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The FBI has spent more than a decade limiting official contact with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) over concerns about the group’s ties to Hamas, according to a Justice Department report reviewed by Fox News Digital.

The 2013 Office of Inspector General (OIG) report shows the FBI put a nationwide restriction in place in 2008 and repeatedly reminded field offices to follow it after evidence in a major terrorism-financing case linked CAIR leaders to Hamas, a US-designated foreign terrorist organization.

The resurfaced findings come as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations last week, and as lawmakers renew calls for federal action against Islamist networks operating througho

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