Posted on 08/28/2022 10:46:53 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik is keeping up her criticism of the FBI for refusing to answer questions about its connections to Shahed Hussain, the owner of the stretch limo involved in the 2018 crash in Schoharie that killed 20 people.
In an appearance earlier this month on Fox News, the Schuylerville Republican said she had yet to get answers from the FBI on Hussain, who worked for years as an undercover informant for the bureau on anti-terrorism cases before his illegal limo operation was involved in the tragedy.
During a March appearance before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Stefanik had asked FBI Director Christopher Wray pointedly if the FBI knew that Hussain had broken state transportation laws while working for the bureau.
When Wray refused to do so, citing concerns about talking about confidential sources, Stefanik demanded that he follow up with her directly. Five months later, Stefanik said she is still waiting for answers.
"We will ask the tough questions, but what I have found with director Wray, even related to an FBI controversy in my district which led to a very deadly limousine crash, they are refusing to respond to basic congressional outreach," Stefanik told the hosts of "Fox & Friends," the network's morning news show, on Aug. 12.
Stefanik's 21st Congressional District was changed earlier this year to include Schoharie County. U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, who lives in Amsterdam where many of the crash victims were from, has also requested that the FBI release any information about its interactions with Hussain regarding his limo business or the crash to no avail.
Rachel Dejean, a spokeswoman for Tonko, says the FBI gave Tonko "a very general briefing about the confidential informant program" earlier this year without any specifics on Hussain or the limo case.
"Since then, we haven’t heard anything," Dejean said. "The congressman and our office continue to press the FBI for answers."
The FBI's national press office in Washington, D.C., did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Hussain, who traveled the globe for the FBI's terrorism task force in the years after 9/11, was in Pakistan at the time of the crash and is not believed to have returned since. His son, Nauman Hussain, was the only person charged criminally in the case.
However, both Nauman and Shahed are being sued in civil court over the crash by the families of the 20 victims, which included the 17 passengers, the driver and two bystanders when the 34-foot stretch Ford Excursion crashed into the parking lot of the Apple Barrel Country Store and Cafe on Oct. 6, 2018.
Nauman Hussain pleaded guilty last September to 20 counts of criminally negligent homicide and received five years probation and no jail time.
He is due back in Scoharie County Court on Wednesday for what's called an interim probation hearing
This is her district. Plenty of questions about the FBI and the limo company.
She must not understand. Those guys don’t work for her, her constituents, or anybody else other than the DC machine.
what was the cause of the crash?
IIRC the limo’s brakes failed.
Works both ways.
The alphabet soup needs to be boiled out. Cancerous institutions feeding off we the host.
Do not know how to find it/them.
Recall that all victims were unrestrained in the vehicle and the impact into a embankment caused all to be thrown into the front of the truck.
What's confidential, huh? Who knew and when did they know?
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