N.C. Congresswoman Calls For DOJ Investigation Into CAIR
By: Marianna Levyash – Talk Radio News Service
Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) and fellow GOP colleagues held a news conference Wednesday morning to announce a request for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate possible attempts by the Council on American-Islam Relations (CAIR) to illegally lobby Congress.
According to Myrick, CAIR, a non-profit civil rights and advocacy group that strives to create a positive image of Islam, had attempted to infiltrate Congress by placing its interns in certain members’ offices. CAIR admitted to this allegation in a 2007 memo that Myrick now has, which stated that the organization was trying to “influence the policies of those members.”
Specifically, the memo also stated that CAIR was “most interested in the members who serve on the Judiciary, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Committees.”
In her remarks, Myrick announced a request for the U.S. Department of Justice to inform members of Congress and staff about this threat, and for the Sergeant of Arms to investigate whether or not CAIR was successful in placing its interns in Congressional offices. Myrick also called on the IRS to launch a full investigation into the legality of CAIR’s lobbying activities.
The North Carolina Republican also discussed CAIR’s alleged relationships with Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas. In 2008, the Justice Department found that the organization had funded more than $12 million dollars to Hamas. Soon after, the FBI also severed all ties with CAIR because of its ties to Hamas.
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October 15th, 2009 at 10:16 am
I feel this country is being attacked internally from every direction and very quietly. Sue Myrick has done a great service and I hope the rest of congress and the white house stand with her to find the truth. There is so much covert action in our government and we desperately need people to find out what every organization is for and what their ideoligy is.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:57 am
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not as a traitor. He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims and wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body politic, so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.”
Cicero, 42 B.C., Roman Statesman, Orator and Author
October 16th, 2009 at 3:24 am
The ruling classes have in their hands the army, money, the schools, the churches and the press. In the schools they kindle patriotism in the children by means of histories describing their own people as the best of all peoples and always in the right. Among adults they kindle it by spectacles, jubilees, monuments, and by a lying patriotic press.”
(Tolstoy, Government is Violence — Essays on Anarchism and Pacifism, Phoenix Press, 1990, p.82)
October 16th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
this is LONG overdue. How is it that I know more about the true nature of Islam than those elected to protect our country? Who is still stupid and blind enough to trust organizations like CAIR? This should have been done years ago. CAIR has infiltrated every aspect of our country. Our military, universities, media, local, state, and federal government, right on through the FBI and the even the white house. The pro islamic propaganda has this country so confused as to the true nature of our enemy. This simply must stop.