Federal Government Watch -
Maybe the State Department Has Gotten the Message About Jihad, But the FBI Has Not
by Clare M. Lopez
September 2025
“State Department Announces Pause on Visitor Visas From Gaza” by Peter Aitken at Newsmax, August 16, 2025
“REPORT: Marco Rubio State Department Has Revoked 6,000 Student Visas Over Crime and Support for Terrorism” by Mike LaChance at Gateway Pundit, 18 August 2025
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio Confirms U.S. Is Moving to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorist Organization” by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, August 13, 2025
“Whitewashed: How the FBI Misclassifies Middle Eastern Crime — and Why America Risks Becoming the Next Europe (Video)” by Donna Fodor at RAIR Foundation USA, August 21, 2025
“Gabbard strips security clearances of 37 intelligence officials, including many with Biden ties” by Rebecca Beitsch at The Hill, August 19, 2025
“'Arsonist and Firefighter': Radical Islamic State Cozies Up to Washington with Money” by Dale Hurd at the Christian Broadcasting Network, 08-13-2025
“What Trump Still Doesn’t Grasp About Radical Islam — and Iran” by Andrew McCarthy at National Review, June 16, 2025
Maybe the State Department Has Gotten the Message About Jihad, But the FBI Has Not
by Clare M. Lopez
September 2025
“State Department Announces Pause on Visitor Visas From Gaza” by Peter Aitken at Newsmax, August 16, 2025
- A number of individuals from Gaza were issued Non-Immigrant Visitor visas for temporary medical-humanitarian reasons but perhaps were not thoroughly vetted, hence the State Department review of processes and procedures for the issuance of those visas.
“REPORT: Marco Rubio State Department Has Revoked 6,000 Student Visas Over Crime and Support for Terrorism” by Mike LaChance at Gateway Pundit, 18 August 2025
- Bravo, Secretary Rubio!
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio Confirms U.S. Is Moving to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorist Organization” by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, August 13, 2025
- Only problem is that neither the Muslim Brotherhood nor any of its U.S. front groups has ever committed a single act of terrorism vs U.S./Americans. By focusing on kinetic violence – terrorism – we neglect to take into account or to counter what the MB actually does, which is subversion – a far greater threat to our Republic than terrorism could ever be.
“Whitewashed: How the FBI Misclassifies Middle Eastern Crime — and Why America Risks Becoming the Next Europe (Video)” by Donna Fodor at RAIR Foundation USA, August 21, 2025
- [Editor’s Note – This article describes a deliberate deception by the FBI: the FBI’s crime reporting system erases Middle Eastern offenders from the record—forcing officers to classify them as “white” or “Asian.” That means every crime committed by a Middle Easterner in America disappears into someone else’s category.]
- [Editor’s Note – This comes as no surprise as your editor spent years fighting the FBI in a FOIA case in federal court, only to have the court uphold every single one of the FBI’s preposterous arguments justifying the nondisclosure of government records on matters having to do with jihad and Islamic global domination. Something’s rotten in Denmark.]
“Gabbard strips security clearances of 37 intelligence officials, including many with Biden ties” by Rebecca Beitsch at The Hill, August 19, 2025
- Note that among these was Maher Bitar, who served at the National Security Council…even though he’d been a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Students for Justice in Palestine group when studying at Georgetown University.
“'Arsonist and Firefighter': Radical Islamic State Cozies Up to Washington with Money” by Dale Hurd at the Christian Broadcasting Network, 08-13-2025
- ‘Islamic State’ here means Qatar, a Muslim Brotherhood headquarters, that has lavished billions on U.S. lawyers, lobbyists, think tanks, and universities…but also hosted HAMAS leadership (at least until the 9 September 2025 targeted strike by Israel).
“What Trump Still Doesn’t Grasp About Radical Islam — and Iran” by Andrew McCarthy at National Review, June 16, 2025
- The point of the article is that it sometimes seems to take President Trump a while to realize that deeply-held ideological beliefs are not amenable to compromise, negotiation, or deals – but eventually, he does reach the end of patience with intransigence.