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"Normal relations" remain out of reach for the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the FBI, officials on both sides say, despite early optimism by the nation's largest Islamic advocacy group that a new administration in the White House would change their strained relationship.
"It has not changed," an FBI official said of his agency's relationship with CAIR. "We're still not maintaining formal liaison relationships with them."
The federal official said a "normal" relationship "could be re-established, but has not yet."
"They've been kind of in stasis, to use a sci-fi term," Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR's national communications director, said of the FBI. "(Relations) haven't gotten worse, haven't gotten better."