This book is an in-depth look at the experiences of the former head of the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General—the most expansive IG organization in the world—from 2002-2005. The Handbook is designed not only for teaching and training professionals assigned to Offices of Inspector General throughout the US federal and state governments, but also for the benefit of government and corporate leaders who will need, sooner or later, to deal intelligently with an IG. “Important reading for every inspector general.”—DONALD RUMSFELD Secretary of Defense of the United States, 1975-1977 and 2001-2006 “Nobody knows the history, traditions, and functions of an Inspector General better than Joe Schmitz. The Inspector General Handbook is a practical guide for anyone working within an IG office who wants to serve in a constitutionally sound role as part of the leadership team. The IG in any organization should detect organizational performance problems early, and should enable rapid responses so that systemic problems can be addressed before they spread further or cause irreversible damage. This first-ever IG Handbook sheds light on an area of American government that is often misunderstood, frequently maligned, and yet indispensable to the functioning of our republic. This book is a ‘must read’ for all government leaders and for every lawyer who needs to know by what authority and for what purposes an Inspector General serves ‘We the People’ of these United States.” —JOHN ASHCROFT former U.S. Senator and Attorney General of the United States, 2001-2005 “The office of Inspector General can seem highly problematic, located within each executive department but reporting not only to the head of the department but also to Congress and, through Congress, to the public. Schmitz carefully examines the nature of the institution, and demystifies it while at the same time promoting respect for it. The Inspector General Handbook is a work of lasting value.” —MICHAEL B. MUKASEY Attorney General of the United States, 2007-2009, and U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1988- 2006 “Joe Schmitz’ Handbook delivers a previously missing link in the understanding of post-9/11 law enforcement professionals who take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Of all public sector professionals, Inspectors General should be transparent; the American People ought never to wonder why an IG does what he or she does. And with Joe’s Inspector General Handbook, that transparency is now achieved.” —LOUIS J. FREEH Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1993-2001

The Inspector General Handbook: Fraud, Waste, Abuse and Other Constitutional "Enemies, Foreign and Domestic"

Politics & Social Sciences

Schmitz, Joseph E.

Politics & Government

Center for Security Policy

This monograph is one of a series of Civilization Jihad Readers being published by the Center for Security Policy Press. Each monograph in this series assesses its own aspect of the various methods by which the Muslim Brotherhood conducts civilization Jihad in America. This report, an update from the Center’s original work in 2011, demonstrates that Islamic Law (Shariah) continues to grow right here in America, threatening especially Muslim women and children, many of whom fled their homelands to escape the inequalities and individual liberty-crushing strictures of that foreign legal system. This monograph also provides both insight into the Muslim Brotherhood-connected organizations hard at work to maintain the expansion of Shariah, as well as a proven method by which American policymakers can halt this assault on the supreme law of this land - America’s Constitution.

Shariah in American Courts: The Expanding Incursion of Islamic Law in the U.S. Legal System (Civilization Jihad Reader Series)

Foreign & International Law

In August of 2004, an alert Maryland Transportation Authority Police officer observed a woman wearing traditional Islamic garb videotaping the support structures of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and conducted a traffic stop. The driver was Ismail Elbarasse and detained on an outstanding material witness warrant issued in Chicago in connection with fundraising for Hamas.The FBI’s Washington Field Office subsequently executed a search warrant on Elbarasse’s residence in Annandale, Virginia. In the basement of his home, a hidden sub-basement was found; it revealed over 80 banker boxes of the archives of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America. One of the most important of these documents made public to date was entered into evidence during the Holy Land Foundation trial. It amounted to the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic plan for the United States and was entitled, “An Explanatory Memorandum: On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America.” The Explanatory Memorandum was written in 1991 by a member of the Board of Directors for the Muslim Brotherhood in North America and senior Hamas leader named Mohammed Akram. It had been approved by the Brotherhood’s Shura Council and Organizational Conference and was meant for internal review by the Brothers’ leadership in Egypt. It was certainly not intended for public consumption, particularly in the targeted society: the United States. For these reasons, the memo constitutes a Rosetta stone for the Muslim Brotherhood, its goals, modus operandi and infrastructure in America. It is arguably the single most important vehicle for understanding a secretive organization and should, therefore, be considered required reading for policy-makers and the public, alike.

An Explanatory Memorandum: From the Archives of the Muslim Brotherhood in America (Center for Security Policy Archival Series)

Akram, Mohamed

On 8 April, 2010, President Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or "New START," lowering the limit on deployed strategic nuclear weapons by either nation. The following week, President Obama hosted the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., the stated purpose of which was to address "the threat of nuclear materials in the hands of terrorists or criminals." Against this backdrop, three panels of distinguished experts on nuclear policy convened in Washington, D.C. to offer critical assessment of President Obama's nuclear agenda-and weather it is compatible with maintaining an American nuclear arsenal that can credibly, reliably, and effectively address today's threats.

Dangerous Road: The Nuclear Policies of the Obama Administration

Monroe, Robert

Gaffney Jr., Frank J.

Curtis, Lisa

Bromund, Ted

DeSutter, Paula

Huessy, Peter

Klingner, Bruce

Lohman, Walter

Lyons, James "Ace"

Rademaker, Stephen

"Today, there is growing and increasingly unmistakable evidence of the existence of a nexus between energy and security. The latter should be properly understood to include economic and environmental security, as well as the more traditional aspects of national security. And each is being threatened by serious vulnerabilities associated with America's dependence on foreign supplies of oil." (From Frank Gaffney's "The Perilous Nexus)

Homegrown Defense: Biofuels & National Security

Clark, Wesley K.

Zubrin, Robert

Luft, Gal

Haigwood, Burl

Dolan, Greg

This study is the result of months of analysis, discussion and drafting by a group of top security policy experts concerned with the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time: the legal-political-military doctrine known within Islam as "shariah." It is designed to provide a comprehensive and articulate "second opinion" on the official characterizations and assessments of this threat as put forth by the United States government. The authors, under the sponsorship of the Center for Security Policy, have modeled this work on an earlier "exercise in competitive analysis" which came to be known as the "Team B" Report. The present Team B II report is based entirely on unclassified, readily available sources. As with the original Team B analysis, however, this study challenges the assumptions underpinning the official line in the conflict with today's totalitarian threat, which is currently euphemistically described as "violent extremism," and the policies of co-existence, accommodation and submission that are rooted in those assumptions.

Shariah: The Threat To America: An Exercise In Competitive Analysis (Report of Team B II)

West, Diana

Woolsey, R. James

Guandolo, John

Boykin, William J

Soyster, Harry Edward

COOPER, Henry

Coughlin, Stephen C.

Del Rosso, Michael

Lopez, Clare M.

McCarthy, Andrew C.

Poole, Patrick

Trento, Tom

Waller, J. Michael

The free speech rights of authors, researchers and journalists writing on issues of public security and national concern are increasingly under attack through both violent and non-violent means. An important non-violent challenge to free speech has emerged in the form of “Islamist lawfare,” the use of the law as a weapon of war to silence and punish free speech about militant Islam, terrorism and its sources of financing. 
 The strategic end of Islamist lawfare is to further the goals of the Islamist movement, one of which is to abolish public discourse critical of Islam and punish anything deemed blasphemous to its prophet, Mohammad. Another goal of Islamist lawfare is to impede the free flow of public information about the threat of Islamist terrorism, thereby limiting our ability to understand it and destroy it. In this way, Islamist lawfare takes the form of a complementary legal campaign to terrorism and asymmetric warfare. 
 Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech– written by two of America’s experts in this field– describes this phenomenon and gives practical guidance about navigating this new terrain to journalists who wish to speak truthfully about the national security threats we face. 
 This book is a must-read primer on the First Amendment, and should be reviewed by anyone writing about the most controversial topics of our time. 
 Aaron Eitan Meyer and Brooke Goldstein present Lawfare Against Free Speech: A First Amendment Guide to Reporting in an Age of Islamist Lawfare, the first book of its kind aimed at giving practical tips to journalists when writing about these topics. 
 ABOUT THE AUTHORS
 Brooke Goldstein is a human rights attorney and award-winning filmmaker. She serves as director of The Lawfare Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness and facilitating a response to the abuse of the legal system and human rights law. She is also the founder and director of the Children’s Rights Institute (CRI) which tracks and legally combats violations of children’s basic human rights as occurring throughout the globe.
 Aaron Eitan Meyer served as research director of The Lawfare Project, director of research for the Children’s Rights Institute, legal correspondent for the Terror Finance Blog, and is on the advisory board for the digital advocacy group, Act for Israel. He received his B.A. from New School University, and his J.D. from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center.

Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech: A First Amendment Guide for Reporting in an Age of Islamist Lawfare

Goldstein, Brooke M

Meyer, Aaron Eitan

Media & the Law

In Covering Washington, veteran national security reporter and author Bill Gertz presents a helpful and entertaining handbook for new journalists navigating the nation’s capital. Peppering the book with anecdotes from his long career, Gertz dispenses the kind of wisdom you’d pick up if you were lucky enough to work alongside a journalist who’s seen it all—in Washington and in capitals around the world. Covering Washington is a perfect companion for someone launching a career as a reporter.

Covering Washington: A Guidebook for Reporters

Reference

Gertz, Bill

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

FOURTH EDITION. This monograph relates the evidence that supports charges I have made since I first became aware in 1999 of the true nature of the Islamic Free Market Institute (better known as the Islamic Institute or II), which was then operating out of the office of Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR). At the time, my organization, the Center for Security Policy, had just begun a seven-year sublet from ATR, which included a shared conference space and copier room. Shortly after we moved into those suites, a colleague asked if I knew that there was an Islamist front group on the other side of that Xerox room. I did not at the time. But over the next seven, biblically long years, I had ample opportunity to establish that the Islamic Institute was closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. It also became clear that, with considerable help from Grover Norquist, II and its associates were conducting successful influence operations against the conservative movement, the Republican Party and the George W. Bush team—starting with the 2000 presidential campaign and, subsequently, the Bush ’43 administration. In the intervening years, I have tried to warn those on the Right—and anyone else who would listen—about the seditious designs of the Muslim Brotherhood, its stealthy “civilization jihad” and the associated subversion aimed at our nation’s civil society institutions and governing agencies. Regrettably, such efforts have been met by many of Washington D.C.’s prominent conservatives with what can be charitably be described as willful blindness. Thanks to the national security leaders who transmitted the Statement of Facts, the extent to which Norquist and others continue to pose a danger to the nation and the conservative movement is now available for everyone to judge.

Agent of Influence: Grover Norquist and the Assault on the Right (Center for Security Policy Archival Series)

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