John Pistole is the FBI Deputy Director for Counter Terrorism and Counter Intelligence. Pistole is about to begin a swing across the US early next year discussing “Counter terrorism and Civil Rights.”

I got an email from a group in Albuquerque, New Mexico that is sponsoring a talk by Pistole in February.

I took the opportunity to write one of the sponsors and suggested some questions to pose to Pistole during a Q+A period at the conclusion of his talk.

First, why did the FBI prosecute Messrs. Steve Rosen and Ken Weissman former senior staffers at AIPAC for holding ex parte discussions with former Pentagon official Larry Franklin concerning US plans to counter Iran’s nuclear threat under a hoary 90 year Sedition Law, not employed since the end of WWI?

Second, why does the FBI persist in not hiring qualified Jews and Christians as linguist/analysts, while hiring Arab Muslims in its ‘chaotic’ Washington language laboratory program. I refer to the case of Sibel Edmonds, formerly a translator in the Washington language laboratory who witnessed a ‘celebration’ on 9/12 by Arab Muslims translators cited in the 9/11 Commission report. There is also the embarrassing case of Ms. Nada Nadim Prouty, a Lebanese Muslim by origin, who came to the US as an illegal alien and fraudulently became a US citizen through a marriage of convenience. She pled quilty to being a mole for Hezbollah, was originally hired as a translator by the FBI and subsequently by the CIA, who allegedly passed background screening and polygraph tests.

Third, why does the FBI under Director Mueller persist in holding regional office outreach programs to groups like the Council of American Islamic relations (CAIR) cited as ‘un-indicted co-conspirators’ in the Dallas Federal Holy Land Foundation charity case? A case that ended in a mistrial largely because of perjury by a juror -a Hamas sympathizer who intimidated his fellow jurors identified through exclusive interviews of jurors by The Investigative Project on Terrorism headed by counter terrorism expert, Steven Emerson. FBI agents consider CAIR as a ‘turnstile’ for terrorist suspects.

Fourth, why does the FBI and other members of the Joint Counter Terrorism task force persist in letting Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas training websites and chat rooms remain up on the Internet, when UK, FRG, Israeli experts and our own Department of Homeland Security (DHS) suggest that there is little to no actionable intelligence to be gained by doing so, when all these sites do is to train Jihadis in terrorist techniques and identify targets through Goggle earth. I specifically refer to two such websites hosted by an Internet Service Provider, Hivelocity in Tampa, Florida and to Paltalk in Manhattan who hosts major Al Qaeda and other terrorist chat rooms.

Fifth, why has the FBI not effectively monitored and closed down more than 45 Para-military camps in rural sections of America organized by Pakistani terrorist sponsor group Jaamat ul-Fuqra that trains former Prison inmates and converts to Radical Islam?

I would urge you to closely question Mr. Pistole on these matters.

My colleague Brigitte Gabriel , President and Founder of American Congress for Truth and I met with FBI special and supervisory agents about FBI counter terrorism programs. They are still very much unresolved, perhaps, in part, because of the lack of recognition of their seeming importance by the leadership of the FBI.

We hope the New Mexico contingent in Albuquerque will raise some of these issues after Mr. Pistole’s presentation this coming February.