Another day. Another cover-up.
Witnesses from the Obama administration declined to attend a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the Obama administration’s refusal to use the term “radical Islam” to describe Islam-inspired terrorist attacks.
That's logical. If you aren't going to use the term. Why attend a hearing that does use it?
Cruz then showed the absurdity of the Obama administration’s refusal to use the term “radical Islam,” showing how the administration is comfortable with the terms like “anarchist extremists,” “animal rights extremists,” “environmental rights extremists,” and “racist skinhead extremists,” while “the FBI’s ‘Counterterrorism Analytical Lexicon’ made no reference to Islam, radical Islam, jihad, or any other such term.”
Further, Cruz recounted how the Obama administration has a history of expunging records including terms deemed “offensive.” “This year alone,” Cruz noted, “the Obama Administration has twice purged mentions of “ISIS” and “Islamist terrorism” from highly significant public records—one involving French President Hollande’s remarks about the Paris terror attacks and the other involving the terrorist’s 911 call during the horrific Orlando attack.”
Then things got more exciting.
In one of the more provocative moments, a witness who had infiltrated a U.S. Muslim group accused the two Muslim members of Congress of having attended an event organized by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Chris Gaubatz, identified as a national security consultant from Virginia, testified that the two Democratic congressmen – Keith Ellison of Minnesota and André Carson of Indiana – attended a 2008 convention hosted by the Islamic Society of North America, a group he claims is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Neither of the two congressmen was at the hearing, though Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar, a member of the panel, stood up for Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress. "He is my congressman," Klobuchar said. "He is a man of great patriotism."
Getting Amy Klobuchar to testify to your patriotism really doesn't help.
Two empty places in the committee room were supposed to have been occupied by John Carlin, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's National Security Division, and Michael Steinbach, executive assistant director of the FBI's National Security Branch.
Justice officials issued a statement saying Carlin and Steinbach had informed Cruz's committee more than a week ago that they were declining his invitation to appear, and that the committee "chose to proceed anyway."
Empty chairs do seem to be an apt metaphor for this empty administration.
Former Customs & Border Protection Officer Philip Haney talked about how the administration purged records of terrorism investigations from the agency database.
He stated in his testimony, “The threat of Islamic terrorism does not just come from a network of armed organizations such as Hamas and ISIS, who are operating ‘over there’ in the Middle East. In fact, branches of the same global network have been established here in America, and they are operating in plain sight (at least to those of us who have been charged with the duty of protecting our country from threats, both foreign and domestic).”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/28/witness-tells-senate-committee-cair-engaged-in-corrupt-activities-with-hamas/#ixzz4CvA05VHT