Pandering has its limits: FBI headquarters rescinds award to terrorist frontman

FBI Director Mueller has drawn the line at how far the Bureau should pander to ‘victim’ groups, and reportedly will not bestow an Excellence in Public Service award to a Michigan activist suspected of terrorist connections, and whose lawyer admits he supports the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

According to press reports, the FBI chief was to have given two awards Thursday night. One is being given posthumously to an American Airlines flight attendant who was killed when her hijacked jetliner crashed into New York’s World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The other was to go to an Arab-American political organizer who was held under a 1996 counterterrorism law as an alleged member of the PFLP, and whose lawyer admits is a supporter of the terrorist organization.

The heroic flight attendant will still get her award, but the PFLP man, who has been active in denouncing FBI “civil rights” violations in the domestic war on terrorism, apparently won’t.

The Center for Security Policy criticized the FBI leadership for pandering to Muslim and Arab groups that condemned the 9/11 attacks but openly support other organizatons that the U.S. government has designated as terrorist. Maybe now, FBI headquarters will start listening more to its agents in the field.