The White House invited an ACLU attorney, who has built a career
over the past six years of litigating against the United States
in support of terrorists, to an official White House
dinner last night to celebrate Ramadan with President Obama.
Jameel Jaffer, who runs the ACLU’s “national
security project,” has filed lawsuits challenging the FBI’s
“national security letter” authority, the constitutionality of
warrantless wiretaps, and has been a leader in pushing for the
shut down of Guantánamo Bay, and providing legal rights to
terrorists held by the United States overseas in such countries
as Iraq and Afghanistan. His efforts enabled the leaking of
“torture photos” out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and some sources
inside the Central Intelligence Agency believe he was one of the
lawyers who provided legal advice to the Department of Justice to
pursue an investigation into enhanced interrogation techniques
used by the CIA.
Jaffer, a Canadian citizen, was vetted for the dinner by White
House staff. His invitation was approved by the White House
Counsel’s Office, as well as the Office of Political Affairs.
Jaffer also was a lead attorney attempting to have the 2004 visa
ban lifted for Tariq Ramadan, who is often identified as a “Swiss
Islamic academic.” At the time of the controversy, Daniel
Pipes
wrote about Ramadan:
• [Ramadan] has praised the brutal Islamist policies of the
Sudanese politician Hassan Al-Turabi. Mr. Turabi in turn called
Mr. Ramadan the “future of Islam.
• Mr. Ramadan was banned from entering France in 1996 on
suspicion of having links with an Algerian Islamist who had
recently initiated a terrorist campaign in Paris.
• Ahmed Brahim, an Algerian indicted for Al-Qaeda activities,
had “routine contacts” with Mr. Ramadan, according to a Spanish
judge (Baltasar Garzón) in 1999.
• Djamel Beghal, leader of a group accused of planning to
attack the American embassy in Paris, stated in his 2001 trial
that he had studied with Mr. Ramadan.
• Along with nearly all Islamists, Mr. Ramadan has denied
that there is “any certain proof” that Bin Laden was behind
9/11.
• He publicly refers to the Islamist atrocities of 9/11, Bali,
and Madrid as “interventions,” minimizing them to the point of
near-endorsement.
And here are other reasons, dug up by Jean-Charles Brisard, a
former French intelligence officer doing work for some of the
9/11 families, as reported in Le Parisien:
• Intelligence agencies suspect that Mr. Ramadan (along with
his brother Hani) coordinated a meeting at the Hôtel Penta in
Geneva for Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy head of Al-Qaeda, and Omar
Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh, now in a Minnesota prison.
• Mr. Ramadan’s address appears in a register of Al Taqwa Bank,
an organization the State Department accuses of supporting
Islamist terrorism.
“Great. Work hard to defend America and get a Department of
Justice investigation that could ruin our careers. Work against
America and get invited to the White House for dinner with the
president,” says a current CIA employee. “I can’t tell you what
kind of a signal this sends to us, not that we needed another one
from this administration.”
