Two groups sue U.S. to block terrorism report

The Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security just put out a terrorism report but two groups, according to The Washington Times, are doing all they can to protect the terrorists: Muslim Advocates and Democracy Forward. These groups are suing to ban the U.S. government from distributing their report showing the level of Muslim migrant involvement in terrorism.

The report concluded that of the 549 people convicted of international terrorism between 2001 and 2016, 73 percent of them were foreign born.

This is simply a fact and Muslim Advocates does not like the recommendations made in the report. This is the same group who, in 2011, prevailed upon the Obama administration to erase any mention of jihad and Islam from counter-terror training.

The other group, Democracy Forward, is simply a complete anti-Trump group pretending to advocate for the scrutiny of the presidency.

Stephen Dinan wrote (April 10, 2018) in The Washington Times: 

Two anti-Trump organizations filed a lawsuit Monday arguing that a government report earlier this year linking immigrants to most of the country's terrorism cases since 2001 is so misleading that it violates federal law.

The request seeks to recruit federal judges to police the accuracy of the administration, in what--if it's successful--could become a model for anti-Trump groups to push back on a president they see as having a tenuous connection to the truth.

The January report concluded that 73 percent of the 549 people convicted of international terrorism between 2001 and 2016 were foreign born.

Activists were infuriated by the report at the time, and now two groups--Muslim Advocates and Democracy Forward--have sued, saying the investigation "misleadingly inflates the threat they pose to the United States," and "inaccurately" focuses on Muslims.

And so on.

The groups that are suing say the report is so misleading that it violates the Information Quality Act.

During the same time period the report covers, the report states, "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed approximately 1,716 aliens with national security concerns. Further, in 2017 alone DHS had 2,554 encounters with individuals on the terrorist watch list (also known as the FBI's Terrorist Screening Database) traveling to the United States."

This report was mandated by Executive Order 13780, "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States." It directed the government to raise the baseline for the vetting process and screening of foreign nationals to "prevented the entry of malicious actors," thus "[enhancing] the safety and security of the American people."

Jeff Sessions said of the report, "And the information in this report is only the tip of the iceberg: we currently have terrorism-related investigations against thousands of people in the United States, including hundreds of people who came here as refugees. Our law enforcement professionals do amazing work, but it is simply not reasonable to keep asking them to risk their lives to enforce the law while we admit thousands every year without sufficient knowledge about their backgrounds."

Gee, maybe Jeff makes a good point.

One critic of the Trump administration Karen Greenberg, the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law, says that 60 percent of those people convicted of ISIS cases in the U.S. in "the last few years" were born in the U.S.

Greenberg doesn't define "last few years," nor any data involving non-ISIS related cases. Her use of statistics manipulation is similar to the guy who says: 

"Of all Americans who have died of lung cancer from 2001 to 2018, fully 97.9 percent of them were daily toilet paper users. Therefore we can conclude that toilet paper causes lung cancer."

We can pretend that no problem exists with Muslim migrants to the U.S. and the West, and earn a gold star from Chuck Schumer. But let's not kid ourselves--there is a movement out there known as Islamic jihad and countries such as Iran have made it clear that they seek death to America and death to Israel.


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