Posted on 09/01/2017 5:43:06 AM PDT by Liz
Rep Andre Carson (Dem-Indiana) is a member of (A) the House Intelligence and (B) House Homeland Security Committees. Carson is also ranking member of the (C) House intelligence subcommittee on Emerging Threats, which oversees the (D) Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The subcommittee oversight extends to the (E) National Counterterrorism Center and (F) information-sharing programs.
Rep Andre Carson
(HAT TIP DANIEL GREENFIELD) Carson is the second Muslim in Congress and the first Muslim on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and, more critically, is the ranking member on its Emerging Threats Subcommittee. He is also a member of the Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture Subcommittee.
The Emerging Threats Subcommittee, of which Carson is a ranking member, is responsible for much of counterterrorism oversight. It is the worst possible place for a man with Carson’s credentials.
Carson had inherited his grandmother’s seat and exploited it to promote a radical Islamist agenda. He has interfaced with a laundry list of Islamist groups from CAIR to ISNA to ICNA to MPAC. Islamists have funded Carson’s career to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. The Center for Security Policy has put together a dossier of Carson’s connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is the parent organization of many key Islamic terror groups posing a threat to our national security including Al Qaeda and Hamas.
Andre Carson shared the stage at a CAIR banquet with Sirraj Wahaj: an unindicted co-conspirator in the World Trade Center bombing who had once declared,” You don’t get involved in politics because it’s the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.” CAIR itself had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in terror finance.
Carson had praised Tariq Ramadan who had been barred from this country for funding Islamic terrorists. And the Muslim politician was a co-sponsor of the Free Syria Act which attempted to aid Islamist Jihadists in Syria linked to the Muslim Brotherhood such as the Free Syrian Army.
The presence of Andre Carson on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Emerging Threats Subcommittee has always been extremely controversial. But this latest breach involving Democrats on this committee and on other key national security committees raises serious questions about the scale and magnitude of the real problem caused by a compromised congress.
While Carson and other HPSCI Democrats had been demanding security clearance for their staffers, three Pakistani Muslims working for them appear to have compromised security to an unknown degree.
Why were the Awan brothers, one of whom had a criminal record, even allowed to work in such a sensitive position? How did the personnel suspected in this case pass background checks? And was any classified information compromised as a result of these alleged breaches?
These questions and more must be asked and answered. But they are only the first of many questions.
When the Democrats are so contemptuous of our national security that they put forward Andre Carson, a politician who has appeared at Islamist events and praised radicals and extremists, to such a sensitive position, it is not surprising that they are equally willing to hire walking security risks.
The most obvious lesson here is that security must be tightened. If Democrats refuse to take their responsibilities seriously, then President Trump must do it for them. Unti the Awan case is resolved, those Democrats who employed them must have their access to classified material restricted.
Under no circumstances may the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence members who employed the Awan brothers be permitted to allow their staffers to gain access to classified material.
And Andre Carson must be forced to choose between his Islamist ties and his membership in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Emerging Threats Subcommittee. No one should be allowed to have a foot in both the pro-terrorist and the counter-terrorist spheres of our society.
Congressional Republicans must take the lead in cleaning house. If they cannot do so, President Trump must step in. At stake are the security of our nation and the safety of our troops. The Democrats may have abandoned their responsibility to our brave men and women, from the battlefield to the VA, but those elected officials who still believe that their sacrifices matter cannot remain silent.
The swamp that allowed Andre Carson and the Awan brothers inappropriate access must be drained.
"(HAT TIP nicollo):<===To get an important committee appointment such as the one Rep Andre Carson has on an Intelligence committee, Carson has to be bringing in serious money for the DNC. These appointments are paid positions: every committee appointment has an amount that Members have to raise in exchange.
In other words, Andre Carson is channeling serious Islamicist cash directly into the DNC. It's not just for his own candidacies.
REFERENCE: Sharyl Attkisson Reports On Congressional Fundraising Corruption: Buying Top Spots On Powerful Committees; and Zach Wamp, Former Congressman, on the Fundraising Problem
EXCERPT From Wamp's piece:
"For example, while I was writing this piece, I received a call from a sitting lawmaker, asking for a donation toward the $325,000 dollars he’s obligated to pay the NRCC every year."
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More:
Interesting comment placed at an earlier GWebb video:
"Director of National Intelligence has complete authority over all intelligence agencies and coordination with the DOJ. Look there to find out why this is being blocked. Do you doubt this? You are acting to expose the clandestine tactics developed under the guise of US foreign policy.One more thing, on page 143 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Provention Act of 2004, you will find Sec. 7103 UNITED STATES COMMITMENT TO THE FUTURE OF PAKISTAN. You are opposing their agents.
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Another couple of comments from a variety of posts quoted:
"There is a pretty amazing rumor going around that the key Awan brother is the son of the imprisoned Pakistani officer who bombed president Zia’s plane in 1988, killing him."
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"Pakistani ISI is clearly getting their cut of the heroin trade. One can only wonder if that MOAB Trump dropped was on a huge heroin factory, and according to India 500 Pakistani died then:
These high-level committee appointments are "positions for sale"-----a Congressional version of pay-to-play.
Every committee appointment has a dollar amount attached to it that Members desiring the positions are required to raise.
Taxpayers demand to know if Carson is channeling Islamicist cash directly into the DNC.
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Israel’s “Parliament” has Muslim members. The Constitution will be used to get rid of the Constitution.
Interesting, there is also an ex-Cia agent as house representative on the intelligence committee.
https://hurd.house.gov/about/full-biography
Mark
Would we have elected nazis and japs to Congress during WWII?
Paul Ryan conveniently put Hurd on the committee replacing Representative Mike Pompeo upon his confirmation as Director of the CIA.
But, removing this single (radical) democrat-Muslim from the Intelligence and Homeland Security committee will NOT remove the democrat-Muslim-communist sympathizers/activists STAFFERS and THEIR choices and decisions and access to the committee. The staffers and the replacement democrat would continue exchanging and selling intelligence behind the scenes, just like Wasserman-Schultz continues to do. Yes, the three Muslim brothers are gone. But the democrats see no harm, see no problems, other than having to get somebody to do the spying and infiltration that the brothers used to do.
What is blinding most republicans in Congress is the assumption - like the views of Michael Medved and his like-minded individuals in the GROPe party - that “the democrats want what best for America” . These GOP people do not understand the enemies of Trump want to destroy Trump and destroy America and its conservative supports.
This is outright TREASON as Islam is directly contradicted by our U.S. Constitution.
Moslems in public offices or in any other position of access must be considered as spies and/or saboteurs. Their religion requires it and if you ask them they will swear that they are good and holy Moslems.
They better think again.
The DemonDemss are already down for the count.....fighting the headwind of the failed Obamacare......concentrated in blue states.
(Smirk) the Dumbos better be careful....red states control the oil, natural gas, the nation's food and water resources....... watch where that leads.
Good points.
PING
the upstart female Pelosi would be one of the first to be eliminated if this Moslem ever got koran and sharia law...
DC. Spending blood and trillions of your dollars to fight a _pieceful_ enemy which cannot be named. Then promoting and encouraging members of that enemy into your own security apparatus; into your own government. We are nearly to the point where this enemy is ruling us. Yet we continue to spend blood and money to _fight_ it. We are so past sane.
I can understand how a person like this can be elected from a concentrated Muslim district. What I can’t understand is how he can rise to a significant intelligence position in Congress.
How can we keep America safe when we allow the enemy to have unfettered access to our classified information?
I thought the saying was zips in the wire?
oy vey. My first thought was holy shiites! exhaling. Why prosecute the IT guys who sold secrets to our enemies? Just allow them to do the security for the pentagon.
Pelosi, pelosi, pelosi.
Lord God, do I not hate those who hate you?
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