spencer ackerman's scoop at wire.com tonight is the mindset is doing training for the fbi's counterterrorism officers. in july of this summer, spencer reported fbi trainees were being taught things from the weirder edge of the right wing anti-muslim fake expert movement with training materials saying things like islam transforms a country's culture into seventh century arabian ways. swayed more by ideas than by facts. which is the kind of thing you sort of expect to hear from your racist old uncle after a few too many cups of eggnog at the family event, not the kind of thing you expect from the elite federal counterterrorism force at the fbi. the fbi responded to spencer's story in july by saying, quote, this presentation in question was a rudimentary version used for a limited time that has since been replaced. it turns out there's more. with spencer ackerman reporting on another set of fbi training materials dated march of this year, bylined by the aformention of the "world daily net" interview. showing how over time since the founding of judaism, christianity and islam, over time the more

well now spencer ackerman from wired's danger room has uncovered similar types of counterterrorism training on a national level i can acquire the course handbook used to train f.b.i. counterterrorism officers at the f.b.i. training ground in quantico virginia and pretty much everything about it should be sending off warning signals and the course focuses solely on the threat of terror of muslims and encourages trainees to focus on muslims religion as the sole factor in determining if they might be a terrorist and what's worse use of the word radical that is even a focus in the handbook because according to the featuring even mainstream muslims are terrorist sympathizers so basically every muslim likes terrorists according to them now the handbook also labels the prophet mohammad as a cult leader and of course was taught by william god or this is a man who has said in the past that mohammed's mindset is a source for terrorism and he was also an important figure in the burger movement so that should just give you a little bit of an idea of what we're working with here now golfer of advisors t

spencer ackerman's scoop at wire.com tonight is the mindset is doing training for the fbi's counterterrorismorted fbi trainees were being taught things from the weirder edge of the right wing anti-muslim fake expert movement with training materials saying things like islam transforms a country's culture into seventh century arabian ways. swayed more by ideas than by thing you expect from the elite federal counterterrorism force at the fbi. the fbi responded to spencer's story in july by saying, quote, in july of this summer, spencer reported fbi trainees were being taught things from the weirder edge of the right wing anti-muslim fake expert movement particular author who you introed very well. we're trying to find out the extent of this training. >> i don't want to ask you, of course, who your sources are. why do you think someone is getting you this material from fbi training? is it because this is upsetting people inside the fbi? >> it's very deeply upsetting to counterterrorism experts inside the fbi. they're very concerned about two related issues which are counterterrorism and civil ri

counterterrorism agents now wired's danger room wired danger room spencer ackerman published excerpts from a counterterrorism course that specifically called muhammad a cult leader and labeled all muslims even those considered mainstream a threat to america and his word quickly spread about a program that moves into damage control mode declaring the elective counterterrorism class a one time affair which ended this april however turns out about claims to be false because danger room is now uncovered a new video displaying the man who taught that course william gahl for giving a similar type of lecture in new york city and that event took place in june of this year months after the f.b.i. said the man it stopped raining f.b.i. agents now is a lecture sponsored by public private partnership for law enforcement officials and the f.b.i. has scrambled to remove an entire lecture but there is a one thirty minute segment that's been salvaged and that on wired there's been a few changes to gaza or of course for starters he states that he is lecturing as a private citizen and his power point p

have continued at the latest scandal to a gulf this is ministration comes to light thanks to spencer ackermanhis scoop at wired dot com the f.b.i. may not be known for its cultural sensitivity but he played a story paints a disturbing portrait of an agency that seems to be actively promoting bizarre islamophobia mis information you see when they're not busy tracking down naked celebrity photos of scarlett johannson and whoever else the f.b.i. agents that the training center in quantico appear to be busy listening to the kinds of presentations that one would expect to hear and hearing chaired by congressman peter king presentations that build mainstream american muslims as terrorist sympathizers labeling the prophet muhammad as a quote cult leader and agents were also shown super scientific graphs like the one you see behind me the sliding scale chart supposedly proves that jews and christians somehow become less violent as they grow more devout all muslims immersed in the koran somehow morphed into a bomb wielding terrorist events on our destruction very scientific indeed and according to f.b