Peter King is targeted by the Daily Show for his contradictory positions on terrorism.

John Oliver tries to explain the difference: “Hamas is an Islamic organization and doesn’t drink. The IRA has a slightly different policy on that…”

The Guardian hints that Representative King may be trying only to foment fear and raise “ultra-rightwing” capital to win votes, regardless of actual security concerns:

As his star witness, King invited the credential-free Dr Zudhi Jasser, who wears the honourable badge of being “Glenn Beck’s favourite Muslim”. Jasser, unknown to mainstream Muslim communities, once anecdotally claimed that 3-5% of US Muslims are militant and nearly 40% do not approve the principle of the separation of church [sic] and state. Jasser also narrated the notorious “Third Jihad” video, produced by the clandestine and ultra-rightwing Clarion Fund and briefly used to train NYPD officers on counter-terrorism. After seeing the video, an NYPD officer remarked, “It was so ridiculously one-sided. It just made Muslims look like the enemy. It was straight propaganda.”

The police department in a small New Mexico town, two miles north of the international border, has been implicated in selling guns illegally to foreign drug cartels.

Several federal agencies swept through the New Mexico border town of Columbus Thursday morning arresting nearly a dozen people including the mayor, a village councilor and the chief of police who are suspected of smuggling guns into Mexico.

According to a 26-page indictment the investigation into the suspected gun smuggling operation began 15 months ago.

State law enforcement agencies also participated in the crackdown and county law enforcement is said to have asked for the town police department to be “shut down”.