Faisal Gill Faisal Gill Urdu : فیصل گل was a Republican candidate for Virginia House of Delegates 51st District . Biography . Faisal Gill was born in Karachi , Pakistan in 1972 and emigrated to the United States in 1980 . He has a BA and JD from American University in Washington , DC . After graduation he was a labor and employment attorney at a firm in Washington , DC , and then was Deputy General Counsel for Policy at the Office of Personnel Management . He then received an appointment at the White House Office of Homeland Security and then later at the Homeland Security Council as associate counsel . He also served as principal counsel to the President ' s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board under Richard Clarke . Faisal Gill served as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection at the . As such , he was responsible for formulating and coordinating policy for the intelligence directorate . In this capacity , he advised the Under Secretary on policy issues ranging from intelligence policy , infrastructure protection , cyber - security and information sharing initiatives . He also served in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General ' s Corps where he managed two legal offices . Later in his Navy career , he served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in Greenbelt Maryland . He currently is a Lieutenant Commander in the US Naval Reserve serving in the litigation division of the Office of the Judge Advocate General . Faisal Gill is the managing partner of Gill & Gallinger ' s Washington , DC office . The firm ' s partners include lobbyist Asim Ghafoor . Faisal resides with his wife and children in Lake Ridge , Virginia . Faisal was the Republican nominee for the Virginia House of Delegates in the 51st district in 2007 and was defeated by Democrat Paul Nichols in the November 6 , 2007 general election . The Faisal Gill " Affair " . Gill ' s critics have often raised the matter of his alleged ties to violent jihadists . However , Gill ' s backers , most significantly Virginia state senator Ken Cuccinelli , have argued that federal investigations exonerated Gill . Faisal Gill served as spokesman and " Director of Government Affairs " for the American Muslim Council , an organization founded and led by Abdurahman Alamoudi , who in 2003 was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for bringing over one million dollars in cash provided by the Libyan government into the U . S . Gill served in a similar capacity as Director of Government Affairs for the Islamic Free Market Institute in 2001 , an organization founded by conservative activists including Nina Reese , Grover Norquist and Randa Hudome . The precise dates of Gill ' s employment by these organizations are unclear . Gill has admitted on government security forms to working at the AMC in between October 2000 and 2001 , but it is not known when Gill first started work at the AMC . After being appointed by George Bush as a policy director for the Department of Homeland Security , Frank Gaffney of FrontPage Magazine raised questions regarding Faisal Gill ' s disclosure of this employment on his security clearance application as well as Gill ' s ties to violent jihadists . After Gaffney was able to secure a letter of inquiry from Sen . John Kyl , who serves as Co - Chair for Gaffney ' s Center for Security Policy , regarding these organizations , this inquiry resulted in Gill being sent on paid leave for 3 days in June 2004 pending the outcome of the investigation . The results of a DHS Inspector General investigation announced in August 2004 wholly vidicated Gill , stating that he had gone " above and beyond " the disclosure requirements and indicated that there was no reason to deny Faisal Gill a clearance . The Senate Finance Committee then requested clarification on August 9 regarding the results of this investigation , Faisal Gill ' s qualifications for the position , his relationship with Asim Ghafoor , and several other questions . Faisal Gill left the Department of Homeland Security in January , 2005 . The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General considers the case closed .