Think Progress: Group Calls On Boehner To Kick Bachmann Off Intel Committee
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Group Calls On Boehner To Kick Bachmann Off Intel Committee | The progressive group People for the American Way today called on House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to remove Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) from her post on the House Intelligence Committee after suggesting that U.S. government employees are helping the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrate the U.S. government. PFAW noted that Boehner had criticized Bachmann for her witch hunt and that Huma Abedin, top aide to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton whom Bachmann named as part of the alleged conspiracy, was put under police protection because of receiving threats. “Members of the House Intelligence Committee are entrusted with classified information that affects the safety and security of all Americans,” said PFAW president Michael Keegan. “That information should not be in the hands of anyone with such a disregard for honesty, misunderstanding of national security, and lack of respect for her fellow public servants.”
more: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/07/23/570571/pfaw-boehner-bachmann-intel-committee/
Bachmann, Gaffney, and the GOP’s Anti-Muslim Culture of Conspiracy
Where did Michele Bachmann get the idea that Muslim radicals have infiltrated the highest levels of government? Look no further than activist Frank Gaffney, says Jonathan Kay.
Earlier this month, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) appeared on the FOX Business show Money Rocks to make the case for depriving the children of immigrants of their 14th Amendment rights. Gohmert claimed that on a recent airplane trip to the Middle East, one of his traveling companions had struck up a conversation with a grandmother who described her family's involvement in a Hamas plot to send pregnant women to the United States. Gohmert summarized the lesson for viewers this way: "We're bringing them over here on tourist visas, some illegally, letting them be born here and saying, 'This is an American citizen. So come back in 20, 25 years when you're ready to blow us up.'"
It's a bizarre story. But the fact that he's prepared to cite it as a basis for American immigration reform supplies some useful context for what happened two weeks later, when Gohmert joined four other Republican members of Congress, including Michele Bachmann, in asking the Department of Defense, the State Department, and other departments to investigate whether the U.S. government is being infiltrated by Muslim extremists.
In particular, the five Republicans singled out Huma Abedin, a long-time aide to Hillary Clinton, in their letter to the State Department. Abedin, the letter noted, "has three family members—her late father, her mother, and her brother—connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations. Her position provides her with routine access to the Secretary and to policy-making."
In this odd age, partisan hysteria and conspiracy theories have become a common feature of the American political landscape. But the anti-Abedin attack was too much even for fellow Republicans. To his credit, Sen. John McCain publicly declared that the letter constituted "an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable woman, a dedicated American, and a loyal public servant." (He also debunked its factual claims.) Ed Rollins, Bachmann's former campaign chief, wrote an op-ed for FOX calling his old boss' attack on Abedin "extreme," "dishonest," and "vicious."
more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/23/bachmann-gaffney-and-the-gop-s-anti-muslim-culture-of-conspiracy.html
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She's riding the $$$$ train of the Tea Party Express. 
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/the-incredible-unsinkable-michele-bachmann/260203/
