FBI Explains Its CAIR Cut Off

Investigative Project
May 7, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1680/fbi-explains-its-cair-cut-off

Excerpt:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is not "an appropriate liaison partner" for the FBI because of evidence linking the organization and its founders to Hamas, an FBI assistant director said in a letter to a U.S. Senator.

"In light of that evidence, the FBI suspended all formal contacts between CAIR and the FBI," Richard C. Powers, an assistant director in the FBI's office of Congressional Affairs, wrote in a letter to Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ).

Today, the FBI is unsure whether the relationship between CAIR and Hamas ever was severed, Powers wrote.

In February, Kyl was joined by fellow senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) in writing FBI Director Robert Mueller to praise the FBI's policy toward CAIR. The senators said they believed it "should be government-wide policy," and asked whether there were exceptions to it and whether it applied to field offices as well as FBI headquarters.

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