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4:54 PM, Nov 16, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER"Do something, don't just sleep in dirt," Rep. Peter King (R, New York) tells the Occupy Wall Street mob in a fantastic television interview.
“First of all, you try to listen to them and they make almost no sense,” King says. “These are people who were living in dirt, these were people who are involved in drugs, there was violence, there was rape, these were a small number of people — you could probably get more people at a Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral on a Sunday than you got in Zuccotti Park...I mean, what is their position? They’re mad because people are making money, or are they mad that there’s no jobs in this country? All of us believe that, we’re trying to find a way to do it. You don’t do it by living in dirt, you don’t do it by carrying out rapes, you don’t do it by yelling out anti-American slogans.”
1:32 PM, Aug 10, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENDid the Obama administration compromise intelligence and sensitive military information by giving a Hollywood director high level access to details of the killing of Osama bin Laden? That’s what Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, wants to investigate.
Read more... 2:15 PM, Jul 27, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN
At a House Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday morning on the domestic threat of al Shabaab, Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) warned that the Somali terrorist organization could carry out a terrorist attack in America and that it should not be underestimated.
Read more... 6:51 PM, Jun 24, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENTwo resolutions on the Libya intervention failed in the House of Representatives today. One sought to authorize military action, while the other would have limited funding for the operation. Only eight Republicans voted for the authorization measure, and 89 Republicans joined with most of the Democratic caucus to defeat the defunding resolution.
Read more... Democrats object.1:03 PM, Jun 15, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN
House Homeland Security Committee chair Pete King (R-N.Y.) held the latest hearing on the threat of homegrown radicalization of Muslims this morning, focusing specifically on radicalization in American prisons. Law enforcement experts testified that a small but dangerous group of convicts are converting to radical Islam within state and federal prisons, threatening America’s security.
Read more... 4:41 PM, Mar 28, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENIllinois senator Dick Durbin will convene a hearing tomorrow on anti-Muslim bigotry, which he says will renew our nation's commitment to civil rights for Muslims. Today, New York congressman Peter King, who was roundly criticized for focusing on American Muslims at his recent hearing on homegrown radicalization, criticized Durbin for holding the hearing.
Read more... 7:12 PM, Mar 10, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN“These are not Muslim-bashing hearings,” Abdirizak Bihi, the uncle of a radicalized Muslim teenager, said to reporters immediately after testifying at this morning’s House Homeland Security Committee hearing. But according to some Democrats, the hearing was an act of discrimination against Muslims and a danger to national security and civil rights.
Read more... 2:00 PM, Mar 10, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERIt is not always bad to be offensive. And offending terrorists, for instance, strikes me as a pretty good example. But this point seems lost in our politically correct culture -- and it seems especially lost on New York Times columnists.
Read more... 12:15 PM, Mar 7, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENThe Washington Post ran a cover story in Saturday's issue about New York Republican congressman Peter King, the chair of the House Homeland Security committee.
Read more... 2:48 PM, Feb 9, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN
Despite concern from the left about the potential for Rep. Peter King's Homeland Security Committee hearings would unfairly "[single] out an entire community, such as Muslim Americans," this morning's hearing with Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano and Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, focused primarily on the efficacy of the government's counterterrorism efforts with regard to homegrown Islamic terrorism. But for a brief five minutes, Democrat Bennie Thompson, the ranking member on the committee, brought the focus to what he considers a great threat to homeland security: anti-tax groups.
Read more... 5:17 PM, Jan 11, 2011 • By JOHN MCCORMACKIn response to Saturday's shooting spree in Tucscon, Rep. Peter King (R, N.Y.) has announced that he's planning on introducing legislation to make it illegal for American citizens to knowingly carry a firearm within 1,000 feet of a member of Congress.
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