At the town hall meeting where Rep. Barry Loudermilk shared his views on vaccines and IEDs along the southern border last week, he also fielded a question from a constituent who claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood has “penetrated our government” and is “in the Department of Homeland Security.”
The Georgia Republican responded that the while the House would like to investigate such Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the government, it has been stonewalled by the Obama administration.
Loudermilk said that part of the problem was people like Attorney General Eric Holder, who the House voted in 2012 to hold in contempt. He told his constituents that members of the House had considered arresting Attorney General Eric Holder at last month’s State of the Union address, but were counseled by attorneys that “some other things were going on” in the case of Holder.
“There was a discussion before the State of the Union of, because of holding Eric Holder in contempt, what role will the House play if he shows up on the House Floor for the State of the Union because he’s been held in legal contempt of U.S. Congress,” Loudermilk said. “And there was a discussion, ‘Will the Sergeant-at-Arms arrest him?’ But they checked with some of the attorneys and they said some other things were going on.”
Loudermilk went on to insist that he was particularly worried about the “White House access” of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which he suggested was a Muslim Brotherhood group (and mistakenly called the Center for Islamic American Studies).
