[Sabertooth]

Bingo! That's what keeps me suspicious about Gaffney's charges. This is all happening right under the nose of the Secret Service, the FBI, and the entire National Security establishment.

Have you had much face time with the Secret Service?

What's your experience?

Frank Gaffney has a bunch of scary names to throw around, but what he doesn't have is a reason why no one who actually has the job of worrying about this is paying any attention to him.

One of those names is Khaled Saffuri, co-founder with Norquist of the Islamic Institute.

Saffuri is also the former deputy of Abdurahman Alamoudi at the American Muslim Council. Alamoudi is currently charged with numerous terror-related activities.

Saffuri has also contributed to the Holy Land Foundation, a now banned terror org. The HLF is a sponsor of the families of Palestinian Homicide Bombers.

And what are we to make of the efforts of Khaled Saffuri to intervene on the behalf of the Safa Trust in a meeting with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill last year, after warrants were served on Safa investigating their financial links with terror orgs (link)? Isn't this troubling, given that Norquist has acknowledged that the Islamic Institute has received donations from the Safa Trust (link)?

[Nick Danger]

One of those names is Khaled Saffuri

This is becoming a thoroughly pointless discussion. You seem to think that by repeating how scary this guy is, you are advancing some argument. I don't think you are. Let us stipulate that certain people are creeps. Gaffney's argument is that having them around is dangerous, and mine is that once we know they are dangerous, they aren't dangerous anymore. They become zoo animals that we get to watch. We get to watch what they do. We get to watch what they advocate. We get to monitor their cell phones.

Now comes Frank Gaffney, pointing frantically, saying, "Look, everybody! A scary guy!" And so the villagers grab their tigers and their torches and their pitchforks and chase the scary guy away, and beat up Grover Norquist for good measure.

And the people whose job it is to catch the scary guys we don't know about yet go, "Aww, sh*t. Thanks a lot, Frank."