(CBS News) Even as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., admonished as "sinister" her accusations linking Huma Abedin - longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said Wednesday she will "not be silent as this administration appeases our enemies instead of telling the truth about the threats our country faces."
Letters signed last week by Bachmann and four other Republican members of Congress questioning "the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical groups' access to top Obama administration officials," Bachmann said Wednesday, "are unfortunately being distorted." The tea party firebrand and onetime presidential hopeful included in the letters a critique of Abedin's high-profile position considering her family members' ties to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
"The Department's Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, has three family members - her late father, her mother and her brother - connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and /or organizations," Bachmann wrote in the letter, which was sent to State Department Deputy Inspector General Harold Geisel, among others. "Her position affords her routine access to the Secretary and to policy making." Abedin is also the wife of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y.
After Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., one of two Muslims currently serving in Congress, wrote to Bachmann on Wednesday afternoon asking to back up her claims, Bachmann responded with another letter, quoting a 2002 law review article by the director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations that says Abedin's father "was the founder of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and institution that had the quiet but active support of the then-General Secretary of the Muslim World League, Dr. Umar Abdallah Nasif."
The Muslim World League, Bachmann said, has a "longtime history of being closely aligned and partnering with the Muslim Brotherhood." Pointing out that foreign influence of family members is considered when giving security clearances, Bachmann continued, "given the reasonable assumption that Ms. Abedin has a high-level security clearance... I am particularly interested in exactly how, given what we know from the international media about Ms. Abedin's documented family connections with the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, she was able to avoid being disqualified for a security clearance."
Her Muslim witch hunt
Michele Bachmann demands investigations into the Muslim Brotherhood's "deep penetration" into the U.S. government
The Minnesota Republican, joined by Republican Reps. Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, Thomas Rooney and Lynn Westmoreland, sent letters to the inspectors general of five government agencies responsible for national security to demand they investigate infiltration by the Muslim Brotherhood into the highest reaches of the federal government. In particular, Bachmann singled out Huma Abedin, the wife of former congressman Anthony Weiner and a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In case Abedin hasn’t already been through enough already, Bachmann is now questioning her loyalty to the U.S. by asserting that Abedin has three family members who are connected to the Muslim Brotherhood (Abedin is Muslim). She’s been targeted before by anti-Muslim activists, and Bachmann notes that Abedin’s position “affords her routine access to the Secretary and to policy-making.” Bachmann also claims the state has “taken actions recently that have been enormously favorable to the Muslim Brotherhood and its interests.”
Bachmann: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrating Obama Administration
Bachmann warning on Muslim Brotherhood gets stormy reception
Arizona Sen. John McCain took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to call out a fellow Republican lawmaker for "specious and degrading attacks" which allege that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff had infiltrated the U.S. government on behalf of radical Islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood.
Last week, the St. Cloud Times reported the Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and four other Republicans had called on inspectors general in the State, Homeland Security, Defense and Justice Departments to investigate "potential Muslim Brotherhood infiltration" of the Obama administration by Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary Clinton and wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY).
"It has been alleged that Huma Abedin, a Muslim American, is part of a nefarious conspiracy to harm the United States," McCain explained on Wednesday, noting that the accusations were based on an "unsubstantiated" report by Frank Gaffney's neoconservative Center for Security Policy.
"The allegations about Huma Abedin and the report from which they are drawn are nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable citizen, a dedicated American and a loyal public servant," the Arizona senator continued. "These attacks have no logic, no basis and no merit. And they need to stop. They need to stop now."
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Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrating America?
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