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The U.S. attorney in Dallas said that the decision not to indict a founder of a prominent Muslim civil rights group as a follow-up to the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case was based on the law, not political influence.
Jim Jacks, who led the Holy Land Foundation prosecution team before becoming U.S. attorney, said that Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who has criticized the decision-making, has been "misinformed."
King has said in recent interviews and in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder that unnamed prosecutors and FBI agents involved in the Holy Land investigation in Dallas told him in recent weeks that the Obama administration had scuttled an indictment against a founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations because of fears of upsetting Muslims.