[Salman]

It is not the job of congress to investigate ANSWER or similar groups. If they are suspected of breaking the law, it is a job for law enforcement.

[DPB101]

It might not be a good move, politically, for congress to investigate ANSWER and other groups. But if I were in congress I would like to know if the FBI and CIA have checked out the money trail and if not, why not. Norman Solomon's "Useful Hollywood Idiot" Travel Agency did a booming business ferrying Sean Penn and others to Baghdad. Like to know who paid for Brian Becker to travel to and write propaganda for North Korea as well. The reason Democrats in Congress went after the FBI and CIA in the 1970s and 1980s is because the agencies were finding American left wing groups were funded by the KGB. That is why the left is so opposed to the Patriot Act today--it restores the ability of the FBI and CIA to cooperate. There is enough circumstantial evidence out there to suggest ANSWER is not a domestically funded organization. And if nonprofits are funding Becker, Clark and Cagan, the public has a right to know that too.