown Mosque said “Music has magic, it gets in your blood and makes you want to get up and dance and forget your personality. Your butt is shaking and she’s going to get up and her butt is going to shake – where is the religion then?” Mosques don’t allow music, the imam said, “So how can we allow it outside the mosque?”</p>
<p>Azeez argued that “there’s nothing conclusive in the Quran that states music is inherently wrong,” and in Egypt his parents listened to Oum Kolthoum, “the greatest singer in the Muslim world,” even though the local imam forbade it. But the FBI’s favorite imam still has reservations. He alluded to stories of how political leaders used music to sway people from the Quran and in some musical settings “really bad things took place, like the inappropriate mingling of genders, drinking or fornication.”</p>
<p>“An Islamic Expression of Traditional &amp; Contemporary Art,” allowed no dancing and it may have consoled some that the event included recitations of the Quran along with the poetry and music. Performers included violinist <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ip36_WiK4">Riad Abdel Gawad</a>, known for improvisational playing, but rapper <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_L_qBEeTe0">Amir Sulaiman</a> might challenge imam Azeez’s concept of music that is “beautiful and inspiring.” And it’s a stretch that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC0wEg1shUA">Tyson Amir’s music</a> “promotes love of religion and country.”</p>
<p>Since tickets were $30, the event might have been construed as an example of capitalism. The news story, meanwhile, was highly promotional and included no contrary views from non-Muslims. Had a local Baptist minister said that rap was “full of filth” and declaimed against “really bad things” like “inappropriate mingling of genders,” the outcry would have been long and loud. Even so, the piece included more contrary opinion than those on more controversial issues involving the Salam Islamic Center, which has <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/fbi-to-honor-cair-linked-group/">co-hosted events with CAIR</a>, and Mohamed Abdul Azeez.</p>
<p>The recent <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/the-fbis-favorite-imam-sounds-off-on-boston/">terrorist bombings at the Boston Marathon</a>, for example, prompted Azeez to extend condolences to victims of the “explosions” in Boston. But the whole story had a “fishy stench” and the imam said he was “weary of having to deal with this pressure all the time, whenever something stupid happens in the world. I feel similar to a gun owner worried about gun laws all the time because people are shooting people, or a Jew who has to worry about the atrocities being committed in Israel.”</p>
<p>In similar style, the FBI’s favorite imam was not exactly outspoken on the terrorist attacks in Libya. But he’s okay with a musical concert, as long as there’s no dancing.</p>
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		<title>Gibson Guitar and the Politics of Persecution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Volpe]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why there is now little doubt the raid on the iconic guitar-maker was politically motivated. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MK-BW282_GIBSON_G_20120806181542.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-191298" alt="MK-BW282_GIBSON_G_20120806181542" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MK-BW282_GIBSON_G_20120806181542-450x300.jpg" width="270" height="180" /></a>The highly publicized 2011 raid by FBI agents of a plant owned by Gibson Guitar is beginning to look more and more like another outgrowth of the Obama administration&#8217;s crackdown on citizens considered to be political &#8220;enemies.&#8221; By now it is well known that the Obama IRS has been persecuting individuals affiliated with the Tea Party and even religious organizations through audits, federal agency investigations and the denial of the right to form non-profit groups. The Obama Justice Department, too, has engaged in unprecedented seizing of communication records of journalists, including Fox News&#8217;s James Rosen, whom the administration has <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/22/doj-invoked-espionage-act-in-calling-fox-news-reporter-criminal-co-conspirator/">threatened</a> with charges of &#8220;espionage.&#8221; With these details now made public, Gibson Guitar has good reason to believe the shocking raid of its facilities, which cost the company altogether millions of dollars, was also a warning to its Republican-supporting CEO Henry Juszkiewicz.</p>
<p>On August 24, 2011, armed FBI agents in SWAT gear executed a warrant for the seizure of wood at Gibson Guitar facilities. At the time, the raid appeared peculiar because of the excessive forced used over charges of regulatory violations. The <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/052313-657569-gibson-guitar-raid-like-tea-party-intimidation.htm">premise</a> of the raid was an obscure 100-year-old law known as the Lacey Act. On the basis of this act, the Feds were able to storm the facilities, claiming that Gibson&#8217;s had broken foreign (not American) law in its procurement of the wood, even though the government produced no evidence of the crime at the time and no evidence has since emerged that the material was illegally obtained. Juszkiewicz was only told at the time that the Gibson supply chain had a &#8220;<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/08/31/140090116/why-gibson-guitar-was-raided-by-the-justice-department">risk</a>&#8221; of including illicit wood. This was in fact the only infraction the company was penalized for after it was forced to <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/26/paper-gibson-guitar-raids-may-be-another-case-of-obama-administration-targeting/">settle </a>its case to avoid costly litigation.</p>
<p>Suspicions of political motivations behind the attack were quickly aroused. Gibson Guitars CEO Henry E. Juszkiewicz is a known supporter of conservative causes and political candidates. The <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/report-gibson-ceo-gop-donor-martin-ceo-democratic-donor-who-uses-same-wood">Examiner</a>, citing <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/">Open Secrets</a>, reports that Juszkiewicz had contributed $2000 to Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN07) last year, as well as $1500 to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN). Juszkiewicz also has donated $10,000 to the Consumer Electronics Association, a PAC that contributed $92.5k to Republican candidates last year, as opposed to $72k to Democrats.</p>
<p>Notably, one of Gibson&#8217;s biggest competitors, C.F. Martin &amp; Co., reportedly uses the same type of wood seized from Gibson&#8217;s, but did not face any kind of interference from the federal government. The <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/report-gibson-ceo-gop-donor-martin-ceo-democratic-donor-who-uses-same-wood">Examiner reports</a> that Chris Martin IV, CEO of C.F. Martin &amp; Co., is a well-known Democratic fundraiser. The Examiner describes Martin as &#8220;a long-time Democratic supporter, with $35,400 in contributions to Democratic candidates and the DNC over the past couple of election cycles.&#8221; Furthermore, no other companies known to use the wood in question, such as furniture manufacturers, have reported similar prosecution from the federal government, though the wood is distributed widely throughout the world. As Juszkiewicz<a href="It is…clear to me that there is some terrific motivation because we are not the only company that uses this type of wood. Virtually every other guitar company uses this wood and this wood is used prominently by furniture and architectural industries, and to my knowledge none of them have been shut down or treated in this fashion.  Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/26/paper-gibson-guitar-raids-may-be-another-case-of-obama-administration-targeting/#ixzz2UfFJVtnO"> told</a> radio host Hugh Hewitt, &#8220;Virtually every other guitar company uses this wood and this wood is used prominently by furniture and architectural industries, and to my knowledge none of them have been shut down or treated in this fashion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gibson Guitar lost enormous assets as a result of the government&#8217;s manhandling. Judge Andrew Napolitano, a Fox News Channel legal analyst, described the harrowing nature of the raid and its incredible cost.</p>
<blockquote><p>These guys came dressed in SWAT gear with machine guns pointed at people. They took dozens and dozens of people out into the parking lot. They then seized what they said was the illegal wood. They effectively shut down the business for a month. Gibson’s legal bills are about $2.5 million and they haven’t even gotten back the wood that was seized from them.</p></blockquote>
<p>As with the IRS scandal today, the so-called mainstream media attempted to downplay the significance of the Gibson raid, casting it as a political football for Republicans. <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64563.html">Politico</a> reported at the time:</p>
<blockquote><p>[The] <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903895904576542942027859286.html">federal raids<b> </b></a>on the company that makes Gibson electric guitars were a gift to Republicans who have spent years railing about more obscure issues like boiler MACT regulations and particulate emissions standards.</p>
<p>Here, at last, was a controversy the average person could grasp: Overreaching regulators were out to kill rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll.</p>
<p>Still, House Republicans are having some trouble getting the issue to gain traction on the Hill.</p></blockquote>
<p>However, with both the Attorney General’s office and the IRS now tied directly to scandals in which there is strong evidence that each of the agencies misused and abused their powers in order to target political enemies of the President, the Gibson Guitar case can hardly be dismissed as regulatory overreach. In hindsight, it was an ominous foreshadowing of the explosion of misdeeds we are witnessing today.</p>
<p>Thanks to the dedication of Congressman Darrell Issa, the investigation into the IRS has been moving forward.  The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which Issa chairs, has <a href="http://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-announces-irs-hearing-next-week/">scheduled</a> more hearings into the IRS scandal for later in the week. Head of the IRS&#8217;s non-profit division, Lois Lerner, whose Fifth Amendment rights have come into question after she chose to emphatically profess her innocence shortly before refusing to testify on the matter, is listed as one of the scheduled speakers. Meanwhile, Attorney General Holder, who has already been cited in contempt of Congress, is being investigated for <a href="http://rt.com/usa/attorney-general-holder-congressional-probe-913/">perjury</a>.</p>
<p>Investor’s Business Daily, which renewed interest in the injustice done to Gibson&#8217;s with a recent editorial, <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/052313-657569-gibson-guitar-raid-like-tea-party-intimidation.htm?p=2">keenly observes</a> that all of the Obama administration scandals are connected by a common denominator: abuse of power to persecute political adversaries &#8212; even if those on Obama&#8217;s &#8220;enemies list&#8221; are ordinary citizens exercising their constitutional rights.</p>
<blockquote><p>Juszkiewicz&#8217; claim that his company was &#8220;inappropriately targeted&#8221; is eerily similar to the claims by Tea Party, conservative, pro-life and religious groups that they were targeted by the IRS for special scrutiny because they sought to exercise their First Amendment rights to band together in vocal opposition to the administration&#8217;s policies and the out-of-control growth of government and its power.</p>
<p>The Gibson Guitar raid, the IRS intimidation of Tea Party groups and the fraudulently obtained warrant naming Fox News reporter James Rosen as an &#8220;aider, abettor, co-conspirator&#8221; in stealing government secrets are but a few examples of the abuse of power by the Obama administration to intimidate those on its enemies list.</p></blockquote>
<p>So far, the administration has dismissed this growing plethora of scandals, claiming ignorance in each case. That claim, as ludicrous as it is, would be equally troubling, even if it were true. The bottom line is that there is a common thread in each of the scandals that have come out over the last few weeks. In nearly all of these cases, there were examples of parts of the Obama administration using the power afforded to them to punish enemies of the administration and subsequently reward its friends. Gibson Guitar was just the canary in the coal mine.</p>
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		<title>The 2 FBI Agents Who Arrested Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Did Not Die Mysteriously</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 14:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was actually arrested by an MBTA SWAT Team. ]]></description>
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<p>This story is going around the usual circles, but there are a few things wrong with it. First of all <a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/22/transit-police-swat-team-talk-about-dangerous-capture-of-dzhokhar-tsarnaev/">Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was actually arrested by an MBTA SWAT Team</a>.</p>
<p>The FBI tried to negotiate his surrender and he was eventually taken into federal custody. Considering how many people were involved in the actual arrest and how many agencies got involved, we&#8217;re talking about a lot of personnel that were in some way around.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/05/christopher-lorek-and-stephen-shaw-fbi-agents-killed-89074.html">Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw</a> <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-05-23/news/ct-met-glen-ellyn-fbi-agent-20130522_1_special-agent-training-accident-glen-ellyn">were members of a hostage rescue team</a>. I&#8217;m having trouble finding any legitimate news sites, not counting the usual Pravda-Ron Paul-Infowars conspiracy network sites, that even say that they specifically were in the area.</p>
<p>The Hostage Rescue Team was there and <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/19/boston-suspects-tamerlan-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-from-boxing-to-bombs.html">tossed in a stun grenade that forced his surrender</a>, but the HRT consists of 90 operators. It&#8217;s unclear if Lorek and Shaw were the ones who were there and their obituaries fail to mention any such thing. Or that HRT had any further contact with him afterward.</p>
<p>Their deaths are not particularly mysterious. It&#8217;s dangerous work and the training is even more dangerous.</p>
<blockquote><p>Lorek and another special agent, Stephen Shaw, were fast-roping from the aircraft onto a ship when the helicopter &#8220;encountered difficulties,&#8221; according to information released by the FBI. &#8220;The agents tragically fell a significant distance and suffered fatal injuries.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tran attended the memorial. Afterward he recalled a conversation when Lorek described his rehabilitation for eight broken ribs and a punctured lung he suffered during a training accident.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was just incredible to understand the work he did,&#8221; said Tran, of Chicago. &#8220;They put their lives on the line for us.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Sure it could all be a giant cover up, but there were more than two people on the scene and more than two people involved in the arrest. Try hundreds.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president's unblemished record of destroying the opposition through abuse of bureaucracy &#038; regulations. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1207-obama-bush-tax-cuts_full_6001-600x350.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190477" alt="1207-obama-bush-tax-cuts_full_6001-600x350" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1207-obama-bush-tax-cuts_full_6001-600x350-450x298.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>Boy, it sure makes a primary or election contest easier when your opponent pulls out, don’t you think?  Barack Obama has been managing to do that since he won the Democratic nomination for state senator in Illinois in 1996, and it helps explain the IRS harassment of conservatives and Tea Party groups since 2010.  Whereas once Obama targeted candidates to get them to pull out, from 2010 onward, he had the IRS and possibly other federal agencies target groups that represented a set of ideas, hoping to get those ideas to withdraw from the race.  The pattern has been the same: get the opposition to leave.</p>
<p>In 1996, as he faced an incumbent state senator and two other challengers for the Democratic nomination for state senator in a heavily-Democratic district in Chicago, then-candidate Barack Obama directed his campaign staff to challenge the candidacy petitions of his opponents.  By disqualifying signatures one by one, as one local columnist <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/">put</a> it, Obama “made sure voters had but one choice.”</p>
<p>Then, in 2004, not only in the Democratic nomination for United States Senator from Illinois, but in the general election, Team Obama perfected the art of getting confidential documents on Obama’s opponents unsealed.</p>
<p>First, Obama’s primary opponent had to try and explain to the voters the contents of recently-unsealed divorce records, which included <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-03-17/news/0403170332_1_blair-hull-gery-chico-blacks-and-liberal-whites">allegations</a> of spousal violence.  The former front-runner finished third, far behind the winner, Barack Obama.  Then, in the 2004 general election, Republican nominee Jack Ryan <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/25/il.ryan/">ended</a> his race for the Senate after child custody records were unsealed, revealing allegations of wild forays at sex clubs with his actress wife, Jeri Ryan.</p>
<p>Is it any wonder that once President Obama’s signature accomplishment, Obamacare, came under scathing criticism from Tea Party groups in 2010, that the IRS suddenly began to give extra scrutiny, and in many cases deny non-profit status to groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their name?  The extra IRS scrutiny and audits were <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/the-ominous-obama-nixon-comparisons-begin-to-pile-up/">blamed</a> on a few “rogue” IRS agents in Cincinnati, but the scandal is big enough to be blamed for the harassment of over 500 conservative <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/14/lawmakers-say-irs-targeted-dozens-more-conservative-groups-than-initially/">groups</a>.  Reportedly, 63% of all Tea Party-related groups that applied for non-profit status since 2010 eventually <a href="http://youtu.be/BSwnWW-y48c">withdrew</a> their applications, obviously limiting donations to these groups, and their ability to promote conservative ideas.  Government harassment works.</p>
<p>With the non-profit voter integrity group “True The Vote,” a delayed application for non-profit status was only the beginning.  In the two years since the group applied for non-profit status, the founder and her family’s business became <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/05/20/dojs-witch-hunt-against-true-the-vote-n1601527">targets</a> of other government agencies, including the FBI, the ATF, and OSHA.</p>
<p>And despite denials to the contrary, evidence suggests direction from the top of the executive branch.  An anonymous IRS official employee from the Cincinnati office <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/anonymous-irs-official-everything-comes-from-the-top">confirmed</a> that orders of singling out organizations based on political belief is something that would only “come from the top.”</p>
<p>Old Chicago habits die hard, and during the 2012 campaign, the Obama campaign website <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577368280604524916.html">posted</a> the names of 15 prominent donors to Mitt Romney’s campaign, sending the message far and wide to investigate these people, possibly unsealing any confidential files, at the least dissuading other possible Romney supporters from donating to the campaign.</p>
<p>Apparently the IRS and the Labor Department took the bait and audited one of the listed Romney donors, Frank <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/24/romney-donor-bashed-by-obama-campaign-now-target-two-federal-audits/">VanderSloot</a>.  Within weeks of being listed on the Obama website, IRS agents audited VanderSloot’s personal and business tax returns, and the Labor Department even investigated VanderSloot’s business.  VanderSloot <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=5&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CEwQFjAE&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2013%2F05%2F14%2Ffrank-vandersloot-im-not-the-only-major-mitt-romney-donor-audited%2F&amp;ei=z_ebUZvzNcGViQL_54DgDw&amp;usg=AFQjCNEwTJ9Jp-zypq7">says</a> he is not the only person on that list to be audited.</p>
<p>How extensive is this scandal?  As far as we know today, the IRS took the lead in harassing conservatives and Tea Party groups, occasionally joined by the Department of Justice, OSHA, the ATF, and the Labor Department.  If you were to add some news of spying on reporters – that was <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fbi-reporter-20130521,0,661230.story">announced</a> Monday &#8212; then it all becomes reminiscent of the following <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074119/quotes">exchange</a> from the 1976 movie All the President’s Men:</p>
<p>Bob Woodward: Segretti told me and Bernstein that&#8230;</p>
<p>Deep Throat: [interupting] Don&#8217;t concentrate on Segretti. You&#8217;ll miss the overall.</p>
<p>Bob Woodward: The letter that destroyed the Muskey candidacy&#8230; did that come from inside the White House?</p>
<p>Deep Throat: You&#8217;re missing the overall.</p>
<p>Bob Woodward: What overall?</p>
<p>Deep Throat: The people behind all of this were frightened of Muskey and that&#8217;s what got him destroyed. They wanted to run against McGovern.  Look who they&#8217;re running against. They bugged offices, they followed people, falsified press leaks, passed fake letters&#8230; they canceled Democratic campaign rallies, they investigated Democratic private lives, they planted spies, they stole documents&#8230; and now don&#8217;t tell me that all of this was the work of one Donald Segretti.</p>
<p>Substitute the phrase “a few rogue IRS officers from Cincinnati”  for Doanld Segretti, and a few other updates, and this exchange gives a glimpse at how big and how far this scandal may go.  But one thing is for sure: all of these actions are part of an old Obama pattern since his days in Illinois of doing whatever it takes to get one’s opponents, be they candidates or groups, to withdraw from the competition of ideas.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 04:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The indisputable common denominator uniting almost every single mass killer of Americans. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/20130430_fbi_most_wanted_terrorists1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-188045" alt="20130430_fbi_most_wanted_terrorists" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/20130430_fbi_most_wanted_terrorists1.jpg" width="231" height="168" /></a>In the wake of the horrific Boston Marathon bombing, media, politicians and left-wing commentators have gone to extraordinary lengths to opine on every possible motive and affiliation of the terrorists responsible &#8212; every motive except Jihad. Yet as the FBI&#8217;s official &#8220;<a href="http://m.fbi.gov/#http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/wanted-group-listing">Most Wanted Terrorists</a>&#8221; list glaringly illustrates, there is no mystery behind the agenda of those compelled to commit mass atrocities against American citizens. View the list yourself, and see if you can discern the common denominator:</p>
<p><strong>The <a href="http://m.fbi.gov/#http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/wanted-group-listing">FBI&#8217;s Most Wanted Terrorists</a>.</strong></p>
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