September 10th, 2003 will forever be remembered as a grim day for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). On that day, the eve of the second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, CAIR faced up to its own terrorist connections. It ran away from testifying before an influential Senate panel that heard a barrage of incriminating evidence about the group and its connections. It saw one of its former officials plead guilty to terrorist-related crimes in Federal Court. And, it was stood up by two Department of Justice officials at an immigration symposium in Florida. CAIR should find it hard to recover from this string of defeats.
The downside is that the Dems are poised to blame Bush and Rumsfeld for the Wahabbi lobby, when in fact, these organizations were welcomed into the highest circles of government -- the DOS in particular -- during the '90's, while the FBI agents who tried to investigate their terrorism ties were told to stuff it by their politically ambitious superiors. The now-obvious jihadists who've infiltrated the military were welcomed with open arms in during the first year of Clinton's reign of PC terror -- the same year the WTC was bombed by Al Qaeda. The Pentagon, CIA, FBI, DOS and Congress are loaded with Clintonistas and Arabists who place "inclusiveness" and ambition above national security, and have no difficulty wielding a knife to the back of Bush or Rumsfeld.
Teddy Kennedy read straight from a falsified CAIR press release when he railed against Daniel Pipes' nomination, with Ibraham Cooper and his CAIR groupies salivating in the vistors' gallery. Unfortunately, Kennedy and his ilk are so far sunk into the moral morass that they will most probably be the first to blame Bush, while the liberal press will have collective amnesia.