I had heard of this, but was confused as to the story attribution since this exact same thing happened in a congressional hearing this year with the seven-term Alabama Congressman Terry Everett executing basically the same display of ignorance as Mr. Reyes here. I was wondering if this story was getting transposed, but then, I don’t doubt at all the probability that NOTHING will have been learned by the Corporacrats running all branches of our political system. This is truly absurd, and portends some increasingly deadly absurdity in the next few months and years. It will most likely also serve as dangerously distasteful fodder for the old argument that both parties have to be abandoned entirely (but for different reasons, much akin to the the differences inherent between a wife who leaves a husband out of neglect, and one because of direct abuse).

Law enforcement and intelligence experts are scratching their heads in disbelief upon discovering that the next House Intelligence Committee Chairman doesn’t possess even a basic understanding of terrorism or terrorist groups. In fact, he’s never heard of Hezbollah.

Representative Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), who was Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi’s second choice to head the sensitive and vital committee, did not know what Hezbollah was and incorrectly described Al-Qaeda as being Shiite rather than Sunni.

Rep. Reyes appeared disoriented when a reporter asked him basic questions about the Islamic groups that are the principal targets of America’s intelligence agencies, including Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and others.

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He also asked Reyes about the terrorist group Hezbollah. “Hezbollah. Uh, Hezbollah…” he said, laughing. “Why do you ask me these questions at five o’clock? Can I answer in Spanish? Do you speak
Spanish?”

“This is no laughing matter. Where was this man when Israel and Hezbollah battled for almost two weeks?” asked a former intelligence officer and now New York City detective.

“We went from an impeached judge to a man ignorant of the basic facts regarding terrorist groups. What kind of oversight will that be?” he added.

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