Fox News’ Jon Scott seemed to suggest in an interview with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) this morning that the U.S. ought to consider racially profiling U.S. citizens of Pakistani descent.
Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Pakistan, was arrested last night over Saturday’s failed bombing attempt in Times Square.
This morning, Scott asked Lieberman this:
“Would you support, for instance, taking a look at citizens of, say, Pakistani descent who have been given American citizenship over the last two years, five years, and taking another look at each of them and, y’know, seeing what they are up to these days? Is that going too far?”
To his credit, Lieberman said he “wouldn’t want to single out a group,” and told Scott that “there’s a lot of wonderful Pakistani American citizens who are totally loyal to our country, and I think are probably most angry and embarrassed when somebody like this commits an act like this.”
Earlier in the interview, Scott proposed a similar question.
This is a guy who was just recently naturalized as an American citizen. Once he got his American papers, he went back to Pakistan and spent 8 months over there. Do you think it’s worth — would you support legislation, that maybe, y’know, takes a look at other people who have done something similar? Could there be other sleeper cells, sleeper operatives out there for lack of a better term?
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