Mohamed Elibiary announced that he has left his position as a senior advisor with the Department of Homeland Security. Elibiary, a stalwart supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood,, said he was leaving so he can focus on "reforming" the conservative movement ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Elibiary is a long-time Texas Republican Party official and was a delegate for Senator John McCain in 2008. He continues to identify himself as a conservative Republican and argues that he can help the party's electoral prospects by moving its foreign policy in a pro-Islamist direction.
Elibiary is known for his almost daily advocacy for the Muslim Brotherhood on Twitter. He admits being intimately involved with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, which he describes as a "social network."
"People like me know of the brotherhood group in a much more personal manner than the Average White Guy, who has no more insight than what's available in the media," he wrote.
On September 5, he tweeted that the Muslim Brotherhood is "intellectually undermining" the Islamic State terrorist group (formerly known as ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) and that the Brotherhood has been vital to counter-radicalization for over 40 years. He stated that if the Brotherhood did not exist, the world would "rush to create it."
The Clarion Project contacted Elibiary asking for further explanation of how he hopes to "reform" conservative politics. He said he would not reply and accused the author of being part of "Islamophobia
Elibiary's Beginnings
Over the last year, the author communicated with Elibiary extensively and published a 37 page annotated interview with him. Among the takeaways are that Elibiary was 16 years old when he first befriended the CEO of the Holy Land Foundation, Shukri Abu Baker.
Baker taught Elibiary about the alleged persecution of Palestinians by Israel and Elibiary began donating monthly to the Foundation until it was shut down by the U.S. government in 2001.
The two remained so close that they met the day before Baker was found guilty of financing Hamas. The Justice Department confirmed that the Foundation was a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood front. Elibiary blasted the prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation and accused the U.S. government of "using the law to force compliance with unjust foreign policies."
Evidence introduced into the trial included FBI wiretaps of a secret 1993 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood meeting in Philadelphia where Baker repeatedly emphasized that deception is permissible and must be utilized.
One of the attending Hamas operatives, Abdel Haleem al-Ashqar, said, "Forming the public opinion or coming up with a policy to influence...the way the Americans deal with the Islamists, for instance. I believe that should be the goals of this stage."
One of the decisions made toward that objective at that 1993 meeting was to create the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which the Justice Department designated an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. The U.S. government listed CAIR as an entity of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, specifically its Palestine Committee.
Elibiary was a CAIR official. He was on the board of CAIR's Dallas-Fort Worth chapter in 2003. The founder of CAIR's Texas branch, Ghassan Elashi, was convicted of financing Hamas in the Holy Land trial. Elibiary did not reply to questions about his relationship with Elashi.
In 2004, Elibiary spoke at an event honoring Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the current Iranian regime. He says he did not know that was the purpose of the meeting. In 2007, he spoke at a joint conference of two Islamist groups, the North American Imams Federation and the very radical Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America.
Elibiary has said on Twitter that he met with the relatives of Hamas leaders and that he performed his hajjin 2011 as a guest of the Saudi King.
Elibiary has certainly advanced the stated objective of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood's 1993 meeting to influence policy in a pro-Islamist direction.
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) adviser long engulfed in controversy over his radical views was let go from his role in the department last week after a long fight by lawmakers and others to revoke the individual's privileges at DHS.
Mohamed Elibiary was until last week a senior member of DHS' Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). After years of controversy about his status at DHS, Elibiary announced his final day with the department on Twitter earlier this month and said he would remain close to the agency.
Media outlets have raised questions about the circumstances surrounding his departure, speculating that his provocative comments about the "inevitable" return of the Muslim "caliphate" may have played a role.
New documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon indicate that Elibiary had no choice in the matter, and that he may have been let go by DHS in order to minimize the fallout from an investigation into allegations that he improperly accessed and used classified materials obtained with his security clearance.
Elibiary was originally appointed to HSAC in 2010 and reappointed in September 2013 with the elevated title of "senior fellow," DHS informed Rep. Louie Gohmert (R., Texas) in a July letter about Elibiary's status with the agency, according to a copy of that correspondence obtained by the Free Beacon.
"Mr. Elibiary will not be reappointed when his term expires in September of 2014," Alan Bernstein, DHS assistant secretary for policy and chief diplomatic officer, informed Gohmert.
Bernstein provided no specific reason for this decision and a DHS spokesperson did not respond to a request for more information on the matter.
Patrick Poole, a counterterrorism analyst and writer who has closely tracked Elibiary's career and first reported on the allegations against him, said that DHS is trying to limit the fallout of his controversial tenure at the department.
"Mohamed wants to pretend that he's moving on to bigger and better things," Poole said. "But it's clear that Homeland Security threw him under the bus, and he's going back to [his home state of] Texas with his tail between his legs."
Elibiary has long been a lightening rod for controversy and a poster boy for critics who accuse the Obama administration of appointing radical advisers to a range of sensitive security posts.
Elibiary, for instance, came under fire in June for tweeting about the "inevitable" return of the Muslim "caliphate." His tweets were later praised by affiliates of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and potentially used to recruit extremist followers.
Elibiary also has maintained that America is "an Islamic country with an Islamically compliant constitution" and argued that the Muslim Brotherhood poses no threat to the United States.
While these comment have sparked outrage among critics who call Elibiary an extremist unfit to serve in such a sensitive role, the most concerning issue for lawmakers has been Elibiary's alleged role in the "inappropriate disclosure of sensitive law enforcement documents," as the letter from DHS frames it.
The exact details of the case have long been shrouded in mystery, with various officials providing unclear and at times contradictory answers about whether DHS ever properly investigated the allegations that Elibiary inappropriately accessed classified documents from a secure site and may have attempted to pass them to reporters.
Lawmakers such as Gohmert have expressed particular concern about how exactly Elibiary was vetted for a security clearance and what he did with it after being approved by DHS, which continues to maintain that no wrongdoing took place.
"As part of his role on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, [Elibiary] was provided access to a network containing sensitive but unclassified information," DHS claimed in its July 15 letter to Gohmert.
DHS further claimed that a 2011 investigation "found no credible information" that Elibiary "disclosed or sought to disclose For Official Use Only information to members of the media."
"The Department also did not find any indication that he sought to disclose any other internal OHS [Office of Homeland Security] information to anyone apart from official use of information within the scope of his role for the Homeland Security Advisory Council," the letter states. "Mr. Elibiary was sponsored for access to the Department's [secured] HS-SLIC system by the State of Texas and was only able to access unclassified information on this system."
However, documents obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act contradict DHS's claims and indicate that a proper investigation into Elibiary's actions never even took place.
"We conducted a comprehensive search of files within the DHS Enterprise Correspondence Tracking System (ECT) for records that would be responsive to your request. Unfortunately, we were unable to locate or identify any responsive records," DHS informed Judicial Watch in a Sept. 16, 2013, letter.
DHS could find not "investigative records regarding the alleged mishandling and any records of communication between any official, employee, or representative of the Department of Homeland Security and any member of Congress, congressional staff member, congressional committee, and/or congressional committee staff member regarding the alleged mishandling," it said in the letter.
Conflicting information such as this from DHS has led Gohmert and others to speculate that the department never thoroughly investigated the alleged abuse and is now letting Elibiary go in order to minimize any potential fallout.
The Judicial Watch documents "tells you Homeland Security lied" about the investigation, Gohmert said. "There was no legitimate investigation. They didn't say these documents are classified or secure, they said no such documents exist."
Poole speculated that Elibiary's controversial public comments as well as ongoing questions about the investigation likely fueled DHS's decision not to renew his tenure on the advisory council.
"I think two things contributed to him getting the boot by DHS," Poolse said. "The first was that Twitter gave the world an unfiltered look into the twisted extremist worldview of Mohamed Elibiary. It is amazing that someone in Homeland Security public affairs didn't put the clamp down on that. So his social media use was attracting nothing but negative attention."
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Homeland Security Advisor Quits After 'Inevitable' Return of 'Caliphate' Tweet Mohamed Elibiary, a top aide to President Obama, resigned this week following his offensives tweets which essentially support radical Islam and even terror.
United States Homeland Security Department adviser Mohamed Elibiary, who is no stranger to controversy, resigned following tweets about the "inevitable" return of the Caliphate and "misreading" of 9/11, Israel Hayom reports.
Elibiary, a member of American President Barack Obama's Homeland Security Advisory Council, stepped down from his position on September 3 after receiving backlash over a controversial comment that he posted on Twitter in June. Responding to a question about the Islamic State (IS) terror organization, Elibiary wrote, "As I've said b4 inevitable that 'Caliphate' returns."
After the June tweet, Elibiary was asked if he supported the "inevitable Caliphate," and he responded by saying that the U.S. is moving towards engaging with radical Islamic groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, the Washington Free Beacon reports.
The tweet was one of a string of posts deemed inappropriate for a senior government advisor, including one where he said he considered the U.S. to be an "Islamic country" and another where he suggested that those in the national security "uber hawks camp misread 9/11."
To date, the U.S. government has not provided any details on Elibiary's resignation, and it is unknown if it is directly related to the controversial Twitter posts.
A History of Problematic Statements
Elibiary has a history of controversial posts and statements. He used the controversial "R4BIA" four-finger salute symbol associated with the Muslim Brotherhood as decor on his Twitter profile, a choice that elicited criticism on the social media site and from at least one Israeli blog, The Blaze reports.
