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I do not know why Norquist went off on Gaffney.

Fair enough. Why is Norquist lying?

The article you linked to tells us that Gaffney said that Norquist's Muslim outreach efforts were a sideshow compared to what was going on in the White House. All this noise we're hearing now would have us believe that Norquist had the only hose through which questionable Muslims were flowing toward the President.

No, I don't believe that's a correct summation of "all this noise we're hearing now."
Norquist is a key conduit of access between Islamists and the White House. No one has suggested he's exclusive, or that he waves them past the gates all by himself.
You keep focusing on the focus being on Norquist. Inquiries have to start focusing somewhere. This one appears to be focusing early on Norquist. Is that somehow unfair?
Does it matter? How is that relevant to whether or not there's anything about which to inquire? The facts are what determines that.
Was it unfair that the Watergate investigation started with the focus on a few burglars?
The focus, for the time being, is on Norquist. My guess is that Saffuri's number is coming up soon

How do our national security professionals propose to blame Norquist for this batch of bad guys that got into the White House?

I imagine that many of them would like nothing better than to find out, and/or make it known, and prevent it from happening any further.

Why is Norquist lying?

Let's try to keep this focused above whether Grover Norquist can keep the names of 100 Arabs straight on a radio show.

Inquiries have to start focusing somewhere. This one appears to be focusing early on Norquist. Is that somehow unfair?

It looks to me like what we have here is the fox's attorney conducting a national security investigation into what happened in the chicken coop. He would like us to focus our attention on Mr. Scarecrow here, and you would apparently like to help him by asking whether focusing on Mr. Scarecrow is unfair.

I think I will ignore your question and continue to wonder whether I should trust the fox to direct the investigation of this matter, especially now that I know that this same fox was guarding another chicken coop where we had more of these incidents... and Mr. Scarecrow was nowhere around.