[RoyStevens]

"The new Democratic chairman of a US congressional intelligence committee did not know what Hizbollah was and incorrectly described al-Qa'eda as deriving from the Shia rather than Sunni sect of Islam."

Representative Silvestre Reyes was flummoxed when a journalist rounded off a 40-minute interview by asking him two basic questions about the Islamic groups that are the principal targets of America's intelligence agencies.

"Al-Qa'eda is what – Sunni or Shia?" Jeff Stein, the Congressional Quarterly magazine's national security editor, asked Mr Reyes. "Al-Qa'eda, they have both," came the reply. "You're talking about predominately?" the congressman then asked, before venturing: "Predominantly – probably Shi'ite."

Why not just admit that you are on the intel committe but that you have no clue what you are talking about.

[sageb1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvestre_Reyes

[mware]

LOL, come on Roy they asked him that question AFTER 5 PM and I might add not in SPANISH.

I kid you not, he actually used that as an excuse.