Bill West innumerates a discomfiting list of jihadism-connected individuals who have used the University of South Florida as a home base. He admonishes the USF leadership, at the same time acknowledging full well that such administrators are not terrorism interrogators and that, in such public systems, governors and their officers have an overriding duty to address this danger:

From the earliest days of the Al-Arian, et al investigation, various iterations of the USF Administration have claimed they have done all they can to cooperate with federal law enforcement authorities and to conduct all available internal audits and reviews to make certain the school is free from radical, terror-involved personnel and influences … There are, however, significant and strong administrative and legal inquiry procedures that remain available to State university and education officials when it is suspected that serious subversive activity is occurring on their campuses or being committed by their faculty or students. The cases of the suspects and defendants named above spanned a period of nearly fourteen overt years. That is a long time for a university to learn some tough lessons. The question is, has USF learned those lessons and has it really done all it can to resolve what some may call a substantial problem?

“Substantial”? Puts it sweetly.