The failure of two invited Obama administration officials to show up for a Senate hearing on how the government’s unwillingness to name the enemy allegedly has hamstrung national security was only the beginning of Ted Cruz’s disappointment with Democrats on Tuesday afternoon.

As he brought the hearing of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee he chairs to a close after three hours – titled “Willful Blindness: Consequences of Agency Efforts To Deemphasize Radical Islam in Combating Terrorism” – he also marveled that his colleagues across the aisle raised no concern about the testimony of former Department of Homeland Security officer Philip Haney.

Haney testified that the administration “purged” more than 800 of his records related to the Muslim Brotherhood network in the U.S. because they somehow were an offense to Muslims.
“Apparently, the Orwellian censorship of law enforcement materials and intelligence materials is not a concern to my colleagues,” Cruz said.
“And at a time when we’re facing a global war on terror, I would hope that my colleagues on the Democratic side of the aisle will express real concern about a censorship and editing of law enforcement materials.”

Emphasizing his point about the administration’s propensity to scrub mention of Islam, Cruz pointed to the recent 9-1-1 transcript in which Orlando killer Omar Mateen’s declaration of allegiance to ISIS was redacted. The senator used a chart to illustrate the fact that the 9/11 report used the word “jihad” 126 times while there are zero occurrences of the word in more recent administration documents related to terrorism.

In his first opportunity to ask questions, Cruz told Haney his testimony before the committee is “exceptionally important.”

“I commend both members of the media and the American public to examine your testimony closely, because you have described a systematic policy, indeed of scrubbing, sanitizing, erasing references to radical Islam,” Cruz told the recently retired DHS officer.

What Haney witnessed in more than a dozen years as a founding member of the DHS is recounted in his new bestselling book, “See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad.”

In addition, Haney said, a highly successful case he helped develop as a member of one of the National Targeting Center’s advanced units was shut down by Hillary Clinton’s State Department and the DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties out of concern for the “rights” of foreign Muslims. And after Haney retired honorably last year, he discovered that had his case continued, it might have prevented both the Orlando and the San Bernardino attacks.

Along with the quashing of the case in June 2012, the administration subsequently ordered the deletion of an additional 67 records concerning a related network.

DHS agent Philip Haney’s blockbuster revelations of the federal government’s appeasement of supremacist Islam are told in his new book “See Something Say Nothing.”

The opening of the hearing was interrupted by three female protesters in pink with signs declaring “Caution! Radical Congressional Islamophobia” and “Islam (not-equal symbol) terrorism.”
(WND)

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I venture to comment that Hillarious' shutting down of the case probably had more to do with her bank account than any concerns for foreign muslims.

Here's a local example. Not one word about Islam.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-30/sevdet-besim-pleads-guilty-anzac-day-terro...

Ted Cruz is still the most hated man in DC. Nothing has changed.

Trump.& Cruz held a meeting yesterday hosted by the RNC Chairman at which they settled some of their differences.

Cruz agreed to speak at  the  Convention and to assist the Trump campaign on judiciary matters

Uh Oh.
Lyin Ted is now back in the naughty corner because he pointedly refused to endorse Trump in any way, shape or form in his convention speech.

He has been saving that one up, even though he got booed off the stage for it.
I can't say I blame him. Trump said some pretty vicious things about him and his family in the campaign. On the other hand, Ted did some less than straightforward things too.

But I thought they had patched things up.

It seems the in-people incl Trump & Gingrich knew what he was going to do or not going to do but were happy for him to speak anyway.
It wouldn't have been a good look if he was prevented from speaking.

You have to admire a man who sticks to his guns (oops, is that Un-Obama language) and says what he thinks. Much rather have someone like that around than so many yes men.
If Trump wins he should offer him a job.

Aussie wrote on Jul 21^st, 2016 at 3:51pm:


Isn't that what you used to do in your previous life bushy?

Lyin Ted is eyeing the 2020 election. That's all.

Mortdooley wrote on Jul 21^st, 2016 at 9:40pm:



Good for you, morty torty, you defend that Canadian.