Conservative take: ADL’s Hypocrisy on Pompeo
Dems have rallied around opposition to Mike Pompeo’s nomination as secretary of state. But some of the attacks on the current CIA director are unfair and hypocritical, notes Sohrab Ahmari at Commentary. In particular, he points out that the Anti-Defamation League, which is now led by a former Obama staffer who doesn’t hide his anti-conservative bias, is hitting Pompeo for saying the same things the ADL itself has said. “The ADL fulminates against Pompeo for suggesting that some American Muslim organizations don’t go far enough in condemning terrorism and the ideologies that inspire it,” Ahmari writes, yet the ADL has done so “in terms that have been as harsh if not harsher than Pompeo’s.” Same is true for the ADL’s critique of his focus on homegrown Islamic terrorism. “If Pompeo’s remarks are beyond the pale, so are the ADL’s positions.”