We Can Keep America Safe Without Sacrificing Our Core Values

Earlier this week, Senator Ted Cruz chaired a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing titled “Willful Blindness: Consequences of Agency Efforts to Deemphasize Radical Islam in Combatting Terrorism.” As the senior Democrat on the subcommittee, I used the hearing to push back on this misleading rhetoric, much of which was willfully reckless.

Several witnesses suggested that if only our President and his administration would use the words “radical Islam,” we would be a safer nation. This theory is not only false – it is dangerous.