The Obama Administration’s National Intelligence Chairman Dr. Greg Treverton will be the keynote speaker at an event honoring an Imam close to groups affiliated with terror supporters. Treverton will be headlining the International Center for Religion & Diplomacy (ICRD)’s annual Faith in Action Award dinner honoring Imam Mohamed Majid.

Majid is the former president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood according to documents submitted in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation Trial. A federal judge noted that the government provided “ample evidence” to establish ISNA’s ties to the terrorist group Hamas.

Majid is also the Imam for the All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center (ADAMS Center). In the joint terror finance investigation known as Operation Green Quest, ADAMS Center was identified in an affidavit for a federal search warrant as a member of the Safa Group, a network of interlocking charities and for profit companies suspected of providing material support for Hamas, Al Qaeda and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

No charges were filed against ADAMS Center however after the Green Quest investigation was shut down prematurely due in part to bureaucratic infighting and possible political pressure.

The ICRD dinner invitation does not mention Magid’s affiliations with these groups, but does identify him as Chairman of the International Interfaith Peace Corps (IIPC). Magid is joined on the group’s board, the “League of Compassion”, by Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah.

Bin Bayyah became notorious in the press after it was revealed following a meeting with White House National security officials that Bin Bayyah was one of the signatories of a 2004 fatwa by the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) supporting attacks on Americans in Iraq including civilians.

Despite having supported the death of Americans, Bin Bayyah has been a favorite of the Obama Administration. President Obama personally referenced the sheikh in a 2014 United Nations speech, and the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau once deleted a tweet quoting Bin Bayyah after his history of support for violence was revealed.

This is not the ICRD’s first brush with controversy either.

In 2014, the ICRD annual event chose to honor Ground Zero Mosque imam Faisal Rauf, advertising a keynote address by then House intelligence Chairman Mike Roger. The event raised controversy following revelations that the ICRD’s Vice President AbuBakr Al-Shingieti had ties to Sudanese President and indicted war criminal Omar Bashir, as well as links to groups accused of support for terrorism.

Rogers ultimately did not attend the event.

Like Mohammed Magid, Shingieti has multiple ties to groups linked to terror supporters, including ISNA, and another Safa Group organization, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). IIIT in particular had close ties to convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad organizer Sami Al-Arian.

It’s not entirely clear why the International Center for Religion & Diplomacy, whose stated mission is “bridging religious considerations and international politics in support of peacemaking,” feels it necessary to bring repeatedly bring high-level leaders of the American intelligence community together with Islamic clerics,  particularly those with backgrounds like Magid’s.

Outreach through countering violent extremism programs remains the Obama Administration’s continued preoccupation, despite continued evidence of poor screening of community partners.

If even the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council is exposed to so-called interfaith efforts led by suspected terror supporters, it cannot help but raise questions about the security of outreach efforts at all levels of government.