Steven Emerson & Walid Phares Testify on Domestic Implications of Radicalization (updated)
By Andrew Cochran
Steven Emerson and Walid Phares testify today before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, at a hearing titled, "The Homeland Security Implications of Radicalization.” The hearing will be at 1 pm ET in room 2212, Rayburn House Building. Other witnesses include senior officials from the National Counterterrorism Center, the FBI, and DHS.
UPDATE: You can read Steve's testimony here, and here is Walid's testimony (Acrobat files).
Two interesting comments from early in the hearing: Rep. Peter King, chairman of the full committee, said that police in New York have conducted surveillance of certain mosques and found that they are hiring released prisoners who converted to Islam in prison as security guards. And the Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division at the FBI said that the Justice Department has made a concerted sweep of federal prisons in recent years to remove extremist literature. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross discussed the literature at length in his testimony before the Senate yesterday.
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