Elibiary (cont’d): The area that has earned me the most amount of anti-Islamist media criticism has been my role assisting DHS and the broader administration craft a framework and later a strategy for CounteringViolent Extremism (CVE). I helped write parts of the initial HSACCVE document President Barack Hussein Obama was briefed on in the Oval Office, and some in the anti-Islamist media were upset with theapproach we took.
Honestly speaking, these CVE recommendations have enjoyed mainstream professional support across the law enforcement and intelligencecommunities, not least because they enhance homeland security’s effectiveness in a constitutionally-compliant manner as I explained in mypost-Boston marathon attack op-ed61 in the Washington Post. While there is still more work to do across the Homeland Security Enterpriseto improve CVE coordination, like many practitioners in the field, I amhappy with the progress achieved thus far.
Others may share Elibiary’s happiness with the progress made to date in ensuringthat counter-terrorism personnel are rendered ignorant of the Brotherhood character,origins and agenda. But they are unlikely to be “practitioners in the field” who are trying to thwart Islamists’ civilization jihad in America.
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