Rep. Michele "Batshit Crazy" Bachmann (R-MN): "Yes, I'm still here."
The story from Think Progress shows clearly just how weak Speak Boehner is regarding keeping someone like Bachmann on high-level and sensitive House committee — the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Using Intelligence and Bachmann in the same sentence is truly an oxymoron with the emphasis on moron. The craziness of Bachmann you may have forgotten here.
The highlights:
Bachmann will remain a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during the 113th Congress despite leading a widely discredited anti-Muslim witch hunt against government personnel last year. Bachmann used her position on the committee to lead a witch-hunt against then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin and other U.S. government personnel.
Specifically, in a letter sent to the State Department, Bachmann suggested that Abedin and others were allied with the Muslim Brotherhood, seeking to infiltrate the U.S. government and affect policy decisions. The charges were clearly false, based mostly on the conspiracy theories of noted Islamophobe Frank Gaffney.
According to the committee list just released, Bachmann will stay on the powerful committee despite calls from People for the American Way (PFAW) and others for Speaker Boehner to remove her. Instead, Boehner in his statement making the announcement praised the lawmakers “charged sacred task of supporting that mission by ensuring the intelligence community has the resources and tools it needs to stay ahead of the evolving threats we face, and by conducting effective oversight of the administration.”
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