“’The Department also did not find any indication that he sought to disclose any other internal OHS [Office of Homeland Security] information to anyone apart from official use of information within the scope of his role for the Homeland Security Advisory Council.’ …However, documents obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act contradict DHS’s claims and indicate that a proper investigation into Elibiary’s actions never even took place.”
The swift rise of Mohamed Elibiary is part of the general bipartisan eagerness to find “moderate Muslims,” no matter how immoderate they really are. Elibiary was touted a few years ago as “the nation’s leading deradicalization expert.” If he were really that, why would he be let go now? There is more to this story — it may never come out, but it’s there.
“Controversial DHS Adviser Let Go Amid Allegations of Cover Up,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, September 15, 2014:
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) adviser long engulfed in controversy over his radical views was let go from his role in the department last week after a long fight by lawmakers and others to revoke the individual’s privileges at DHS.
Mohamed Elibiary was until last week a senior member of DHS’ Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). After years of controversy about his status at DHS, Elibiary announced his final day with the department on Twitter earlier this month and said he would remain close to the agency.
Media outlets have raised questions about the circumstances surrounding his departure, speculating that his provocative comments about the “inevitable” return of the Muslim “caliphate” may have played a role.
New documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon indicate that Elibiary had no choice in the matter, and that he may have been let go by DHS in order to minimize the fallout from an investigation into allegations that he improperly accessed and used classified materials obtained with his security clearance.
Elibiary was originally appointed to HSAC in 2010 and reappointed in September 2013 with the elevated title of “senior fellow,” DHS informed Rep. Louie Gohmert (R., Texas) in a July letter about Elibiary’s status with the agency, according to a copy of that correspondence obtained by the Free Beacon.
“Mr. Elibiary will not be reappointed when his term expires in September of 2014,” Alan Bernstein, DHS assistant secretary for policy and chief diplomatic officer, informed Gohmert.
Bernstein provided no specific reason for this decision and a DHS spokesperson did not respond to a request for more information on the matter….
Elibiary, for instance, came under fire in June for tweeting about the “inevitable” return of the Muslim “caliphate.” His tweets were later praised by affiliates of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and potentially used to recruit extremist followers.
Elibiary also has maintained that America is “an Islamic country with an Islamically compliant constitution” and argued that the Muslim Brotherhood poses no threat to the United States.
While these comment have sparked outrage among critics who call Elibiary an extremist unfit to serve in such a sensitive role, the most concerning issue for lawmakers has been Elibiary’s alleged role in the “inappropriate disclosure of sensitive law enforcement documents,” as the letter from DHS frames it.
The exact details of the case have long been shrouded in mystery, with various officials providing unclear and at times contradictory answers about whether DHS ever properly investigated the allegations that Elibiary inappropriately accessed classified documents from a secure site and may have attempted to pass them to reporters.
Lawmakers such as Gohmert have expressed particular concern about how exactly Elibiary was vetted for a security clearance and what he did with it after being approved by DHS, which continues to maintain that no wrongdoing took place.
“As part of his role on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, [Elibiary] was provided access to a network containing sensitive but unclassified information,” DHS claimed in its July 15 letter to Gohmert.
DHS further claimed that a 2011 investigation “found no credible information” that Elibiary “disclosed or sought to disclose For Official Use Only information to members of the media.”
“The Department also did not find any indication that he sought to disclose any other internal OHS [Office of Homeland Security] information to anyone apart from official use of information within the scope of his role for the Homeland Security Advisory Council,” the letter states. “Mr. Elibiary was sponsored for access to the Department’s [secured] HS-SLIC system by the State of Texas and was only able to access unclassified information on this system.”
However, documents obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act contradict DHS’s claims and indicate that a proper investigation into Elibiary’s actions never even took place.
“We conducted a comprehensive search of files within the DHS Enterprise Correspondence Tracking System (ECT) for records that would be responsive to your request. Unfortunately, we were unable to locate or identify any responsive records,” DHS informed Judicial Watch in a Sept. 16, 2013, letter.
DHS could find not “investigative records regarding the alleged mishandling and any records of communication between any official, employee, or representative of the Department of Homeland Security and any member of Congress, congressional staff member, congressional committee, and/or congressional committee staff member regarding the alleged mishandling,” it said in the letter.
Conflicting information such as this from DHS has led Gohmert and others to speculate that the department never thoroughly investigated the alleged abuse and is now letting Elibiary go in order to minimize any potential fallout.The Judicial Watch documents “tells you Homeland Security lied” about the investigation, Gohmert said. “There was no legitimate investigation. They didn’t say these documents are classified or secure, they said no such documents exist.”…
Elibiary did not respond to an email seeking clarification on why DHS did not reappoint him.
richard Sherman says
Obama agrees with everything this man has said…so does Holder and DeBlasio.
mortimer says
So his loyalty was to the ‘inevitable’ Caliphate…after all.
Obama and his crew were duped, weren’t they? Are they STILL duped?
What will it take for them to get clued in about predatory, totalitarian Islam?
quotha raven says
“…duped…”? I don’t think so…
quotha raven says
Here’s what I think: anyone who thinks Obama has been duped has himself been duped…big time.
Kathy Brown says
AMEN Quoth!
This reminds me of the comments swirling around Zero in the year or so after his election. You know: When we saw the likes of [homo pedophile pig] Kevin Jennings; Commie Dunn; and on, and on, and on…
It was, ‘How in the world did these people GET BY the president’s vetting process?
Those of us with intelligence [patriotic conservatives] gave the correct answer, ‘On purpose, of course!’.
Useful idiots are still asking the same question. Duh.
quotha raven says
To Kathy Brown –
OT, but can’t resist: I was living in NY when, right after he was inaugurated, zero had the one or two F-16s fly with what looked like Air Force One. It was a back-up Air Force One, identical to the first one. Anyway, these two or three (can’t remember) planes buzzed Wall Street and New Jersey financial district way low, like hedge-hopping, scaring the living bejesus out of all the people who had just arrived at work. It was shortly past 9am, a bright, vividly sunny day, just beautiful, EXACTLY like September 11, 2001. People panicked and came stumbling, clawing their way out of huge office buildings, running for their lives, in the financial district both sides of the Hudson. One person broke a leg coming down some stairs or being trampled. A couple of heart attacks…Zero said it was a “Photo-Op” and never explained further – this was about a month into his presidency. Nobody EVER saw the photos. It was such a sadistic act, the coincidence of the weather and where he chose to have these planes fly, buzzing low along the high floors of the buildings close to the Hudson. Mayor Bloomberg gave no warning that this was going to happen, and it took all those innocent workers by surprise. I told friends of mine who worked down there (I used to) that I thought zero was giving a narcissistic message to Wall St et al of “I’m the boss now” in a way that suggested “don’t mess with me” or “you ain’t seen nothing yet”. My friends, elitist, liberal, financial hot shots, smart, highly educated, ALL looked at me like I had three heads. Now, what O was telling America with that ill-conceived, sadistic stunt seems more sinister. My blood still runs a bit cold when I think of this and try to imagine the mindset of a person who would do that, and I am not a person who characteristically over-reacts. It was early days then.
Shane says
The only true moderate Muslims are Muslims who are not religious at all, but are afraid to leave the religion because shariah law demands death to apostates. You won’t find moderate Muslims among the believers as Muhammad was a Warlord who used terror against his enemies.
Anon says
The 91 year old grandmother gets firmly frisked three times at the airport at the hands of the TSA and is put through the x-ray bombardment machine twice, meanwhile “moderates” are climbing the DHS ladder being appointed a “fellow” etc. what a theater, what a crock.
Shane says
I would love to see a comedy skit at an airport where the clueless security ignores young, angry bearded men with “Death to America” sweatbands around their heads and instead frisk old people and children. It would be funny even though it is close to the truth.
Salah says
Last year, when the Egyptian people rose against Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood thugs, I wrote:
What’s happening in Egypt is huge; it’s huge BECAUSE of its domino effect.
We are witnessing this domino effect right now. First, Qatar has finally started to expel the Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Then, this MB agent is out of business. The time will come, and it’s already there, where the most stupid people on this planet (aka the leftists) will finally wake up to the dangers of Islam and its most active terrorist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Beagle says
We’re approaching the point when Ikhwan thugs will only be safe in the West. And they’ll all have jobs in national ‘security’. We will not be out-stupided by any nation. USA! USA! USA!
American says
That was my hope, as well. Marsha Blackburn has a bill to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. It shouldn’t be too tough to make that happen, since they are already recognized as such elsewhere. However, the comments heard back from Washington are along the lines “Not a chance; there are too many moderate Muslims in the Muslim Brotherhood”. If anyone thinks those folks are “Moderates”, they are sadly confused. If Blackburn’s bill could pass, that could be the end of the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of our government, the end of CAIR, etc.
Shane says
I’m afraid the left won’t get it until the terrorists put a sword to their throats. You can’t underestimate the ability of left winger to ignore reality in favor of their political beliefs, which are very much like a religion for them.
Buraq says
Matthew 6:24King James Version (KJV)
‘No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.’
The clown chose mammon!
Dmiller says
If he were serving mammon (money, pleasure), he would have maintained his cover. He is serving Allah.
john spielman says
true but allah /Satan promises an alcohol fulled perpetual orgy in paradise to faithful muslims!
Champ says
…and sex heaven is such a crock!!
Ciccio says
There will never be an investigation into this guy because there is a very good chance that that the truth will bring the administration faster than the Titanic.
Kepha says
The USA does not have an Islam-compliant Constitution, but a social democrat elite that thinks Muslims are convenient sticks with which to beat some Christian dogs out of public life. Note ACLU and others’ constant vigilance to keep religion (i.e., Christianity) out of public schools, to the point that our curricula will hope everyone forgets the religious component of the Mayflower Compact, yet there are so many accommodations for Islam.
Centurion_Cornelius says
Great point!
Where are these ACLU, NYT, etc. “hounds from hell” sniffing out and rending to bits every atom of Judaism or Christianity out of public life, but violent murderers and rapists waving the Islam flag get a pass?
Methinks these Progressives/Liberals/Communists have some deep seated death wish.
MacUalraig says
JW Brothers & Sisters, Please watch this:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3786732614001/exclusive-mariam-ibraheem-opens-up-about-harrowing-ordeal/#sp=show-clips
It’s Megyn Kelly interviewing Mariam Ibraheem . I’m not a religious man, not at all, but I see a mind behind this place we find ourselves in.
This woman, however, is a saint, and an example of EXTREME human discipline…. Worthy of extreme respect because she would not bend her back to the whip of the totalitarian.
That there are humans like this that walk the earth… It’s overwhelming. For all those who have lost hope in the future, please watch this.
FREEDOM WINS.
GOD BLESS YOU MARIAM, YOU ARE A HERO OF MINE!
gravenimage says
Bravo!
Kathy Brown says
GI, you’re quite right to recommend this. I do the Trifecta every night (The Factor, Megyn, Sean) so I saw it live.
It is indeed wonderful to see living saints; those who bear witness so devotedly. God reward and bless this lovely woman and her husband and children.
Do you know: As a result of having to give birth shackled? Her baby girl has a deformity.
I know one thing: I’d say anything, do anything, anybody wanted if it were a question of my child. We are supposed to put God first; He deserves that…
Yet I know His mercy is so great, He would see my heart. We can only go as far as we can. I say this presuming that Mariam loves her child as much as I do, which is immeasurably…
Jaladhi says
It is simple: Never trust a Muslim. No Muslim should be in our government in any role!!
wtd says
Jaladhi, can you identify any job a muhammedan can fill that will not negatively impact humanity?
Kathy Brown says
I’m not ‘Jal’ but I’ll answer that one: NO JOB.
Is-Slime has demonstrated that it [methodically] puts ‘Religion’ first, country…well…about one-millionth down the line.
And if that didn’t convince you, the [institutionalized] unreliability of anything ANY Mu-Slime ‘says’, their ‘Taqiyyah’? That nails it shut.
And I say that as an American attorney at law who LOVES the 1st Amendment, and champions same.
Ward Damon Hubbard says
It is a good day that this man no longer serves in any capacity within our government, from all this nation has seen from the muslim faith and the state of Islam, are terrible acts of violence, bloodshed, child rape, brutality against women, against Christians, and like many American’s we scratch our heads and ask how this president could possibly be so pro-muslim? After three beheadings and three rounds of golf, the citizens are very tired of the lack of leadership, the pro-muslim views and just about everything else this administration has to offer as far as any type of leadership, and feel that this man leaving our government is but a small step in the right direction.
Angemon says
Angemon says
Elibiary is not the only one with dubious allegiances (well, I reckon few people would doubt his allegiance is not with the US). Is he being dropped because the administration started thinking he might not be trustworthy or because the public was starting to question about where his allegiances lie? If it’s the forner, shouldn’t there be an exhaustive investigation?
In any case, one down, many to go.
awake says
A not so stealthy, stealth jihadist.
Tradewinds says
Good Grief! You don’t put Muslims in the Department of Homeland Security, which was created due to Muslims mass-murdering Americans on September 11, 2001.
What in the heck is wrong with this country? What’s with all the kowtowing to Muslims and pretending that “they’re the same as us.”
el-cid says
Robert,
It is interest to note that the New York Times did not yet report on Mohamed Elibiary’s dismissal. It appears to be timely and important information. In fact, the item has yet to appear in ANY major newspaper.
Why is that?
Jack Russell says
You can bet this man is still on the payroll of our government as well as receiving a lump sum for keeping his mouth shut, retirement benefits, healthcare, etc. He probably received a and new higher position with the government. We can be sure he was not ‘FIRED” because our government would never fire anyone.
quotha raven says
Are you forgetting about all the military bosses – from generals right down to captains – kicked to the curb by this administration?
Bezelel says
How many of his ilk are on the local police forces?
Elisheva14 says
This guy is just small potatoes compared with much bigger Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrators in our government.
Thomas Wells says
Treason used to be a capital offence. Now the entire capital is treasonous.