“What will it take to go after the Saudis?”

An important article in the Daily Beast by senior correspondent Eleanor Clift, her second since the press conference Jan. 7, goes after Obama for covering up the Saudi connection to global terrorism. The piece is titled, “White House: Don’t Call It Terrorism,” with the subhead: “Having flubbed Paris, the administration is convening a summit on countering violent extremism, carefully avoiding any reference to Islamic terrorism, never mind the facts.”

The thrust of Clift’s article is to go after the Obama Administration for refusing to talk about Islamic terrorism, strongly suggesting that this is because it would call the question on the Saudis.

She first quotes Farah Pandith, who was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s representative to Muslim communities, who says that we actually know a lot about Islamic extremism, and who funds it — which is the Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia. “It’s mind-blowing, the money to build shiny new mosques with a particular viewpoint,” Pandith says.

Clift then quotes Bill Galston of Brookings, who was a domestic policy advisor to Bill Clinton, arguing that it’s not just about nomenclature; the failure to identify the problem

Clift writes: