CAIR: Unindicted, But Still A Co-conspirator

By: American Decency Staff

We have noted many times that the Department of Justice named the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a self-described civil rights group, as an unindicted co-conspirator in its prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation and others for providing support to the terrorist group Hamas. But we missed the fact (I did, anyway) that the federal courts have now affirmed DOJ’s designation of CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator.

Initially, CAIR protested its inclusion on the government’s unindicted co-conspirator list. It moved before Federal Judge Jorge Solis, who tried the Holy Land Foundation case, to have its name, and those of the other unindicted parties, expunged from the government’s list. It also asked the court to find that its Fifth Amendment rights had been violated by the government’s public filing of the list.

Judge Solis issued an order in response to CAIR’s motion (and that of two other parties) on July 1, 2009. That order was not made public until it was affirmed by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last month. Now, in response to the 5th Circuit’s order, Judge Solis has unsealed his opinion; you can read it here.
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