To that end, he has worked to “safeguard [his community’s targeted] nonprofit organizations” after the HLF verdicts and to encourage the government to allow them to“proceed anew.”
Elibiary seems to be alluding to his efforts to protect American Islamists fromfurther prosecution in connection with material support for terrorism. This substantiates reporting in April 2011 by counterterrorism expert Patrick Poole54 that the Justice Department stopped planned indictments of HLF co-conspirators, including a founderof the Council on American-Islamic Relations, several officials with the International Institute of Islamic Thought and the now-defunct SAAR Group.
In the following comments, Elibiary describes how he accomplished this feat byprofessing a “”middle-of-the-road position” that acknowledged America’s “legitimatesecurity concerns about Muslim Brotherhood-associated networks,” yet worked to ensure that such networks could raise funds for their favored “charities” without fear of prosecution. Never mind that such charities would include Brotherhood organizationsand activities that appear to involve material support for terrorism.
