A Justice Department report reveals that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has restricted official contact with the Council on American-Islamic Relations since 2008, following evidence linking the group's leaders to Hamas during a major terrorism-financing trial. Despite these restrictions, several field offices violated the policy between 2010 and 2012, with some agents attending events or collaborating with the group against headquarters' directives. The internal policy, still in effect as of 2013, has resurfaced in the wake of Texas Governor Greg Abbott's recent decision to designate the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations under state law. The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy has released a report urging federal lawmakers to follow Texas' lead, while the Council on American-Islamic Relations continues to deny any wrongdoing and asserts its opposition to terrorism.