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when anyone, not least a member of congress launches specious and denigrating attacks on fellow americans on nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance for what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation and we all grow poorer because of it. this never happens, a sitting member of congress publicly scolding other sitting members let alone members of their own party. as we ve been reporting, they want the inspectors general of five security agencies to look into what bachmann calls the possible deep penetration, her words, of the muslim extremists in the u.s. government. but they re not talking about a general conspiracy, they re actually pointing fingers at a particular person, this woman, hillary clinton s deputy cheep of staff, implying she may be somehow work on behalf of the muslim brotherhood and questioning how she even got a security clearance. again, senator mccain today. to say the accusations made in both documents are not substantiated by t