Those efforts have proven a failure to this point, and a market that has been fairly sanguine about the potential negative implications of the fiscal cliff to this point had a violentreaction Friday morning, though the move was tempered somewhat after Boehner said he is still open to working with the White House on some form of compromise.
Critics accuse Mr. Khan of pandering to hard-line Islamists and naively seeing violent extremism as merely a reaction to the American military presence in neighboring Afghanistan.