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FBI Cleared Extremists Who Carried Out Deadliest U.S. Attacks Since 9/11
2020-03-11
[Judicial Watch] Nearly two decades after its well-documented transgressions culminated in the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the federal law enforcement agency responsible for protecting the country against a repeat still struggles to do its job and it has cost dozens of American lives. The failures have allowed homegrown violent extremists (HVE) to carry out more than 20 attacks in the U.S. since 9/11, some of them after the agency, the FBI, closed counterterrorism investigations of the attackers.

The negligence has resulted in the death of 70 people murdered by at least six terrorists who had been under investigation by the FBI, according to a report issued recently by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General. In all the probes the FBI closed the cases quickly after ruling that the extremists presented no threat to national security. The agency examined its mishaps in the aftermath of the deadly events. "Following these attacks, the FBI conducted reviews and determined there were weaknesses in its HVE assessment processes," the agency watchdog writes in its report. "However, we found that the FBI has not taken sufficient action to address these weaknesses." There is more that may not have been included in the probe. The DOJ IG goes on to disclose that "in 2017, the FBI conducted an enterprise-wide review and identified potential terrorist threats that may not have been adequately assessed during calendar years (CY) 2014 through 2016, which amounted to 6 percent of the total assessments reviewed. We found that the FBI did not take adequate action on nearly 40 percent of these assessments for 18 months."

The latest FBI transgressions resulted in some of the deadliest terrorist attacks since Islamic jihadists carried out their plots in 2001, killing thousands of innocent Americans. They include the 2009 massacre at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the 2016 mass shooting at an Orlando, Florida nightclub and the 2017 attack at the Fort Lauderdale Airport in south Florida. In 2011 the FBI opened a counterterrorism lead into Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the Fort Hood shooting, but the probe was closed five months later after agents evidently determined that Hasan did not pose a national security threat. Months later he massacred 13 people at a U.S. military post. The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, was also under FBI investigation before he carried out his attack for making statements that displayed his radicalized ideology. Less than a year later the probe was closed after agents ruled the information to be unfounded. Mateen killed 46 people.

Boston Marathon terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev was also on the FBI’s radar before his attack, but the agency decided that he and his terrorist brother, Dzhokhar Tsarvaev, did not pose a threat to national security, according to the IG report. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother who was eventually killed in a wild shootout with police, was under investigation by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) after Russian authorities notified the agency that he had become radicalized. The Obama administration could have deported Tamerlan Tsarnaev years before he detonated bombs at a major sporting event over a criminal arrest, according to information uncovered by Judicial Watch shortly after the bombings that killed three and injured hundreds. The government also dropped the ball on Esteban Santiago, who killed five people in a 2017 attack at the Fort Lauderdale Airport. Weeks before the rampage, the FBI closed Santiago’s probe ruling that he did not pose a threat to national security.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#2  Eh Herby?

Osama Bin Obama gave clear stand down orders. Muller, Comey bent over and us humans took it.

The Silence of the FBI Lambs retired on the last day of 2000, after 31 years as an FBI Special Agent.

The modern-day FBI, in my opinion, is the result of what Jim Simpson (Author of The Red-Green Axis 2.0: An Existential Threat to America and the World) might describe as the “seeding of the government with leftists.”

he request to purge FBI training of Islamic doctrinal motivations for Jihad came from known Muslim Brotherhood affiliates to John Brennan, then Assistant to President Obama for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and to Tom Perez, then Assistant Attorney General, U. S. Department of Justice. Judicial Watch has documented the purge here. FBI Director Bob Mueller ordered the FBI purge of both materials and trainers in this regard.


How is this anything but treason?
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-03-11 18:44  

#1  IMO, it's unfair to expect FBI to have a 100% success rate. I'm sure they investigated and cleared thousands of Muslims who haven't killed anyone. Yet.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-11 14:14  

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