U.S. congressman meets with Mubarak's banned rival (Steny Hoyer and the Muslim Brotherhood!!)

CNN ^ | April 7, 2007

[piasa]

He said the two met privately at the ambassador's home and with other members of Hoyer's bipartisan delegation and Egyptian lawmakers at the parliament building.

Who were the other members of Hoyer's delegation?

[piasa]

Speaking of Clintonian elements within the CIA:

From the article :

... Jon Alterman, a Mideast specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said Bush administration officials may have avoided meeting Muslim Brotherhood members because it could strain relations with the secular Egyptian government, one of the closest U.S. allies in the Arab world.
"The difficulty when it gets to Egypt is that the Brotherhood is not a legal group within Egypt and the U.S. government is wary of violating laws in countries in which it operates," he told The Associated Press on Saturday.
"The larger constraint on our willingness to meet the Brotherhood is the Egyptian government's unease with our government's meeting with the Brotherhood."...
"There's been a growing sense in Washington over 20 years that Islamic politics are here to stay, and the U.S. interest in promoting democracy around the world means we should be engaging with a growing number of actors," Alterman said.

From another article on CIA funding of leftist agitprop: A grant of $250,000 to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, known as CSIS, headed by former Clinton administration Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre -------- "How the CIA Funds Anti-Bush Propaganda ," by Bill Gertz, Frontpagemag.com, September 14, 2004

CSIS brings to mind Brzezinski, Scowcroft, Zinni and Kissinger.

[Cindy]

I don’t know who the delegation was.

Here’s the latest spin cycle article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6542463,00.html

[piasa]

thanks!

[Cindy]

http://somd.com/news/headlines/2007/5707.shtml

“Hoyer Leads Congressional Delegation to Sudan, Egypt, Greece, and Germany”

Posted on April 08, 2007:
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON - Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (So. Md.) is currently led a bipartisan Congressional Delegation to Sudan, Egypt, Greece and Germany. Joining him were Congressman John Barrow (D-GA), Congressman G.K. Butterfield (D-NC), Congressman Jim Costa (D-CA), Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Congressman Ray LaHood (R-IL), Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Congressman Brad Miller (D-NC), Congressman Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL).”

[Cindy]

You’re very welcome.

[piasa]

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