Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.) is excoriating the Qatari government for what he calls the embassy’s “non-denial” of reports that the foreign nation planned to use spycraft to “target” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and other lawmakers who have vocally criticized the Muslim Brotherhood.

“Rather than deal with the substance of the reporting, the embassy instead resorted to ad hominem attacks and non-denials regarding their well-documented history of engaging in hacking and spying on Americans who have criticized Qatar,” Bergman wrote in a new Dear Colleague letter obtained by Inside Congress.

Fox News first reported on the alleged Qatari plans — citing an “Endgame” document that the Qatari embassy vociferously denied. Bergman countered that the document “was simply the roadmap the Qataris followed just a few months later when they launched GlobalLeaks,” a hack-and-leak operation that reportedly intercepted communications between various U.S. leaders and UAE’s ambassador to the United States.

Bergman wrote that he believed the report was credible because “the Associated Press authenticated the document [in October 2022] and confirmed that it was the blueprint for GlobalLeaks” and “because the plans discussed in the document actually came to pass.”



In a sign that Qatar could soon face more scrutiny on Capitol Hill, Bergman closed his letter by encouraging “colleagues on both sides of the aisle to please reach out to me in the coming days … to build a bipartisan coalition to deal with the unique threat that Qatar poses to U.S. national security.”