There’s not much question that Hesham Islam is an Islamist agent. There have been a number of articles and blogs on this sorry business, beginning with an article that broke the story in the Washington Times.
There’s also not much doubt that Gordon England is a jerk, who should be fired.
The only question I have with this article is whether anyone in this administration is actually doing anything about this dangerous infiltration of Islamists into the Pentagon. I doubt that Hesham Islam is the only one.
An anonymous FBI agent is cited, but who knows what that means? There’s nothing here to indicate that the FBI actually plans to DO anything about this. The MSM has ignored the story, and the Pentagon has not even been asked to comment on it, with the sole exception of a powerful article by Claudia Rosett, the reporter who broke the Food for Oil Scandal in the Wall Street Journal. This time she is writing for the National Review.
There’s absolutely no question that Claudia Rosett is a great and reliable investigative reporter. Her story was posted in the forum earlier, but hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves. It can be found here:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTQ1ZjE0MWZlYWI2ODVjYzU3MjcyZjBkMzcxNzBjNTQ=
Reminds me of the communist infiltration into the FDR and Truman Administrations... Both presidents were aware of the infiltration, but did nothing. Senator McCarthy was the sole voice crying in the wilderness, and the lefties had a field day with him... until recently, when the utter fraud perpetrated by the left was irrefutably exposed, and McCarthy exonerated.
After one reads about the incident...then Hesham Islam’s spokesman in the last day denying a big spat occurred...you see some type of management chaos that occurred, and Gordon England is sitting there like a duck and basically doing little except avoiding public attention. My impression...since Gordon sign Islam up as his “special assistant”...he really was doing this as a favor for someone, and probably didn’t check out Islam’s credentials very well. All of these guys are supposed to have a very high clearance...which I would have serious doubts about now. If I were in the clearance investigation operation...I’d pull out this folder again and start reviewing his data closer...then I’d probably make a decision to give him anything beyond a secret clearance.
Yes, ignoring it away, just the way that FDR and Truman (and to some extent Eisenhower) did with teh Communists in the government.