CAIR complained the “far-right” congressional inquiry smacked of “McCarthyism,” yet that’s the same excuse they used when the FBI cut off ties to them. Check out this WaPo story from earlier this year (CAIR is a leader of the AMT coalition) …

washingtonpost.com

By Jacqueline L. Salmon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 28, 2009

A behind-the-scenes controversy has broken out among Muslim American leaders over a coalition of Muslim organizations’ threat to cut off contact with the FBI because of what it calls the agency’s “McCarthy-era” tactics.

The coalition of two dozen Muslim American groups said last week that the FBI’s treatment of one of its member organizations and what it regards as inappropriate FBI infiltration of mosques have disrupted the growing trust between the agency and the Muslim community. The coalition blasted the FBI, saying in a statement that “these McCarthy-era tactics are detrimental to a free society.”