Senators Susan Collins and Joe Lieberman can hardly be described as "doves." They only recently held hearings on the Ft. Hood shootings, questioning whether "political correctness" lead the FBI and the military to overlook the threat posed by Nidal Malik Hasan, who is accused of going on a rampage that killed 13 people and injured many others.
Citing the Washington Monthly expose of charlatans posing as "terrorism experts" imparting counterproductive, Islamophic views as part of the "training" they offer law enforcement, Collins and Lieberman pose a number of questions to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder about the funding for these programs and how they're implemented, and whether the administration has done anything to improve oversight:
Preliminary inquiries by our staffs suggest that improper training may not be limited to mere isolated occurrences. We are concerned that at best, the quality of training is inconsistent, and at worst, is actually detrimental to our efforts to confront homegrown terrorism. Muslim Americans are central allies in our fight against violent Islamist extremism, and any training that implies otherwise is both inaccurate and counterproductive to our shared goals.
This is a really good sign that Congress is beginning to take the Islamophobia industry undermining U.S. counterterrorism efforts seriously.
