One of the many side stories that has gotten lost in the chaos of the Trump transition is the fact that far-right Islamophobe Frank Gaffney has been serving as a foreign policy adviser. Considering Donald Trump's views about Muslims, this isn't too surprising. Trump's shallow understanding of the issue of Islamist extremism has obviously been gleaned from the right-wing fever swamps and Gaffney owns that end of the bog. (The Southern Poverty Law Center has the full Gaffney dossier here.) But...
http://www.salon.com/2017/01/13/meet-mike-pompeo-the-far-right-christian-zealot-with-islamophobe-ties-who-will-lead-trumps-cia/
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