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Grand Jury Seeks CAIR RecordsMore bad news for CAIRDear Charles,The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) reported earlier this week that CAIR(Council on American-Islamic Relations) may now be the subject of a federalcriminal investigation (see story below).This past Monday we emailed you the report that the FBI had issued a warrant forthe thousands of documents that had been obtained by David Gaubatz during thedaring undercover operation at CAIR’s headquarters.These unfolding revelations will strengthen our call for a congressionalinvestigation of CAIR. Regardless of what the FBI or a grand jury ultimately does—or doesn’t do—with respect to CAIR, we need to do all we can to ensure thatCongress takes action. After all, for years the FBI ignored growing evidence thatCAIR had ties to terrorism!We plan to submit our national petition in January, at which time we will unveiladditional steps we will be taking to highlight the need for a governmentinvestigation of CAIR’s many misdeeds.HAVE YOU SIGNED OUR PETITION YET? If yes, we thank you and the nearly 33,000people who have joined you in signing it!If not, please click here to do so today! There are still thousands of ACT! forAmerica members who have not yet added their names.Please believe us when we tell you that CAIR doesn’t want you to sign thispetition. CAIR is hoping you will think it won’t make any difference. Or even thatyou’ll be afraid to have your name and state of residence on the petition.Why? Because concerns about CAIR are growing in Washington—and thus there hasnever been a better time to press our elected officials to investigate CAIR.That’s why CAIR is doing everything it can to sweep all of this under the rug.So if you haven’t yet signed our petition, please don’t delay any longer. The morenames we have, the stronger our other efforts will be.Grand Jury Seeks CAIR RecordsIPT NewsDecember 1, 2009The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) appears to be the subject of afederal criminal investigation. Although no formal statement to that effect hasbeen made by law enforcement, FBI agents reportedly issued a grand jury subpoenalast week seeking internal CAIR documents that are the subject of an ongoing civillawsuit.CAIR sued P. David Gaubatz and his son Chris Gaubatz in federal court last month,claiming it was the victim of theft and trespassing. In the book, Muslim Mafia:Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America, the Gaubatzesacknowledge that Chris adopted a pseudonym and posed as a Muslim convert to secure
 
an internship at CAIR in 2008.He used his access to take thousands of pages of internal CAIR documents and tomake surreptitious recordings of CAIR officials. Citing those records, the bookclaims that CAIR is part of a conspiracy among groups affiliated with the MuslimBrotherhood "to support violent jihad and undermine law enforcement."Among the book's specific allegations, CAIR officials grossly exaggerate theirmembership rolls and the depth of their domestic financial support. In addition,they actively thwart law enforcement counter-terror investigations. Following therelease of the book, four congressional Republicans sought an investigation intothe book's claims that CAIR seeks to place interns on committees dealing with thejudiciary and homeland security.Thus far, CAIR has minimized and ridiculed the book's findings, but has notalleged any of it is false.CAIR won a temporary restraining order requiring that the Gaubatzes return 12,000pages of documents. WorldNetDaily, publisher of Muslim Mafia, posted a story Nov.24 claiming that FBI agents served a grand jury subpoena on the Gaubatzes'attorney. The move came as the attorneys were about to comply with the judge'sorder and give the documents back to CAIR. WND publisher Joseph Farah is quotedsaying they weren't sure "Which takes precedence - a federal court order or an FBIwarrant?"Farah declined to comment Tuesday on what has happened since then. Josh Gersteinat Politico notes that the government filed a sealed motion in the case Friday.*Updated December 2, 4:20 p.m.U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has signed an order based on thegovernment motion. Both the order and the motion remain under seal.According to the docket in the Gaubatz/CAIR suit, Lynn Haaland, an attorney in theDepartment of Justice's National Security Division, is listed as an "interestedparty" in the lawsuit. It's possible the grand jury's target is more narrow – on aCAIR official or officials, but the presence of a national security prosecutorindicates the grand jury's interest is not on the Gaubatzes behavior.Last year, the FBI cut off communication with CAIR on outreach and other generalinformational contacts. That move was based on evidence from the successful Hamas-support prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF)linking the organization and its founders to Hamas. CAIR co-founders Nihad Awadand Omar Ahmad (a.k.a. Omar Yehya) were included in a telephone list of a U.S.-based Hamas-support network and the two participated in a secret 1993 gathering ofHamas-members and supporters aimed at undermining the U.S.-brokered Oslo Accordswhich created the secular Palestinian Authority.Awad and Ahmad were then leaders of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), aHamas-front that exhibits in the HLF case show was an original component in theMuslim Brotherhood's "Palestine Committee" which was created to support Hamas inthe United States.In that weekend-long gathering, FBI recordings show the group discussed creating anew Islamist lobbying arm. CAIR was created the following summer and immediatelywas added to the Palestine Committee's agenda.In explaining why it cut off CAIR's access, an FBI official expressed in writing
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