Are the Republicans in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood?

 That is the question that some former national security officials are asking:

A heavyweight lineup of former national security officials banded together late Tuesday to accuse Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) president Grover Norquist and high-ranking GOP political operative Suhail Khan of connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The officials authored a 45-page dossier on the issue to Cleta Mitchell, the top lawyer for the American Conservatives’ Union who in 2011 cleared Norquist of the allegations initially brought by former high-ranking Reagan official Frank Gaffney.

The signatories include numerous powerful and respected former officials, including former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former CIA Director James Woolsey, former Florida Rep. Allen West, retired Army Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, and former chief assistant U.S. attorney Andrew McCarthy.

The document says the group is asking Mitchell to address a “statement of facts” accompanying the letter that they say “support Mr. Gaffney’s charges,” “contradict your representations,” and “place the ACU board in the position of endorsing conduct on the part of two of its members that is at odds with the stated mission of the American Conservative Union.”

The dossier of alleged evidence concludes that domestic Islamists are waging “civilizational jihad” to destroy the West “from within” by use of “political influence operations.”

It further alleges Norquist “has had personal, professional and/or organizational association” with a number of Muslim Brotherhood operatives and that those affiliations “have enabled the influence operations of Islamists, including those of Iran.”

  If this is true, and Norquist has already been cleared of these charges in 2011 for what that is worth, then this is disgusting, reprehensible, and indefensible to say the least but I wonder about the motive here.

  After all, this group is now claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood are “domestic Islamists” who are “waging civilizational jihad” to destroy the west from within, but where was the group of concerned national security officials when Barack Obama was hosting the Muslim Brotherhood in the White House after the revolution in Egypt? Where was the group when questions about the president’s brother’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood came to light? And did not James Clapper once refer to the Muslim Brotherhood as a “largely secular” organization? Suddenly now the Muslim Brotherhood has changed from a secular  group to a terrorist organization with ties to the Republicans? Funny how that works, isn’t it?

  James Clapper and the Obama regime eventually backed down from this statement but what difference should that make to this group of people? After all Grover Norquist was already cleared of these charges and they are still going after him.

  The duplicity and the hypocrisy is astounding but not at all surprising.