In FrontPage I discuss the latest Obama administration willful ignorance:
Relax. After reports surfaced last month that dozens of private airline employees may have had terror ties, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson this week set the record straight: “It’s not that they’re suspected terrorists. It’s that they hadn’t been vetted through all available databases. We have since corrected that problem and the cases have been resolved.” There is just one problem: this is not really a problem that can be corrected.
This came after the Cox Washington News Bureau reported that there were no fewer than 73 airport workers with possible terror ties, working at airports including Sea-Tac Airport in Seattle, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, Logan Airport in Boston, Orlando International Airport in Florida, Memphis International Airport in Tennessee, and others. But Johnson boasted: “We’re doing a better job of consulting all of the right databases when it comes to airport security and a host of other things.”
Is that so? How reassuring. Presumably Johnson and his team have consulted their extensive database of card-carrying Islamic State members, and have diligently compared it to their list of airport employees, and have removed those who appeared on both lists. The only problem with this scenario, of course, is that there is no such database, or anything comparable to it. There is simply no database that Johnson could consult that would enable the Department of Homeland Security to remove everyone with terror ties from airport jobs.
The impossibility of doing this is compounded by the fact that the Islamic State deliberately recruits people who have no criminal records, and instructs its operatives to blend in with the larger society, not wearing caftans or carrying around Qur’ans or even going to mosque – in other words, to obscure any possible information that might show up on DHS databases.
Compounding the impossibility of screening out people with terror ties from airport jobs is the fact that the Obama administration is bound as a matter of policy to ignore and deny the terrorists’ motivating ideology – so how can it vet for it? This goes back to October 19, 2011, Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates, wrote a letter to John Brennan, who was then the Assistant to the President on National Security for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism. The letter was signed not just by Khera, but by the leaders of virtually all the significant Islamic groups in the United States: 57 Muslim, Arab, and South Asian organizations, many with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, including the CAIR, ISNA, MAS, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Islamic Relief USA; and MPAC.
The letter denounced what it characterized as U.S. government agencies’ “use of biased, false and highly offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam,” and emphasized that this was an issue of the utmost importance: “The seriousness of this issue cannot be overstated, and we request that the White House immediately create an interagency task force to address this problem, with a fair and transparent mechanism for input from the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities, including civil rights lawyers, religious leaders, and law enforcement experts.”
The task force was needed because “while recent news reports have highlighted the FBI’s use of biased experts and training materials, we have learned that this problem extends far beyond the FBI and has infected other government agencies, including the U.S. Attorney’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Councils, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Army. Furthermore, by the FBI’s own admission, the use of bigoted and distorted materials in its trainings has not been an isolated occurrence. Since last year, reports have surfaced that the FBI, and other federal agencies, are using or supporting the use of biased trainers and materials in presentations to law enforcement officials.”
Khera complained that my books could be found in “the FBI’s library at the FBI training academy in Quantico, Virginia”; that a reading list accompanying a powerpoint presentation by the FBI’s Law Enforcement Communications Unit recommended my book The Truth About Muhammad; and that in July 2010 I “presented a two-hour seminar on ‘the belief system of Islamic jihadists’ to the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in Tidewater, Virginia,” and “presented a similar lecture to the U.S. Attorney’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, which is co-hosted by the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office.”
These were supposed to be terrible things because I was bigoted and hateful. But many of the examples Khera adduced of “bigoted and distorted materials” involved statements that were not actually bigoted and distorted at all, but simply accurate. What was distorted was Khera’s representation of them. For instance, Khera stated,
A 2006 FBI intelligence report stating that individuals who convert to Islam are on the path to becoming “Homegrown Islamic Extremists,” if they exhibit any of the following behavior:

Tater Salad says
The comment / answer that DHS Secretary Johnson gave is shows complete ignorance of this administration. Wow! They all are fools!
Mark Swan says
This administration is DHS…It reflects the vision that this President has put forward.
Here are some of this President‘s…Very Disturbing Quotes.
http://conservativetribune.com/obama-islam-and-christianity/
Mark Swan says
This John Owen Brennan is a very disturbing character.
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/08/27/cia-director-john-brennan-is-a-muslim-convert/
paul says
He attends a mosque. He converted before this job. Vetted? A wave of a hand, maybe.
BC says
will Hellary be any different, I do not believe so
Shane says
A Hillary Clinton administration would be just as willfully blind as the Obama administration is to the reasons Muslims become terrorists. We must elect a GOP President who will deal with ISIS and other Islamic Jihadi groups!
underbed cat says
How did he get vetted?
Mark says
I feel the same as you this NWO has to be stopped or life in the US is going to change to an unreal hell on Earth
linnte says
Before Brennan acted upon her demands did he check out HER claim to citizenship? I CANNOT wait till Obama is gone!
SoCalMike says
“Jeh” Johnson is a maggot like his boss and so m,any others infesting our government.
When is he going to learn to spell his name correctly?
Angemon says
Yup, that would be my guess as well – they’re looking into known criminals, not looking into the actions and behaviour of each individual to try to assert whether or not they pose a threat. Because they don’t know what the hell the threat is, let alone what to look for.
billybob says
Excellent documentation of the situation Robert. This is a stunning indictment of current policy, and your work will be of historic importance to tracing the downfall of America.
If you folks think Obama was bad, just wait to see what Hillary has in store for you. You think the Constitution protects you from Sharia? You wait and see how creative she will be.
Goodbye free speech, hello hate speech, because if you say anything unkind about Islam, it will be prosecuted as such.
I hope this article is read far and wide.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer wrote: “Johnson’s soothing words”
All we need is the laugh track after he makes a soothing statement! He does great deadpan.
What we could do if we had the budget to ridicule these professional liars…in the way they slander and ridicule the counterjihad.
The US was caught with its pants down at Pearl Harbor and also at 9/11. Civilian awareness of jihad…not jihad denial from Johnson…is what will save lives.
Johnson should be ashamed of asking the American people to remain unsuspicious and uninformed about jihad. Jihad is a compulsory duty incumbent upon all Muslims.
خَليفة says
Who is vetting the vetters?
Mark Swan says
That is a very pertinent question in this administration.
mortimer says
One of the commonalities among jihadists is attendance at Islamic STUDY GROUPS. At these groups the ‘DEEPER, TOTAL ISLAM’ of jihad is laid out by the study of jihad references in the FOUNDATIONAL SOURCE TEXTS OF ISLAM.
Without studying ALL THE TEXTS used by the jihadists, how can law enforcement agents recognize the code words and behaviors of a jihadist? The FBI agents and other police looking for jihadists must have real experts on the jihad theory such as Robert Spencer to train agents to become alert to the key words and phrases that indicate a devotion to jihad.
It should be elementary to spot a jihadist through a lie-detector test and a list of questions prepared by a jihad expert. 15% of Muslims say they support Islamic terrorist groups.
Custos Custodum says
CAIR and ISNA.
dajjal says
Every Muslim is linked to terror through Islam: Allah & Moe. “I will cast terror.” “Allah cast terror.” “To strike terror”. “To terrify thereby.” “I have been made victorious with terror.”
Offensive Jihad is fard al-Kifaya. When we retaliate, defensive Jihad is fard al-ayn: individually binding on every Muslim.
There is no excuse for any Muslim to be employed where he can endanger security. There is no excuse for any Muslim to be within our borders.
Those who are obligated to punish us for not being Muslims must be expelled and excluded.
mortimer says
dajjal wrote: “Offensive Jihad is fard al-Kifaya. When we retaliate, defensive Jihad is fard al-ayn: individually binding on every Muslim.”
True. All Muslims are obligated to conduct jihad or ‘pay off’ their obligation by paying for jihad. Therefore, ALL Muslims in principle, are jihadists, but not in fact, since most Muslims are neglecting their duty and are thus ‘living in sin’.
underbed cat says
So massive migration is not obligated duty, even if they neglect some of their duty…and live in”sin”, in communities with mosques with funds from Islamic entities, that require obligation, if not in action, but support.?
So why in this country? Unless it is to eventually to overpopulate, gain political control and complete the caliphate. by bring sharia law.(hate speech)..which seems they are near accomplishing all of the objectives while the jihadist gets support…..money..defense…and our administration is making no connection….with Ivy league, vocabulary and eloquence to impress and maybe deflect the
motivation…
dajjal says
Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 598:
Narrated Majashi:
I took my brother to the Prophet after the Conquest (of Mecca) and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! I have come to you with my brother so that you may take a pledge of allegiance from him for migration.” The Prophet said, The people of migration (i.e. those who migrated to Medina before the Conquest) enjoyed the privileges of migration (i.e. there is no need for migration anymore).” I said to the Prophet, “For what will you take his pledge of allegiance?” The Prophet said, “I will take his pledge of allegiance for Islam, Belief, and for Jihad (i.e. fighting in Allah’s Cause)”
Spiritually, it is better for a Muslim to remain in Dar ul-Islam where there is no impediment to practicing Islam. Migration is allowed if the destination is open to Islam and does not impede its practice. The come to conquer, not to be like us.
For more detail, delve into Malik’s Muwatta. Search for migration at sunnah.com .
Allowing Muslims to colonize our societies is the ultimate suicidal insanity.
dajjal says
It is called “the forgotten obligation”. abd al-Wahhab, al-Banna, Qutb & Maududi remind them of that obligation.
underbed cat says
Exactly dajjal: that is the doctrine…so that is why I asked “who vetted him”, if you get my drift……quite alarming to see the “need to be vetted”, in positions to do vetting…eh? Of course that is just a query, just a hunch…..that really can’t happen, can it?
dajjal says
How will you vet a Muslim to know i he is a Believer? Reminds me of an old racist joke: “Boy, does U believe?”…”So long ….!”. 3:28 gives Muslims a license to lie to us, so it is hopeless except for the rare case like Chowderhead.
If America had competent and patriotic leaders, there would be no Muslim within our borders, much less in the security services.
Norger says
I don’t which is more disgraceful, having persons with known terror ties working at airports, more than a decade after 9/11, or purging law enforcement training of persons and materials deemed offensive to the Muslim Brotherhood. As Robert points out, the latter leads inevitably to the former. I wish that one of the Republican candidates would make an issue of this. A complete betrayal by our leaders.
duh_swami says
Vetting,,,
Do you believe Allah is God and Mohammad his messenger?
Yes.
Sorry we can’t5 use you…
duh_swami says
Vetting…
Do you believe Allah is God?
Yes…
Don’t call us, we will call you…
underbed cat says
Excellent article Robert…and this is just about airports…..now we have Lakeland,Texas. military base shooting..not too much information yet…but it sure shows the problems we fact when accurate information about jihad is deliberately removed, diversity takes away intelligence and the threats spread. It is akin to the global warming strategists saying we might loose our atmosphere, magnetic protection, that protect us from massive solar radiation…..global warming …. or subversion, stripped of intel data facts
Right to Travel says
Statism is the worlds problem. It stems from the Catholic Church and carried out by the Jesuits. They are actually whats behind the joke word “illuminati”. History proves this over and over from Constantinople to Rome to present day. Statists are religious to the core and have been completely indoctrinated by the Jesuits of Rome. They have literally no ability to critically think or question whats happening. They merely wrap themselves up in a corporations flag and yell racism until they get what they want. Malignant narcissistic sociopaths control the world, but are you really surprised in a sin fallen world with the greatest deceiver as their leader?
Ashley says
A gem from the JW archives. Wonder if they ever got around to vetting Alija Abdul Majed?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/07/jfk-airport-terminal-evacuated-and-hundreds-of-passengers-re-screened-after-muslim-tsa-employee-leav
Ashley says
Robert Spencer writes: “There could be jihadis working in airports all over the U.S. – and no one will know until they strike.”
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I’ll eat my hat if would-be jihadists aren’t on the airport payroll . There is no way to “vet” for evil intentions. And let us not fool ourselves. Would-be jihadists come in all shapes and colors. There is no detector that can screen for evil intent. CAIR would have a cow if Muslims were denied employment based upon “religion” and their adherence to said “religion”. The lawsuits would fly.
All we can reasonably rely on is a background check, which is flimsy at best.
Slightly OT: Just got my homeowner’s insurance bill. There was a yellow sheet of paper with big bold lettering informing me that I can inquire about “acts of terror” insurance. My annual premium is $1400.00. I called my agency and for a mere $375.00 more a year I can get me some terrorism insurance. What does THAT tell you?
I want to protect my home from a fire, tornado, hurricane, theft, and/or personal injury. Either the insurance agencies in Massachusetts are toying with people’s fears, or the underwriters know something…
underbed cat says
An individual jihadist, who has never left of the country or had military training, comes along, destroys your home or business…..how would you prove it to receive payment….they would call it an act of God and not pay you? Any insurance guys out there? By reading all these peculiar reports of weird events…it has already occurred across the country. I think the word they use to communicate to one another is disrupt or agitate…or bringing chickens home to roost….just listen I think “he” has said it many times.
underbed cat says
I don’t mean Jeb said it, he has not., just to be clear.