They don't like being labeled an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a terrorism case.

And they have a Congressman in their pocket to fight for them.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is seeking help from House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. to pressure the Justice Department to change the group's status as a co-conspirator in a terrorism case.

CAIR officials recently met with Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, and then wrote a letter asking him to lobby the new attorney general on behalf of the group, and to hold hearings.

CAIR is among several hundred Muslim groups listed as unindicted co-conspirators in a recent federal terrorism trial in Dallas into activities by the Holy Land Foundation Inc., a group linked to funding the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group. The trial recently ended in a mistrial and prosecutors have said they plan to re-try the case.

Despite its uncertain outcome, the trial has produced a large amount of information and evidence identifying U.S. and foreign groups sympathetic to or direct supporters of international Islamist terrorists.

A 1991 internal memorandum from the radical Muslim Brotherhood identified 29 front groups, including the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), that are part of a covert program by the Brotherhood in the United States to subvert American society.

I actually have to agree with the terrorist-huggers at CAIR. Identifying them as unindicted co-conspirators is wrong. I urge the Attorney General to take immediate action to indict CAIR and its top officials for their work on behalf of global terrorism -- and treason, because that is what their efforts amount to.

UPDATE: The guys at PowerLine note a potential problem here.

Is there anyone who thinks that bringing political pressure to bear on the United States Attorney's Office to influence its handling of the Holy Land Foundation case might be...improper?

Yeah -- wasn't one of the complaints of the Democrats that politics and the interests of politicians shouldn't be involved in decisions related to prosecutions and charges brought by the Justice Department. By the standards we heard during the last weeks of the Gonzales era at the Justice Department, isn't this effort not only improper, but a betrayal of the very nature of how that department is supposed to operate?

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