(MintPress) — Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is being urged to abandon her seat on the House Intelligence Committee after allegations she made earlier this month alleging the Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating the U.S. government.

Bachmann penned a letter June 13 to Ambassador Harold W. Geisel, centering her argument around the aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, drawing a convoluted connection to the Muslim Brotherhood through Abedin’s late father, mother and brother.

“Her (Abedin’s) position affords her routine access to the Secretary and to policy-making,” the letter states, followed by examples by which Bachmann attempts to show recent U.S. actions favorable to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The letter was immediately denounced by legislative leaders, including Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who pointed out that the letter and report in which it cites does not include one policy or act of decision making Abedin has made in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Mrs. Bachmann, please step down

In response to claims that many consider lacking of strong evidence, a litany of critics, including a former CIA station chief and a number of U.S. former ambassadors, are questioning the congresswoman’s role in the House Intelligence Committee, asking that she be removed.

A letter, written to Republican House Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, addresses the potential impact Bachmann’s statements could have on national security and foreign policy, considering she sits on the House Intelligence Committee, a post seen by those outside of the U.S. as a role which speaks with a voice of authority.

The letter speaks to the possible strain the allegations made by Bachmann and colleagues will have on the relationship between the U.S. and Muslim countries, particularly Egypt.

Considering the U.S. has worked to debunk conspiracy theories that claim the U.S. took part in engineering the elections in Egypt to favor the Muslim Brotherhood, the signatories to the letter say Bachmann’s claim will only give credence to those who believe such theories.

The letter has actually been used by a minority in Egypt in an attempt to back up their own theories that the U.S. has its hand in Egyptian elections, arguing that the Muslim Brotherhood and U.S. government are working together in the U.S., as well as Egypt.

And with Bachmann’s title as a member of the House Intelligence Committee, signatories of the letter are concerned that her unfounded allegations could be seen by those outside the U.S. as coming from a credible source — a member of a U.S. intelligence committee.

“As you are also no doubt aware,” the letter states, “the promotion of these conspiracy theories by Members of Congress has been cited by conspiracy theorists in Egypt as evidence for the claim that the U.S. government has deliberately helped engineered the electoral success of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.”

Future of House Intelligence Committee

While the letter demanding Bachmann be removed from the House Intelligence Committee comes from a new set of voices inside the political and scholarly world, the opposition to Bachmann’s and her colleagues’ claims is not new, even among those within her own party.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, (R-Mich.), a former FBI agent, denounced Bachmann’s allegations.

“That kind of assertion certainly doesn’t comport with the Intelligence Committee, I can say that on the record,” he told USA TODAY. “I have no information in my committee that would indicate that Huma is anything other than an American patriot.”

Rogers added his voice to other prominent Republicans speaking out against Bachmann, including McCain, who addressed the issue on the Senate floor, referring to the accusations as “sinister.”

“This report is scurrilous. To say that the accusations made in both documents are not substantiated by the evidence they offer is to be overly polite and diplomatic about it,” he said. “It is far better and more accurate to talk straight: These allegations about Huma Abedin, and the report from which they are drawn, are nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable citizen, a dedicated American and a loyal public servant.”

Fellow Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, a Democrat, was among the voices in Congress speaking out against the letter, as well. Ellison publicly asked Bachmann to produce credible and substantial evidence, receiving in turn a 16-page letter citing previous information gathered from the report.

The report used by Bachmann and colleagues was produced by the Center for Security Policy, an organization run by Frank Gaffney, who also once accused Republican activist Grover Norquist, who is married to a Muslim woman, of being part of the Muslim infiltration efforts.

While many within both parties agree that Bachmann’s and colleagues’ accusations were misleading and damaging, it is yet to be seen if it would, in fact, result in her removal from the House Intelligence Committee, of which she was appointed in 2010 by Boehner.

During the time of her appointment, she released a statement to Minnesota Public Radio, claiming it was her honor to accept the opportunity to serve on the panel, citing the role it plays in keeping the U.S. safe.

“As a mother of five children and 23 foster children, I have a deep appreciation for that portion of our Oath of Office in which members of Congress vow to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” she stated.

It’s now not necessarily her commitment that’s being questioned, but the reliability of her ability, with more-than-questionable resources that have led to judgements and claims heard throughout the world.

Yet the man with the authority, the one who appointed Bachmann in the first place, isn’t likely to budge to the signatories of the letter. When questioned in a July interview if Boehner would consider removing Bachmann from the intelligence committee, he replied by saying, “I don’t know that that’s related at all.”