King Caved to Keith

Steve Emerson, the world's leading expert on jihad in America, is slamming the toothless hearings Muslim Brotherhood congressman Keith Ellison is running for Pete King who caved.

I called it first here: Over Before it Started — read it

First to expose the truth on Represenative King's dog and pony show coopted by Keith Ellison. Good on Emerson for speaking out against the marginalization of the fiercest counter jihad fighters out here.

I hope Spencer is banging away at the keys as we speak. Jasser over Spencer and Emerson. I mean, really. Is there no one in the GOP who will stand up for our bravest, truest, fearless fighters?

Anti-jihad expert furious he won’t be witness at ‘radicalization’ hearings Yahoo

Steven Emerson is executive director of the nonprofit research group the Investigative Project on Terrorism, which has labeled some American Muslim leaders as radicals. And he's furious now at being excluded as a witness in upcoming congressional hearings on the "radicalization" of American Muslims.

New York GOP Rep. Peter King, who is organizing the hearings, says he never told Emerson he was going to be a witness, according to Politico's copy of the angry correspondence between the two men.

"That you have caved in to the demands of radical Islamists in removing me as a witness, in light of the fact that no one in this country has done more empirical investigations about the attitudes and statements of the established Muslim leadership, shows me, to my utter horror, that McCarthyism is still alive today," Emerson wrote in a letter to King.

King says he only wants law enforcement officials and Muslim leaders to testify but he assumed he'd have Emerson's support. Emerson wrote that he was planning to present the results of a blockbuster study proving that Muslim leaders do not help law enforcement prevent terrorism, but suggested now he would keep the study to himself.

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The struggle is revealing of a larger conflict over who is qualified as an "expert" on Islam and terrorism in general. The Washington Post reported that local law enforcement agencies are often lectured to by self-styled experts who have suggested police should tap Muslims' phones indiscriminately or that most Muslims want to impose religious law in America.

Government terrorism experts told the Post they think these views are counter-productive and not evidence-based.

Uh, who are those experts? Hamas group CAIR?

UPDATE: And this over at NRO (another conservative institution afraid of  talking about jihad, Islamic imperialism, gender apartheid, genocide  with candor or criticism, but that for another day):

King’s Hearings Draw Early Fire Robert Costa  NRO

As Ben Smith of Politico reports, Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, plans to take “testimony primarily from Muslims” during his upcoming hearings on radicalization:

In a move that will come as a relief to Muslim leaders, King told POLITICO that he’s not planning to call as witnesses such Muslim community critics as the Investigative Project on Terrorism’s Steve Emerson and Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer, who have large followings among conservatives but are viewed as antagonists by many Muslims.

King aims, he said, to call retired law enforcement officials and people with “the real life experience of coming from the Muslim community.” Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim to serve in the House and a critic of the hearings, will likely be a minority witness, according to both King and the Minnesota Democrat.

The focus, King said, will be on — among other topics — reported complaints from Somali Muslims that the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other groups discouraged them from talking to the authorities about young men who left to fight for the Islamist cause in Somalia and on cases like that of the imam who — while ostensibly cooperating with the FBI — allegedly tipped off a would-be subway bomber off as investigators closed in.

King’s decision drew quick criticism from Steve Emerson, the executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, who sent the Long Island Republican a strongly worded letter this morning:

Your interview with Politico announcing that I am not going to be a witness came as a shock to me especially in light of the fact that I have been told over and over and over again that no witnesses had been selected. I have dutifully worked with your staff in trying to help you prepare for these meetings but obviously you don’t need my input. To be told over and over again for more than 8 weeks that no witnesses had been selected, beyond having worked with you and your staff for the last 8 years, only to read your interview yesterday, shows me that calculated deception is at play here. I apologize for having to use those words but there is no other explanation.

Emerson continues:

During the days of Senator McCarthy, innocent writers were blacklisted and had to write under pseudonyms because of fear from the accusations of the dictatorial Senator. That you have caved in to the demands of radical Islamists in removing me as a witness, in light of the fact that no one in this country has done more empirical investigations about the attitudes and statements of the established Muslim leadership, shows me, to my utter horror, that  McCarthyism is still alive today. Don’t take my word about my qualifications; just ask FBI agents, DOJ prosecutors, DHS agents, Treasury investigators, NYPD ct officials, etc.

“I was supposed to meet with [Emerson] this afternoon,” King tells National Review Online. “My staff has been in contact with him for the last six, seven weeks — getting information for the hearings, trying to plan a strategy. But at no time was it suggested that Emerson was going to be a witness.”

Still, King says, Ben Smith’s story appears to have “set Emerson off.”

“I started getting calls from people — I got an e-mail from Andy McCarthy and spoke with Cliff May, who told me that the whole conservative community has gotten this e-mail from Emerson, and wondered what it was about. What Emerson is suggesting is that he was going to be a witness, then I got pressure from Muslim groups and backed down to Keith Ellison, or something — I have no idea what he is trying to suggest. But basically, he is saying that you can’t have a real hearing on radicalization without Steve Emerson.”

King disagrees with Emerson’s assessment. “The idea was to make the hearings have an impact,” he tells us. “With all due respect, whether it is Steve Emerson, or me, or [Daniel] Pipes, or[Frank] Gaffney, people have heard from us before — we are outsiders talking about the community. If I can get people from within the Muslim community to talk about the extent of radicalization, that is a lot more effective.”

Law-enforcement officials will also be called. Beyond that, “if we have subsequent hearings, and there are other questions we have, we can have different experts come in at that stage,” King says. But for the initial hearing, he does not want to “bring back the same faces.”

NRO reached Emerson this afternoon. His response: “I think Mr. King is extraordinarily courageous and brave and I want to congratulate him for holding these hearings that are vital to our national security. I deeply praise him for taking on this critical issue of Islamic radicalization. I apologize to Mr. King for some of the intemperate language I used in my letter to him.  But I am not one of two outspoken critics of the hearings. That distinction would belong to Congressman Keith Ellison and CAIR. I very much support Mr. King’s hearings.”

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Ricks

13 years ago

I am truly amazed at the rapidity of King’s cave-in. I wonder what’s behind it. Is he being threatened or something? Is it just plain cowardice? Very strange indeed.

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When*Pigs8Fly

13 years ago

Nothing but a whitewash by appeasers, apologists and abettors. They should all be ashamed of themselves. No courage, not one real man amongst them. Where have all our heroes gone?

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sDee

13 years ago

King’s looking worse as more comes out.
I know Pam has a longer list but I can think of 2 House reps that know the tactics of Jihadis and their appeasers, and would probably be willing to give King a call. A lot is going on up there now I’d be wiling to guess they and many House Representatives are just assuming King and his staff are lining up the witnesses Americans need to hear.
Sue Myrick (NC) 202-225-1976. Allen West 202-225-3026.

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john jay

13 years ago

pamela, friends:
three possible/plausible explanations:
1.) king is dumb as a fucking post. or,
2.) he has been plied with the promise of votes and money. or,
3.) c.a.i.r. has glossies or phone records. or,
4.) any combination of the above.
personally, i am leaning towards no. 2, otherwise known as “politics as usual,” but will not rule out a combination of no.’s 2 & 3, given new york politicians and new york “escort” “services.”
john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa
i having a hard time

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john jay

13 years ago

p.s. i guess that makes four possible/plausible explanations, eh? john jay

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sheik yer'mami

13 years ago

This goose is cooked.

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k9gs

13 years ago

They are all in the Stan slugging it out against the barbarians.

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DanS.

13 years ago

Anybody go back thru the links for source “news”? Is Emerson involved in money laundering, no matter how credible on Musliterror? IF he is maybe he should stay back on this one and see how King plays it – submit written materials for inclusion in the “record”? Let’s not play ego here – there is a job to be done and everybody must play their part.

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debrobeaudean

13 years ago

What a joke.
And former congressman Tom Davis advised the freshmen going in to take it slow, don’t think you are going to change things because if you are on your own, you will get nothing done.
When and WHY did our politicians become compromised to Islam to the point where they are going to hand our nation over for the caliphate?
Could they have been stupid enough to fall for the LIES that there could be peace on Earth if Islam ruled, not knowing that is because no infidels live and the remaining peoiple are too afraid to not follow orders?
This has got to be prophesy because it makes no sense that the politicians now have NO pride nor patriotism and will not even protect the constitution that our founding fathers would have died for,, as most of us Americans would too!!!
God help us

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sDee

13 years ago

I’m having a hard time too John Jay.
It’s like a watching a scientific “black box” experiment to understand the disease. Over and over again the Islamists and their appeasers poke, pound and antagonize our legal, political education and media systems. Each and every time on cue, the politicians, judges, teachers, and talking heads roll over on their backs, legs spread, and tails wagging.
Same disease, same black box they we have been watching eat away at the UK.
I find great value what Pamela, you and others do to point it out, sort it out, and explain it to us. Eradicating the disease requires understanding its mechanism.
However, as we saw from the November elections, filling the black box with a randomly different set of widgets, does not seem to change the output.

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Mac-101

13 years ago

Atlas for Congress, or better yet the Senate!

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Richard

13 years ago

“self-styled experts” vs. “Government terrorism experts”
Parsing the narrative we are washed with every day makes me sick.

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grog

13 years ago

.”…..The Washington Post reported that local law enforcement agencies are often lectured to by self-styled experts who have suggested police should tap Muslims’ phones indiscriminately or that most Muslims want to impose religious law in America……”
First it’s just a TME(Tiny Majority of Extremists)!! NOW the the whole thing is a “myth” created by “self-styled experts” Doesn’t any body at the WP study any history?/
Good Luck- No significant changes will take place until you get the Imamn out of the whitehouse.

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JewishOdysseus

13 years ago

I wdn’t throw NRO under the bus just yet–they have been Andy McCarthy’s homebase for years.
Rep. King was always a faker, a typical spineless squishy NY GOP. “Ohhhh, he opposed the Gitmo trials being held in NYC”–like that took guts?!
I was more surprised when he actually pretended to care about stopping jihadis than this cave-in.

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