Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim member of Congress, broke his silence on the Muslim “intern spy” flap last night, rising on the House floor to call out four GOP colleagues for their campaign against the Council on American Islamic Relations.
Ellison read the statement of the Congressional Tri-Caucus arguing the “charges smack of an America of sixty years ago where lists of ‘un-American’ agitators were identified.”
Watch the video after the jump (h/t Minneapolis Star-Tribune):
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