Posted on 02/10/2011 2:01:40 PM PST by OldDeckHand
The director of the Office of National Intelligence James Clapper today told a House Intelligence Committee hearing that the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood – which seeks Egypt to become an Islamic state ruled by sharia law – is “a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.”
The Muslim Brotherhood is quite obviously not a secular organization.
Jamie Smith, director of the office of public affairs for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence later said in a statement to ABC News: “To clarify Director Clapper’s point - in Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood makes efforts to work through a political system that has been, under Mubarak’s rule, one that is largely secular in its orientation – he is well aware that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a secular organization.”
How much the Muslim Brothergood has eschewed violence and decried al Qaeda is subject to debate. Critics of the group point to its ties with Hamas, a terrorist organization according to the US State Department, for instance.
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Video at site.
http://notalemming.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/ex-cia-agent-reveals-
Muslim-brotherhood-has-infiltrated-obama-administration/
ex-CIA Agent Reveals: “Muslim Brotherhood” has infiltrated Obama Administration
Islamist-allied operatives appointed by Obama are undermining U.S. security policy – explains counter-Intelligence expert, Prof. Clare Lopez. Aimed at co-opting Americas foreign policy in the Middle East, a network including well-known American diplomats, congressional representatives, figures from academia and the think tank world – with ties to the clerical regime in Tehran – is directing the Obama Administration’s policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Middle East.
Clapper is almost as dumb as the people he is advising including those in the 1/2 white house.
I have an idea , after just one to many idiotic remarks and ‘orders’ from ‘bummer, Mubarak has cut off any ‘discussions’ with ‘bummer - which is why they are in the dark(er)
Clapper. Reminds me of Jack Webb’s classic “Claude Cooper and the Copper Clapper Caper.”
National Intelligence is in the clapper.
Lots of “FAIL” to go around today in Washington.
hopefully, enough Americans will realize this
There was just 'professional' revolutionist in the UK who was so excited about having been in the square with the revolutionists.
There are many FOREIGN 'revolutionists" in that melee - Code Pink has been stirring the pot over there for months.
No one reports on the foreign agitators.
well, thinking on who our pres. is today - I''d have to give that some thought :o)
Going shopping...
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