New details in PJM exclusive on alleged Homeland Security leaker Mohamed Elibiary
Last week I broke the story here at PJM about Homeland Security adviser Mohamed Elibiary’s alleged attempt to attack Texas Gov. Rick Perry by obtaining sensitive Texas Department of Public Safety (TX DPS) documents from the Homeland Security State and Local Intelligence Community of Interest (HS SLIC) database and unsuccessfully shop those documents to a left-leaning publication claiming they represented a pattern of “Islamophobia.” The materials allegedly circulated by Elibiary to the publication were marked “For Official Use Only.”
In an interview I conducted with TX DPS Director Steve McCraw for that article, he confirmed that “We know [Mohamed Elibiary] has accessed DPS documents and downloaded them.”
On Monday I reported that McCraw had requested last week that DHS conduct an investigation into the matter in a telephone call to DHS Deputy Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis Bart Johnson.
Now I can add one additional detail to the story: Multiple sources have confirmed this week that Elibiary has had his access to the HS SLIC database revoked.
Whether this represents DHS taking the matter seriously, or if it is just a cosmetic move while they hope these allegations blow over, remains unknown since DHS continues to stonewall PJM requests for information. Questions we asked of DHS spokesman Chris Ortman more than a week ago on the phone and in writing about Elibiary’s access to the HS SLIC database remain unanswered.
We’ll bring you more as we have it.
Thank you for the update.
It is exciting to have real JOURNALISTS again !
The Republic cannot survive without a free press (well, free cloud we should say.)
Voices from a Free America indeed…
P.S. Thank you Al Gore for inventing the Net !
I look forward to hearing about this. I know he is a stealth jihadi.
PJM is the Rush Limbaugh of the internet, taking the lead, head and shoulders above all the rest. I pray for you guys.
Keep up the good work.
I figured that DHS had Muslim moles by now, but this incident is pretty blatant subversion bordering on the treasonous. If I were President I’d dismantle the whole chicken-coop and render some really nasty, un-American people jobless.
Uhhh,12-String, this president won’t dismantle anything but the Constitution. And as for putting un-Americans out of work, Obama should be the first in line.
“For Official Use Only (FOUO)” is a category of “Sensitive But Unclassified” information that the unlawful dissemination of can result in civil or criminal penalties.
That a high-ranking official within DHS would deliberately disclose FOUO information to entities without a need-to-know and apparently partisan political reasons would/should be grounds for dismissal. You cannot perform HLS duties without access to sensitive information and his access has been terminated. So what good is he?
That he would use his own Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) log-in credentials to perpetrate the crime speaks to his arrogance and stupidity. Which we all know by now is the hallmark of committed leftists and Islamists.
That this is a one-time poor decision is highly unlikely. I suspect if his government computer use is forensically analyzed, there will be many more instances of OPSEC violations found. And that’s only on the unclassified government networks. I’m sure he had/has access to government Secure Internet Protocol Routing (SIPR) networks given his high-ranking DHS official status.
Lord knows what he has unlawfully disclosed from those networks.
I wonder who is the source of the Wired leaks being used to gut the teaching of religion in the FBI’s counterterrorism program, and destroy Gawthrop’s career?
Whoever did leak those materials (i) had recently been inside the Quantico library; (ii) took pictures of books; (iii) had access to the secure intranet; (iv) copied from it materials on Islamic law, prior to Sept 23; (v) knows Ackerman of Wired well enough to collude with him by leaking confidential material; (vi) is not adverse to helping destroy the careers of those who say things about Islam with which they disagree.
Who might have done this?
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8 Sept — Elibiary gets award from FBI. He receives it at Quantico.
14 Sept — Ackerman publishes his Wire story, “FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’” [mere agitprop]
In said article, Ackerman uses leaked materials: “dozens of pages of recent FBI training material” on Islam “that Danger Room has acquired” from “FBI whistleblowers” who “provided Danger Room with these materials.”
He further notes that: Quantico has in its library books from authors who claim that “Islam and democracy are totally incompatible” and that the “Bureau’s private intranet recently featured presentations that claimed to demonstrate the ‘inherently violent nature of Islam.”
As for this library, it is “open to all FBI agents, plus intelligence officials and police from across the country.”
18 Sept — Elibiary publishes a very long article on the Ackerman article. It is to be found on Yasir Qadi’s Muslim Matters, where he writes under the name Hamada.
Note: This is just four days after Ackerman’s piece came out. It will have required at least some research. Fast writer!
Elibiary first praises himself, and then goes on to praise himself, and then speaks of the Texas method for dealing with jihad: “We didn’t have to throw national community groups or other law-abiding American Muslim leaders under the bus to solve these problems as sell-out Muslims do.”
One assumes he means organizations such as those he’s defended in the past: in particular, the Holy Land Foundation, whereas sellout Muslims are men like Zuhdi Jasser.
Elibiary also proudly notes that he was personally involved in the crucifixion of Coughlin: “I shared that research with some FBI and Homeland Security Intelligence Enterprise allies back then…. I believe as Coughlin’s career was ended, so will Gawthrop’s and other less infamous full-time analysts inside the National Security enterprise.”
Indeed!
20 Sept — Ackerman publishes length article in Wired in praise of Elibiary and the Texas method for dealing with jihad. In it he cites passages from Elibiary’s Muslim Matters article and materials from an interview with him.
Ackerman also writes: “Elibiary concedes that of all the security agencies he’s worked with since 9/11, ‘the FBI’s culture was the most challenging to crack.’” [I'd imagine that's the sort of thing some well placed leaks might just manage to do.]
23 Sept — Ackerman publishes an article on “anti-Islam” reading material in FBI Quantico Library
Remember, it’s a private library. And yet, pictures of those documents are provided in the article. These pictures can only have been taken in the Quantico library itself.
Ackerman’s source? Anonymous “law enforcement sources with access to the intranet — sections of which are classified — described to Danger Room its page on ‘Islamic Law.’” The same source or sources told Ackerman that “after our coverage of the FBI’s training materials ran, the ‘Islamic Law’ SME and similar FBI intranet sites were scrubbed of such material. Danger Room was able to acquire some of these documents before they were removed.”
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I’m sure Elibiary would not be involved in leaking confidential documents, as that might be a crime or something. But gosh, the coincidences are spooky. It could be that Mossad agents are trying to frame him. That seems most reasonable.
Mr Elibiary, we know you’re reading this. Care to comment? Jump on in, son. Defend your honor. Let’s together put an end to these Zionists plots. As the brothers say: WWQD?
What would Qutb do….
Very interesting. Worth looking into further.
VERY INTERESTING!
I am always amazed at how credulous the left is. When they make common cause with Islamists, they repudiate everything the core principles they claim they stand for: individual liberty, women’s rights, voting rights, anti-slavery and anti-death penalty.
Yes, it is exciting and comforting even, to have real journalists operating. We need to clean house – no Islamofascists allowed anywhere near DC.
Glad you have joined Pajamas Media and look forward to more of the “social justice instead of equal justice” crowd being exposed to the light of day.
Now why would anybody want to be anti-islam, they’ve only been at war with everybody, including themselves, for 1400 years. It’s a mark of the twisted, rampant perversity prevelant in our country that they receive tolerance and respect from the left while a conservative opposition is hated with an insane passion. Birds of a feather?
Where’s fatso Napolitano on this?
I thought this jihadi’s name sounded familiar. He’s the agent that worked for and in the office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense (Gordon England) and pillfered intelligence reports while there and gave them to CAIR. This resulted in a media storm that ending in the firing of Army Reservist (in my old unit at the Pentagon) Major Coughlin, who wrote a threat assessment about the threat from radical islam. Eligiary stole this report, among others, and gave them to CAIR to create a media firestorm so that they could supress this report and get this brilliant analyst/lawyer fired.
So, even after being exposed as a covert agent for the Muslim Brotherhood while having access to the highest reaches of the Pentagon, he was still kept in the community and entrusted with more access to sensitive and classified information!? If they don’t tear apart any systems he’s had access to, then the administration and his sponsor is defacto in agreement with his activities that have endangered national security.
No worries, I’m sure Obama will just allow him to move to another location/agency and he’ll continue right where he left off.
No, the Pentagon MB mole you have in mind is Hesham Islam, not Mohamed Elibiary.
Patrick, thanks for the correction. Our network at work is hinky at best with some websites and the quick search I did would only bring up a summary.
Do you have any information connecting the two individuals and do you know where Islam is at now?
Thanks again
This has got to come to light. This is very similar to watergate in my opinion.
From the FBI’s award to Elibiary:
> “Among the cases he [Elibiary] became involved with was that of the so-called underwear bomber, a Nigerian who sewed explosives in his underwear and tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane in 2009. He said he was trained by al-Qaeda in Yemen.”
> “Elibiary also cites a successful intervention in Houston involving a young man who was recruited to Pakistan and was brought back, he said.”
From the NYT’s March 17, 2011, profile of Yasir Qadhi:
> “Two weeks earlier, on Christmas Day 2009, a young Nigerian tried to blow up a jet headed for Detroit with a bomb sewn into his underwear. The suspect had been a student of Qadhi’s at the AlMaghrib Institute… F.B.I. agents were demanding interviews with Qadhi’s students….”
> “For Qadhi and his students, nothing tested those loyalties more than the events after the underwear-bomb plot of December 2009. Whenever a terrorism suspect is identified, AlMaghrib runs the name through its database of alumni to see if there is a match. “Oh, my God,” Qadhi said when a colleague told him that the 23-year-old suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had been his student.”
> “Qadhi searched his memory. The son of a prominent banker, Abdulmutallab had been living and studying in London. He had taken two AlMaghrib classes before attending the institute’s 16-day Houston conference in 2008. There, Abdulmutallab kept mostly to himself. “He never got into political issues,” says Abdul-Malik Ryan, 36, a lawyer from Chicago who studied with him every morning.”
[[By the way, the hirsute Mr. Ryan is a member of CAIR's Chicago cell and currently Muslim chaplain at DePaul.]]
> “As media outlets discovered the connection, AlMaghrib’s leaders rushed to contain a crisis. The institute’s vice president, Waleed Basyouni, reached out to the F.B.I.’s Houston field office. Agents wanted to interview all 156 students who attended the 2008 conference. “I said, ‘If you start going to our students and terrifying them, and they stop coming, we will close down,’ ” he recalled telling the agents. “ ‘You would be pushing the students to go to basements, small circles, on the Internet. So it’s in your benefit that this organization stay open.’ ”
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We know that Elibiary and Qadhi are buds. Elibiary even writes for Qadhi at Muslim Matters. Elibiary was also doing ‘deradicalization’ work in Houston (“a young man who was recruited to Pakistan”), probably chez Qadhi.
What I can’t figure out is this: When did Elibiary deradicalize Abdulmutallab?
June 2008 — Abdulmuttalab receives multiple entry visa at US Embassy in London. It is valid for two years.
August 1–17, 2008. Abdulmuttalab travels to the US, to study with Qadhi in Houston
Fall 2009 — Abdulmuttalab in Yemen with Awlaki [according to intercepts]
Aug 2009 — in Yemen, studying Arabic and assault weapons
Nov 2009 — Abdulmuttalb’s name added to US watchlists
Nov 19, 2009 — Abdulmutallab’s father reports him
Christmas 2009 — Attempt to take down Flight 253, and kill all its passengers
So when did Elibiary deradicalize him? It seems this could only have taken place in August, 2008, when he visited Houston to study with Qadhi. But if Qadhi and Elibiary deradicalized him in 2008, they cannot have informed anyone, certainly not the Feds, as it would be another 14 months before his name was added to a watch list.
And then, just one month later this deradicalized mujahid do his best to kill 300+ people.
A suspicious person might think someone is trying to keep their jihad problem a secret?
What’s the good Muslim deradicalizer to do?
Save a little Muslim face? Or put at risk the lives of a bunch of non-Muslims?
That’s one heck of a moral conundrum….
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-hugs-erdogan_607704.html
makes sense.. only a muslim would hug a muslim..
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