Terrorism never prosper, what’s the reason? If it pass out enough money to the right people, and help murder the “wrong” people, none dare call it terrorism.

Daniel Larison and Glenn Greenwald have long been on the trail of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (“Warriors of God”), or MEK, a terrorist group that now is no longer a terrorist group, thanks to a little magic wand waving by Hillary Clinton’s State Department. MEK has long been supported by “pay me enough money and I’ll say anything” types like Rudy Giuliani and Howard Dean, and more recently by such pro-Israel dudes as Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, apparently because of MEK’s assistance in Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran’s nuclear energy program. (JTA, which bills itself as “The Global News Service of the Jewish People,” connects the dots for you here.)

As Glenn Greenwald points out, any Muslim who has given a dime to any Muslim organization can, at the whim of the U.S. “Justice” Department, end up in a hellhole for decades. But an organization that’s identified as a terrorist organization by the United States government is welcomed with open arms as long as it hands out enough cash to the right people. That’s the real problem with these Muslims: they’re too damn poor!

Afterwords
Journalist Elizabeth Rubin describes our new friends for you here.

Update
Andrew Sullivan provides more context here.

Update II
Over at the New Republic, Owen Bennett-Jones explains that the State Department’s decision almost makes sense, if you look at it closely and squint real hard. Just don’t be surprised if, eight or ten years from now, we invade Iran. And don’t look so worried! With MEK helping us, what can go wrong?