From Salon, 6/22/04:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/06/22/gill/index_np.html
How secure is the Department of Homeland Security?
Senior Homeland Security official Faisal Gill failed to disclose that
he worked for an American Muslim leader now in jail on terrorism
charges.
By Mary Jacoby
WASHINGTON --
The policy director for the Department of Homeland Security's
intelligence division was briefly removed from his job in March when
the Federal Bureau of Investigation discovered he had failed to
disclose his association with Abdurahman Alamoudi, a jailed American
Muslim leader.
Alamoudi was indicted last year on terrorism-related money-laundering
charges and now claims to have been part of a plot to assassinate
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah.
After a flurry of interagency meetings, however, Homeland Security
decided to leave the policy director, Faisal Gill, in place, according
to two government officials with knowledge of the Alamoudi
investigation.
A White House political appointee with close ties to Republican power
broker Grover Norquist and no apparent background in intelligence,
Gill has access to top-secret information on the vulnerability of
America's seaports, aviation facilities and nuclear power plants to
terrorist attacks.
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Read more about Republican power broker Grover Norquist:
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/03/29/120.html
http://www.njdc.org/readNews.php?show=289&subcat=3
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