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Related: About this forumFox contributor ‘confirms’ Islamists in White House: ‘I haven’t got their names exactly’
By Travis Gettys
Friday, January 10, 2014 8:18 EST
A Fox News contributor who questions the presidents birth certificate and believes Iraqs weapons of mass destruction were removed just prior to the U.S. invasion claims there are Islamic extremists working in the Obama administration.
World Net Daily trumped up comments that retired Air Force Gen. Tom McInerney made Thursday during an appearance on WMAL-AM to discuss a new book written by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
McInerney, who served as both assistant vice chief of staff and commander in chief of U.S. Air Forces Europe, has surprised interviewers on a radio program by confirming the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood inside the U.S. government, the WND report claims.
The online report cites a book written by Aaron Klein, a WND senior reporter, and Brenda J. Elliott, an anti-Obama blogger, to provide background for the retired generals claims.
The book, Impeachable Offenses: The Case to Remove Barack Obama from Office, speculates that the Obama administration may have exposed national security information through Huma Abedin, who served as deputy chief of staff to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The speculation is based on a conspiracy theory alleging Abedin, who is Muslim, has family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been promoted by Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) and was concocted by Islamophobe pundit Frank Gaffney.
The report also claims Mohamed Elibiary, a member of the Department of Homeland Securitys Advisory Council, has ties to the Islamist organization but offers no citations or other proof.
Weve got Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. government today, McInerney said on the radio program.
The radio hosts asked McInerney to reveal their names, but he hesitated.
I havent got their names exactly but theres a list of them, at least 10 or 15 of them in the U.S. government, McInerney said.
More details about these claims would eventually be revealed, the retired general said by Gaffney or his colleague, conspiracy theorist Clare Lopez.
McInerney echoed claims made by Gaffney and Lopez that the Obama administration had backed Islamists in the Arab Spring uprisings with disastrous consequences for U.S. and Israeli interests including the Benghazi terrorist attacks.
The Middle East is coming apart with this administrations policies. Look at Libya. We should never have gone into Libya, McInerney said. Weve got Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. government.
Hear McInerneys interview on WMAL-AM:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/10/fox-contributor-confirms-islamists-in-white-house-i-havent-got-their-names-exactly/
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Complete article posted with the permission of Raw Story
DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)Is it OK to make accusations against a politician without any facts?
gordianot
(15,247 posts)Communist were godless Oligarchs who threatened Capitalist Oligarchs. Now that there are radical fundamentalist Islamist it makes one uneasy in that they are so similar in beliefs to radical fundamentalist Christians and your Oligarchs are all believers. At last Fascist just are not what they used to be afraid to name names and have to blame everything on the guy whose Father was born in Africa.
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)... at least he had "names."
-- Mal
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,445 posts)I'm surprised that nobody on the right accuses Al-Queda of having infiltrated the US government but I guess that- Benghazi and, recently, Iraq, notwithstanding- Al-Queda is just yesterday's news.