Intelligence failure at DHS?

[tangaroa]

Faisal Gill, the director of intelligence policy policy director of the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection unit at the Department of Homeland Security, had previously worked for al-Qaeda frontman Abdurahman Alamoudi. That does not make him a bad guy; he could have been one of ours spying on Alamoudi's people. It does make one wonder just what the hell was going on over there.

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This came to my attention now because Glenn Greenwald published a list of people under investigation by the NSA, Gill was the first name on the list, and I Googled him. This investigation is being framed by Greenwald as an injury to liberty; it is supposed to somehow be wrong that the government got a warrant to eavesdrop on the communications of a guy with a known direct connection to al-Qaeda. The position of Greenwald and his echo chamber is that these people should be immune from investigation for their connections to al-Qaeda because they happen to be Muslim. What the hell is going on over there?

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Edit Aug. 12: On rereading the article, Gill was policy director of the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection division.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Once is an accident, twice is coincidence.. three times?

Something smells, and lets not forget who funded Osma Bin Laden and some of the other proto Al-Qa’ida founders when they were resistance fighters against the soviets.

Me, I think some of the old boys who started out in the CIA etc are doing a little mutually-assured ass-covering over what they got up to together in the 80's.