“We wanted to see the documents that the FBI and their advisers on Islam had purged from the FBI training materials. Now, these are the materials that train FBI agents–the kind of people that have to go talk to Tsarnaev and his mother and people at the mosque and friends–who have to know the questions and what to look for that might indicate that this person has been radicalized.
Now, since they classified those materials they purged, we went through them, but we don’t get to disclose what is in them. But I can say I was shocked at how ridiculous some of the purging was. Some things were purely from–well, some of them were so clearly important, that people trying to learn about radical Islam, it is important that they know and understand”, said Gohmert.
Such news is almost never reported by the mainstream press which doesn’t cover Congress that well, lets face it.
But in this case the comments were definitely newsworthy at least in my opinion, which isn’t much by the way.
Here is some what Gohmert had to say and well let you decide if it was newsworthy or not to publicize:
“We wanted to see the documents that the FBI and their advisers on Islam had purged from the FBI training materials. Now, these are the materials that train FBI agents–the kind of people that have to go talk to Tsarnaev and his mother and people at the mosque and friends–who have to know the questions and what to look for that might indicate that this person has been radicalized.
Now, since they classified those materials they purged, we went through them, but we don’t get to disclose what is in them. But I can say I was shocked at how ridiculous some of the purging was. Some things were purely from–well, some of them were so clearly important, that people trying to learn about radical Islam, it is important that they know and understand.
So, once you understand that there has been that kind of purging of material, then you begin to understand how this administration could get two–not one, two–heads-up from a country like Russia that Tsarnaev was radicalized, he could kill people, you better watch him, you better check on him, he is dangerous, he is going to hurt people, and they do nothing meaningful about it.
As we found out through a hearing in Judiciary, at first Mueller said, We did go to those mosques. But it turns out he said it was on their outreach program. They never went out there to see whether they were radicalized.
And then, we knew at the time–Mr. Speaker, I hold here the articles from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, articles of organization for the Islamic Society of Boston, and the Islamic Society of Boston is the one that organized the two mosques. And the organizing official is a man named al-Amoudi, which was familiar to the FBI Director because, on his watch, although he had helped the Clinton administration hire what were thought to be moderate Muslims in the Clinton administration and he had originally had an agreement to be of assistance to the Bush administration, the Bush administration ultimately finds out he is supporting terrorism.
They have him arrested out here at Dulles Airport, and he’s now doing 23 years in prison for supporting terrorism. He’s the one that organized the Islamic Society of Boston that created the two mosques where the Tsarnaevs went.
The FBI didn’t even know that a guy they helped convict of supporting terrorism started the mosque that has created terrorists out of more than one person.
There are others that we find out that have had relations with that mosque that may be a threat. One other thing I want to mention before I yield to my friend. We have a chart–I have had a blowup of this used before, but it points out how many times, as this points out, terminology is important in defining our goals. The 9/11 Commission identifies Islamist terrorism as the threat. The Muslim Public Affairs Council recommends that the U.S. Government find other terminology.
So, in the 9/11 Commission Report, bipartisan, bicameral people trying to take an objective look, they used the term 322 times in the 9/11 Commission Report. However, the last FBI Counterterrorism Lexicon does not include the word “Islam.” The National Intelligence Strategy of 2009 does not include the word “Islam.” In the 9/11 Commission Report, it used the word “Muslim” 145 times, but since then, under this administration, the FBI Counterterrorism Lexicon doesn’t use the word “Muslim.” It doesn’t use the word “jihad.” It doesn’t use the word “enemy.”
Now, it does use the words “violent extremism” 29 times. In the 9/11 Commission Report, it uses the word “religious,” and it is normally referencing these radical Islamists. It uses that word “religious” 65 times; whereas, the FBI Counterterrorism Lexicon only uses it three times.”
Source: Congressional Record
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