The real Dave Gaubatz.

Gaubatz’s defenders note that not only does CAIR have a history of distorting or fabricating quotes ascribed to Gaubatz, but that the former Air Force special agent and veteran of Middle East service is anything but an “Islamophobe.” In fact, they argue, he has put his life on the line for Muslims – most notably in his leadership of the daring rescue of the family of the Muslim Iraqi lawyer who saved the life of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch in 2003.

David Gaubatz, a veteran federal investigator and counter-terrorism specialist served for more than a decade as a special agent in the U.S. Air Force’s elite Office of Special Investigations, where he held the U.S. government’s highest security clearances – including Top Secret/SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information) – and was briefed into many so-called black projects. Gaubatz is a U.S. State Department-trained Arabic linguist and has more than two decades of experience in the Middle East, including tours in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, and Iraq, where in 2003 he led a fifteen-man team in extracting the family members of the Iraqi lawyer credited with saving Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch.