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Brigitte Gabriel reports that while the FBI has finally cut off ties with CAIR, Barack Obama may not be acting as responsibly when it comes to the ISNA, another unindicted co-conspirator named in the HLF trial:

Why then, is President Obama treading down the same well-worn path the FBI did? He’s embracing Ingrid Mattson, and by extension ISNA, the same way the FBI embraced CAIR.

Like CAIR, ISNA was an unindicted co-conspirator in the aforementioned Holy Land Foundation trial. It is difficult to imagine the Obama Administration calling upon a professed Christian or Jew to deliver a prayer if those individuals were leaders of organizations that the Justice Department had designated “unindicted co-conspirators.”

But there is much, much more the FBI and other government agencies know about ISNA. ISNA’s co-founder, Sami Al-Arian, is a convicted terrorist. Declassified documents link ISNA to the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical organization that is responsible for the Muslim Brotherhood Project, a document outlining how Islam can destroy the West from within. Al-Arian has admitted he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood during the same year he helped co-found ISNA.

The Obama Administration certainly must be aware of this. Will it learn the same lesson the FBI did, before it’s too late?

The early indications are not promising. What appears to be driving the Obama agenda is a greater concern about rehabilitating our image in the Muslim world than about protecting us from Islamists who would infiltrate, subvert and harm our nation.

Not that it's really surprising.

There's more appalling news. The charges against a suspect in the USS Cole bombing have been dropped:

The Pentagon’s senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama’s order to freeze military tribunals there. The charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case.

The legal move by Susan J. Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, brings all cases into compliance with Obama’s Jan. 22 executive order to halt terrorist court proceedings at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Crawford dismissed the charges against al-Nashiri without prejudice. That means new charges can be brought again later. He will remain in prison for the time being.

“It was her decision, but it reflects the fact that the president has issued an executive order which mandates that the military commissions be halted, pending the outcome of several reviews of our operations down at Guantanamo,” Morrell said late Thursday night.

The ruling also gives the White House time to review the legal cases of all 245 terror suspects held there and decide whether they should be prosecuted in the U.S. or released to other nations.

Here's more on this from NRO's The Corner (via Michelle Malkin). It may be possible to bring up more charges later, but even so, the charges leveled against al-Nashiri currently should not have been dropped.

Here's also an ad from Move America Forward protesting the move to close Gitmo:

Others on the subject include Sma' Talk Wi'T, The American Pundit, Hennessey's View, Scared Monkeys.

Labels: CAIR corruption, islam, political corruption, United States