Nov 11 2009

New Attacks Against Bloggers – FBI Called on one Blogger’s Comment

Category: Blogging, Technology — Polycarp @ 9:18 pm

The Blogger in question, Joe Jervis is gay, atheist, and about as left-wing as you can get. His chief opponent, Peter LaBarbera of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality has taken their war to the next level – he’s called the FBI. Granted, biblical bloggers have nothing to fear about this, I guess – because we know that things like this simply do not have a slippery slope.

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Feb 03 2009

House Leaders Wary of CAIR After FBI Shuns Islamic Advocacy Group

Category: Islam, Religion and Politics — Polycarp @ 3:02 pm

A leading member of the House of Representatives is asking the FBI to explain why it did not notify Congress that it had cut ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as revealed by FOXNews.com last week. And several lawmakers are calling on their colleagues to “think twice” before meeting with the Islamic advocacy group, which the FBI considers a front for Islamic radicals.

Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf sent a letter to the FBI’s assistant director of counterterrorism on Monday, raising questions about CAIR in light of the FOX News report.

“Has the FBI severed ties with CAIR? If so, how is the FBI planning to formally notify members of Congress and other government officials of this decision?” read the Republican congressman’s letter, which pushed the bureau for word of its current connections with the group — and asked whether CAIR’s Washington-based lobbyists are receiving money from overseas.

Click here to see Wolf’s letter.

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