{"id":41703,"date":"2016-07-02T07:25:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T11:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=41703"},"modified":"2016-07-02T07:25:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T11:25:57","slug":"ted-cruz-exposes-arrogance-incompetence-of-obamas-anti-terror-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=41703","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Exposes Arrogance, Incompetence, of Obama\u2019s Anti-Terror Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJOHN HAYWARD
\nBREITBART<\/p>\n

The encounter between Senator Ted Cruz and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson over the \u201cscrubbing\u201d of Islamic terminology and Islamist networks from federal anti-terror plans was terrifying to watch \u2014 because it showed\u00a0that President Barack Obama\u2019s appointees are a clique of arrogant, disdainful and gullible amateurs.<\/h2>\n

Cruz began his June 30 cross-examination by noting the high incidence of important Islamic terminology, such as \u201cjihad,\u201d \u201cMuslim,\u201d and \u201cIslam,\u201d in older anti-terror documents like the 9\/11 Commission Report, versus\u00a0zero\u00a0<\/em>mentions of jihad in contemporary documents \u2013 even those specifically concerned with combating \u201cviolent extremism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruz then referenced the testimony of DHS whistleblower Philip Haney<\/a>, who said references to jihad, and the leading role of Muslim Brotherhood organizers and clerics, had been scrubbed from over eight hundred federal documents.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s attitude was shockingly blase as he admitted he had no idea whether Haney\u2019s account was accurate. He acted like a spoiled teenager who wouldn\u2019t get off the sofa to do his chores. \u201cNo, I have not taken the time to investigate what Mr. Haney said \u2026[and]\u00a0<\/span>it makes no difference to me<\/span>,\u201d Johnson told Cruz.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After waving off several Cruz questions with lazy assertions that he has no idea what\u2019s going on in his own department, Johnson started to brag about how many drone strikes he approved to kill assorted desert-roving \u201cextremists\u201d \u00a0\u2014 as if the problem of domestic jihadis could be solved by whacking Toyota trucks in eastern Syria.<\/p>\n

Johnson then tried serving up cliches about how the administration can ignore the reality of Muslims beliefs but still somehow persuade imported older Muslims to hand their angry young Muslim sons over to the FBI for imprisonment.\u00a0\u201cIf we, in our efforts here in the homeland, start giving the Islamic State the credence they want, to be referred to as part of Islam, or some form of Islam, we will get nowhere in our efforts to build bridges with Muslim communities \u2014 which we need to do, in this current environment right now, that includes homegrown violent extremists,\u201d said Johnson, so repeating the delusion of\u00a0cultural harmony that is the foundation of the administration\u2019s \u201cCountering Violent Extremism\u201d domestic anti-jihad strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey all tell me that ISIL has hijacked my religion,\u201d Johnson claimed, without any hint of recognition that the foreigners might not be telling the truth. \u201cAnd it\u2019s critical that we bring these people to our side to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re entitled to give speeches other times,\u201d Cruz interrupted him. \u201cMy question was whether you were aware that the [Brotherhood] information has been scrubbed\u201d from federal databases.<\/p>\n