In a rare coordinated attack, Rudy Giuliani and his supporter Rep. Pete King (R-Seaford) teamed up to beat up on Democrats today.
This morning, King went on Fox News to attack House Democrats for tying up his amendment to the Homeland Security bill to give legal immunity to anyone who in good faith reports “suspicious” people or events to anti-terrorism authorities.
The immunity legislation arose from lawsuits filed by six Muslim religious scholars against airlines and some of the passengers whose complaints the Imams were acting suspiciously led to their removal from the flight.
“What’s happening,” King told the Fox News host, “as best I can understand it, is that the hard-core liberal wing, the moveon.org, the CAIR wing of the Democratic Party is just putting extraordinary pressure on the House Democrats.”
Soon after King’s TV appearance, Giuliani’s GOP presidential campaign put out a rare statement on a specific piece of legislation.
“This morning, congressional Democrats are once again showing they just don’t get the Terrorists’ War on Us…Peter King is doing the right thing by putting our national security first and political correctness run amok second.”
Democrats say the language of King’s amendment is too broad, but said they supported the concept, AP reported. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said it would protect even those who knowingly and maliciously call in a false tip.
Tom Brune