Representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood met with “mid-level” White House officials, not “lower-level” as President Obama’s spokesman said yesterday, who again reminded reporters that Republican senators have also met with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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“They are mid-level members of directorates at the National Security Council,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters today. Yesterday, he confirmed that “lower-level officials here at the NSC did have meetings with them.”
Carney added today that the “mid-level” officials “probably do not in most peoples’ estimation outrank Senators John McCain or Lindsay Graham,” two Republican senators who have met with the Muslim Brotherhood when travelling in Egypt.
“It’s a fact that Egypt’s political landscape has changed and the actors have become more diverse,” Carney said, explaining the decision to host the Muslim Brotherhood. “The point is that we will judge Egypt’s political actors by how they act, not by their religious affiliation.”
The Associated Press reports that “liberals and secularists” in Egypt fear that the Muslim Brotherhood plan to “implement a hardline Islamist agenda once it has solidified its political position.”
