High Treason: Obama and Holder Drop Indictments Against Muslim Brotherhood-Tied Group CAIR et al at DoJ

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For years Atlas and Atlas readers wanted to know why there were no indictments and prosecutions of the Muslim Brotherhood co-conspirators (CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MAS) named in the largest terror funding trial in US history (here, for example).  Obama and Holder appear to have scuttled them, much the same way as they dropped the voter intimidation charges against the Black Panthers (a case that was, by and large, already won).

I have been waiting on an explosive FOIA — and the DoJ has been unresponsive, pushing back my request to an indeterminate time due to "backlog."

Remember in 2012 to volunteer, support, and campaign for politicans who promise to follow through on prosecuting Muslim Brotherhood terror-tied groups in the US. DO IT!

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High-level source concedes DOJ let off CAIR co-founders and others for political reasons.

During the House Homeland Security hearing last month on the topic of radicalization in the American Muslim community, one exchange between L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca and Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN) concerned the relationship between the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and Hamas terrorist front the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Sheriff Baca told the congressman:

We don’t play around with criminals in my world. If CAIR is an organization that is a quote “criminal organization,” prosecute them. Hold them accountable and bring them to trial.

But according to a high-ranking source within the Department of Justice, who spoke exclusively to Pajamas Media on the condition of anonymity, Sheriff Baca, a long-time supporter of CAIR, was probably already in on the joke.

The joke is that a number of leaders of Islamic organizations (all of whom publicly opposed the King hearings on Muslim radicalization) were about to be indicted on terror finance support charges by the U.S. attorney’s office in Dallas, which had been investigating the case for most of the past decade.

But those indictments were scuttled last year at the direction of top-level political appointees within the Department of Justice (DOJ) — and possibly even the White House.

Included in those indictments was at least one of the co-founders of CAIR, based on “Declination of Prosecution of Omar Ahmad,” a March 31 DOJ legal memo from Assistant Attorney General David Kris to Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler. A second DOJ official familiar with the investigation independently confirmed these details. Omar Ahmad is one of CAIR’s co-founders and its chairman emeritus. He was personally named, along with CAIR itself, as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror finance trial in 2007 and 2008. During the trial FBI Agent Lara Burns testified that both Omar Ahmad and current CAIR executive director Nihad Awad were caught on FBI wiretaps attending a 1993 meeting of Hamas leaders in Philadelphia.

Dean Boyd, public affairs representative for the DOJ National Security Division, declined to provide me a copy of the March 31, 2010, memo dropping the Omar Ahmad prosecution. Directing me to submit a FOIA request, Boyd did say that “as a general rule, internal DOJ deliberation memos spelling out arguments for or against potential prosecution of any particular suspect are not public.”

Pajamas Media will be filing a FOIA request for all the related documents in this case.

According to my source, the chief reason outlined in the DOJ memo declining to prosecute CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad was the issue of potential jury nullification. The first Holy Land Foundation trial in 2007 ended in a hung jury. When the case was retried in 2008, all five defendants, former executives of the Holy Land Foundation, were convicted on all 108 counts.

But, according to our DOJ source, possible jury nullification was hardly the primary issue in the DOJ’s scuttling of the terror finance prosecutions. “This was a political decision from the get-go,” the source said.

It was always the plan to initially go after the [Holy Land Foundation] leaders first and then go after the rest of the accomplices in a second round of prosecutions. From a purely legal point of view, the case was solid. Jim Jacks [the U.S. attorney in Dallas who prosecuted the Holy Land Foundation executives] and his team were ready to go. There’s a mountain of evidence against all of these groups that was never introduced during the Holy Land trial and it is damning. We’ve got them on wiretaps. That’s exactly why many of these leaders and groups were named unindicted co-conspirators in the first round of prosecutions.

But from a political perspective there was absolutely no way that they could move forward. That’s why this decision came from the top down. These individuals who were going to be prosecuted are still the administration’s interfaith allies. Not only would these Muslim groups and their friends in the media be screaming “Islamophobia” at the top of their lungs and that this is a war against Islam, but the administration would look like absolute fools. It’s kind of hard to prosecute someone on material support for terrorism when you have pictures of them getting handed awards from DOJ and FBI leaders for their supposed counter-terror efforts. How would Holder explain that when we’re carting off these prominent Islamic leaders in handcuffs for their role in a terror finance conspiracy we’ve been investigating for years? This is how bad the problem is. Why are we continuing to have anything to do with these groups knowing what we know?

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Richard Emery
Richard Emery
12 years ago

OBAMA AND HIS WHOLE ADMINISTRATION ARE TRAITORS AND SHOULD BE IN JAIL AWAITING EXECUTION…

Zilla
Zilla
12 years ago

Treason is an impeachable offense, where the hell are the grown ups in our government? Impeach the bastard and throw him & his whole crew of jihadi miscreant thugs in freaking jail where they belong!

dee dee
dee dee
12 years ago

It looks like Pajamas Media (as well as Atlas) is also on this with another FOIA.
Thank G_d for the alternative media.

Poosh
Poosh
12 years ago

This is sickening stuff. The implications are confusing yet widespread.

Mackie
Mackie
12 years ago

With accusations like those posed above I find it almost impossible that actions like this will not, or are not getting legs among prosecutors somewhere, someplace..
I find it almost inconceivable that LA County Sheriff Baca would be part of any possibly defined conspiracy in regards to CAIR and others when it comes to scrubbing viable prosecutions. Baca has been working in the LA County Sheriffs Department for nearly 46 years.

Majumder
Majumder
12 years ago

Since “Treason” is an impeachable offense, WHY aren’t Republicans in Congress bringing a motion to impeach the first Muslim president of America?
Apparently, and in all likelihood, Republicans are in cohort with President Baraq Hussein in Islamizing America.

no b.s.
no b.s.
12 years ago

calling rep. col allen west, calling rep. col. allen west, hello? hello?

sDee
sDee
12 years ago

Precisely why the statists will not relent on net neutrality and other internet “regulations”.
Notice lately that every one of these internet power grabs, even the mundane FCC allocation of wireless bandwidth, comes with a “copyright protection” mandate? Homeland Security has set the precedent that they can shut down any website they choose if they feel it has copyright violations. (still not explained how that is a threat to national security)
Now take a look at this blog post or another citizen site fighting to tell the truth. They all reference a news article, other website or a video. All can be construed as copyright violations.
Once DHS shuts your blog down – good luck getting back online.

Steve
Steve
12 years ago

I LOVE THIS BLOG! Keep up the great work…
Steve
Common Cents
http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com

Underzog
Underzog
12 years ago

My apologies for interrupting this narrative, but remember that ISM Communist Vittorio who was kidnapped by Salamies or Salafis in Gaza? Well they just found his body. The Salamyists or Salafists promised to kill him and they did. a href=”http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143577″>Boy of kidnapped ISM activist found in Gaza.
Since the ISM is a organization that aids terrorists against Israel, I wish to express my sympathy of Vittorio’s death at the hands of the Muslims he is aiding to destroy the Jewish state. Okay? My sympathy consists of say ha ha ha…. Nyaaah Nyaah…. Nyaaah nyaah. ROFL LMAO.
Vittorio, I hope you have good with Rachel Corrie in hell!

Silverdog
Silverdog
12 years ago

Body of Italian activist found dead in Gaza, Hamas says
By REUTERS
04/15/2011 03:04
GAZA – Security officials found the body of an Italian man who had been abducted in the Gaza Strip in an abandoned house on Friday, a Hamas security official said.
Two men were arrested and others were being sought.
A Jihadist Salafi group in the Gaza Strip aligned with al Qaida on Thursday had threatened to execute Vittorio Arigoni by 17:00 local time (1400 GMT) unless their leader, whom Hamas arrested last month, was freed.
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/04/breaking-useful-idiot-found-dead-in.html
THE HUFFINGTON POST WILL ONLY POST THIS ON THEIR AOL SECTION! IN A FEW DAYS!

john jay
john jay
12 years ago

pamela, friends:
the fix is in between the obama administration and the jihad in america. simple as that.
john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa

sDee
sDee
12 years ago

Succinctly put.
One might even say, jihad worldwide.

Bill E
Bill E
12 years ago

Obama should have been charged with treason a long time ago; now with high crimes and misdemeanors also on the table, and increasing likelihood of having been ineligible in the first place, YES, a very good question: WHY have none of our leaders and patriots NOT taken action on this? Bush AND Clinton faced impeachment threats, why the silence with this guy now, a far greater threat to our security than anyone in our history?

Bill E
Bill E
12 years ago

obviously so, but I don’t believe the majority of Americans will accept this without a fight.

Bill E
Bill E
12 years ago

Silence from the military brass as well. How is that pledge to defend our Constitution working out under these circumstances? As a side note, have you heard that McChrystal has decided to join ranks with an organization headed by Michelle? Now that really set alarm bells off in my head….

dawning
dawning
12 years ago

Isn’t it about time to rename the DOJ…The DOI would more fitting..The Department Of INjustice. What’s with their black letter head..What was wrong with red white and blue????

Bohemond1096
Bohemond1096
12 years ago

Pamela, what do you want to bet that your FOIA request gets (A) Lost or (B) pushed back until Barry is out of office? 😉

telly
telly
12 years ago

Yes the ISM is a terror organization with a Stalinist core. But let’s not celebrate death.
We are not ghouls.
What we should discuss is how the commies understand which group to support. During the Second Intifada it was the PLO (now called the “PA”). As soon as Arafat died they went over to Hamas. Do they even know the difference or do they just choose the side that is least likely to pursue peace with Israel?

Jeff
Jeff
12 years ago

Black color indicates DOJ is under Islam.
They carry black flags when they attack the
dhimmiland.
Obama is the enabler. If american dhimmi voters could
not be bothered by his middle name , i guess they deserve
paris shiton as role models and obama as president.

JAG
JAG
12 years ago

Bad news.. again.

Madeleine
Madeleine
12 years ago

Jeff, EXACTLY THE POINT! My husband and I could not get beyond
his ENTIRE name. Post 9/11 this UNKNOWN with a Islamic name
runs for the highest office of the land and without hesitation
votes for him because he’s black. I want an American in office
not some unknown colored guy. I want a colored American! Any color
but be a gosh darn dyed in the wool, true blue American!
Allen West is one such American..PATRIOTS it’s time to take out
the trash! Fool Americans once, shame on you, fool Americans
twice, SHAME ON AMERICANS! I don’t believe that America will be
fooled again! I didn’t vote for this guy! McCain hurt his own
camp in every way imaginable, he handed Obama the win.
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA…all I can say is OMG!

Zilla
Zilla
12 years ago

Today is National Call Congress and Demand that Obama be Impeached Day! Melt the lines! More info here:
http://on.fb.me/eG5BvW
from the page:
Join us and let there be Thousands to call congress and demand impeachment.
TOLL FREE: 1-800-833-6354.
Main Switchboard for the White House: 202-456-1414
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
http://conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm
This event coincides with “Shot Heard Around the World” event. Please invite your friends to both events.
Legally, the House of Representatives, are the part of the legislative branch that can Impeach a president. Fax, Email, Write, or Call your Representative. They work for YOU.
SOME Obama’s impeachable offenses:
http://www.hawaiipoliticalinfo.org/node/3821

Frank
Frank
12 years ago

Re:HIGH TREASON: OBAMA AND HOLDER DROP INDICTMENTS AGAINST MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD-TIED GROUP CAIR ET AL AT DOJ
The Bush Administration pretty much let this Hamas linked group skate, too. Why?
I keep thinking the FBI wants CAIR left to skate.
I would not be surprised that the FBI has a very valuable (maybe several) high-level informant(s)-Joe Valachi type guys-in CAIR’s ranks. Machiavelli, in his book The Prince, said “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” That’s good advice re CAIR.
One day in the future we may see Congressional hearings that star Fibrihim Hooper as Joe Vilachi? (Hooper looks too stupid for the part. It’s probably someone else that is an FBI agent or an informant.)
Again: I think the FBI has a valuable high level informant(s) in CAIR. CAIR is similar to the Mafia, and even do Joe Colombo style absurd claims that that any investigation of the Mafia is “racist.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian-American_Civil_Rights_League

Bohemond1096
Bohemond1096
12 years ago

Why? Because liberals would play the race card and the country would erupt in race wars like we had in the ’60’s. Remember Watts, Harlem, Newark? They don’t want to talk about the fact that there are more murders in Chicago because of black on black violence than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined, or that while blacks make up 12% of the country they make up 50 to 75% of the prison population. The prevalence of violence in African-American communities is disproportionately higher than for other American ethnic communities, but if you dare to state the facts you will immediately be branded a “racist”.

Bill E
Bill E
12 years ago

Good point; I would imagine that the powers that placed him in power knew that this would definitely work in his favor and would guarantee his infiltration go unchallenged.

Zilla
Zilla
12 years ago

Included this post in my new blog post reminding everyone that today is National Demand That Congress Impeach Obama Day!
http://zillablog.marezilla.com/2011/04/its-national-tell-congress-to-impeach.html
Lots of info there, feel free to pass it on!

Eastview
Eastview
12 years ago

I, too, noticed the black motif of the DOJ web site. Your comment prompted me to send them the following email. Others might want to consider doing the same.
————————————————————
To: U.S. Department of Justice
Re: Web site color scheme
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to comment on the color scheme used by the usdoj.gov web site.
I feel the black background color is inappropriate for a government agency, especially one so tightly associated with the foundations of the United States. Black evinces no patriotism; indeed, from time
immemorial black has been the color associated with anarchy and piracy.
What’s wrong with some variant of red-white-blue?
I urge you to redo the DOJ web site to eliminate the black motif, and instead replace it with traditional patriotic symbols of America, such as flags or Washington monuments or similar themes using a red-white-blue motif.
Respectfully yours,
xxx

When*Pigs8Fly
When*Pigs8Fly
12 years ago

I saw this post elsewhere too, which side are you on? Just asking for clarification.

WAKE UP
WAKE UP
12 years ago

One day, it’ll be Holder who is in the dock.

DanS.
DanS.
12 years ago

black flag of jihad.

John Sweet
John Sweet
12 years ago

nothing is going to happen with Obamaommunist running for reelection he needs all those foreign funds and with the misdirection of Trump more or less assuring the vote will be lost to any Republican that runs against him we have trouble for sure which seems to be the plan to further ruin America and destroy Israel

Someone
Someone
12 years ago

You are so right Zilla, Where are they to do the impeachment? Don’t they really care enough about our country. The Abominable Obama is some ones puppet who hates America. Obama is a VERY EVIL SICK person. He should be drag down to his knees, whip until he answer our questions! We the people paying Obama to do as he pleases, to reck our Beautiful Country and to bring us down to his slaves? Where are you people to put a stop to this nonsense? This evil Obama should be in prison for Treason and recking our country.

sorry, but..
sorry, but..
12 years ago

pleeeease … i’d swear there’s only a coupla thousand that are even AWARE of islame

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