Monday, April 9, 2012
State Department gave Muslim Brotherhood Delegation red carpet treatment, barred US Customs officials from carrying out inspection.
State Department gave Muslim Brotherhood Delegation red carpet treatment, barred US Customs officials from carrying out inspection.(IPT).The State Department broke with normal procedures last week when it ordered the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) not to conduct a secondary inspection on members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) on their way to visit government officials and think tanks in the United States. This happened despite the fact that one member of the delegation had been implicated – though not charged – in a U.S. child pornography investigation, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has learned.The State Department issued a cable specifically barring Customs officials from carrying out any inspections of Dardery and the other members of the delegation on their arrival at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. The immigration official described this action by the State Department as "extraordinary."Read the full story here.
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