Leading Neoconservative Frank Gaffney : Muslim Brotherhood Has ‘Infiltrated’ The Federal Government

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these are dangerous lies to be spreading via faux news, worldwide

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Amidst the political upheaval in Egypt, conservatives are scare-mongering about the possible Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt. But leading neoconservative Frank Gaffney is taking Muslim Brotherhood fearmongering to new heights. This past weekend, Gaffney was a featured speaker at the Educational Policy Conference in St. Louis, an annual gathering of social conservatives. Gaffney used the opportunity to discuss how the Muslim Brotherhood is not only poised to implement a new theocracy in Egypt, but is also operating in the United States under “front groups” like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil liberties group dedicated to “protecting the rights of all Americans, regardless of faith.”

After his speech, ThinkProgress caught up with Gaffney to probe his conspiracy further. Echoing the McCarthyist anti-communist rhetoric of the 1950s, Gaffney told us that there were already people in the federal government doing the bidding of “stealth jihadists.” When we asked Gaffney to name names, he pointed to President Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano:

TP: Do you think (Sharia law) has already infiltrated the federal government?

GAFFNEY: There are questionable people who are sympathetic to the program of the stealth jihadists who have influence with the United States government. Some I think are actually working for it, but for sure people who are persuaded that the folks that they need to work with to reach out to the Muslim-American community, for example, who incessantly turn to Muslim Brotherhood organizations for that purpose, are a very real problem.


http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/01/gaffney-muslim-brotherhood/

[abelenkpe]

1. K&R please read nt

[fascisthunter]

2. They are Dangerous Lies... he's Fueling Xenophobia in this country

to divide folks....

[SpiralHawk]

3. The Whackjob Republicon faction has farted again

thru its mouth.

As usual.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Chicken Hawk who wants war with every Muslim country

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5. truth is completely irrelevant to this man and whoever he represents

lying appears easy to them

[BeFree]

6. Eh?

When you think about it, W sure was nice to them Muslims who came and held his hand.

Brotherhood friend; is dead on.

[Faryn Balyncd]

7. "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001036.html

[struggle4progress]

8. I'm a wacko. He's a wacko. She's a wacko. We're a wacko. Wouldn't you like to be a wacko, too?

[RagAss]

9. Yes Frank, and I heard they mentioned you by name....fucking assclown !

[JuniperLea]

10. This is one scary mofo...

He's like Glenn Beck with better derangement hiding skillz.

http://www.securefreedomradio.org/2011/02/03/february-3-2011-peter-vincent-pry-congressman-louie-gohmert-sara-carter/

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I have in my hand a list of communist in the state department....

same shit different decade

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20. exactly......

On 9th February, 1950, at a meeting of the Republican Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, McCarthy claimed that he had a list of 205 people in the State Department that were known to be members of the American Communist Party (late he reduced this figure to 57). McCarthy went on to argue that some of these people were passing secret information to the Soviet Union. He added: "The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer - the finest homes, the finest college educations, and the finest jobs in Government we can give."

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthy.htm

[Hannah Bell]

12. gaffney = neocon

A 1975 graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, Gaffney holds a graduate degree from the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

- in the 1970s, aide to (defense hawk) Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson, under Richard Perle. - Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy in the Reagan Administration, again under Perle.
- US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy.

- Gaffney established the Center for Security Policy (CSP), funded by the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation, the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation and the William H. Donner Foundation.

- executive producer for the documentary Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center.

- founding member of the Set America Free Coalition, dedicated to reducing dependence on foreign oil, as well as of the current iteration of the Committee on the Present Danger.

- Gaffney was one of 25 signatories of the June 3, 1997 "Statement of Principles" from the Project for the New American Century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gaffney

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15. hyperneocon=dangerous

[Skidmore]

13. And I say Frank Gaffney is a fifth columnist.

[Dappleganger]

14. LOL

Thanks for the 'V' reference. ;)

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16. frank didn't mean to say 'federal government' he meant to say 'Obama Administration'

you betcha

[malaise]

17. He took long

:puke:

[Octafish]

18. Like PNAC? Like AIPAC?

Hey, Frank! How's that espionage thing going for ya?

[Hydra]

19. The ghost of McCarthy is still with us

Mores the pity. Witch hunts to support our "economic interests."