DOJ BLASTS CAIR. From Andy McCarthy at The Corner:

DOJ to CAIR: We Didn't Just Designate You as an Unindicted Co-Conspirator; We PROVED You Are an Unindicted Co-Conspirator

The government has fired back at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which previously asked the federal court presiding over the terrorism financing trial against the Holy Land Foundation to remove it (CAIR) from the list of unindicted co-conspirators. Here's the Justice Department's opening salvo:

CAIR fails to demonstrate any injury resulting from its inclusion [as an unindicted co-conspirator], and fails to explain why any alleged decline in membership did not result from evidence already in the public domain well prior to the government’s May 29, 2007 brief, and now in evidence as a part of record in this case. Indeed, CAIR’s request to strike its name from the government’s co-conspirator’s list is moot, since its conspiratorial relationship with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was confirmed by testimony and documentary evidence admitted at trial prior to the date CAIR even filed its brief.

Steve Emerson's Investigative Project on Terrorism and the Counterterrorism Blog have made DOJ's brief available, here.

Also check out Powerline, which links to other resources.

Maybe the US government finally gets it.

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