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Michele Bachmann's damaging innuendo

Fri, 08/03/2012 - 15:30 — Dave Culver
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  • If the casual use of public innuendo is not challenged at every turn, we will undermine our national security.
  • Michele Bachmann, have you no shame?
  • Remove Rep. Bachmann from the Intelligence Committee!
  • Beware of Radical Islam

Eric Schwartz, Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune

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(August 2, 2012) Last month, five members of Congress wrote to the State Department inspector general and similar officials at other federal agencies, declaring that U.S. policies and activities "appear to be the result of influence operations conducted by individuals and organizations associated with the Muslim Brotherhood," Egypt's oldest and largest Islamic organization. The members asked for a report on the purported influence operations and for recommendations for "corrective action."

As a former official at the National Security Council and the State Department, I can attest to the critical importance of sustaining the integrity of our national-security institutions. The question is not whether we face threats, but rather how we make Americans safer while ensuring our values.

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Michele Bachmann, have you no shame? Seattle (WA) Times
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's claim that Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, deserves the same censure in Congress that Joseph McCarthy received for his witch hunt for Communists 60 years ago.

Remove Rep. Bachmann from the Intelligence Committee! Ben Betz, People For the American Way

  • I wanted to make sure you took this opportunity to stand up to the Extreme Right. Michele Bachmann is up to her same irresponsible and fear-mongering -- and we need your help to stop her.
  • Conspiracy theories and McCarthyism have no place in our government. Michele Bachmann should be kicked off the House Intelligence Committee immediately.

Beware of Radical Islam, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune
(August 1, 2012) I'm on the case because someone has to question Obama administration's indulgence.
 

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