When Hillary steps down, will she take Huma with her?

... since Secretary Clinton’s tenure began, with Huma Abedin serving as a top adviser, the United States has aligned itself with the Muslim Brotherhood in myriad ways. To name just a few ... OUR GOVERNMENT

• reversed the policy against formal contacts with the Brotherhood; 
• funded Hamas;
• continued funding Egypt even after the Brotherhood won the elections;
• dropped an investigation of Brotherhood organizations in the U.S. that were previously identified as co-conspirators in the case of the Holy Land Foundation financing Hamas;
• hosted Brotherhood delegations in the United States;
• issued a visa to a member of the Islamic Group (a designated terrorist organization) and hosted him in Washington because he is part of the Brotherhood’s parliamentary coalition in Egypt;
• announced that Israel should go back to its indefensible 1967 borders;
• excluded Israel, the world’s leading target of terrorism, from a counterterrorism forum in which the State Department sought to “partner” with Islamist governments that do not regard attacks on Israel as terrorism; and 
• pressured Egypt’s pro-American military government to surrender power to the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood parliament and president just elected by Egypt’s predominantly anti-American population.

 

.... Hypothetically, if Huma Abedin did have a bias in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, and if she were actually acting on that bias to try to tilt American policy in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, what exactly would the State Department be doing differently?

From Andrew McCarthy at NRO: Huma Abedin's Muslim Brotherhood Ties

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

We can only hope that when Hillary goes, Huma goes with her. But it won't make a shred of difference. Replacing Hillary with John Kerry is like replacing peanuts with goobers. And even if you replace peanuts with cashews, it still won't make a shred of difference. McCarthy is right: American foreign policy is made inside Obama's head -- and Obama is all that matters. The same goes for our defense policy. Whether the next SecDef is Hagel or some other incompetent doesn't matter. If Obama is determined to eviscerate our military and put the screws to Israel -- as he unquestionably is -- then the identity of the SecDef doesn't matter: Our military will be eviscerated and Irael will be put to the screws. It's like the old medieval puzzle: If the world rests on the back of a turtle, what does the turtle rest on? Answer: It's turtles all the way down. In the Obama presidency, it's Obama -- all the way down.