National Security Advisor to the President, James Jones

Homeland insecurity adviser

By Frank Gaffney Jr.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Homeland insecurity adviser

With the recent departures of OMB Director Peter Orszag, Economic Policy Advisor Lawrence Summers and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, the next senior Obama administration official expected to quit is the National Security Advisor to the President, James Jones. All other things being equal, his successor seems likely to be the President’s Homeland Security Advisor, John Brennan (who also serves as General Jones’ deputy).

Such a promotion for Mr. Brennan would not only be unwarranted and ill-advised. To the extent it would affirm and further institutionalize John Brennan’s willful blindness, or worse, towards the most serious threat of our time - the supremacist totalitarian politico-military-legal program authorities of Islam call shariah - it could prove catastrophic.

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