Who is Mohamed
Elibiary — and why is he advising DHS?
By Rod Dreher • December 8, 2011, 10:43 PM
Readers of my former blog may recall my run-ins with Mohamed
Elibiary, a Muslim activist from North Texas with whom I frequently
clashed. Elibiary had the mau-mau strategy down pat, being quick to accuse his
opponents of anti-Muslim bigotry. This is his standard m.o., and he’s done
pretty well by it. One of the last times I wrote about him at the Dallas
Morning News was to blog about how incredibly foolish it was
for Congress to rely on Elibiary for counterterrorism advice,
considering that Elibiary publicly defended the late Muslim Brotherhood jihad ideologist Sayyid Qutb as a positive spiritual influence. Qutb,
understand, called for global holy war to subjugate the planet — including
dissenting Muslims — for radical Islam. As blogger Patrick Poole reminded us
last year, Elibiary also spoke at the infamous Dallas Muslim conference in
honor of “the great Islamic visionary” the Ayatollah Khomeini. What occasioned
Poole’s recollection? Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano’s appointing Elibiary to an exclusive Homeland Security Advisory Council.
How, exactly, does the US government’s DHS choose to take
advice from a man who publicly encouraged Americans to read the work of Qutb,
whose teachings the 9/11 Commission
cited as a prime motivator of Al Qaeda’s ideology,
so that all may “see the potential for a strong spiritual rebirth that’s truly
ecumenical allowing all faiths practiced in America to enrich us and motivate
us to serve God better by serving our fellow man more”? It’s amazing. I have no
idea if Elibiary is a bad guy or not, but at best this statement is truly
crackpot. I find it hard to take Elibiary seriously as a sinister figure, as
some on the right do, because to interact with him and to read his writing is
to fail to be overwhelmed, or even whelmed, by his analytical capabilities.
Based on my history with him, including dealing with him in editorial meetings,
I wouldn’t trust the guy to give me straight advice about where to eat falafel,
much less about Islamic terrorism. But that’s our government for you.
I had forgotten about Elibiary, who runs an outfit he calls
the Freedom & Justice Foundation — or did run it; the website apparently no
longer exists. (I’m sure it’s a total coincidence that Freedom & Justice is
the name the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood chose for the political party it
founded this year.) Well, it was reported a few weeks back that Elibiary may have leaked
sensitive intelligence information to an unnamed media outlet in an
alleged attempt to gin up negative coverage of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, on the grounds that
Perry is “Islamophobic.” The media source told Poole it didn’t do a story
because it found no evidence of Islamophobia in the documents Elibiary
provided. From Poole’s report:
In light of these allegations, I spoke today with Texas DPS
Director Steve McCraw. He confirmed that Elibiary has access to the Homeland Security State and
Local Intelligence Community of Interest (HS SLIC) database,
which contains hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports and products that
are intended for intelligence sharing between law enforcement agencies.
(Full disclosure: I gave a briefing in April 2010 to the TX
DPS on historical terror incidents and terror connections to Texas. I’ve also
been critical of
Elibiary’s involvement with DHS considering his past extremist statements and
activities.)
I asked Director McCraw if he knew whether Elibiary had
access to TX DPS reports on the HS SLIC, to which he replied:
“We know that he has accessed DPS documents and downloaded
them.”
Elibiary did not respond to Poole’s request for comment.
If this is true, it’s a fairly significant story. Poole did
not name his media source who claims Elibiary was shopping around this
information. Poole later reported that McGraw of the Texas DPS requested a DHS investigation
into the Elibiary affair. Poole did a follow-up report on
November 28, saying that the DHS is still stonewalling on the Elibiary story.
Excerpt:
Before publishing the original article, I spoke with DHS
spokesman Chris Ortman. After grilling me about the nature of my source, he
immediately terminated the conversation after I asked him how and when Elibiary
got access to the HS SLIC system, telling me he would have to get back to me.
Needless to say, I’m still waiting for that return phone
call, despite follow-up emails.
The questions I am looking to get answered:
1) When did Elibiary get access to the HS SLIC system,
and who approved it?
2) Why was Elibiary the only
member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council — he is one of
26 members — to get access to that system?
3) What is the status of the investigation requested
by TX DPS Director McCraw into Elibiary’s leaking his agency’s
documents to the media?
4) What other sensitive government databases did/does
Elibiary still have access to, since he works with other agencies (e.g., FBI,
National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National
Intelligence)?
5) Is there evidence that Elibiary leaked sensitive
documents and reports to other media outlets?
These are very good and important questions. The DHS website
continues to list Elibiary as a member of its advisory council. One has to
presume he is still in good standing with the agency. As Poole reports, Rep. Louie Gohmert asked Secretary Napolitano about
the Elibiary situation in a Congressional hearing back in October;
she promised to get back to him.
Well? It’s scandalous enough that a guy with Elibiary’s
background and public profile serves on a high-level DHS advisory council, and
may have been given access to sensitive intelligence. But if he used that
access to try to play partisan politics by smearing the Texas governor, that is
a very serious situation that reflects terribly on the DHS’s judgment —
especially because all you have to do is spend 10 minutes with Google to learn
how squirrelly Elibiary’s opinions are.
Maybe Elibiary did nothing wrong, and is being smeared. But
the head of the Department of Public Safety is on record saying that Elibiary
had access to these documents and downloaded them, and asking for a DHS
investigation. At this point, the issue is not only about Elibiary, it’s about
the security and the judgment of the Department of Homeland Security. Come
on, media — especially Texas media — this is a story.
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Hamas
is a spinoff organization of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Note: Mohamed Morsi is
the leader for the Muslim Brotherhood,
and was the president of Egypt.
Anwar
Sadat was the president of Egypt,
and Richard A. Debs was his pro-bono
financial adviser.
Richard
A. Debs was Anwar Sadat’s pro-bono
financial adviser, and a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
William W. Bradley
is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), Mellody
L. Hobson’s mentor, and Anita B.
Dunn’s was his chief of staff.
Anita
B. Dunn was William W. Bradley’s
chief of staff, the communications director for the Barack Obama administration, and is married to Robert F. Bauer.
Robert
F. Bauer is married to Anita B. Dunn,
a partner at Perkins Coie, was the White
House counsel for the Barack Obama
administration, and Barack Obama’s
personal counsel.
Peter
M. Rouse was the acting chief of staff & counselor for the Barack Obama administration, Barack Obama’s Senate chief of staff,
and is a senior policy adviser for Perkins Coie.
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Mandates
and representations
In 2006, Perkins Coie,
led by partner Harry Schneider, represented Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the alleged driver
and bodyguard of Osama Bin Laden.
Salim Ahmed
Hamdan was a Perkins Coie
client, and Osama Bin Laden’s alleged
driver.
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alleged driver was Salim Ahmed Hamdan,
and was the founder of Al-Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda
claimed responsibility for the 9-11
terrorist attacks.
Ayman
al-Zawahiri was Osama Bin Laden’s
adviser & doctor, is the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the leader of Al-Qaeda, and his uncle is Mahfouz Azzam.
Mahfouz
Azzam is Ayman al-Zawahiri’s uncle,
and was Sayyid Qutb’s student &
later, lawyer.
Sayyid
Qutb’s student & later, lawyer was Mahfouz
Azzam, and is a member of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Hamas
is a spinoff organization of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Mohamed
Morsi was the leader for the Muslim
Brotherhood, and the president of Egypt.
Anwar
Sadat was the president of Egypt,
and Richard A. Debs was his pro-bono
financial adviser.
Richard
A. Debs was Anwar Sadat’s pro-bono
financial adviser, and a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), was the president of the Middle East Policy Council, a U.S.
ambassador for Saudi Arabia, and the
National Intelligence Council chairman nominee for the Barack Obama administration.
Abdallah
Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud was a benefactor for the Middle East Policy Council, and the king of Saudi Arabia.
Gregory
B. Craig is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the White House counsel
for the Barack Obama administration.
Barack
Obama is the president of the Barack
Obama administration, was a parishioner at the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago), and an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Trumpeter
Newsmagazine is a publication for the Trinity
United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Louis Farrakhan
was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr. Trumpeter award from the Trumpeter Newsmagazine, is the organizer
for the Million Man March, and the acting
head for the Nation of Islam.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Mellody L. Hobson
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and William W. Bradley
is her mentor.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is Valerie B.
Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was a member of the Iraq
Study Group, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Lee
H. Hamilton was a co-chair for the Iraq
Study Group, is a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Mohamed Elibiary
was a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council.
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C. Blum is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), married to Senator Dianne Feinstein,
and a regent at the University of California.
Janet A. Napolitano
is the president for the University of California, and the secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for
the Barack Obama administration.
Clark Kent Ervin
was the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, the deputy attorney general for the Texas state
government, and is an analyst for CNN.
Rick
Perry was the Texas state government
governor.
Ted
Turner is the founder of CNN,
and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Richard
A. Debs was a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and Anwar Sadat’s pro-bono financial adviser.
Anwar
Sadat’s pro-bono financial adviser was Richard
A. Debs, and the president of Egypt.
Mohamed
Morsi was the president of Egypt,
and is the leader of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Hamas
is a spinoff organization of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
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