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John Brennan's Willful Blindness
On her way out the door, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the unsayable. Literally. Until last month, when she repeatedly warned in congressional testimony concerning the Benghazi debacle that we confront a global jihadist threat, the Obama administration did not allow the use of the words jihad and threat in the same sentence.How ironic that the principal architect of this see-no-jihad policy is John Brennan, President Obamas current Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism Advisor and his choice to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Setting aside the obvious questions about why Mrs. Clinton chose her swan song on Capitol Hill to state the obvious but impermissible truth, if shes right, then why on earth would the Senate want to entrust critical collection and analysis of intelligence to the very person who has epitomized and enforced a policy of willful blindness toward the central threat of our time: the supremacist Islamic ideology of Shariah and the holy war, or jihad, its adherents are obliged to wage? Brennan has repeatedly insisted that jihad is not about holy war. Rather, as he put it in a speech in May 2010, Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or ones community. Posted by: tipper 2013-02-15 |
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