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Glenn Beck conspiracy theory: What's his evidence?
Christian Science Monitor ^ | 4/24/2013 | Peter Grier

Posted on 04/24/2013 4:13:13 PM PDT by iowamark

Glenn Beck has spent lots of time in recent days alleging that the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out by a conspiracy that revolved around a shadowy Saudi national questioned by police in a Boston hospital in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy.

OK, is he just winging it here, or does the ex-Fox, now-independent radio and Internet video host have any real evidence for this charge?

He says he does, unsurprisingly. On his show Wednesday morning Mr. Beck produced a document that he claimed is an official US “event report” showing that the Saudi in question is a bad, bad man who was on a no-fly list and already subject to visa revocation.

What he didn’t mention is that Fox News reporter Bret Baier has already looked into this whole alleged Saudi conspiracy, including the document Beck deemed so revealing, and concluded that there was no there there, to paraphrase writer Gertrude Stein’s jibe about Oakland.

It’s “false and misleading” to use the internal document on the Saudi’s immigration status as evidence of the man’s involvement in the bombings, according to US officials quoted by Mr. Baier in a Fox video blog on April 23.

“The FBI says the Saudi [in question] was just a victim of the terrorist attack,” said Baier...

But Bret Baier had this piece of paper already. On Tuesday, he talked with US officials about it, and got a different story.

First off, Baier said the wording of the paper was indeed somewhat dire.

“Anyone looking at this would say this is a bad guy, this means they had a lot of stuff on this guy,” he said.

But officials told him it was simply an automatic piece of customs paperwork triggered when police went to question the Saudi in the hours after the bombing...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beck; conspiracies; glennbeck; talkradio
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To: iowamark

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-naked-man-mystery-role-in-boston-2013-4


101 posted on 04/24/2013 8:30:23 PM PDT by STD (One day closer to street justice)
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To: Williams

I doubt this saudi was/is a double/triple agent. Said agents are NOT given a 212 3 B status.

He had an event file already, he was trouble and DHS is lying as usual. This whole thing reeks.


102 posted on 04/24/2013 9:35:22 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: JerseyDvl

Thanks Jersey, I do hope it’s not really 52% we’re fighting! I deeply believe that the truth will prevail, but not without good people helping to spread the word.


103 posted on 04/24/2013 9:36:58 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Deathtomarxists

Exactly. So the lies just keep coming and the coverup gets thicker and thicker.

I just don’t want the 212 3 B status to get lost in the shuffle, that status is near impossible to attach to someone!


104 posted on 04/24/2013 9:38:29 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: cumbo78

Good succinct summary! However, I don’t recall it being said that he had ‘another’ 212 3 B, I don’t know how that could even be possible. I know he had 2 event files. If I missed something, please let me know. Thanks


105 posted on 04/24/2013 9:41:21 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: iowamark

What would this Beck person, whoever he is, and I honestly don’t know, except from seeing his name here, what would he sell his advertisers if he didn’t invent conspiracy theories WEEKLY WORLD NEWS style? Discussions of the price of celery (unusually pricey this year in this region)?

This reminds me. What does telebision sell and to whom? Ya thinks it sells the products advertised to the viewing public? Uh, huh. It sells your time to the advertisers. Kill your TV.


106 posted on 04/24/2013 9:43:31 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Williams
My guess is this guy is some kind of double agent or triple agent. There definitely is a national security cloud over him. Maybe it’s because he was involved and Obama is covering up, maybe he was supposed to be on our side but got caught up in this, maybe he turned sides.

Have you seen the outdoor group photo with Al-Harbi and friends in traditional Arab dress? Notice that he's the only one present wearing a white kafiyeh with a black head band. I've been told that only royalty can wear that particular combination.

If the guy is Saudi royalty, he's not an agent, but a renegade Islamist of some sort. In my opinion, that's why heaven and earth was moved to get the 212 3B lifted, and why the Saudi Ambassador was at his bedside right after he was admitted to the hospital.

This guy is important. To someone. Someone with the power to pull the strings of our government and national security agencies.

Records also indicate that he visited the White House on multiple occasions. How does a lowly foreign student from an Arab country manage to get into the White House so many times, unless he's got 'credentials'?

And he attended the same mosque as the bombers??

The dots connect themselves.

107 posted on 04/24/2013 9:45:11 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Williams

“My guess is this guy is some kind of double agent”

That’s been my suspicion as well.


108 posted on 04/24/2013 9:46:53 PM PDT by Pelham (Without Deportation you have De Facto Amnesty.)
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To: Williams
They said his hands were burnt in the blast.

Look at the photos of Al-Harbi in the hospital. Do those hands look burned to you?

Note also that he's grinning from ear to ear in every picture. Have you ever seen a burn victim so relaxed and cheerful? I haven't.

109 posted on 04/24/2013 9:47:38 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Revolting cat!
What would this Beck person, whoever he is, and I honestly don’t know, except from seeing his name here, what would he sell his advertisers if he didn’t invent conspiracy theories WEEKLY WORLD NEWS style?


110 posted on 04/24/2013 9:52:49 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: wolf24
And a visit from the First Lady if those photos are genuine.

They appear to be genuine. They match seamlessly with other photos taken of her visit to the hospital that day.

112 posted on 04/24/2013 10:13:51 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: NoGrayZone

From what I understand they own about 7%. I put the leftward tilt in FOX to the problems in the U.K. Holder & Co. Were making threats to get all his broadcast media licenses pulled over the phone taps in the U.K. and open full boreinvestigation here. That was about a year before the last election. That went away and FOX became more liberal. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that info damaging to the cases in UK and Murdoch’s employees is material being obtained by the NSA and CIA and provided indirectly to the prosecutors to keep the pressure on here so FOX goes easy on Obama.


113 posted on 04/24/2013 10:19:36 PM PDT by airedale
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

bingo!


115 posted on 04/25/2013 4:02:17 AM PDT by sopwith (don't tread on me)
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To: iowamark

Mark Levin started to talk about this lastnight at near the 1/2 way mark of his show.


116 posted on 04/25/2013 4:27:13 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: Windflier
Note also that he's grinning from ear to ear in every picture. Have you ever seen a burn victim so relaxed and cheerful? I haven't.

It's the smile of someone who's done something bad and knows he's going to get away with it.

117 posted on 04/25/2013 4:29:19 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: FewsOrange

Oh, scary “quotation marks”, that does it for me. And well, if Bret Baier says it, it must be true. Er, what percentage of Fox News does that Saudi Prince own again? Just wondering.


118 posted on 04/25/2013 7:52:56 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: Yosemitest

Would you PLEASE isuue a warning next time before posting a photo of Janet Napolitano? That “come hither” helmet haircut drives me WILD. BTW, again, GOD BLESS GLENN BECK!
Hannity appears to have caved under pressure, shamefully. I never thought of him as a coward, but who knows? Bob


119 posted on 04/25/2013 7:58:01 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("Leave your home It's time for running... I hear the hosts of Muhammed coming." Al Stewart)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

This “event file” was authored in 2011! Bob


120 posted on 04/25/2013 7:59:13 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("Leave your home It's time for running... I see the hosts of Muhammed coming." Al Stewart)
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