George Washington U Hires Al Qaeda Terrorist as National Security Expert

I don't see the problem. He's clearly an expert in the field. Granted he's an expert in carrying out terrorism rather than preventing it, but that's true across all levels of government under Obama. We have a DOJ that specializes in protecting criminals. Why not just bring terrorists in to help with national security?

George Washington University has hired a former Islamic extremist to work at its center on homeland security -- a man who once denounced the United States and made threats against the creators of the TV series "South Park" for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.

While reformed extremists have worked at universities in Europe to help fight terrorism, this is believed to be a first in the United States.Jesse Morton, who was known as Younus Abdullah Muhammad when he was a recruiter for the al-Qaeda, brings a "unique perspective" to counter-terrorism work, said Seamus Hughes, deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University's Center for Cyber & Homeland Security.

Unique certainly.

I imagine a pedophile would also bring a unique perspective to babysitting or a bank robber to guarding banks. But this is the mad logic of CVE in which you're constantly trying to reform Muslims. And that trumps all else.

Earlier this year, Zachary Adam Chesser, 21, who admitted to posting online threats, was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Chesser, a Muslim convert, encouraged violent jihadists to attack “South Park” writers for an episode that depicted the Prophet Mohammed in a bear suit, court documents said. Chesser posted online messages that included the writers’ home addresses and urged online readers to “pay them a visit,” the documents said. In an affidavit accompanying the complaint against Morton, FBI special agent Paula R. Menges said Morton, co-founder of the group called Revolution Muslim, worked with Chesser on a “clarification statement” after Chesser’s postings.

A federal judge in 2012 agreed that Morton deserved a harsh punishment, sentencing him to 11 1/2 years in prison. But less than three years later, the 37-year-old is out and being paid by the FBI, according to government records and an attorney who says Morton helped federal officials build a case against a client accused of trying to join the Islamic State.

Though police cooperators receiving sentencing breaks is hardly a novel practice, Morton’s release is unusual in that, at least when he pleaded guilty, federal authorities billed him as particularly malevolent.

“We may never know all of those who were inspired to engage in terrorism because of Revolution Muslim, but the string of recent terrorism cases with ties to Morton’s organization demonstrates the threat it posed to our national security,” then-U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride said in a statement at the time.

Revolution Muslim was particularly slick. It was the Islamic equivalent of the Hipster Nazis you see often on Twitter these days. And so it's quite likely that Morton is exactly who he was back then. He's just figured out what most professional Islamists already learned. That if you show a stick and then a carrot, the government will give you the whole candy store.