Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vehemently defended her deputy chief of staff last week, after five Republican Congressional representatives falsely alleged that Muslim American Huma Abedin had ties to Islamic extremist group Muslim Brotherhood.
The congressional representatives (Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Trent Franks of Arizona, Thomas Rooney of Florida and Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia) sent a 16-page letter to the State Department demanding an investigation of Abedin’s alleged connections to extremists and their infiltration and influence over the U.S. government.
Abedin, who is 37 years old and of Pakistani descent, was born in the United States. Her husband, former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, is Jewish.
