I hold no brief for Representative Peter King, a proud IRA supporter despite the group’s deliberate murder of civilians (and the training and weapons its members received from Libya) who is now getting all indignant about another variant of terrorism.
His committee hearings on Islamic Radicalism are legitimate in their choice of subject, as Ruth Marcus, a liberal columnist, notes here. But they are flawed because of King’s own blatant hypocrisy and status as, in Alex Massie’s words, “America’s worst congressman”. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more
