Sen. Ted Cruz holds hearing in which witness suggests Muslim congressmen have ties to terrorists

Still sore from losing the Republican presidential nomination to the only candidate in the race more rodential than he is, Ted Cruz returns to his former duties of stinking up the Senate. This time, it's to have hearings in which his invited guests warn that the only two Muslim members of Congress are probably working with the Muslim Brotherhood.

The charge was leveled by Chris Gaubatz, a “national security consultant” who has moonlighted as an undercover agitator of Muslim groups that he accuses of being terrorist outfits, and it was directed at Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Mich.) and André Carson (D-Ind.). At the heart of his accusation is the attendance by those two members at a 2008 convention hosted by the Islamic Society of North America — a Muslim umbrella group, which Gaubatz claims is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood.

“I attended a convention in Columbus, Ohio, in 2008, organized by Muslim Brotherhood group, ISNA, and both the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons had recruitment and outreach booths,” Gaubatz said in his testimony. “Both Congressman Keith Ellison, MN, and Andre Carson, IN, spoke at the Muslim Brotherhood event.”

That would indeed be compelling, if the Islamic Society of North America was in fact sekritly part of the Muslim Brotherhood and various federal departments were all in league with them because sekrit reasons. But it isn't...
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