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They want to know why a former member of Alamoudi's American Muslim Council occupies a high position at DHS. From FoxNews, with thanks to DC Watson and Joe Kraft:
WASHINGTON — Two senators chairing committees with direct oversight of intelligence and terrorist-related issues have asked the chief internal watchdog at the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the appointment of a top director at the agency and his brief suspension from it.Faisal Gill, director of policy for intelligence at DHS, was forced to take a few days off in March after sources close to the FBI raised flags about Gill's former position as spokesman for the now-defunct American Muslim Council. He was then reinstated, and Republican Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Jon Kyl of Arizona want to know why. They also are questioning why Gill is at DHS in the first place.
Grassley and Kyl sent a letter dated Monday to Clark Kent Ervin, DHS inspector general, requesting answers to a number of questions regarding Gill, who served in 2001 as the spokesman for the AMC, whose founder just pleaded guilty to federal indictments related to illegal foreign financing and immigration fraud, and admitted to a role in a Libyan assassination plot....
Aside from questioning whether this connection raised concerns among officials before Gill was hired, the letter draws attention to reports that Gill had omitted his affiliation with the AMC when he filed his employment application and requisite security clearances at the agency....
"Mr. Gill is reportedly director of intelligence policy in the Department’s Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (IAIP) directorate," the senators wrote. "A person in such a position would likely have access to highly sensitive information about vulnerabilities in the nation’s critical infrastructure."
The senators then ask: "What is the department’s policy for employees who omit information, especially information considered important or material, from their security clearance background forms?
"What are the Department’s general policies and procedures for considering employment of a person with previous links or associations to individuals or groups who are investigated or prosecuted for suspected crimes, especially terrorism matters or, who provides services to such individuals or groups?"...
But of course, this is all just racism, not genuine concern for our national security -- says the leader of a group founded by Sami Al-Arian:
"I don’t think working for an organization like the AMC in of itself is a bad thing," said Kit Gage, president of the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom, whose founder, Sami Al-Arian is awaiting trial on charges he was a prime fundraiser for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an accusation he vehemently denies. Gage said the group has distanced itself from Al-Arian."There are always going to be people who are racist, who are anti-Muslim and feel threatened by groups like ours who do coalition work, because we stand up for groups that have taken on unpopular positions," she added.
Posted by Robert at August 12, 2004 5:44 AM
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Treason: Violation of Allegeiance to one's Country, esp. by attempting to overthrow the government.
OBL gives go ahead for assasinations throughout the world of top leaders.
Rocket Science?
Posted by: Chuck![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at August 12, 2004 5:20 PM
Faisal Gill ought to be removed from his postIMMEDIATELY! Situation is far too serious to take notice of some dippy Lefist tart, who would endanger the lives of millions of Americans for the sake of a lying Muslim.
Posted by: Morgane at August 12, 2004 6:05 PM
Oooh. Praise from Sami Al-Arian is worthy indeed! This is not racism as Islam is not a race category. Faisal Gill should never have been a member of DHS.
Posted by: epg at August 12, 2004 7:02 PM
I have just been reading "Trading With the Enemy During World War II" by Martin Domke, published in 1943. Its no-nonsense, uncompromising, and severe tone is exactly what is needed now.
It is absurd to put such a man as Faisal Gill in any sensitive position -- or indeed, given his background, in any government position at all. He is owed nothing. He is certainly potentially a security risk. In any case, whatever his connection with Grover Norquist -- who deserves to be watched like a hawk himself -- why should American taxpayers be paying the salary of a man who believes in the things Faisal Gill believes in?
Sentimentalism, and diversity-training gone mad. Cut it out. Government officials should immerse themselves in the tone, and the substance, of what was issued during World War II -- and then try to imitate it, and to adopt for themselves the attitudes that government officials possessed during that war -- as best they can.
Posted by: Hugh at August 12, 2004 7:55 PM
The jihadists (active or acquiescent) will slip in via any crack in our security apparatus they can find. The weaknesses in our "homeland security" are some of the humans that have constructed it.
As the ideology of Islam, that is followed by all Moslems, is based on world domination, the US government cannot bend over backwards and pretend to be blind to any functionary's ideological association.
How many Japanese and Nazi Germans were placed in governmental positions of trust during WWII? And we won that one. This one, we are not really winning. We might have kept the enemy at bay, but we have not utterly vanquished him. Allowing enemy synpathizers or worse into our government is idiocy.
Posted by: unicorns62000 at August 13, 2004 1:47 AM
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