Judicial Watch: Mueller Helped Purge Anti-Terrorism
Training Material Offensive to Muslims, by PolitiChicks 5/31/17
From Judicial Watch: Washington, DC is
a political petri dish, and few are immune from the infection it spawns. So,
when you hear a political operative described as “nonpartisan” or of “the
highest character,” you should secure your proverbial wallet.
For instance, the Russia “special counsel” Robert
Mueller, the FBI director for more than a decade, is supposedly the best
Washington has to offer. However, our Corruption Chronicles blog reminds us he
deserves much closer scrutiny:
Now that Robert Mueller has been appointed special
counsel to investigate if Russia influenced the 2016 presidential election it’s
worth reiterating his misguided handiwork and collaboration with radical
Islamist organizations as FBI director. Judicial Watch exclusively obtained
droves of records back in 2013 documenting how, under Mueller’s leadership, the
FBI purged all anti-terrorism training material deemed “offensive” to Muslims
after secret meetings between Islamic organizations and the FBI chief. Judicial
Watch had to sue to get the records and published an in-depth report on the
scandal in 2013 and a lengthier, updated follow-up in 2015.
As FBI director, Mueller bent over backwards to
please radical Islamist groups and caved into their demands. The agency
eliminated the valuable anti-terrorism training material and curricula after
Mueller met with various Islamist organizations, including those with
documented ties too terrorism. Among them were two organizations— Islamic
Society of North America (ISNA) and Council on American Islamic Relations
(CAIR)—named by the U.S. government as unindicted co-conspirators in the 2007
Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing case. CAIR is a terrorist front group
with extensive links to foreign and domestic Islamists. It was founded in 1994
by three Middle Eastern extremists (Omar Ahmad, Nihad Awad and Rafeeq Jaber)
who ran the American propaganda wing of Hamas, known then as the Islamic
Association for Palestine.
The records obtained as part of Judicial Watch’s
lawsuit show that Mueller, who served 12 years as FBI chief, met with the
Islamist organizations on February 8, 2012, to hear their demands. Shortly
after the director assured the Muslim groups that he had ordered the removal of
presentations and curricula on Islam from FBI offices nationwide.
The purge was part of a broader Islamist operation
designed to influence the opinions and actions of persons, institutions,
governments and the public at-large. The records obtained by Judicial Watch
also show similar incidents of Islamic influence operations at the Departments
of Justice and State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Obama White House.
Here are some of the reasons provided by Mueller’s
FBI for getting rid of “offensive” training documents: “Article is highly
inflammatory and inaccurately argues the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist
organization.”
It’s crucial to note that Mueller himself had
previously described the Muslim Brotherhood as a group that supports terrorism
in the U.S. and overseas when his agency provided this ludicrous explanation.
Here’s more training material that offended the terrorist groups, according to
the FBI files provided to Judicial Watch: An article claiming Al Qaeda is
“clearly linked” to the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing; The Qur’an is not the
teachings of the Prophet, but the revealed word of God; Sweeping generality of
‘Those who fit the terrorist profile best (for the present at least) are young
male immigrants of Middle Eastern appearance;’ conflating Islamic Militancy
with terrorism. The list goes on and on.
Mueller’s actions have had a widespread effect
because many local law enforcement agencies followed the FBI’s lead in allowing
Islamic groups like CAIR to dictate what anti-terrorism material could be used
to train officers. Among them are police departments in three Illinois cities—
Lombard, Elmhurst and Highland Park—as well as the New York Police Department
(NYPD). In the case of the Lombard Police Department, CAIR asserted that the
instructor of a training course called “Islamic Awareness as a
Counter-Terrorist Strategy” was anti-Muslim though there was no evidence to support
it. Like the FBI, Lombard officials got rid of the “offensive” course. The NYPD
purged a highly acclaimed report that’s proven to be a critical tool in
terrorism investigations after three New York Muslims, two mosques and an
Islamic nonprofit filed a lawsuit.
Considering Mueller’s role in much of this, it
makes him a bizarre choice to lead the heated Russia investigation. The goal,
apparently, is to determine if Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential
election and if President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russian
officials. In the Justice Department announcement, Deputy Attorney General Rod
J. Rosenstein describes Mueller as person who qualifies to lead the probe
because he exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command.
“Special Counsel Mueller will have all appropriate resources to conduct a
thorough and complete investigation, and I am confident that he will follow the
facts, apply the law and reach a just result,” according to Rosenstein.
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