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A Free Press For A Free People FBI halts return of 'Muslim Mafia' documents Top law enforcement agency wants recovered documents exposing nonprofit's terror ties (WASHINGTON) Nov. 25, 2009—FBI agents swooped in last night on attorneys representing the co-author of the top-selling controversial book, Muslim Mafia, as they prepared to comply with a federal court order to return documents obtained from the Council on American-Islamic Relations in an independent undercover operation. FBI agents, who served a warrant at a Washington, D.C., law office, want to see the thousands of pages of documents and audio and video recordings that P. David Gaubatz, and his son, Chris Gaubatz, gathered in a daring undercover penetration of CAIR where Chris Gaubatz posed as an unpaid intern. The material appears in Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America, which the elder Gaubatz co-authored with investigative journalist Paul Sperry. "Obviously, we were prepared to honor the court order," said Joseph Farah, chief executive officer of WND and its subsidiary, WND Books, who has been raising money for the defense. "Now we will have to confer with the attorneys to determine what happens next. Which takes precedence – a federal court order or an FBI warrant? ... Personally, I would like to see these papers in the hands of trained FBI investigators. The revelations raised about CAIR in Muslim Mafia have clearly piqued the agency's interest." To interview the counsel, co-authors, or publisher of Muslim Mafia, please contact Tim Bueler at (530) 401-3285 or email media@wnd.com. The Gaubatzes are being represented by Martin Garbus, most famous for representing Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case. Garbus is teamed with Bernard Grimm of Cozen O'Connor in Washington and Daniel Horowitz in the San Francisco Bay area. Horowitz, a frequent TV legal analyst, represented talk-radio host Michael Savage in his lawsuit against CAIR. Grimm also is a regular commentator on the Fox News Channel, CNN and Court TV. Martin Garbus CAIR—whose litigious history includes suing American citizens for reporting suspicious activity on a commercial flight—claimed the material recovered in the investigation was obtained without consent or stolen by Chris Gaubatz. As an unpaid intern, Chris was frequently tasked with shredder duty. Realizing the sensitive nature of the information, he salvaged it instead. Garbus said Americans have an interest in seeing the CAIR documents, because they are relevant to federal law enforcement officials' concerns about the group's ties to terrorist operatives that threaten the nation's security. "The more information you have, the better able you are to form a judgment about the organization," he said. This isn't the first time the FBI has turned a close eye on CAIR. It cut off ties to the organization, which lauds itself as a Muslim civil-rights group, in January after CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case in Texas, the largest terrorism-finance case in U.S. history. Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York and other senators have called for a government-wide ban on CAIR. "If a grand jury hears even half of what is in the Muslim Mafia, CAIR will be destroyed and its leaders could face massive prison terms," said Horowitz. Interestingly, in its lawsuit CAIR does not defend itself against the book's claims, which include: CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad shakes hands with intern Chris Gaubatz, aka David Marshall, at CAIR's national headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2008 Means CAIR employs to excuse, protect and prevent police from prosecuting Muslim men who beat their wives, decreeing such beatings as OK for American Muslims to inflict so long as no mark remains. How closely CAIR was connected to the "flying imams" incident, which recently settled out of court, directing lawsuits against airline passenger—regular citizens—who reported suspicious activity. How CAIR debated launching a smear campaign against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of California after she cited concerns over its associations. Muslim Mafia, published by WND Books, prompted outrage by key members of Congress, who called for investigations into CAIR's actions and associations. The book is packed with pages of recently declassified government documents and evidence from the covert operation, including thousands of e-mails, faxes and internal memos that CAIR never intended for public viewing. For more detail visit www.muslimmafia.com. To interview the counsel, co-authors, or publisher of Muslim Mafia, please contact Tim Bueler at (530) 401-3285 or email media@wnd.com. About the Authors P. David Gaubatz, a veteran federal investigator and counter-terrorism specialist served for more than a decade as a special agent in the U.S. Air Force's elite Office of Special Investigations, where he held the U.S. government's highest security clearances including Top Secret/SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information) and was briefed into many so-called black projects. Gaubatz is a U.S. State Department-trained Arabic linguist and has more than two decades of experience in the Middle East, including tours in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, and Iraq, where in 2003 he led a fifteen-man team in extracting the family members of the Iraqi lawyer credited with saving Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch. Paul Sperry, a media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, is former Washington bureau chief for Investor's Business Daily, and author of Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington, an Amazon Top 100 seller. The book is being used by top law enforcement departments in the country, as well as the U.S. military. Sperry has broken a number of national stories on the war on terror and other major issues and has been cited and credited by the Washington Post, USA Today, UPI and the Associated Press, among others. In addition, his columns have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Houston Chronicle, The American Spectator, and Reason, among other publications. Sperry has appeared on Fox News, CNN, C-SPAN and the NBC Nightly News. He currently writes editorials for Investor's Business Daily.