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                    "Abdul-El Sayed campaigning for Michigan\u2019s U.S. Senate seat\u201cJihadist,\u201d \u201cMuslim Brotherhood guy,\u201d \u201con the side of the terrorists\u201d \u2014 these are the kinds of smears Donald Trump is deploying against Abdul El-Sayed. There\u2019s the naked racism, of course, but also the insinuation that El-Sayed\u2019s candidacy represents a national security crisis. \u201cHe would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he\u2019s allowed to go into the Senate,\u201d Trump said Sunday at a rally for El-Sayed\u2019s opponent.A quarter century after 9/11 and we still have to pass through metal detectors to get on a plane. Now the government wants your vote to pass through the same security theater, too.Like Trump, Washington\u2019s case against the 41-year-old populist candidate for Michigan\u2019s U.S. Senate seat doesn\u2019t bother with policy or positions. It just says how dangerous he is to \u201cnational security\u201d \u2014 and by extension, how unqualified you are to understand the dangers. \u201cAbdul El-Sayed\u2019s radical ideology is a threat to our national security,\u201d El-Sayed\u2019s opponent, former Congressman Mike Rogers, said. Rogers is a former FBI agent and served as the Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee. The casual racism isn\u2019t new, but the attempt to dignify it with security-speak is. It\u2019s absurd on two levels. First, the rhetoric I\u2019ve quoted isn\u2019t saying any of El-Sayed\u2019s policies or positions are dangerous; they\u2019re saying he himself is, as if he\u2019s going to take to the floor of Congress wearing a suicide vest. Second, it takes what is supposed to be an exercise of popular will and turns it into a \u201cnational security\u201d matter that is technical in nature.Imagine applying literally any other type of technical standard to a politician is and the absurdity becomes apparent. \u2018Abdul El-Sayed\u2019 \u2014 not his policies but the man himself \u2014 \u2018is a threat to municipal wastewater management.\u2019 \u2018He\u2019s a destabilizing influence on air traffic control.\u2019 \u2018He\u2019s an existential threat to the nation\u2019s bridge integrity.\u2019Saying a political candidate is a threat to national security is just as silly; but because it\u2019s language we\u2019re so used to hearing from Washington, the insanity of it barely registers. Washington loves the national security frame because it doesn\u2019t stir up much interest among ordinary people, unlike issues like affordability and healthcare \u2014 the centerpiece of El-Sayed\u2019s campaign. It\u2019s a ploy to shift the debate from concerns that the public has to that of think tank \u201cexperts\u201d and the professional commentators. In one of the funnier demonstrations of this, the Washington Times recently published a letter to the editor from a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer raising the question surely on the mind of Michigan voters: can El-Sayed pass a background investigation for a security clearance?Per the letter:\u201cI question whether he could pass even a basic security clearance review, let alone get within a mile of the kind of classified material to which Mike Rogers had accessed in the U.S. House.\u201dSet aside for a moment the creepiness of the idea that elected officials should need approval from the national security bureaucracy to know things, which isn\u2019t a thing (yet). Imagine any other type of certification or credential being applied to an election. For example: \u2018I question whether Abdul El-Sayed could pass a forklift operator certification, let alone get within a mile of the heavy machinery to which Mike Rogers had access.\u2019It\u2019s laughable. And yet, it\u2019s the go-to attack from not only El-Sayed\u2019s opponent, but the President and other top officials, including sitting senators.\u201cChuck Schumer could place Abdul El-Sayed on the Senate Intelligence Committee,\u201d Senator Ted Cruz said recently, going on to warn of the grave danger to our beloved troops:\u201cHe would have access to the very highest level of classified materials. And I believe, if that were to happen, there would be an unacceptably high risk that American servicemen and women, their lives would be endangered, and that our covert intelligence assets, their lives would be in danger because [there\u2019s] every reason to believe Abdul El-Sayed would share that classified information with Muslim Brotherhood terrorists.\u201dCovert intelligence assets. Access to the very highest level. Classified information. Is this an election or a Tom Clancy novel?In other words, you can\u2019t vote for this guy not because of his policy positions or how he might vote in Congress but because he might divulge state secrets to an organization that he has consistently denounced. Oh, the horror (just in time for Halloween)!Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana, who sits on the Armed Services Committee, says much the same, warning of the \u201cserious national security questions\u201d raised by El-Sayed\u2019s character:\u201cAbdul El-Sayed\u2019s ties to this group raise serious national security questions. As senators, we have access to some of our nation\u2019s most sensitive, classified information, and I have serious concerns about the security risks posed by anyone associated with such a group serving in the Senate.\u201dI could go on and on like this but you get the idea. It\u2019s spitting in the face of not just El-Sayed but anyone who thinks they\u2019re capable of choosing who to vote for without the help of mommy and daddy in D.C.Leave a commentShare\u2014 Edited by William M. ArkinDiscussion about this postReady for more?"
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