Since you posted the PRWire note... maybe this might interest you... the dismissal was not a clearing of links or a demonstration they did not exist, but simply a declaration that putting them on the list had harmed their reputation and that inclusion on the list without a prosecution or conviction, violated their 5th amendment rights.
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/arch...der-on-ho.html
ByGuilt my association? Perhaps, but the links and ties to Hamas are well documented. Links are not specific wrong doings, but when the Justice Department decided not to prosecute the founder of CAIR, it was not because of the lack of evidence but a lack of desire to do so in DOJ. The Dallas office wanted it, the DC folks punted. But there are ongoing concerns in several areas with regards to CAIR still. Innocent until proven guilty BUT CAIR is far from a harmless and benign organization and in time will step on their crankshaft and end up exposed for who they really are and what their true motivation is... much like what happened with ACORN.
Jason Trahan/Reporter
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5:00 PM on Fri., Nov. 19, 2010 | Permalink
Earlier this month, we told you about a judge's ruling condemning the government's decision to make the unindicted coconspirator list in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case public.
Today, acting on a 5th Circuit appeals court decision, Dallas U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis ordered his 2009 order on the government's unindicted coconspirator list unsealed.
In it, he sides with three prominent Muslim advocacy groups -- the Council on American Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust -- that their reputations were harmed by being publicly identified on the government's list.
On the other hand, Solis goes into great detail -- pages 14 through 19 -- about how these groups were closely linked to the defunct Holy Land, which has been convicted of being Hamas chief fundraising arm. [The HLF and its organizers are appealing the convictions.]
http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshge...r.html?showall