Wouldn't that have been a great way to kick off his speech?
No FBI director has ever broken bread with apologists for the murderers of Americans. J. Edgar Hoover, for all his faults, never addressed the German-American Bund or the American Communist Party.
But Robert Mueller III, unembarrassed by his bureau's string of intelligence failures, intends to deliver a lunch talk today to the American Muslim Council - a group with well-established links to supporters of anti-American terrorism.
Abdurahman Alamoudi, the AMC's executive director, has been strident in his support for the Hamas and Hezbollah terror gangs - both of which are on the U.S. government's list of terrorist groups.
Hezbollah, remember, is the ruthless Iranian-backed Islamic fundamentalist group responsible for the bombings that killed hundreds of Americans in Beirut in 1982, and which continues to bombard Israeli cities from its bases in Lebanon.
Alamoudi has also been a vehement defender of Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, the blind mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Another board member, Jamal Barzinji, has been investigated by federal authorities for links to al Qaeda.
The AMC was also a major fund-raiser for the Holy Land Foundation, a conduit for cash for Middle East Islamist terrorists that was recently shut down by the Bush administration.
If all this weren't bad enough, the fact that the AMC is the kind of organization that once had a cop-killer - Abudulla Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown - on its executive board should have given Mueller pause before he accepted an invitation.
By addressing the AMC's conference, Mueller discredits the FBI.
For shame.