Rep. Myrick further lavishes deserving praise upon Major Coughlin’s thesis, "Major Coughlin’s thesis must be read by everyone responsible for ensuring the safety of America," for which we now learn he has been retained, and arguably even promoted, within the DOD.

But Congresswoman Myrick’s statement also evidences a curious if not disturbing cognitive dissonance about her expressed concern over jihadist "infiltration," when it comes to Hesham Islam.

Depty Secy England said of Hesham Islam, “Hesham has wonderful friendships and relationships, and therefore he can give me extraordinarily good advice in dealing with countries and people,” England said. “I take his advice, and I listen to him all the time.”

Depty Secretary England said he rarely disagrees with Islam’s guidance.

But a senior U.S. official says the life-story that Hesham Islam presented on his "resume didn't add up- and he knows it. He's voluntarily leaving the government in March."

As WND previously reported, FBI officials believe Islam is involved with the U.S. branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and is helping its front groups run "influence operations" against the U.S. government.

"He's a Muslim Brother(hood-ist)," an FBI official told WND. "He's a bad actor, and he's made other unreported nefarious contacts."

The Investigative Project's Steven Emerson comments in Family Security Matters "why the Muslim organizations Louay Safi (executive director of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Leadership Development Center) refers to are considered questionable. It is documented facts like this.

Safi's organization, ISNA, is the first organization identified on the document's last page among "A list of our organizations and the organizations of our friends," by a secret Muslim Brotherhood committee created to advance the Hamas agenda in the United States.

And what is the committee's ultimate objective? See page 21 of the same document. Remember, these aren't some wild-eyed Neocon fantasies, but the words of the committee members themselves:

The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.

That helps explain why some people raise questions about outreach and partnership efforts by the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security to a group like ISNA.