A former FBI agent and current anti-Islam activist believes that John Brennan, President Obama's pick to head the CIA, is secretly a Muslim and therefore "unfit for duty" in the government.

On Friday, John Guandolo, the vice president of the Virginia-based Strategic Engagement Group (SEG), appeared on the Boca Raton-based radio show of Tom Trento, the president of the anti-"Shariah Islam" group The United West, formerly the Florida Security Council. Guandolo described how Brennan has supposedly "interwoven his life professionally and personally with individuals that we know are terrorists and he has given them access" to top officials in the federal government and "brought known Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood leaders into the government and into advisory positions."

Guandolo continued that what "some would say is most disturbing, Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in an official capacity on behalf of the United States when he served in Saudi Arabia" and it "was the culmination of a counterintelligence operation against him to recruit him" by foreign operatives.

In an email to supporters, Trento hyped the interview, referencing the "very brave Michele Bachmann" who recently accused Hillary Clinton's aide Huma Abedin of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Trento continued with the caveat that the "organized left" will probably say things like "Trento & Guandolo are Islamophobic haters who have no credibility" and "Show me proof, I mean real proof, not just overwhelming circumstantial evidence" and "Big deal so the head of the CIA is a Muslim, who cares?" Trento offers a response to one of those statements: "We care – because Islam, by DEFINITION, is BOTH a religion and a POLITICAL system. Moreover, by DOCTRINE, full allegiance to the political mandate of Islam (world domination) SUPERCEDES allegiance to anything else, including the United States of America!"

Salon, 10 February 2013

Only a year ago a state panel in Tennessee ignored complaints by CAIR and others to unanimously approve an SEG training course for law enforcement officers on "Understanding the threat to America" with Guandolo as one of the trainers.

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In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloging mosques, the New York police department's secret demographics unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged in court testimony unsealed late Monday.

The demographics unit is at the heart of a police spying program, built with help from the CIA, which assembled databases on where Muslims lived, shopped, worked and prayed. Police infiltrated Muslim student groups, put informants in mosques, monitored sermons and cataloged every Muslim in New York who adopted new, Americanized surnames.

Police hoped the demographics unit would serve as an early warning system for terrorism. And if police ever got a tip about, say, an Afghan terrorist in the city, they'd know where he was likely to rent a room, buy groceries and watch sports.

But in a 28 June deposition as part of a longstanding federal civil rights case, assistant chief Thomas Galati said none of the conversations the officers overheard ever led to a case. "Related to demographics," Galati testified that information that has come in "has not commenced an investigation."

The NYPD is the largest police department in the nation and mayor Michael Bloomberg has held up its counterterrorism tactics as a model for the rest of the country. After the Associated Press began reporting on those tactics last year, supporters argued that the demographics unit was central to keeping the city safe.

Associated Press, 21 August 2012

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