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Wall Street Journal
26-07-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Lawmakers Want More Security as Threats and Attacks Mount
Eight miles from where Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz lives in Florida, local authorities arrested a felon last year who was allegedly shooting an illicit gun as part of target practice in his yard. After a search inside the man's dwelling, police said they found several firearms, body armor, silencers and ammunition, as well as a target list with synagogues and the Jewish lawmaker's name written on it, according to a case document filed on behalf of the government. The man, Moskowitz said, was a 'ghost'—he had never posted on social media and wasn't on the radar of the U.S. Capitol Police, which keeps tabs on threats.


The Hill
25-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Congress should designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization
The Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025 was introduced last week by six Republican senators, and in the House by by Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.) and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), co-chairs of the Friends of Egypt Caucus. The bill, which seeks to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, updates one that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) first introduced in 2015 and repeatedly since. This time, he has been joined by Republican Senate colleagues Ashley Moody (R-Fla.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Dave McCormick (R-Pa.). As McCormick told me, the 'Hamas Terrorists … proudly call themselves 'one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood' … which has aided and abetted some of the worst actors in the world for decades.' Indeed, the U.S. has considered Hamas a Foreign Terrorist Organization since October 1997. The findings in the bill include the statement that 'Muslim Brotherhood branches have sought to destabilize and undermine United States allies and partners throughout the Middle East, including in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, and have been outlawed as a terrorist group by the governments of those countries.' Indeed, the U.S. would hardly be the first nation to label the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group. The Egyptian government under the rule of King Farouk banned the Islamist organization in 1948. When he rose to power in 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser again banned the Brotherhood after he asserted that one of its members had attempted to assassinate him. Syria's Assad regime likewise banned the Brotherhood in 1980, meting out the death penalty for membership. Syria's new government, led by the former jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa, has retained both the ban and the penalty of capital punishment for Brotherhood membership. More recently, America's closest regional allies have followed Syria's lead. These include Bahrain, home to the American Fifth Fleet; Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both of which host U.S. military bases; and Egypt, home to the Navy's Medical Research Unit Three, the region's largest biomedical research laboratory. Egypt outlawed the Brotherhood in 2013, following the chaotic presidency of the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi and the accession of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The following year, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE all outlawed the organization; the last of these did so after claiming that its affiliates had tried to overthrow the government. Most recently, Jordan, also home to U.S. military bases, designated the Brotherhood as an illegal organization on April 23, believing that the Brotherhood had been trying to overthrow the Hashemite regime beginning in 2021. The government unearthed the plot two years later and it arrested 16 members of the Brotherhood, leading to the ban. Critics of Cruz's previous efforts to declare the Brotherhood a terrorist organization have argued that his legislation would prompt Islamophobia in the U.S. That argument falls flat in light of the several Arab states that have already banned the group. It is true that many of the organizations that support the legislation can be identified as proponents of Israel, whose creation the Brotherhood actively opposed. Brotherhood fighters participated in the 1948 war against the fledgling Jewish State, and its Hamas affiliate does so today. Nevertheless, when Egypt and Syria first banned the Brotherhood, they were both bitter enemies of Israel. The Gulf countries that followed suit in 2014 likewise did not have relations with Israel at the time that they outlawed the group. Clearly, their actions were driven by their concern for internal stability and regime protection, rather than any particular sympathy for Israel. It is noteworthy that Russia — hardly a friend of the U.S. or for that matter Israel — has also banned the Brotherhood. And France, a vehement critic of Israel's operation in Gaza, has imposed restrictions on the organization that fall just short of an outright ban. It is therefore high time that the White House follow the lead of its Arab allies and support the congressional initiative to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as the terrorist organization that it is. Indeed, doing so would be consistent with the overall policy of the Trump administration. Trump has no love for Hamas and more than anything else seeks to foster stability in the Middle East, if only to begin to extricate the U.S. from that tempestuous region. Dov S. Zakheim is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and vice chairman of the board for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was undersecretary of Defense (comptroller) and chief financial officer for the Department of Defense from 2001 to 2004 and a deputy undersecretary of Defense from 1985 to 1987.


CBS News
20-07-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Jim speaks with Rep. Jared Moskowitz about the Jeffrey Epstein files and more
Jim talks to Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz on a variety of topics including the escalating Jeffrey Epstein files controversy, and the congressman's recent visit to Alligator Alcatraz. Guest: Rep. Jared Moskowitz/D-Florida 23rd District President Trump on Friday filed a libel lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal's publisher and its leader, Rupert Murdoch, after the paper published a story on what it called a "bawdy" birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that the paper alleged was signed by Mr. Trump. Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday called on the Trump administration to release all records related to Jeffrey Epstein's prosecution and alleged co-conspirators, saying "the time has come" for transparency while emphasizing that the names of victims should be protected.


CNN
12-07-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Sources: Deputy FBI Director Considering Resigning - Anderson Cooper 360 - Podcast on CNN Podcasts
Sources: Deputy FBI Director Considering Resigning Anderson Cooper 360 47 mins Multiple sources say the FBI's number two was a no show at work today. Dan Bongino, the Deputy Director of the FBI, has told people he is considering resigning amid a major clash between the FBI and Justice Department over the continued fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein memo, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Plus, a week after people in Texas Hill Country woke up to the worst of the flooding, President Trump tours the area and questions continue over FEMA's delayed response. Anderson speaks to Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz, who is calling for a formal investigation into FEMA's response to the flooding.


The Independent
11-07-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Trump praises Noem's disaster response – because he saw her on TV
President Donald Trump has defended Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over criticism of the federal response to the deadly flash flooding in Texas by saying she has done a 'great job' because he saw her get out on TV quickly to reassure the public. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are visiting Kerr County on Friday to survey the devastation in the Lone Star State that left 121 people dead and 173 missing. However, their arrival coincides with reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s response to the disaster was delayed by three days due to a new rule instigated by Secretary Noem. The secretary's order, intended to rein in excessive spending, dictated that she must personally sign off on contracts and grants worth more than $100,000, something she only did in relation to the Texas disaster on Monday, leading to delays to the relief effort that may have cost lives as rescue workers battled flood waters that had laid waste to local housing and a children's summer camp. Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz has already called on the House committees on Homeland Security and Transportation and Infrastructure to investigate whether Noem's order held up proceedings. NBC's Kristen Welker interviewed the president on Thursday night and said: 'There are these reports that have come out that Secretary Noem, I guess, had to have sign-off on FEMA expenditures, and they may have delayed some of the response.' Trump answered: 'I don't know anything about it. We were right on time. We were there. In fact, she was the first one I saw on television. 'She was there right from the beginning, and she would not have needed anything. She had the right to do it, but she was literally the first person I saw on television.' He continued: 'That morning, when we all woke up and saw this tragedy that took place during the evening. And she was right on the ball. She's done a great job.' Noem, whose Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversees FEMA, reacted angrily to CNN's reporting on her handling of the disaster, calling it 'fake news' and the network itself 'absolute trash' during an interview on Fox and Friends. Before that, she responded to criticism of the agency on Wednesday for sending a fraction of the personnel to Texas that the state itself has deployed to address the crisis – 70, compared to 1,750 – by insisting that the federal government does not manage natural disasters, but rather that they are the responsibility of individual states. 'We come in and support them, and that's exactly what we did here in this situation,' she said. Completing a bad week for Noem and FEMA, the agency's acting administrator, David Richardson, has been reported as missing in action, having failed to visit Texas, sparking concern about how his agency is run and whether he has effectively handed over responsibility to the secretary. FEMA was created to 'prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against the risk of natural disasters' and its leader would ordinarily be expected to play a prominent organisational role and be out in front of the cameras to give regular updates. The Independent has contacted FEMA and DHS for comment. Last year, Trump threatened to shut the agency down altogether, commenting at a campaign event in June: 'We want to wean off of FEMA, and we want to bring it down to the state level. 'A governor should be able to handle it, and frankly, if they can't handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn't be governor.' Asked earlier this week whether he is still sharpening the axe for FEMA, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was evasive and said only: 'The president wants to ensure American citizens always have what they need during times of need. Whether that assistance comes from states or the federal government, that is a policy discussion that will continue.'