Over at PJ Media today I discuss John Brennan’s hypocrisy in lamenting the “global reach” of the Islamic State when he has done so much to enable it:
While testifying in an open session of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA director John Brennan admitted Thursday:
Despite all our progress against ISIL on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capability and global reach.
He added that a significant element of that global reach is because the Islamic State:
… has a large cadre of Western fighters who could potentially serve as operatives for attacks in the West … [ISIS is] probably exploring a variety of means for infiltrating operatives into the West, including refugee flows, smuggling routes, and legitimate methods of travel.
What Brennan did not say — and what no one in the committee or media challenged him about — was that he himself is largely responsible for this state of affairs.
As I reported earlier this week, John Brennan is the person who — after U.S. Muslim groups demanded he do so – “purged” all mention of Islam and jihad from law enforcement counter-terror training materials in 2011.
A chief reason that the Islamic State’s “global reach” has not been reduced is because the U.S. has failed to identify, confront, and oppose the ideology that has enabled it to amass “a large cadre of Western fighters.” That ideology has spread unchecked in the U.S. in large part because Brennan didn’t think it was worth teaching law enforcement about it.\The enforcement of his “purge” edict has been thorough.
Intelligence and law enforcement agents training to counter terrorist threats today are taught all about militiamen and white supremacists — but they hear nary a word about the beliefs, motives, and goals of Islamic jihadists. Unless they educate themselves on their own, our agents have no training on what jihadis are intent on doing and why. They are left abjectly incapable of devising effective strategies for countering them.
Five years ago, John Brennan — via a letter on White House stationery — assured U.S. Muslim groups that the Obama administration’s politically correct “Countering Violent Extremism” program had been satisfactorily cleansed, because:
… misinformation about the threat and dynamics of radicalization to violence can harm our security by sending local stakeholders in the wrong direction and unnecessarily creating tensions with potential community partners.
Our counter-terror material no longer contains accurate information on jihad because Brennan feared — correctly — that it would offend Muslim communities in the United States. These groups have consistently responded with anger towards any and every counter-terror measure aimed at stopping jihad terror.
Brennan also told U.S. Muslim groups this:
[The CVE program] emphasizes that our security is “inextricably linked to our values,” including “the promotion of an inclusive society.”
Well, now Brennan has his inclusive society. We saw just how inclusive our screening process has been last Saturday night in Orlando….
Read the rest here.

KrazyKafir says
Enough, enough of these gutless weaklings in positions of power. I sick of looking at their moronic appeasing faces. . .
robm says
Was John “the moslem” Brennan, the subject of an expose by Michael Hastings, before his car was bombed?
Michael Copeland says
“…unnecessarily creating tensions with potential community partners.”
These “potential community partners” are the same ones who advised their members to “Build a Wall of Silence” with the FBI.
robm says
brennans idea for a wall of silence?…muzz protect muzz..
Angemon says
Also, how many attacks were stopped thanks to tips from said “potential community partners”?
billybob says
[The CVE program] emphasizes that our security is “inextricably linked to our values,” including “the promotion of an inclusive society.”
Funny – we didn’t worry so much about our inclusive values when we were battling the Natzis. We didn’t worry about “the promotion of an inclusive society” when we were battling the insidious ideology of Communism.
Could it be that our values contain limits? I would certainly hope so. For example, it is fine to advocate prison reform out of a sense of human decency, but one wouldn’t go out of their way to include criminals in their circle of friends.
I am sick of these clueless political leaders trying to hijack “our values” to serve their political objectives. I mean – do they think people are really that stupid?For example, I think I have a pretty good set of values, good enough that it will take a life time to live up to them fully. I resent somebody telling me what my values should be, like for example that my values should include accommodating people that mean me harm. Like for example, accepting that some other religious group is the “best of people” while I am inferior.
Jack Diamond says
Nobody asked him if he converted to Islam while stationed in Saudi Arabia either, as alleged by former FBI agent John Guandolo. Nobody asked him about his relations with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Society of North America, a financier of Hamas. Brennan was the keynote speaker at the ISNA annual conference in 2009. Why? ISNA President Imam Mohamed Magid, is on the Homeland Security Advisory Council and works with the National Security Council with Brennan’s support. So, it’s no mystery that a Laila Alawa (“9/11 changed the world for good”) winds up on the Homeland Security Advisory Board. These people are advising us on Islamic terrorism (which doesn’t exist, only “extremism” exists). Back when he was purging Islam and Jihad from training manuals Brennan was giving us his scholarly verdict on what jihad was: “a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community…Al-Qaida has perverted Islam and has corrupted the concept of Islam,” Imam Brennan said in 2010.
http://www.dianawest.net/BlogArchive/tabid/56/EntryId/2412/Brennan-Jihad-Apologist-to-Lead-Fight-Against-It.aspx
robm says
And thats a fact Jack….+1
KrazyKafir says
And curiously I heard he took his vow of office without his hand on a Bible, but conveniently found another way.
Gail says
I was just reading an article that he took his oath on the Constitution. The one before the Bill of Rights were added.
caroleigh says
John Brennan sat before the house hearing and proclaim that the Muslim brotherhood is a safe organization, they constitute no problem and Morrissey ascended as Obama directed to the presidency of Egypt. Brennan is just another F N muslim cockroach.
Bezelel says
Blood on his hands.
gravenimage says
So true.
gordon miller says
The overarching problem we Americans will face in the next eight months is that our president is a Muslim, and he simply is unable to go against them even it means the death of infidel Americans.
Richard Courtemanche says
Hypocrite and traitor to America.
Keith Jordan says
I’ve read the entire article twice, and I still can’t figure out what “LEO” means, as used in the headline.
robm says
Law Enforcement Officer