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Is Huma Abedin to the Muslim Brotherhood what Alger Hiss was to theSoviet Union?

Why are Republican Senator John McCain, Republican Speaker of theHouse John Boehner and House Intelligence Committee Chairman MikeRodgers (R-MI) acting in the growing Abedin controversy as WashingtonEstablishment Democrats of the 1940s did in the Hiss episode? Which is tosay, writing off the dangers of a foreign enemy whose goal is to infiltratethe U.S. government -- because, well, the people in question are part of the

Washington Establishment?And last but certainly not least, why is the Republican Establishmentpursuing a losing strategy in the war against Islamic radicalism? Is itreturning to the losing strategy it pursued during the Cold War -- astrategy that was overturned over Establishment opposition by RonaldReagan's victorious "we win, they lose" strategy?

These questions arise because of McCain's vehement attack on MinnesotaCongresswoman Michele Bachmann. Bachmann, along with four otherconservative House members (Louis Gohmert of Texas, Trent Franks of

Arizona, Thomas Rooney of Florida and Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia),has written a series of hotly controversial letters.

What did Bachmann and the others do to infuriate McCain? And draw arebuke from Boehner and Rodgers?The five House members wrote letters to the Inspector Generals of theDepartments of State, Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security -- along

with a fifth to the IG in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Asking?Asking that the recipients take seriously the possibility that the MuslimBrotherhood is becoming a security threat within the government of theUnited States itself.The congressional group cited chapter and verse to back up their concerns.This included the reference in the State Department letter to Ms. Abedin,Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff. As the letters wereindividualized to five different departments, Abedin was mentioned onlyin the State Department letter, with other people or issues mentioned as

relevant to the respective department receiving each individual letters. SoAbedin was most certainly not alone.So why all the fuss from McCain and the others that focused on Huma?

After all, the government itself has reported that an unwillingness torecognize the presence of Islamic extremism in the military is exactly whatcaused the Ft. Hood shootings by Maj. Nidal Hasan, a man whosesympathies with Islamic extremism was well-known but fatefully ignored
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by his superiors. What is so disreputable about raising the very samequestions about Ms. Abedin, her security clearances, and the MuslimBrotherhood?There are two serious points at issue here. Let's start with the WashingtonEstablishment and Huma Abedin. Why all the fuss over the mention ofHuma?Because Ms. Abedin's prominence comes both because of her position inthe State Department -- and her political connections through herhusband.Ms. Abedin, if known at all outside the corridors of Washington andEstablishment power, is prominent because of her marriage to now-formerNew York Congressman Anthony Weiner. Yes, that Anthony Weiner, theDemocrat who departed the House in haste when it became clear that washe was busy texting pictures of his uh nether regions to various

women.But as Bachmann and company point out, Ms. Abedin plays a much moreserious role in her own job as a senior aide to Secretary Clinton. (Abedinalso worked in the Clinton White House as well.)

The reason for the concern is expressed this way by Bachmann:For example, according to "The Muslim Brotherhood in America:The Enemy Within," a product of the Center for Security Policy(MuslimBrotherhoodinAmerica.com), the Department's Deputy Chief ofstaff, Huma Abedin, has three family members -- her late father, her

mother and her brother -- connected to Muslim Brotherhood operativesand/or organizations. Her position affords her routine access to theSecretary and to policy-making.In other words, the concern from Bachmann is that Abedin's family has orhad (in the case of her late father) close ties to a group that is dedicated to"destroying Western civilization from within." Or, as it is known,"civilization jihad."To most Americans, the notion that a son or daughter is heavily influenced

by family traditions and beliefs is a no-brainer. A sterling example of this

would be no less than -- John McCain.It is John McCain himself who famously presented himself in just thisfashion in his bestselling bookFaith of My Fathers. Here's how McCain's

book is advertised on the book flap:John McCain learned about life and honor from his grandfather andfather, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy. This is a memoir abouttheir lives, their heroism, and the ways that sons are shaped and enriched
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by their fathers.Fair enough.So if that common-sense wisdom applies to John McCain -- why not toHuma Abedin? Just as McCain learned about "the ways sons are shapedand enriched by their fathers" -- isn't it just possible -- or probable -- thatthe same exact thing could be said about a daughter named Huma Abedin?That Huma Abedin has been "shaped and enriched" by the MuslimBrotherhood-believing "ways" of her father, mother and brother?

And that those "ways" are now in some fashion influencing the policiesthat flow from the United States State Department precisely becauseHuma Abedin has the ear of the Secretary of State? And doubtless somedegree of influence within the government bureaucracy?Of course this is possible to any sentient observer.But for having the brass to write these letters asking common sense

questions that bear directly on national security, suddenly MicheleBachmann is under attack.From Republicans! And not just SenatorMcCain, either.Speaker of the House John Boehner jumped into the fray, saying that"from everything I do know of her [Abedin] she has a sterling character,and I think accusations like this being thrown around are prettydangerous."House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rodgers piled on saying: "Ihave no information in my committee that would indicate that Huma isanything other than an American patriot." Catch that first name reference?

Bachmann herself has stuck by her guns, responding to her critics bysaying this to Glenn Beck:

After the Fort Hood tragedy, a report was issued that said the real problemin our government is that we are not teaching FBI agents or our military torecognize radical Islam. So that's what we need to do. We need to teachabout it.

TheBlaze reported the rest of what Bachmann said of Abedin this way:She is the chief aide for the -- to the Secretary of State, and we quoted from

a document, and this has been well reported all across Arab media, thather father -- her late father who's now deceased was a part of the MuslimBrotherhood.Her brother was a part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and her mother was apart of what's called the Muslim Sisterhood. It would be, we haverequirements to get a high-level security clearance. One thing that thegovernment looks at are your associations, and in particular your family
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associations. And this applies to everyone. It would be the same that istrue with me. If my family members were associated with Hamas, aterrorist organization, that alone could be sufficient to disqualify me fromgetting a security clearance. So all we did is ask, did the federalgovernment look into her family associations before she got a high-levelsecurity clearance.

Without doubt the best look at this erupting controversy was done in thisdetailed piece titled "Questions about Huma Abedin" by Andy McCarthyover atNational Review. Take a good read. (And there's a second brilliantpiece by McCarthy which we will come to shortly.)McCarthy makes clear that no one is accusing Abedin of a crime.Bachmann certainly isn't accusing her of a crime. What is at issue, saysMcCarthy correctly, is this:asking questions that adults responsible for national security should feel

obliged to ask: In light of Ms. Abedin's family history, is she someone whoought to have a security clearance, particularly one that would give heraccess to top-secret information about the Brotherhood? Is she,furthermore, someone who may be sympathetic to aspects of theBrotherhood's agenda, such that Americans ought to be concerned that sheis helping shape American foreign policy?McCarthy then specifically details the Obama administration policiestoward the Muslim Brotherhood, policies he calls a "sea change" in

American policy. A sea change that has flowed straight from the StateDepartment where Huma Abedin is a top adviser to the Secretary of State.

Stop.America has been here before. And yes, it was the case involving AlgerHiss.

What was the biggest issue on the American foreign policy plate after theend of World War II?Right. The emerging Cold War with the Communist Soviet Union.

And what was one of the very first problems that began to appear in thelate 1940s?Right again. That would be the infiltration of the United States

government by agents of the Soviet Union. Radicalized Americans whowere devoted not to their own country, but to the ideology of Communism.And the very first person to be prominently subjected to these accusationsturned out to be a State Department aide by the name of -- Alger Hiss.(And Hiss was not alone. Harry Dexter White of the Treasury Department

was in this mix, as were others.)There is a reason to compare Huma Abedin to Alger Hiss. Why?
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Because when Hiss's name first surfaced in an accusation by a then-Timemagazine editor named Whittaker Chambers -- Chambers confessed tohaving been a Communist who had abandoned the faith, but had been in aCommunist cell with Hiss -- all hell broke loose. Chambers fingered Hissas not just an off-hours Communist believer but as someone who wasactively engaged in espionage, passing U.S. government secrets to theSoviets.The controversy was huge. Hiss was accused, tried, and convicted and

went to prison for a while, never to enter the government again. Decadeslater, in 1995 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Venona projectfiles were released. A top secret project run by the FBI in the 1940s, it haddramatic proof in the form of decrypted Soviet telegrams that, yes indeed,

Alger Hiss had in fact been a Soviet agent.

At the time, then-New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote of therevelation that:The complicity of Alger Hiss of the State Department seems settled.But Moynihan also observed something else, and it was a very importantsomething else that has a direct bearing on the supporters of Huma

Abedin and the critics of Michele Bachmann. Moynihan wrote:Belief in the guilt or innocence of Alger Hiss became a defining issue in

American intellectual life. Parts of the American government hadconclusive evidence of his guilt, but they never told.Moynihan, who had lived through the period, was exactly right. Alger Hiss

-- and the larger issue Hiss symbolized of Soviet penetration of theAmerican government -- became for years a "defining issue" -- and notonly in American intellectual life but in American political life.

As recent as the Bush administration, FBI agent Robert Hanssenwas convicted of spying for the Soviets and Russian governments for 22years. He was far from alone -- yet the indignation and fury was and hasalways been over Alger Hiss.

Why?Because Alger Hiss was a New Deal liberal. He was, in the vernacular,

plugged in. A Harvard Law School graduate, he was a protg of futureSupreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter -- an FDR appointee. He clerkedat the Supreme Court for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, was agovernment lawyer in FDR's Justice Department, a Senate staffer for aliberal Senator, a lawyer in FDR's Agriculture Department as run byprogressive favorite Henry Wallace. He began working for the first of threeFDR-Truman era Secretaries of State in 1936.


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So when Whittaker Chambers stepped forward and spoke up -- the entirefactual issue of whether Hiss was a spy for the Soviets got caught up insomething else entirely.That something else?Defending the Washington Establishment. Defending the New Deal.Defending liberalism. Defending the good-ole-boy network.To show just how deep and public the adamant defense was of Hiss by theEstablishment, there is this reply from Secretary of State Dean Acheson

when Hiss was convicted in 1950: I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss.

Acheson went on to say anyone who had questions about his support forHiss would have them answered by reading "the 25th Chapter of theGospel according to St. Matthew beginning with verse 34. Have you any

other questions?"The verse Acheson was citing as a defense of Hiss and what was done tonational security included the line: "I was in prison and you came to visitme."All well and good for the Christianity of Secretary Acheson. Not sogood when making judgments on issues of national security.

As a result of the kind of attitude exhibited by Acheson, those who wereintent on a serious investigation of Chambers' charges were politicallyassaulted with a furious indignation. The idea that there could be anythingamiss with Alger Hiss was received with John McCain-style angry andrighteous indignation.

And yet, there it was.A specific set of allegations from Whittaker Chambers that one of the mostrespected members of the Washington Establishment was in fact a Sovietspy. Hiss's alleged task: not simply to steal government documents but toinfluence American foreign policy with a tilt toward Communism.

Which, it was recorded, Hiss did.As history records, the Michele Bachmann of the day was a youngRepublican Congressman named Richard Nixon. And what is particularlyeerie here in the similarity department is not just the furiously negative

treatment Nixon received -- just as Bachmann is receiving it today -- butthe reason why he received it.In his 1962 bookSix Crises Nixon discussed how and why he was sofuriously disdained. The how?

As soon as the Hiss case broke and well before a full bill of particulars waseven available, much less open to close critical analysis, they [Hissdefenders] leaped to the defense of Alger Hiss -- and to a counterattack of


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unparalleled venom and irrational fury on his accusers."The why? Nixon recounts being at one Washington dinner party after it

became clear that Hiss had been stealing State Department documentsand giving them to Chambers in the form of microfilm -- the famous"Pumpkin Papers" (so-named because Chambers had hidden them in apumpkin on his Maryland farm).

A New Deal lawyer at the dinner party was so angry with Nixon for outingHiss he shouted:"I don't give a damn what the facts are. Even if Hiss admits he's guilty,these investigations are dangerous and will have a terrible and disastrouseffect on the country -- because the net result is to cast reflection on theUnited Nations and all the other progressive aspects of the Roosevelt-Truman foreign policy."In other words, Hiss -- whose brother Donald was a law partner of

Secretary of State Acheson -- was an establishment insider. A liberal. Andto find anything amiss with Hiss was to cast a shadow on the credibility ofliberalism itself, not to mention the Washington Establishment of the day.

And in the late 1940s you never questioned the Establishment, as Nixonwas essentially doing with his Hiss investigation.People with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood or any other Islamicorganization who serve in the U.S. government should be viewed inprecisely the same way as people who had ideological ties to Communismand hence the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. Or, indeed, for the durationof the Cold War. To wit:

Times change, but human behavior never changes. The lies we tellourselves can and do stay the same. And the idea that the enemy within --in this case Islamic supremacy -- does not exist is one of those lies, as theFt. Hood shooting amply and tragically illustrated.

What, after all, is Bachmann asking? She is not saying Huma Abedin isguilty of one thing. In her own words Bachmann says of her letter-writingcolleagues that "we did not infer that she [Abedin] is a member of theMuslim Brotherhood or that she's working on behalf of the Muslim

Brotherhood."Says Andy McCarthy in hisNRO piece: Ms. Abedin is an adviser, not a policymaker. She gives advice to thesecretary of state. Unless you were in the room with the two of them, you'dnever be able to demonstrate what "direct impact" the adviser was having.

Again, that's why people are supposed to be vetted before they get thesesensitive positions and before they get access to the nation's secrets.


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This was exactly one of the issues that was on the table with Alger Hiss.Why?Because as with Hiss and his Secretary of State boss, as with Abedin andhers.[U]nless you were in the room with the two of them, you'd never be able todemonstrate what "direct impact" the adviser was having.In the case of Alger Hiss, you had exactly the same problem.Former FDR Assistant Secretary of State Adolph Berle told the House Un-

American Activities Committee investigating Hiss thatin the fall of 1944 there was a difference of opinion in the StateDepartment that the Russians were not going to be sympathetic andcooperativeand that (Berle) was pressing for a pretty clean-cutshowdown when our position was strongest. At that time Mr. Hiss didtake what you would call today the pro-Russian point of view. That was a

cause for worry.Berle goes on to say that he, Berle, "got trimmed in that fight and as aresult went to Brazil" -- which is to say Berle took an ambassadorialappointment as a result of losing a bureaucratic skirmish over the U.S.stance with Russia. A skirmish he had with Alger Hiss.Shortly thereafter, Alger Hiss was in Yalta as part of FDR's summitadvisory team. Yalta, the summit now cited in history as a "sellout" to theSoviets.Then there's a considerable second problem involving the GOPEstablishment and Islamic Supremacy. A problem outlined, as mentioned,

by Andy McCarthy in this piece titled "The Wages of Willful Blindness: IsIt Time for Defenders of Liberty to Abandon the GOP?"This problem? Problem number two?

As McCarthy says, the question is "whether GOP leaders comprehend thestakes" involved in dealing with Islam. Remember here that McCarthy wasthe prosecutor of the "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel-Rahman. The architectof the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. McCarthy, who

wrote a book called Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, decidedlyknows his subject. He writes:

Here is the crucial part that you need to understand: The Blind Sheikh andhis subordinates were not merely "violent extremists," seized by some sortof psychological problem. They were Islamic supremacists. Yes, theirmethods were barbaric; but that does not mean they were insane orirrational. Indeed, had that been the case, they would have been not guilty

by reason of mental incapacity.
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To the contrary, we proved that their actions were rationally motivated byIslamic supremacist ideology, an easily knowable interpretation of Islam,drawn directly from Muslim scripture, that commands its adherents tocoerce societies into adopting sharia. Sharia is Islam's totalitarianframework for how societies are to be ruled.

What McCarthy is saying in detail in this second piece, is that the GOPestablishment has dropped the ball in the fight against radical Islam.

What I would add here is that this is, sadly, not unusual. Exactly the samething happened in the Cold War. The GOP Establishment turnedaccommodationist as the Cold War proceeded. Among other reasons, thisretreat on Communism was why the moderate wing of the GOP fought firstBarry Goldwater and then Ronald Reagan. Both men were"counterrevolutionaries" when it came to U.S. policy on the Soviets. AsReagan succinctly put it to his national security adviser Richard Allen, his

strategy was: "We win. They lose."What's happening with this skirmish over Huma Abedin is no (Joe)McCarthyite effort to drive an innocent woman from public life. What's

being asked, again to quote Andy McCarthy, is whether "the StateDepartment's dramatic, Brotherhood-friendly policy shifts during Ms.

Abedin's tenure as a top adviser to the State Department's boss" are theresult of anything whatsoever reflecting Abedin's factual familyconnections with the ideals of the Muslim Brotherhood. Familyconnections that John McCain would surely describe as the influence of

Abedin's "ways" as "shaped and enriched" by her father, mother, and

brother.All Bachmann and company are asking, says McCarthy, "is completelyconsistent with national-security guidelines that an investigation intothose policy shifts be undertaken."Bachmann and her colleagues were absolutely right to ask these questions.The real questions here are two:First: What is the role of Washington Establishment cronyism in thedefense of Huma Abedin? Is John McCain the new Dean Acheson?Second: Is the Republican Establishment repeating the same failed

strategy in dealing with Islamic Supremacism that they long adoptedduring the Cold War when facing Communism? A losing strategy that wasfinally reversed by Ronald Reagan? Reagan, of course, having been viewedfor decades by the Republican Establishment as an "extremist" -- to quoteformer GOP President Gerald Ford from march of 1980.The furious attacks on Michele Bachmann over Huma Abedin -- bySenator McCain, Speaker Boehner and Chairman Rodgers -- certainly


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seem to indicate nothing but trouble ahead.Why?Because they are inevitably backfiring.Raising the obvious question. With all that the question implies about boththe Muslim Brotherhood -- and the Washington and RepublicanEstablishments:Is Huma Abedin the new Alger Hiss?

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Der Spiegelpointed out the obvious: A certain role ofthe Muslim Brotherhood in the transition process [todemocracy] in Egypt seems acceptable to the ObamaWhite House. It was early February 2011, the momentwhen the uprising that would oust Hosni Mubarak wasbubbling over in Tahrir Square. The prominent Germannewsmagazine figured, who better to ask about the

Muslim Brotherhood than the American politicalestablishments resident foreign-policy genius, JohnMcCain?

So, the reporter asked him, does Obamas tolerance ofthe Muslim Brotherhood concern you?

Senator Maverick shot back without hesitation: It

concerns me so much that I am unalterably opposed toit. I think it would be a mistake of historic proportions.

Senator McCain elaborated that he was deeply, deeplyconcerned that this whole movement [toward
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democracy] could be hijacked by radical Islamicextremists. And what, he was specifically asked, isyour assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood? McCain

pulled no punches:I think they are a radical group that, first of all,supports sharia law; that in itself is anti-democratic at least as far as women are concerned. They havebeen involved with other terrorist organizations and Ibelieve that they should be specifically excluded fromany tra nsition government.

In fact, so apprehensive was he over the Brotherhoodand its sharia agenda that McCain was quick to brandMohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel laureate, as aBrotherhood tool. Many of us watching developmentsat the time noted the apparent collusion betweenElBaradei and the Brothers. McCain went farther: Ohyeah, I think its very clear that the scenario is verylikely he could be their front man.

Senator Straight Talk reasoned that since ElBaradei

appeared to be on the same page as the Brotherhood,and was being hailed as a potential Mubarak successordespite having no following nor political influence inEgypt, we should assume that he must be in cahootswith the Brotherhood. It did not matter that ElBaradei
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was a renowned international figure and an importantleftist ally of President Obamas. So pernicious was thethreat posed by the Brotherhood that, in McCains

considered opinion, you just had to assume the worst.The Spiegelinterview was classic McCain; the senatoris never at a loss for bloviation. His professed anxiety,only a year ago, over the Muslim Brotherhood, as wellas his blithe willingness to assume that ElBaradei mustbe an Islamist coconspirator, are worth remembering

today. For the sage has suddenly decided that theBrothers unapologetic Islamic supremacists who sayoutright that they are on a grand jihad to destroyAmerica and the West are a pretty swell lot, after all.Instead, McCain reserves his signature shoot first,think later ire for the target he has always preferred:conservatives.

The Arizonan took to the Senate floor this week tolambaste five conservative members of the House who,unlike McCain, are actually serious about addressingthreats the Brotherhood poses to American interests.McCains bipartisan Islamic democracy promotersseem content to keep burning through taxpayer trillions

until the Brotherhood is finally running everygovernment in the Middle East. To the contrary, theHouse conservatives Michele Bachmann (Minn.),Louie Gohmert (Texas), Trent Franks (Ariz.), TomRooney (Fla.), and Lynn Westmorland (Ga.) have
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concluded that the Brotherhood needs to be regarded asthe serious anti-American business that it is.Toward that end, the quintet is justifiably concerned

that the Brotherhoods sharia agenda the one towhich McCain used to be unalterably opposed isbeing abetted not just by some Nobel-toting Egyptianprogressive, but by officials in highly sensitivepositions inside the United States government.

One official about whom they raise questions is HumaAbedin, deputy chief of staff to Secretary of StateHillary Clinton. Ms. Abedin has been an aide since sheinterned at the White House in 1996 and was assignedto the thenfirst ladys staff. The family tie for whichshe is best known is her husband, Anthony Weiner, theNew YorkDemocrat who resigned from Congress in

disgrace last year. But it is Ms. Abedins parents andbrother who have drawn the attention of the five HouseGOP members. They all have connections to theMuslim Brotherhood the organization itself orprominent members thereof.

For pointing this out and merely asking the StateDepartments inspector general to look into it andreport back to Congress which is part of the IGsduties under the statute that created his position McCain & Co. (i.e., his fans in the left-wing media and
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his admirers in the Republican establishment) arescreaming smear and McCarthyism. McCainsantipathy toward conservatives (except during election

years) is an old story. And it is no secret that he haslong been smitten by Mrs. Clinton, whosetransnational-progressive leanings mirror his own.

The Maverick is also a man about town towns likeTripoli. Back in 2009, you may recall, he was anhonored guest in the compound of Libyas dictator,Moammar Qaddafi celebrating the former masterterrorist as an important American ally against jihadistterror, helping to grease the wheels so the Obamaadministration could increase American aid that would

bolster Qaddafis military. Yet in the blink of an eye, itseemed, McCain would later be railing that Qaddafiwas a dyed-in-the-wool terrorist monster whosemilitary had to be smashed by the United States inan undeclared, unauthorized, unprovoked war, ifnecessary so Libyans could be free to elect the

Muslim Brotherhood and other assorted Islamicsupremacists to their new Parliament.

But the point is that McCain gets around. And when hedoes, the State Department is often his escort. Between
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his globetrotting and his case of Hillary hauteur, thesenatorhas gotten friendly over the years with Ms.Abedin, who is said to be smart, able, and quite

charming. Ever the Maverick chivalrous to afault . . . at least when the damsel in distress is anexotic, progressive sharia-democracy devotee ratherthan a conservative national-security worrywart fromMinnesota. McCain has leapt to Ms. Abedins defenseagainst these vicious House troglodytes.

The senators tirade featured his trademark indignation,incoherence, and infatuation with immigrant successstories. (Ms. Abedin was born in Michigan, but noreason to let that get in the way of what is best aboutAmerica.) McCain blasted Representative Bachmannand the others, falsely accusing them of doing to hisfriend Huma what he had actually done to ElBaradei,

namely, implicating her as part of a nefariousconspiracy.To the contrary, the House members have drawn nosuch conclusions. Instead, they have pointed out theState Departments dramatic, Brotherhood-friendlypolicy shifts during Ms. Abedins tenure as a top

adviser to the State Departments boss. They haveasked completely consistent with national-securityguidelines, to which Ill come shortly that aninvestigation into those policy shifts be undertaken.That investigation would include an inquiry into


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whether Ms. Abedins family ties render her unsuitablefor a position that involves access to classifiedinformation about the Brotherhood. The shrieks aside,

this is not remotely unreasonable, nor is it aninquisition into Ms. Abedins decency and rectitude.When I was a prosecutor, the Justice Department wouldnot have let me take a case that involved friends of myfamily. Its not that they didnt trust me; its thatgovernment is supposed to avoid the appearance of

impropriety legitimacy hinges on the publics beliefthat actions are taken on merit, not burdened bypalpable conflicts of interest.Regarding Ms. Abedins family ties, McCain rebukeshis House colleagues for alleging that three membersof Humas family are connected to MuslimBrotherhood operatives and/or organizations. These

sinister accusations, he insisted, rest solely on a fewunspecified and unsubstantiated associations ofmembers of Humas family.

Now, Im perfectly willing to believe that McCain maynot know what the words unspecified and

unsubstantiated mean. That, however, would notexcuse his use of them in this context. The ties of Ms.Abedines father, mother, and brother to the MuslimBrotherhood are both specific and substantiated.


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Ms. Abedins father, the late Syed Z. Abedin, was anIndian-born Islamic academic who founded theInstitute of Muslim Minority Affairs in Saudi Arabia.

That institute was backed by the Muslim WorldLeague. As the Hudson Institutes Zeyno Baran relates,the MWL was started by the Saudi government in 1962with Brotherhood members in key leadershippositions. It has served as the principal vehicle for thepropagation of Islamic supremacism by the Saudis and

the Brotherhood. That ideology fuels the Islamicextremism that, only a year ago, had McCain soworried that he thought allowing the Brotherhood intothe Egyptian-government mix would be a mistake ofhistoric proportions.

McCains frivolous retort is that Professor Abedin died20 years ago. That would be a great point if someonewere accusing Ms. Abedin of being in her fathersinstitute or the MWL. It is irrelevant when the question

is whether it is reasonable to infer Islamist sympathiesfrom her parents allegiances not to make conclusivejudgments about her, mind you, but to draw aninference that would merit deeper inquiry. That isstandard fare in government background checks.
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Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaedas emir, has been out ofthe Brotherhood for more than 30 years. Does thatmean the Brotherhood is now irrelevant to his

ideological outlook, or to the sympathies of his closeassociates?

As it happens, the same MWL that supported Abedinres institute also helped the Brotherhood establish

the Muslim Students Association. The MSA is the

foundation of the Brotherhoods Americaninfrastructure, the gateway through which youngMuslims join the Brotherhood after being steeped in thesupremacist writings of Brotherhood theorists Hassanal-Banna (who founded the Brotherhood in the 1920s)and Sayyid Qutb (the animating influence of suchjihadist eminences as Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden, and

the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman).Speaking of which, it was through the MSA thatEgypts new president, Mohammed Morsi, joined theMuslim Brotherhood. He was studying engineering inCalifornia at the time, the early Eighties. By her ownaccount, Morsis wife, Nagla Ali Mahmoud, also

joined. She became a leading member of a cognateoutfit known as the Muslim Sisterhood. And it is herethat we get to Huma Abedins mother, the Pakistani-born academic Dr. Saleha Abedin.Dr. Abedin, too, has been a member of the Muslim
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Sisterhood, which is essentially nothing more than thefemale version of the Brotherhood, according to WalidShoebat, a former Brotherhood member who has

renounced the organization. The Brotherhood is notonly the font of Sunni supremacist ideology, itspearheads the international support network forHamas, the terrorist organization that openly proclaimsitself as the Brotherhoods Palestinian branch.According to one report, Dr. Abedin has on occasion

represented herself as a delegate of the MWL.Moreover, as William Jacobson documents at LegalInsurrection, Dr. Abedin has led the InternationalIslamic Committee for Woman and Child (IICWC), anIslamist organization that hews to the positions ofSheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Brotherhoods leadingsharia jurist. Like Brotherhood entities, the IICWC

defends such practices as female genital mutilation andchild marriage, which find support in Islamic law andscripture.Sheikh Qaradawi, of course, is the Brotherhoodeminence who promises that Islam will conquerEurope, we will conquer America. He is a vigorous

supporter of Hamas, and his fatwas lionize suicideterrorism including the killing of Americans in Iraq.It is Qaradawi who brings us to Huma Abedins brother,Dr. Hassan Abedin. He has been a fellow at the OxfordCenter for Islamic Studies in Great Britain.
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Contemporaneously, Sheikh Qaradawi was a memberof the Oxford Centers board of trustees. So was OmarNaseef, onetime secretary-general of the MWL as well

as the founder of the Rabita Trust an Islamiccharity notorious for funding jihadists and for havingan al-Qaeda founder (Wael Hamza Julaidan) as one ofits chief executives.

These connections are not contrived or weightless

like when the Left wanted to keep Samuel Alito off theSupreme Court because, 40 years ago, he was amember of Concerned Alumni of Princeton. Ofcourse, knowing members of an organization whosegoals include conquest of the West and destruction ofIsrael is not a crime. Nor is it a crime to have closerelatives who are either members of, or associated with

members of, such an organization. Again, however, noone is accusing Huma Abedin of a crime.

The five House conservatives, instead, are askingquestions that adults responsible for national securityshould feel obliged to ask: In light of Ms. Abedins

family history, is she someone who ought to have asecurity clearance, particularly one that would give heraccess to top-secret information about theBrotherhood? Is she, furthermore, someone who maybe sympathetic to aspects of the Brotherhoods agenda,
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such that Americans ought to be concerned that she ishelping shape American foreign policy?

Now, Senator McCain is no stranger to smear. No needto confirm that with Mr. ElBaradei; weve watched foryears as he has slandered, for example, critics of hisadvocacy for illegal aliens as nativists seeking to

reprise Jim Crow laws. Nevertheless, since McCainpurports to be a tireless guardian of our security, onewould think hed appreciate the distinction between asmear, on the one hand, and a routine application ofsecurity-clearance standards, on the other.

The State Department is particularly wary when it

comes to the category of foreign influence yes, itis a significant enough concern to warrant its ownextensive category in background investigations. Nocriminal behavior need be shown to deny a securityclearance; access to classified information is not a right,and reasonable fear of divided loyalties is more than

sufficient for a clearance to be denied.The guidelines probe ties to foreign countries andorganizations because hostile elements could targetUnited States citizens to obtain protected informationor could be associated with a risk of terrorism
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note: The Brotherhood checks both these boxes. Thus,when someone is proposed for a sensitive position, it isnecessary to consider conditions that could raise a

security concern and may be disqualifying. These, theState Department tells us, include contact with aforeign family member, business or professionalassociate, friend or other person who is a citizen orresident in a foreign country if that contact creates aheightened risk of foreign exploitation, inducement,

pressure, or coercion.Furthermore, in light of the Brotherhoods well-knownabhorrence of the United States, it is also pertinent thatStates guidelines raise alarms if a person seekingaccess to classified information has an association orsympathy with people who seek to overthrow ourgovernment, or even with people who just seek to

prevent Americans from exercising their constitutionalrights. The Brotherhood does not just aim to upend oursystem; it would restrict our rights, such as freeexpression, to the extent they contradict sharia.In his diatribe, McCain speciously asserted that theGOP conservatives had failed to cite an action, a

decision, or a public position that Huma has takenwhile at the State Department that showed she waseither promoting anti-American activities within ourgovernment or having a direct impact on harmfulpolicies. Of course, to assess a persons fitness for a


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sensitive position, background investigators are notrestricted to asking whether someone has committedsome transgression. Their main job is to find out

whether there are circumstances and competingallegiances that could temptsomeone to take positionsor actions that could harm the United States. That iswhy, for example, we have hearings before we confirmfederal judges we dont just hand them a gavel andhope for the best.

In addition, as McCain knows, Ms. Abedin is anadviser, not a policymaker. She gives advice to thesecretary of state. Unless you were in the room with thetwo of them, youd never be able to demonstrate whatdirect impact the adviser was having. Again, thatswhy people are supposed to be vetted before they getthese sensitive positions and before they get access to

the nations secrets.

Since Mrs. Clinton has been secretary of state, with Ms.Abedin as one of her top advisers, the State Departmenthas strongly supported abandoning the federal

governments prior policy against dealing with theMuslim Brotherhood. State, furthermore, has embraceda number of Muslim Brotherhood positions thatundermine both American constitutional rights and ouralliance with Israel. To name just a few manifestations


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of this policy sea change:

The State Department has an emissary in Egypt who

trains operatives of the Brotherhood and other Islamistorganizations in democracy procedures.

The State Department announced that the Obamaadministration would be satisfied with the election ofa Muslim Brotherhooddominated government inEgypt.

Secretary Clinton personally intervened to reverse aBush-administration ruling that barred Tariq Ramadan,

grandson of the Brotherhoods founder and son of oneof its most influential early leaders, from entering theUnited States.

The State Department has collaborated with theOrganization of Islamic Cooperation, a bloc ofgovernments heavily influenced by the Brotherhood, inseeking to restrict American free-speech rights indeference to sharia proscriptions against negativecriticism of Islam.

The State Department has excluded Israel, the worlds
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leading target of terrorism, from its GlobalCounterterrorism Forum, a group that brings theUnited States togetherwith several Islamist

governments, prominently including its co-chair,Turkey which now finances Hamas and avidlysupports the flotillas that seek to break Israelsblockade of Hamas. At the forums kickoff, SecretaryClinton decried various terrorist attacks and groups; butshe did not mention Hamas or attacks against Israel

in transparent deference to the Islamist governments,which echo the Brotherhoods position that Hamas isnot a terrorist organization and that attacks againstIsrael are not terrorism.

The State Department and the Obama administrationwaived congressional restrictions in order to transfer

$1.5 billion dollars in aid to Egypt after the MuslimBrotherhoods victory in the parliamentary elections.

The State Department and the Obama administrationwaived congressional restrictions in order to transfermillions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian territoriesnotwithstanding that Gaza is ruled by the terrorist

organization Hamas, the Muslim BrotherhoodsPalestinian branch.

The State Department and the administration recentlyhosted a contingent from Egypts newly elected
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parliament that included not only Muslim Brotherhoodmembers but a member of the Islamic Group (Gamaatal Islamia), which is formally designated as a foreign

terrorist organization so that providing it withmaterial support is a serious federal crime. The StateDepartment has refused to provide Americans withinformation about the process by which it issued a visato a member of a designated terrorist organization,about how the members of the Egyptian delegation

were selected, or about what security procedures werefollowed before the delegation was allowed to enter ourcountry.

On a just-completed trip to Egypt, Secretary Clintonpressured General Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head ofthe military junta currently governing the country, to

surrender power to the newly elected parliament, whichis dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, and thenewly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, who is a topBrotherhood official. She also visited with Morsi;immediately after his victory, Morsi proclaimed that histop priorities included pressuring the United States torelease the Blind Sheikh. Quite apart from the

Brotherhoods self-proclaimed grand jihad to destroythe United States, which the Justice Department provedin federal court during the 20078Holy LandFoundation prosecution, the Brotherhoods supreme
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guide, Mohammed Badie, publicly called for jihadagainst the United States in an October 2010 speech.After it became clear the Brotherhood would win the

parliamentary election, Badie said the victory was astepping stone to the establishment of a just Islamiccaliphate.

This is not an exhaustive account of Obama-administration coziness with the Muslim Brotherhood.It is just some of the lowlights.

Senator McCain is an incorrigible vacillator. It is to beexpected that he has evolved from last years claimedopposition to the Brotherhood to a new position, morealigned with that of his friend Secretary Clinton and theObama administration. Some of us, however, really areunalterably opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood. The

five House conservatives are asking questions to whichthe State Departments own guidelines, to say nothingof common sense, demand answers. Answers not justabout Huma Abedin but, far more significantly, aboutthe governments policy toward virulently anti-American Islamists. Americans deserve nothing less even if the usual GOP spaghetti spines would prefer to

give them nothing, period.

Andrew C. McCarthy is the author, most recently,

ofThe Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left SabotageAmerica.
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Despite mounting evidence of close ties between theMuslim Brotherhood and Huma Abedin, Secretary ofState Clintons close aide, Republican congressionalleaders particularly Senator John McCain and HouseSpeaker John Boehner continue to target their ire notat the State Department but at Representative MicheleBachmann.

Representative Bachmann is one of five Houseconservatives who have raised concerns about MuslimBrotherhood infiltration of our government. GlennBeck reported Tuesday that GOP leadership is trying toextort an apology out of Bachmann by threatening to

boot her from the House Intelligence Committee if shefails to submit.

That got me to wondering: Any chance SpeakerBoehner might take just a couple of minutes out of his
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busy jihad against Bachmann to focus on how the StateDepartment during Ms. Abedins tenure hascozied up to Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim

Brotherhoods chief sharia jurist?

Sheikh Qaradawi is a promoter of jihadist terror. Hisfatwas endorse terrorist attacks against Americanpersonnel in Iraq as well as suicide bombing by both

men and women against Israel. He is a leadingsupporter of Hamas, the Muslim BrotherhoodsPalestinian branch. He also runs an umbrellaorganization called the Union for Good (sometimesreferred to as the Union of Good), which is formallydesignated a terrorist organization under American law.The Union for Good was behind the Peace Flotillathat attempted to break our ally Israels blockade of theterrorist organization Hamas (the MuslimBrotherhoods Palestinian branch) in 2010.

Thats rather interesting at least to me, thoughapparently not to Speaker Boehner because Huma

Abedins mother, Saleha, who is a member of theMuslim Brotherhoods female division (the MuslimSisterhood), is a major figure in not one but twoUnion for Good components. The first is theInternational Islamic Council for Dawa and
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Relief (IICDR). It is banned in Israel for supportingHamas under the auspices of the Union for Good. Thentheres the International Islamic Committee for Woman

and Child (IICWC) an organization that Dr. SalehaAbedin has long headed. Dr. Abedins IICWC describesitself as part of the IICDR. And wouldnt you know it,the IICWC charter was written by none otherthan . . . Sheikh Qaradawi, in conjunction with severalself-proclaimed members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In McCainWorld, these are what are known as a fewunspecified and unsubstantiated associations. But Idigress. Clearly, these significant Muslim Brotherhoodconnections are of scant interest to Speaker Boehner,who has decided the problem is not the Brotherhoodconnections but the people who are shedding light on

the Brotherhood connections. Nevertheless, sinceBoehner purports to be all about cracking down onwasteful government spending, at least when hes notsigning off on deals to extend President Obamas creditcard by another trillion or three, I thought I might askwhether the State Departments Fulbright Scholar

Program aroused his curiosity ever so slightly.

Fulbright, by its own account, is the governmentsflagship program in international educationalexchange, promoting mutual understanding between
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the U.S. and other countries. In the 20102011academic year the year of the Union for GoodsFreedom Flotilla, if you need a time marker one

Fulbright scholarship was awarded to a lucky chemistrystudent from Qatar. Her name is Siham al-Qaradawi,and she just happens to be the daughter of SheikhQaradawi.

Now, besides despising America and having lots ofglobal academic connections (at least in countrieswhere hes not banned), the sheikh happens to be a verywealthy man the sharia-advisory business can bevery profitable. And while the sheikhs daughter is saidto be an exceptional chemist, the world is full of

exceptional chemists. How is it that Qaradawisdaughter gets the State Department prize? Im justwondering, and wondering if Speaker Boehner iswondering.

Oh, one last thing. Obviously, Huma Abedin does not

make Obama-administration or State Departmentpolicy. Policy is made by President Obama andSecretary Clinton, and they hardly needed Ms. Abedinin order to have pro-Islamist leanings.Nevertheless, since Secretary Clintons tenure began,
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with Huma Abedin serving as a top adviser, the UnitedStates has aligned itself with the Muslim Brotherhoodin myriad ways. To name just a few (the list is by no

means exhaustive): Our government reversed the policyagainst formal contacts with the Brotherhood; fundedHamas; continued funding Egypt even after theBrotherhood won the elections; dropped aninvestigation of Brotherhood organizations in the U.S.that were previously identified as co-conspirators in the

case of the Holy Land Foundation financing Hamas;hosted Brotherhood delegations in the United States;issued a visa to a member of the Islamic Group (adesignated terrorist organization) and hosted him inWashington because he is part of the Brotherhoodsparliamentary coalition in Egypt; announced that Israelshould go back to its indefensible 1967 borders;

excluded Israel, the worlds leading target of terrorism,from a counterterrorism forum in which the StateDepartment sought to partner with Islamistgovernments that do not regard attacks on Israel asterrorism; and pressured Egypts pro-American militarygovernment to surrender power to the anti-American

Muslim Brotherhood parliament and president justelected by Egypts predominantly anti-Americanpopulation.So I was hoping maybe the speaker could explain to us:Hypothetically, if Huma Abedin didhave a bias in


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favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, and if she wereactually actingon that bias to try to tilt Americanpolicy in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, what

exactly would the State Department be doingdifferently?

Andrew C. McCarthy is the author, most recently, ofThe Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left SabotageAmerica.
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