Posted on 05/19/2014 8:12:39 PM PDT by Nachum
Recently installed FBI Director James Comey tells The New York Times that his plans to refocus the bureau’s attention back toward prosecuting criminals and away from terrorism were made before he realized just how serious the terrorist threat facing the US really is.
It was only after seeing the top-secret intelligence that was unavailable to him while he was publicly opposing things like the NSA’s surveillance program that, Comey says, he realized the tide of war is not "receding" as fast as President Obama has repeatedly claimed, if it is even receding at all.
Al-Qaeda, Comey says, is very much alive and growing in new and more dangerous places around the world. “I just didn’t have anywhere near the appreciation I got after I came into this job,” he tells the Times, “just how virulent those affiliates had become. There are both many more than I appreciated, and they are much stronger than I appreciated."
Therefore, says Comey, the FBI’s traditional emphasis on criminal prosecutions will continue to take a back seat as the agency intensifies its focus on counter-terrorism.
There was no indication in the front-page piece by Michael S. Schmidt as to whether or not President Obama, who nominated Comey after delivering a high-profile speech in which he said the country needs to “move off” its wartime footing, had undergone a similar change in his assessment of the terror threat, or even was availing himself of the same intelligence reports.
Nor was there any discussion in the nearly 3000-word article about how Comey’s public statements about his beliefs now break from the President’s repeated assurances that America is more secure and terrorism less a threat than it was before he took office. Comey contradicts the President directly when he says that America’s enemies are more emboldened in their
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I think he’ll mouth just enough remonstrance and terror vigilance as is required to maintain The Regime’s robust technical abilities against bloggers and arrowhead collectors.
He’s spouting off like he’s going to be freshly vigilant against people YOU AND I envision as bearded, turbaned and driving around scouting for targets while listening to weird Middle-Eastern music:
That’s ridiculous.
Those are the ALLIES of The Regime. Obama and his pro-engagement crew see them as POLITICAL ALLIES in a new Campaign of Fairness.
The people he’s really aiming for are the people HERE, and ranchers, and figures like Drudge and Rush, and like Sarah and Dr. Carson.
That only SOUNDS impossible.
Really!
He need a top secret briefing to know how virulent, islamic muslim terrorists are.
How is it he had no idea, any freeper could have told him that.
“Therefore, says Comey, the FBI’s traditional emphasis on criminal prosecutions will continue to take a back seat as the agency intensifies its focus on counter-terrorism. “
That’s wonderful news for organized crime syndicates.
“Therefore, says Comey, the FBI’s traditional emphasis on criminal prosecutions will continue to take a back seat as the agency intensifies its focus on counter-terrorism. “
So... isn’t that the job of DHS ?
-PJ
It's all wired. If Obama's successor happens to be a Republican, it's going to collapse on him like Dorothy's house.
this.
I don’t know if I should be happy that wow, maybe he finally gets it - the world is a dangerous place... Or maybe sad that he is such an idiot. I mean, I don’t need classified briefings to realize that terrorism is a real and growing threat. Finally, either way I am concerned about just who he may consider a terrorist threat. There have been a lot of disturbing indications from the bammy administration that they consider certain political groups in the US far more dangerous than any outside terrorists.
Therefore, says Comey, the FBI’s traditional emphasis on criminal prosecutions will continue to take a back seat as the agency intensifies its focus on counter-terrorism. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
What an idiot. Comey is obviously another Obama campaign shill.Which is why the FBI is doing nothing about investigating crime at the IRS and is investigating conservative complainants instead, and also why there is no effective investigation of the Benghazi murders, only a cover up investigation, and no investigation of the homicides of veterans at the VA in Phoenix.
Comey needs to investigate the criminal/terrorist in chief, the current lying , treasonous ‘resident of the White Hut
himself.
I thought the Rodeo Clown had that problem fixed. Guess he lied to us just to get elected again.
He was Deputy Director and he didn’t have access to classified material?
Really?
This is what you can expect from people who get their information from the Obama Media who think printing Obama’s press releases is hard hitting investigative journalism.
According to administration propaganda there is no such thing as muslim terrorism and the real war is here in the USA against dangerous Cattle Ranchers, Bitter Clingers and Constitutionalists.
Life has taken on a ‘waiting for the hammer to drop’ premonition for most normal people. Intelligent people like you (Freepers) and I know that this kind of incompetence is going to backfire eventually...big time, and not just in something like ‘Fast and Furious’ or ‘Benghazi’.
I guess the Republicans in power really don’t have enough power or support to actually do anything yet. AND with those electronic voting machines we are ripe for hacking and more problems during the election.
Remember ACORN in the 2008 election, well it is my understanding groups of them were sent into countries like Honduras, who were not on board with the Democrat/left agenda. So as we watch leftist leaders win elections around the world, and with the UN supposedly monitoring (anti Americans) those elections....this is not going to be easy to overcome. Not saying it cannot be done, but the incompetence seems to be intentional.
Yes...watching the “Fall of America” is not what I had planned for my senior years...it is distressing...I did not used to believe the “one worlders”...now I do...altho having worked in Corporate America...I am not convinced they can pull it off...However I do believe there could be a massive “breakup”
The only so-called ‘terrorists’ Obama’s concerned with are his political enemies. Republicans.
When Homeland Paranoid Insecurity puts out PSA’s on ‘terrorists’ they’re white middle aged men who look Republican. If that’s what the FBI is REALLY talking about they they’re with Obama...
Notice - this story appeared in the New York Times... a paper that works for democrats.
Well keep your passport current, some cash on hand, and a place in mind for temporary relief from communism...
>> Al-Qaeda, Comey says, is very much alive and growing in new and more dangerous places around the world
al-Qaeda is on the run... around the World expanding its reach.
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