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2020-03-05 Home Front: WoT
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FBI missed chances to stop domestic terror attacks because of lack of follow-up
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Welcome to September 10th, 2001.
 [WASHINGTONTIMES] The FBI missed opportunities to stop domestic snuffies from killing Americans because field offices failed to further investigate individuals who had been labeled homegrown violent Death Eaters, the Justice Department watchdog said in a scathing report released Wednesday.
At least six snuffies who later carried out attacks killing a total of 70 people were on the FBI’s radar prior to the attacks. However,
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the agents quickly closed the cases, concluding the suspects were not threats to national security, according to the Justice Department inspector general.
Among the more high-profile individuals the FBI failed to recognize as a potential source of terrorism were Omar Mateen
 ... the Afghan-"American" who decided he was a soldier of the Caliphate and shot fifty unarmed people to death in a Florida gay bar he used to frequent...
, who killed 49 individuals at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016, Nidal Hasan, who massacred 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, and Esteban Santiago, who killed five people in a 2017 terror attack at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz said the FBI’s counterterrorism program division managers failed to conduct consistent oversight of its homegrown violent Death Eater assessments, allowing potential snuffies to fall through the cracks.
Roughly 40 percent of the FBI’s counterterrorism assessments went unaddressed for 18 months, even after bureau officials discovered investigative lapses, Mr. Horowitz wrote.
"The FBI has acknowledged that various weaknesses related to its assessment process may have impacted its ability to fully investigate certain counterterrorism assessment subjects, who later committed terrorist acts in the United States," the inspector general wrote.
Lapses by FBI agents included failing to investigate Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the individuals who carried out the 2013 Boston Marathon terror attack, even after he was flagged by an internal bureau database. Instead, the probe was closed and Tsarnaev was determined to "have no nexus to terrorism," according to the report.
Agents similarly bungled the case of Elton Simpson, who tried to ambush a Garland, Texas, art exhibit featuring cartoon images of Muhammad, the chief prophet and central figure of the Islamic religion, the report said. Although agents received threat information related to Simpson, agents did not interpret the data as a "significant threat," according to the report.
Even after the FBI conducted internal reviews after those attacks to figure out where it went wrong, agents didn’t follow proposed improvements.
Roughly one year after the FBI implemented new procedures, two field offices still had not taken the recommended actions, the report said.
"As a result, potential terrorist threats were not mitigated more than one year," Mr. Horowitz wrote.
The inspector general offered seven recommendations for the FBI to develop a "comprehensive strategy" for investigating terror suspects and keeping agents up to date on those techniques
Recommendations including implementing guidelines from a 2017 internal bureau review of its Guardian threat-assessment system, providing clear guidance to field offices on investigative steps, and establishing a plan to assess threats who have mental health concerns.
In a response to the inspector general’s report, an FBI official said the bureau agrees with the recommendations.
"We agree it is important to continue to improve the assessment process, provide adequate guidance, training and program management for all Guardians and those specifically addressing homegrown violent Death Eaters," wrote Suzanne Turner, an FBI section chief in the inspection division. "In that regard we concur with the seven recommendations for the FBI.” 
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Anyone remember, a day or two following the bombing the FBI SAC office in Boston ran a teevee advert asking if anyone knew the identities of these two lads (Tsarnaev bros).