McCarthyism and Mohamed Elibiary
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and four other representatives are now being accused of McCarthyism over the letter they sent to defense, diplomatic, intelligence, and law-enforcement agencies asking them to investigate Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in the U.S. government. The implication is that Bachmann, like McCarthy (at least according to liberal myth), hurled false accusations damaging to the careers and livelihoods of innocent people. What no one is bothering to establish, however, is that the allegations are actually false, much less that they will damage anyone’s career.
The questions swirling around Department of Homeland Security official Mohamed Elibiary are a case in point. Bachmann’s letter to DHS’s inspector general states that Elibiary has “extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood” and “sympathy for Islamist causes,” and accuses him of “gain(ing) access to classified documents.”
Last week, Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX), one of the signers of the letters asking for investigation of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration, asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about Elibiary. Gohmert put this question to Napolitano: “Are you saying before this Congress right now, that as secretary of Homeland Security, that it is a lie that Mohamed Elibiary downloaded material from a classified website using the secret security clearance you gave him? Are you saying that’s a lie?”
Napolitano responded: “I’m saying that is inaccurate. That is correct.” But when Gohmert pressed her on what was inaccurate about it, Napolitano began talking about prejudice against Muslims, and then said: “I’m saying that he … as far as I know … he did not download classified documents.” Gohmert saw through that immediately, responding: “One of the games that gets played by some people who come up here and testify is that they have somebody not provide them with adequate information so that they can come in her and say ‘so far as I know,’ ‘not to my knowledge,’ that kind of thing, and they obscure the truth.” Then he asked Napolitano: “Has Elibiary’s status on Homeland Security Advisory Council changed?” Napolitano said that it had not.
Thus it is clear that Elibiary has not suffered any career difficulties because of these allegations. It is also clear that as long as Barack Obama remains president, he will not. Napolitano, in fact, was anxious to protect him, parrying Gohmert’s questions and only reluctantly giving him straight answers.
So where is the McCarthyism? Is it that the allegations against Elibiary are self-evidently false?





Thank you Mr.Spencer.
Can you imagine the horror on the faces of every Islamist in the WH at the spectacle of a woman warrior like Michelle Bachmann going on the offensive against their vile indoctrination that hates women and in fact, hates life?
That’s funny right there.
This is perfect timing by Bachmann; because at the same time there is a force being assembled that will show the world the magnificence of the Protector of Israel. I’ll take this opportunity to say “bye, bye” to Assad of Syria and Achmadinanutjob of Iran …
because Bachman is involved nobody but the party faithful will take it seriously.
If you want to defeat Obama then keep the religious crazies in the closet until November…………….and that includes Palin.
Sincerely,
a citizen
Hi CallousD, do you remember Sept 11, 2001? Everything I needed to know about islam, I learned that day. islam said I come to kill you and I believe them. Have a nice life.
Keep the crazies in the closet till November… well my dear the truth sometimes hurts and telling the truth about Islam, C.A.I.R. and ISNA and their radical agenda might hurt for awhile, but not near as much as a sabre coming across the neck of us infidels and but first they will take out the “willing useful idiots” who think that they are not a threat and that includes the Progessives both Democrats and Republicans in Washington who are being used by both sides in the battle for America. If the Progressives think that the ends justify the means i.e. allowing pol.correctness towards the Muslims, they really should make sure they have neck protection, because if the Muslim Brotherhood, and C.A.I.R., and ISNA ever get a foothold in this government the Progressives will be the first to have their necks on the line… they are both playing a losing game, and a stupid one at that. marys
Come on Guys these are essentially the SAME people who did not see and are now trying to pretend that the Murdering Mohammedan Major was a) Never a security Risk and b) his actions had nothing whatsoever to do with his espousal of violent Islamic goals.
Whenever Islam is involved Obama and his Regime put their fingers in their ears and cry “Na Na Na Na Can’t hear you.”
McCain is worse than “fundamentally flawed” in the political sense. There has always been something very wrong with his character, which is one of extreme “me-first-and-only” self-entitlement. He was wrongfully admitted to the Naval Academy with bad grades ahead of more qualified applicants because his daddy and granddaddy were admirals. Rules that apply to ordinary people don’t apply to him. He thumbed his nose at Annapolis because he couldn’t be kicked out or flunked out, because he was JOHN MCCAIN, son and grandson of ADMIRALS. He ignored orders and crashed planes, because he couldn’t be disciplined as the son and grandson of admirals.
He ditched the wife who stood by him, when he wanted a rich blonde chick young enough to be his daughter, who could finance his political ambition. He was caught taking bribes to his wife from the Keating 5, so tried to cover his tracks by imposing the McCain-Feingold nonsense on everyone else (laws only apply to everyone else, not to JOHN MCCAIN). He entertained a blonde lobbyist in ways that worried his staff, and improperly pressured the FCC for her in exchange for …., because he is JOHN MCCAIN!!!!!!. He yelled obscenities at other senators who questioned ramming his McCain-Kennedy amnesty through the Senate in the dead of night without debate, and screamed he knew more about it than anyone else – because he is JOHN MCCAIN, a legend in his own mind !!!!!! He has had secret no press allowed meetings to praise Mexico as our dearest friend and closest neighbor, calling enforcement of the laws “Rhetoric”.
As president, McCain, like the man he helped elect. Barack Obama, would have tried to rule by fiat and would make Hugo Chavez look like George Washington. Like the Alice in Wonderland Queen of Hearts, if any GOP congresscritter disagreed with him “OFF WITH HER HEAD- I’m JOHN MCCAIN, KING OF THE UNIVERSE!!!” There has always been something consistently very wrong with McCain’s character. Through it all, this lying unreliable self-aggrandizing megalomaniac poses as a “straight talker”, and is so sick, he probably believes it himself, because he is JOHN MCCAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!, son and grandson of ADMIRALS.
….you’re going to have a hernia in your neck blood vessels if you keep that up…..
Yet when North Vietnam found out he was related to an admiral, he was offered a chance to leave prison at the Hanoi Hilton. He refused saying he wasn’t leaving before the men who ranked below them. He suffered extreme torture to the point where he can’t raise his arms over his head. So I think your rant about McCain is hogwash.
I’ve been pretty well convinced that mcvain was turned by the north veitnamese and has been carrying the communist / socialist water ever since.
From what I have heard, he made more propaganda films for them than hanoi jane.
There are also those who wonder just how he really came to be in north vietnamese custody and why he really elected to stay there as long as he did.
Not that any reputable news agency ever looked into any of that AFAIK.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. McCain was flipped in the Hanoi Hilton. He is not a patriot, he does not respect the Constitution. It’s evident in everything he does.
Right on Brother, this guy is a menace and gave the election to obummer. Everybody decries what a hero he is for getting caught by the viet cong and imprisioned. He’s no damn hero he got caught and couldn’t even escape. Now a real hero is Audie Murphy.
I have been one of John McCain’s largest critics and hoped he would have been defeated the last time around, but he turned conservative long enough to get the votes and then became a progressive again. BUT…You have absolutely no BASIS OR AUTHORITY to attack his military record, NONE. Until you have walked in his shoes you should just keep your uninformed opinions to yourself before degrading a veteran’s service. He was an aviator that was shot down by a soviet made ground to air missile that was locked onto his plane by radar – there is not one single thing he could have done to keep that missile from hitting his plane once it locked on. He bailed out and was severely injured when he hit the ground, was surrounded by enemy soldiers waiting for him to touch the ground IMMEDIATELY and was captured. Two more points ART: 1) During interrogation his shoulders were broken NUMEROUS times, they healed awkwardly and are now permanently disfigured so he cannot raise his arms any higher than horizontal 2) McCain’s father was an Admiral and he comes from a multi-generational Navy family. Because of his father and his family, John McCain was offered the opportunity for EARLY RELEASE from the Hanoi Hilton but refused to leave without his fellow countrymen also being released and remained in Vietnamese captivity for several more YEARS.
John McCain’s politics have disappointed and angered me several times over the years, especially his latest vocal idiocy attacking Michelle Bachmann and supporting muslim infiltration of our government. But, think twice before you attack his service to our country because he has suffered more than you and I put together, and I have suffered my own pain in military service……and I thank him for that.
Great post!! It took me a long time to see the reality you put out so articulately because I bought the “straight talk” twinkly eyed humor. But over the years I started to pay attention to what he was really saying and doing. No Damn good!
McCain, He’s nothing more than a “Manchurian Candidate” that never was and is never gonna be…marys
for the umpteenth time, I’ll say it again……….McCain should have died in the Hanoi Hilton for America’s sake.
Robert, as a fellow warrior in our common struggle – albeit from the heart of the Islamic beast – I refer you to my commentaries on the issue at hand.
Please go to – http://www.adinakutnicki.com , then click on the following:
‘Senator John McCain Digs Himself in a Hole…’,
‘Muslim Congressman, Keith Ellison Taunts Congresswoman, Michele Bachmann…NOT a Smart Move…’,
Six Degrees of Separation’,
and, my latest as a wrap up – ‘When Leftists, Mega-Rich, ‘Peace’ Obsessed Instigators Get Involved….’.
….please stop your constant self referrals and self promotion…..it’s having the opposite effect intended. Spencer is too polite to mention this to you….
…thanks.
Sorry Charlie, you’re flat wrong on this one. I don’t like self-aggrandizing media whores any more than you, but Adina has a great message and is worth reading. Since her material is very un-PC, it will be exceeding difficult for her to get widespread media distribution so she is relying on word of mouth (as are others like Clare Spark, an additional voice that should be heard by PJ Media readers) for the time being.
Since she isn’t producing spam, and writes on issues relevant to the article upon which we are commenting, reserve your hostility for those deserving it and bookmark her blog (or how about taking 5 minutes to read it, you might learn something).
Adina, thank you for the references. I always learn something when I read them.
McLame is a progressive. His actions scream “progressive”. He often sides with the Dems. No, he often puts on the “D” uniform, picks up the pom poms and cheerleads with them. Remember McLame-Finegold, the campaign finance law that drove the Dems into the arms of the progressive financiers in order to get money for their campaigns. Right after that, the last of the “blue dogs” died.
So now McLame is caterwalling against Rep. Bachmann. Did she dare to say the truth, perhaps? McLame doth protest too much.
And really Arizona why did you guys reelect this pathetic Senator? And just where is your ‘danged fence?
Tks, Patty, no one in our govt wants to scrutinize Mohammed? OK no one wanted to scrutinize Nidal Hassan? I’ve said it before, so I’ll say it again, islam said I’m coming to killl you, the Isrealis reacted accordingly. We, the USA, gave islam money.
Thanks Mr Spencer as always right on target
One word though is this idea of being accused of “McCarthyism”. This accusation should be worn with honor not shame. Like him or not Joe McCarthy was telling the truth. Alger Hiss was a spy so was Dexter White et al. There were thousands of communists in the US government spying for the soviets. All this was vetted and confirmed by the Venona project but of course never accepted by revisionist communist historians on the left.
Since when is telling the truth an accusation! I would love to accuse most of congress of Mccarthyism but cannot because they rarely tell the truth.
John McCain is a COWARD! He is not a fighter….In the 2008 election, he was a coward, and not a fighter. He truly did not want to win the election. What we need in Congress on the Republican side are more Michelle Bachmann’s. She is not implying that Huma Abedin is a traitor, but inquiring whether she had been truly vetted for the top security clearance.
Hilary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff has family associated the the radical Muslim Brotherhood/Sisterhood. What is wrong with questioning the acceptance of Ms. Abedin, since the NATIONAL SECURITY of our nation may be at stake?
There are good muslims, I am sure. But the Islamists are at war with the USA. What is wrong with vetting those who serve in our government? Why the attacks against Michelle Bachmann, who is a US citizen, a US representative–why is she so demeaned? What is wrong with us? We are headed for another 9-11, if we are so reckless? The Rinos need to go, once and for all.
An interesting comment on another website:
“If you make the effort to read through Michele Bachmann’s letter to Keith Ellison, you will see that she has done her homework and written a very carefully thought out reply. It would be appreciated if those who attack her also did their homework properly and make an effort to write a carefully thought out reply. I get the impression that Bachmann attacks ideologies that she believes will be harmful to the citizens of the USA and is not interested in attacking people or scoring points. I wish I could say the same of her critics.”
This administration is full of people who love them some Muslims, terrorists or not. Hillary got an armfull of that slime Yassar Arafat on international TV while Slick Willie was POTUS, and she is not a friend of Israel today. Netanyahu knows what ObamaRx is at his core, and won’t let him dictate policy to Israel when its very survival is on the line.
Bachmann is right on the money, and if we had a POTUS with any real concern for security he would fire that terrorist-loving jackass Mohamed Elibiary in a Ney York minute. We don’t and he won’t.
Everyone forgets with the contrivance of the Left “re-writing” history that Senator Joseph McCarthy was CORRECT. And yes, Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess as well as Julius Rosenberg were all spies. The Russian Federation produced documents that proved these men where actual spies, and that there were “sympathetic enablers” that the Soviet Communists exploited.
Why it is any surprise that Islamic groups have not been doing the same for the last three decades?
Thanks for posting that.
It’s willful blindness/shortsightedness for us Americans not to see the direct parallels to Soviet infiltration and penetration starting during the 1930′s…at least.
There’s absolutely no other way to express it than “willful blindness” as their madrassas and mosques are aggressively spreading…..we should compare these to the Soviet “purchasing commissions” in America during the Second World War…anyone here remember the Second World War?
Our attention spans are so short now as to be lethal.
Paraphrasing David Goldman (writing in PJM) writes, the bigger problem isn’t the Islamists sneaking in the back door, it’s those being welcomed through the front door.
It was George Bush, after all, who – inspired by “conservative” Norquist – declared that Islam is a “Religion of Peace”, and widened the door for immigrants from Muslim countries, granted more visas for students from Muslim countries, expanded engagement with Muslim organizations and initiated the now regular Iftar dinners at the White House. And let’s not forget attempts to recruit Muslims from Dearborn for sensitive positions with the FBI and CIA.
Obama has only pushed this agenda further. More immigration and foreign students from Muslim countries. Removal of Tariq Ramadan from the “no entry” list. Direct engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood, including a White House invite to Egypt’s new President, despite his call to release the “Blind Sheikh”. Sanitizing anti-terrorism training to excise any reference to Islam, while sharing sensitive security protocols with Muslim community representatives.
Given all that, having an Elbiary or an Abedin in sensitive positions should hardly surprise.
I saw that exchange between Janet Napolitano and Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX). Napolitano refused to answer any of Gohmert’s probing questions and she looked guilty for not wanting to answer the questions. So long as the Obama administration is trying to be politically correct with Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers, the greater the probability you will have Islamic acts of terrorism in this country. Just ask the families of any of the dead soldiers from the Ft. Hood shooting how dangerous political correctness can be.
Right Scoop has the full clip of the Gohmert-Napolitano exchange. His doggedly persistent, righteous anger was simply glorious. Here’s hoping it’s highly contagious.
The Chinese have an appropriate saying- ” A fish stinks from the head. “
Thank-you Mr. Spencer for all the fine work you and your group do to keep us informed. My only hope is that when one of these supposed moderate muslims in the State Dept. or Homeland Security flips out and goes jihad that it is while he is at work within one of those offices with his boss nearby.
Bachmann’s letter is extremely well researched and thoughful. She raises questions the answers to which are critical for the defense of this nation. She is a true patriot and deserves a medal for valor. As for McCain, maybe we can get the Vietnamese to take him back.
Tell us please how you really feel!
So . . .
What evidence exists that Elibiary has actually broken any law?
Yes, it is clear that he has opportunity to break the law, and almost certainly even the motive, but is there any evidence that he actually has?
Remember a week or so ago when Axelrod blathered that we “don’t know” if Romney had committed a felony with the filings regarding his status with Bain Capital during the period after he left to run the Olympics until the company was sold?
I guess Bachmann, Spencer, and others just want us all to know that we “don’t know” if Elibiary has committed a felony.
WHAT IS MCCARTHYISM?: THEN AND NOW
McCarthyism in the 1950s was the persecution of Leftists suspected of being Communist spys who were always falsely accused and innocent not because they broke any laws but because social justice, morality and history were on their side.
Now in the 21st century McCarthyism is the persecution of innocent Moslems suspected of being jihadi spys for the Moslem Brotherhood and other Islamic organizations that want justice for Moslems and to bring peace to the world.
Since islam is an inherently UNjust creed, based on us-versus-them and might-makes-right, “justice for moslems” would simply mean our destruction.
ALL moslems are criminals because, by their own rules, they must endorse in public every word in the Qur’an.
And the Qur’an tells them that they are so “superior” to all non-moslem humans, that it’s not only their right, but also their holy duty to their god, to extort, enslave, and murder all the non-moslems in the world, simply for the “crime” of not being moslems.
So, giving them TRUE “justice” would simply mean imprisoning &/or expelling them all.
As a matter of fact some them were convicted, most notably Alger Hiss.
As for the Muslims their version of peace is the complete surpression or murder of everyone/everything not Muslim. That is their version of “justice”.It is who they always been. It is who they are now.
let’s see an Israeli passes info to save his country from an admin lying to his govt- and gets how many years in prison? more than any enemy ever got for same–and yet,
A Muslim steals classified info and was going to use it to discredit Texas and gets??
protected by Obama
Imagine if they hired a “moderate” member of the Mafia to investigate ongoing Mafiosi activity, or a “moderate” Nazi to investigate the Holocaust… while each remained a member in good standing of their respective groups.
Islam’s moslems are NOT a “race” (at all, much less one of “poor, oppressed People Of Color,”) nor is islam itself a “religion” (at all, much less one “of peace”)! Like the Mafia, islam is only an ancient, ongoing extortion-racket CRIME-syndicate, and the only “religious” part in it is where they say:
“God told us to commit these crimes!”
(Capisce?)!
And the Nazis were really only ‘White’ moslems!
Those quick to portray this as “McCarthyism” should read the book by M. Stanton Evans, “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies.” They will or should be struck with the similarities between Michelle Bachman’s simple request for an investigation into suspected Muslim Brotherhood infiltration into the highest levels of the U. S. government and the ensuing attacks from the bleating left, identical with that which destroyed Senator Joe McCarthy’s career and reputation by a vicious, partisan, bigoted, liberal press to such an extent that the man’s name is unjustly forever linked to those who make entirely false allegations intentionally designed to destroy the reputations of “innocents”; the fictitious, extreme right wing conservative, radical movement, the “right wing nuts,”etc., etc., ad infinitum; ironically, accusations of behavior from those who’ve elevated it to a high art form. It is all so predictable and all so incredibly unbelievable that such sophistry should be so widely accepted as self righteous, gospel truth, completely impervious to subsequent correction, no matter the evidence to the contrary.
Mr. Stanton’s book looks at Joe McCarthy’s history, his demonization and his subsequent vindication following the release of the Venona papers, a vindication that goes largely ignored because of the lefts inability to ever admit to their own stubborn, irresponsible stupidity. That they should react as they have in this situation is entirely predictable, outrageous and like a bad stain, likely to persist long after Michelle and company are off the national stage and perhaps no longer alive. Meanwhile Islamic infiltration and influence on America’s intelligence and international affairs goes on unabated.
MoHamHead El-Bilious threatens bring to bring a banana to a knife fight? Oooh, scary! I propose we dub him “Mr. Banana” & designate the fruit his symbol.
BTW that’s not how you attack a car. But if I could recall the precise recommendations I once ran across, I wouldn’t post them here anyway.
Subsequent information from the KGB Files, Venona, the Mitrokhin Archives, FBI files, former KGB agents and many other sources demonstrated that McCarthy was correct with his basic premiss that there were treasonous American communists who were taking their orders from Moscow. I believe that we will find that those skeptical of the true motivations of current Muslim government officials will likewise be vindicated.