Post by bohica9 on Jan 16, 2015 23:27:36 GMT -5
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio administers a re-enactment of the House oath to Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., left, with his family, during a ceremonial re-enactment swearing-in ceremony, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, in the Rayburn Room on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Top Democrats are defending their appointment of a Muslim congressman to the House Intelligence Committee after protests erupted on social media, warning the move is dangerous.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi this week appointed Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana to the panel, which oversees the government's intelligence departments and activities. Much of the business that comes before the committee is classified.
Anti-Muslim protests erupted on Twitter and other social media with complaints that exposing American secrets to Carson could be dangerous.
Democrats widely rejected that view. Pelosi said Carson is the only member of Congress to have served in a Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center, which provides intelligence sharing and training across levels of government. Carson also serves on the House Armed Services Committee.
Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the senior Democrat on the panel, called the protests un-American. He said including Muslim Americans in public policy issues is "an essential element in preventing the kind of alienation that has made too many young European Muslims vulnerable to extremism."
Rep. Joseph Crowley of New York, vice chairman of the Democratic Caucus, called on his colleagues to renounce the attacks.
"We will never be able to grow as a society if we allow this kind of hatred and division to go unchecked," Crowley wrote in a letter to his colleagues
The enemy within...
A house divided cannot stand...
Pelosi, an Obama lapdog, did this on purpose...
we are fu#$ed beyond belief...
Our only hope are the French, cowards have they been, are sending an aircraft carrier to the Middle East to bomb these fuc%s back into the stone age... after the latest terror strike against them. (Finally)
The Muslim hordes celebrate and mock our weak leaders
I remember reading an interview of a USAF general after the last Iraq War (2003). He stated an Iraqi General told him that they did not think the US was serious because we only used surgical strikes (as we do now against ISIS). He stated that if the US used B-52's to carpet bomb their cities, Saddam (and the Muslims) would have trembled with fear.
When your enemies do not respect or fear you, tragedy awaits.
Google Neville "Obama" Chamberlin with his "peace in our time" worthless document with Hitler.
THANK GOD, OBAMA RECEIVED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE (on October 9th, 2009) for reaching out to the Muslim world.
I believe he is a sell-out traitor with Pelosi.
God Help America
Obama countdown clock www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20161108T07&p0=611&msg=Countdown+until+Obama+is+OUT+OF+OFFICE
I hope we survive
