Ryan Mauro

That is, as far as I can tell, illegal.

It is illegal to knowingly pass money to Hamas operatives.

And by the way, the husband, and they knew this at the time because of the Facebook interactions, was a publicly identified spokesperson for Hamas's Ministry of Labor.

So...

It doesn't get more solid than that.

And we are busy right now mapping out the connections of this organization, of the head of it, Ramzi Baroud, because this leads to all sorts of other organizations, including one in Turkey, led by Sami Al-Aryan.

Who was one of the top Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders, a professor in Florida, who was deported shortly after 9-11.

So this shows that this group, yes, they're connected to Hamas, but they're actually part of this broader Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad connected network out of Turkey.

I also need to mention that the chief editor of Palestine Chronicle, at least used to be, maybe still is, a non-resident scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

I certainly believe so.

And from a few different angles to your earlier point, actually, since I was a teenager, I started doing this when I was 16 professionally.

That's when I was first hired.

I based it on the idea that civilians could be almost like an intelligence counterpart.

to the federal, state, and local agencies.

And so I've put together a civilian intelligence network ever since then, back in 2002, so I could see the impact that things like this actually have.

So it's not something we have to just say, well, is the administration going to do this or that?

You can play an active part in it, and I think most people don't understand that.

Your audience does because they are obsessed with research, as I can tell every time I'm on your show, the emails I get.

So this is very impactful.

This is equipping the administration when the will is there to take action.