Rippin is ripping up the CIC's case

Andrew Rippin would make an interesting professor. He's honest; he doesn't dance around questions, at least any more than any other academic would do simply by nature.

Julian Porter doesn't have a tough job; Rippin has left enough of a paper trail in which he discusses radical Islam, that it's not hard to find Rippin saying, in writing, what Porter wants to hear from him: That there are indeed radical sects of Islam out there, political sects, that demand that their adherents colour their every action with their religious ideology.

Did Faisal Joseph even Google this guy? Other than a shared interest in expressive facial har, was there any other criterion for his retainer?