Dear [Member of the National Rifle Association Board]:

At the suggestion of Edward Land, Jr., the Secretary of the National Rifle Association, I am writing you directly to apprize you of a serious problem for the NRA Board of Directors, on which you serve.

As you know, Grover Norquist is a fellow member of that Board. I assume you are also aware that his term is up this year and that he is running for reelection. His candidacy has engendered significant controversy and I wanted to make sure you were aware of the reasons why – reasons quite different than those Mr. Norquist shared with some members of the Board in an email last month.

That email is reproduced as Appendix III in the enclosed book entitled Agent of Influence: Grover Norquist and the Assault on the Right; Targeting the NRA. My response – which was meant to be forwarded to you last month, but was not distributed due to what Mr. Land describes as an NRA policy precluding the headquarters from sharing such information with the Board – is at Appendix IV.

I urge you to review the contents of Agent of Influence. From its opening letter (signed by former Bush ’43 Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, former Clinton Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey and eight other influential national security practitioners) to its last entry – Appendix VI (a letter I sent last week to Gen. Mukasey in response to another illuminating email from Mr. Norquist, this one sent to the former Attorney General in late February), this dossier lays out extensive evidence supporting a most troubling conclusion:

Your fellow board member, Grover Norquist, took at least $20,000 from a known Muslim Brotherhood operative, Abdurahman Alamoudi – a jihadist subsequently convicted on terrorism charges and identified as an al Qaeda financier – to advance the interests of various Islamists, their causes and organizations within conservative movement and Republican Party circles. The beneficiaries of such efforts, which are ongoing, include Alamoudi’s Brotherhood, an organization whose declared purpose is “destroying… Western civilization from within…by their hands [i.e., the infidels’] and the hands of the believers so that God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

For three reasons, it is fortuitous that Grover Norquist’s term on the NRA Board is at an end:

• First, I am quite certain that the patriotic membership of the National Rifle Association would not want an individual who has played such a role to hold a position of leadership and trust in their organization.

• Second, your Board of Directors has a fiduciary responsibility to ensure that the NRA is not subjected to Islamist influence operations of the sort Mr. Norquist has conducted in other conservative organizations and the GOP (as documented in the enclosed book). And,

• Third, it ill-serves the National Rifle Association to have its stature and reputation in any way benefit Mr. Norquist’s longstanding campaign to avoid accountability for reprehensible conduct that the organization would never knowingly countenance.

Accordingly, I respectfully suggest that the National Rifle Association should deem Mr. Norquist ineligible to retain a seat on its Board of Directors.

Sincerely,

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. President and CEO

P.S. In light of the national security concerns involved in this matter, it would be advisable for you and your colleagues on the NRA board to hear from the team that transmitted the Norquist dossier to the leadership of the American Conservative Union a year ago. Please let me know if you would like to arrange such a briefing.