Chairman King addresses "racist" charge at hearing on prison radicalization

Rep. Peter King, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, addresses the charge by Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA) that the Committee hearing on The Threat of Muslim-American Radicalization in U.S. Prisons "can be deemed as racist and as discriminatory." King responded that "the purpose of this Committee is to combat Islamic terrorism because that is the terrorist threat to this country."

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6-15-11

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