The Muslim Brotherhood responds to Bachmann's claims:

[Are_grits_groceries]

Muslim Brotherhood Leader: We ‘Can’t Even Penetrate The Egyptian Government’

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) baseless allegations that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the U.S. government — particularly via a top aid to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton — have been met with near-universal condemnation inside the United States. But no one has thought to ask the Muslim Brotherhood whether she’s telling the truth – until now, when GlobalPost reporter Erin Cunningham managed to solicit a public response. While some Egyptians have unfortunately been persuaded by Bachmann’s nonsense, the Muslim Brothers themselves are not among them. They issued a somewhat amusing blanket denial:

“I haven’t heard these rumors, but they strike me as ridiculous,” said Ahmed Al Nahhas, a long-time Brotherhood activist and leader in Egypt’s second-largest city, Alexandria. “Surely the United States government selects its employees very carefully.” …

n Egypt, the birthplace of the Brotherhood, the organization’s leaders were either perplexed by the accusations or simply hadn’t heard them. Nor had they heard of Huma Abedin.

“The Muslim Brotherhood can’t even penetrate the Egyptian government,” said a Brotherhood leader in Egypt’s Daqheleya province, Ibrahim Ali Iraqi, in response to the accusations his group had infiltrated top US agencies.
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http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/07/23/568531/bachmann-muslim-brotherhood-egypt/

Ha!

[ananda]

1. LOL

That was fantastic and funny.

The idiotic insanity that inhabits the minds of some politicans
these days beggars belief.

[gregoire]

2. So what if they have?

So the government isn't allowed to employee non-xtians?

[MadHound]

4. Umm, not saying that Bachman is right,

Or that she isn't crazy, but I do suggest that you educate yourself on the Muslim Brotherhood. They have a long and violent history.

[Scuba]

9. You mean like the Republican Party? Christians?

Both have long and violent histories.

[JBoy]

8. Are you saying that a person of the muslim faith working for the government

means it's been "penetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood"?

[Angry Dragon]

3. Bachmann is lost in her little world

and should not be allowed in Congress

[HooptieWagon]

7. I would disagree.

Evidently, Bachman's constituents are as bat-shit crazy as she... if not more so. They are entitled to representation in Congress. However, Bachman definitely deserves censure by the House for her baseless and inflamatory accusations, and should be removed from the House Select Committee on Intelligence due to security concerns inre to her mental state.

[closeupready]

5. MB "can't even penetrate the Egyptian government" -

LOL 'how the hell does she think we've been able to penetrate the US government???!', you can hear him wanting to say.

[Initech]

6. Like I said - Bachmann is playing six degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Except there's just one degree and Kevin Bacon is in the Muslim Brotherhood.