Listen, he speaks: "Obama is a Muslim and a Sunni Muslim at that."
Posted on 06/28/2016 7:03:51 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Senior Obama administration officials refused to appear before Congress on Tuesday to explain the recent decision to purge all references to “Islamic terrorism” and radicalism from public documents, according to disclosures made Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
Top officials from the Justice Department and FBI declined to appear on Capitol Hill to answer questions from lawmakers about domestic terror attacks and an administration policy of scrubbing references to Islamic terrorism and similar terms from government materials, lawmakers said.
The policy has thwarted attempts by federal authorities to stop an increasing series of terror attacks from taking place on United States soil, according to Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), chair of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on oversight.
In the past year the Obama administration has twice ordered that mentions of the terror group ISIS and “Islamic terrorism” be purged “from highly significant public records,” Cruz said.
One such effort took place in the aftermath of the recent terrorist shooting in Orlando in which the administration censored 911 transcripts of calls made by the shooter.
These efforts came amid other campaigns by the Department of Homeland Security to force its personnel to remove references to “jihad,” “sharia,” and other similar terms from material focused on methods to counter violent extremism, Cruz said.
“I would like nothing more than to speak with a government official about these bizarre decisions and omissions, especially in light of the most recent terrorist attack in Orlando by a radicalized man who had been interviewed three times by the FBI,” Cruz said.
“Indeed, this subcommittee invited two such witnesses: John P. Carlin, an assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, and Michael B. Steinbach, the executive assistant director for the FBI’s National Security Branch,” he said. “Both have refused to appear.”
Cruz blamed the administration’s policy for contributing to recent terror attacks in Orlando, San Bernardino, and Boston.
There has been a “consistent effort by this administration to scrub any reference to radical Islamic terrorism, to pretend the threat does not exist, and tragically as a consequence of that, over and over again, we have instances where the administration has ample evidence of radical Islamic terrorists,” Cruz said.
“The consequence of a willful blindness, of a policy that is a matter of administration policy, refusal to acknowledge the threat, means over and over again this administration has allowed the threats to go forward,” he added.
The administration “had declined to appear and explain” this policy and rationale behind it despite multiple requests from Congress.
“Are government officials prohibited from debating anything about Islam?” Cruz asked. “We would like to hear an explanation for that.”
The efforts to avoid using these terms have been longstanding in the Obama administration.
Muslim advocacy groups forced the FBI to purge some 876 documents from its training materials because they were deemed “offensive” in March 2012, Cruz explained.
“One article was purged because it was ‘highly inflammatory’ and ‘inaccurately argues the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization,’” he added.
In lieu of the Obama administration officials, the subcommittee heard from a range of outside terrorism experts and the government whistleblower who disclosed attempts by the Obama administration to purge many names from the U.S. terror watch list.
The Obama administration has come under further criticism for failing to properly combat ISIS abroad, a strategy that some lawmakers say could enable the terror group to carry out attacks inside the United States.
“I fear that in spite of continued attacks on our homeland, our military response to ISIS does not adequately reflect the direct nature of this threat to the United States,” Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said during a separate Tuesday hearing on the U.S. strategy to combat ISIS.
“I think many of us grow frustrated when the administration’s optimistic rhetoric often does not match the results,” Corker said.
has made?
how can you possibly say that? You leave it open to speculation he may/may not have.
I believe he was sworn in on a Koran.
I know he is a muslim.
OH boy, and they want Hillary as President vs. Trump because they think they will retain control in both houses...which for them results in them voting for everything Obama wants.
And large percentage of Gov employees know they just give the middle finger when ordered to testify to Congress.
Just like ole Jessie Jackson admitted his fear was exactly this scenario few years ago.
Only when a Democrat is in the White House.
Listen, he speaks: "Obama is a Muslim and a Sunni Muslim at that."
lol, sick but true.
And yet I wonder, when will there be the call to march on DC, if this were any situation that the left was up in arms over, they’d of been setting up camps there by now.
I know, people work, have kids, all that is valid. Yet, I go to my corner Walgreens and here’s a moron in a vail and the manager is bending over backwards to appease this rotten pos. I get in line and there are other nameless faceless people who don’t even speak English. I want my freakin country back!!
Sorry for the rant. The arrogance is growing soooo old, so barry the bubble boy doesn’t want to explain....bawahahahah, that’s a good one!
Absolutely.
And he wants to run the UN with the Saudis.
Then they’ll take over.
The UN soldiers, made up of multiple muslim countries, will be in here collecting our guns.
Hillary will be their puppet......for a price, of course.
If the U.S. Elects Hillary to succeed Obama, I say to Hell with the country. I will remove any allegiance to the tyrant that rules us. I’d rather die than live under the modern version of the Soviet Union...or perhaps under Hillary it will be more like the 3rd Reich.
Administration officials? What kind of horse splat is that? They have names and offices. Can they not be directly confronted? Are they behind impenetrable barricades? If the executioners face is well hidden, then, the people have the sacred duty to expose him.
Frederick Douglas was right: Evil must be out willed, out agitated,
out shouted, and forced to surrender. Power yields nothing without a fight. It never has and it never will.
The 0bama administration is an ongoing act of Islamic terror against the US.
They FORCED the FIB to purge the documents?
How? By threatening violence?
“Both have refused to appear.”
Then issue warrants for their arrest.
Welcome to the New Socialist Caliphate of the Western Hemisphere.
The First Rule of Sharia Law is no bad talk about Sharia Law.
President Hussein leads by example.
Come to a street about 5 minutes' drive from my home. It is teeming with Muzzlimes walking around in full native regalia. You'd think you were in UngaBungastan. Women walking around in bags with a slit for their eyes, men walking around in a shirt that ends at their ankles, etc. They are not in the slightest bit assimilated with the native NYer community, nor shall they ever be. The men are unspeakably rude and arrogant. Some of them rapped on my car with their knuckles when I entered a parking lot to a kosher grocery the other day. They walk around like they own the world, thanks to Odungo.
I can't help but wonder which of the ones walking around will be the next terrorist. Just the sight of them gives me the heebie jeebies.
We need some cowboys over here to let the Muzzlimes know their place in the scheme of things. Choices are dumpster, septic tank, or potters' field.
And this regime ignores them at will, with no consequences because the dems care nothing for the rule of law.
Until America is willing to look at how Obama illegally got into office and has managed to stay there, she will never recognize the real threat to this nation, her people, and her Constitution. Obama is doing exactly what he was illegally put into place to do. Once that is realized, everything makes sense.
Bob Corker, Obama’s very own cuckold. Tennessee needs to stick a fork in the Cork.
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0b0z0 absolutely was telling the truth when he was talking about,
...until Stehpanopoulos yanked his chain, and told him to get back on message,
Then he said, "Ummm... ...yeah -- my ummmmm -- ...christian faith..."
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