Judicial Watch Sues FBI for Records Relating to Award Given to Controversial Muslim Homeland Security Adviser.

Judicial Watch Sues FBI for Records Relating to Award Given to Controversial Muslim Homeland Security Adviser.HT: JudicialWatch.

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that on March 25, 2014, it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking agency records related to the awarding of the Louis E. Peters Award in 2011 to Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Advisory Council (Judicial Watch v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (No. 1:14-cv-00497)).  Elibiary is alleged to have close ties to radical Islamist organizations, including the Muslim Brotherhood.

Judicial Watch seeks the following documents in its June 24, 2013, FOIA request:

Any and all records regarding, concerning, or related to the awarding of the Louis E. Peters Memorial Award to Mr. Mohamed Elibiary on September 8, 2011. This request includes, but is not limited to, any and all recommendations and other records of communications regarding, concerning, or related to the award.

Elibiary, who in his role as Homeland Security advisor has regular access to classified information, most recently came under fire in November 2013 for tweeting out the message that America is “an Islamic country with an Islamically compliant constitution.”In its December 2013 “Special Report: U.S. Government Purges of Law Enforcement Training Material Deemed ‘Offensive’ to Muslims”

Judicial Watch identified Elibiary as one of nearly a half-dozen “Islamist influence operators” within the Obama administration “seeking to advance an ideological agenda completely at odds with our constitutional system.”Read the full story here.