SHERIFF WHO TESTIFIED BEFORE CONGRESS HAS TIES TO SUSPECTED ISLAMIST GROUP

By NWV News writer Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
March 28, 2011
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The only law enforcement official called to testify at the controversial congressional hearing on Muslim radicalization on March 17 is allegedly "tight" with an Islamic group that raised money for Hamas and was a co-conspirator in a federal terror-finance trial, according to a public-interest legal organization that investigates and prosecutes public corruption.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca advocated on behalf of Muslims at the highly-publicized hearing, conducted before Congress Peter King (R-NY) and the House Committee on Homeland Security, which he now chairs.

Baca testimony was not surprising, since being elected to run the nation’s largest sheriff’s department, he regularly attends fundraisers for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to meet the goals of his agency’s Muslim Community Affairs Division.

First elected in 1999, Baca joined forces with CAIR to stay on “positive termsâ€