Josh Gerstein puts today's hearings in context:
In the last five years, House and Senate committees have held at least 22 hearings focusing on the problem of radicalized American Muslims plotting terrorist acts or joining Al-Qaeda and similar groups, according to congressional staffers.
Weigel adds:
The point is that the controversy over the hearings is mostly about King, who commands media attention like some lost member of the Kardashian family ...
2006-2011 archives for The Daily Dish, featuring Andrew Sullivan