But Is Anyone Paying Attention

By Semperpapa

It’s the middle of March Madness, and no, I am not talking about College Basketball. I am talking about Obamacare.

So while the whole country is busy either worrying about our healthcare being high jacked by the Government or hoping that the entitlement disaster will become the law of the land, some movements are happening on another front of America’s battle against self-destruction.

In a letter dated 12 February 2010, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich responded to a request for information made by several members of Congress regarding the status of the investigation of CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations.
Congresswoman Sue Myrich and the other members of Congress who received Weich’s letters had made a request in October 2009 regarding the DoJ investigation of CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in the case of United States vs. Holy Land Foundation et al.

The letter from the members of Congress was sent then to request clarification on the connections between members and founders of CAIR and the terrorist group Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and other designated terror organizations. Mr. Weich also indicated in the letter that the request from Rep. Myric for a criminal investigation in illegal activities of CAIR to FBI Director Muller, had been forwarded to the proper FBI investigative entities.


The significance of this information is multifaceted, beginning with the delay of response on the part of the DoJ. Why has it taken four months to provide an answer to a legitimate request for information that should have been readily available? I don’t have the answer, besides the one provided by the legendary slowness of Washington bureaucracy, because otherwise one should start to engage in those pesky conspiracy theories.
What is also significant about this is that it finally appears that the Department of Justice is distancing itself from CAIR, especially the FBI, which had been played like a fiddle by the Muslim organization thanks to the pervasive tendency to be politically correct.
CAIR had been an active entity in hindering the work of several law enforcing agencies, from the FBI at a federal level to local police forces like the Fairfax County Police Department, which works in very close cooperation with the FBI on terror investigations in the Virginia/D.C. area, including the attacks of 9-11-01.

CAIR had been successful in positioning itself as an organization desiring to demonstrate the willingness of American Muslims to aid the US in its counter-terror war following the September 11 attacks. And even if the tactics used to accomplish the task were more of the semi-extortion nature, the council banked successfully on the fear of Washington officials to appear Islamophobic following the terror attack.
But, as documented in Gaubatz and Sperry book Muslim Mafia, what CAIR was actively involved in was hindering investigations of any Muslim suspected of terrorist ties by invoking the prospect of religious persecution.

In a letter dated April 28 2009 to Sen. Jon Kyl, the Assistant Director in the FBI office of Congressional Affairs, Richard C. Powers, told the Senator that in view of the unindicted co-conspirator status of CAIR in the investigation of the Holy Land Foundation, all connections between the FBI and CAIR were terminated outside specific investigations. What this really means is that the FBI was no longer going to utilize the “support” of CAIR regarding potential terrorist investigations, role that the Islamic organization has used repeatedly and consistently to thwart said investigations.

So all this is a step in the right direction on the part of the Department of Justice, which under the Holder/Obama regime has maintained a fairly dismal record.
It would be now interesting, and the American people should demand, to find out if the January secret meeting at the Homeland Security Dept. between Sec. Napolitano and Muslim, Arab and Sikh organizations included CAIR. There still is reluctance on the part of the HS department to keep the list of participants secret. Sure, the intelligence value of keeping the names under wrap can be appreciated, but again the record of our government in keeping sensitive information out of public scrutiny has, in the last few years, been very poor.
And it would also be interesting if the DoJ is going to look into the relationship between US Congressman and CAIR member, Keith Ellison and those terrorist organizations of which CAIR may be a front. But that’s a whole other article.

It is unfortunate that these kinds of news are available only to those who are interested in finding out about the security of the Nation. No mention of any of this information will ever appear on any news media outlets, outside of maybe a small mention buried where the American people, more concerned about Obamacare, College Basketball and American Idol, will never become aware of it. For some time, after the 9-11-01 attacks, the American people remained more conscious of the threat we are facing, awareness sparked by the perceived certainty that the horrific attacks of that day were going to occur again. The complacency the American people have slipped back into is an unfortunate collateral damage of the success that the Bush Administration achieved in the past nine years.

Just my thoughts!