Posted on 12/05/2015 11:24:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“It reminded me of days in the Old West where there’d be a shooting and the whole town would go through and look,†former NYPD officer Bill Stanton tells TheWrap.
The FBI potentially dropped the ball by letting media ransack the home of the San Bernardino shooters just two days after the massacre.
“They [the FBI] totally scrubbed it from head to toe, or it’s a major **** up,†former NYPD police officer Bill Stanton told TheWrap about reporters from MSNBC, CNN and other outlets being allowed into the suspects’ home to comb through photos and documents.
Stanton, who worked for the NYPD and in private security for 25 years, said the combined strength and power of the U.S. government and law enforcement could have successfully stripped down the shooters’ home successfully in a day.
But it’s also possible the FBI erred by giving the all-clear signal to the landlord to allow media into the home too soon.
“It doesn’t make our services look efficient,†Stanton continued. “It reminded me of days in the Old West where there’d be a shooting and the whole town would go through and look.â€
On Friday, the FBI defended what looked like a chaotic and shocking scene on TV, saying the home was no longer a crime scene and its owners were free to do what they wanted with the property.
“We did a very thorough search and took our time and completed it,†she said. “There are cases where we need to preserve a location, but that’s extremely rare,†Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Los Angeles, told Reuters.
As TheWrap reported, MSNBC came under heavy fire on social media for showing unblurred images of children and other potential family and friends of the shooters who may have had nothing to do with the grisly massacre.
Another former NYPD officer, Tom Ruskin, told TheWrap that the network’s decision was “irresponsible and disgusting,†suggesting those people showed on camera could be forced into hiding as a result of their images being broadcast publicly.
“They have potentially caused innocent people, people that may not be tied to this crime, the possibility of being harmed, and they have to go into hiding,†Ruskin said.
The network expressed regret for showing the images. “We regret that we briefly showed images of photographs and identification cards that should not have been aired without review,†a spokesperson said in a statement Friday.
don’t forget....... Tim McGee has taught us that fingerprints can be taken easily and quickly with an I phone app
Exactly. You might not know what is critical for MONTHS. They should have sealed the place and paid the lease up for a year. For all the FBI knows, they might find out later that a secret list was hidden in the teddy bear. At this point, they don’t know what they don’t know. I think they intentionally contaminated the scene.
And did you see the video of the 20-something FBI CSI’s? Untucked t-shirts like “casual Fridays” at some geek firm. Slovenly jerk kids, the new face of the FBI.
This came from the top—Clearly there was something in that apartment the White Hut didn’t want the rest of us to see.
I think there was a bigger plan but hubby lost control and didn’t wait. I wouldn’t doubt if the plan is to replicate france. The thing about this though, is they got out and drove. Cali better wise up.
I did and my first thought was, "Damn, these kids are acting and dressing the way TV CSI taught them."
Absolutely orders came from the top. The FBI would NEVER leave a trash can full of shredded paper for the public to paw through.
Is was as though the FBI threw up their hands in frustration.
The higher-highers wanted that scene ruined, so they sent the D-Team.
The reporter holding up their bank statement to the camera was pretty bad, and hard to believe the FBI didn’t take it in the first place.
Yes, we should always consider their back game. I suspect we’re screwed either way with these cretins (as one always is when visibly outnumbered by a__holes).
Agree..... I tend to lean towards a 9+ year POTUS production in the making scenario . A series of deadly mass casualty events can disrupt or even suspend elections IMO.
Obama sure is loading up this nation with people we should have shot on their own porch long ago.
Just my opinion of course... Stay safe !
It appears the FBI did not even dust the apt for fingerprints. They left sensitive documents such as SS cards, passports etc in the apt. What does that tell any rational thinking person? Wake the flock up people.
Everything in that house could be photographed with a digital camera too. There was no need to take the actual items.
All this uproar is much ado about nothing.
Look for the Union Label
There's Getting Things Done and there's Get 'er Done!... not the same thing.
Stay safe....working on my titanium lever action walker with drone controls, HUD sneeze guard, Whole Foods possibles bag, camelback chimpanzee, and sonic dog whistle....Be Prepared! There's a khukri in there somewhere....
Bkmrk
Happy Sunday to you as well. Thanks for the video. USAF khakis and pinks??
I’ve got a Christmas tale to tell at a later time. Involves West Virginia, Christmas Eve blizzard, train, baggage car with iron stove, quart of Jack Daniels, two good train men and a hound of indeterminate origins with a fine sing voice, with terminus at Union Station. Helluva ride ;>)
I'll trust the FBI ... they're pros.
I'll trust the FBI...
Note that PDs and Feebs do not clean up after themselves.
Now go back to the video and tell us all where all the smudges appear. I saw zip, zero, nada.
“Simple drug raid result in near tear downs of walls floor boards etc. in a search for hidey holes. None of that is apparent from the videos.”
That was what I noticed, too.
Also, that huge tapestry with Arabic writing left hanging on the wall.
The Feds weren’t interested in confiscating and translating that?
It probably was the “smite the infidels wherever you find them” verses from the Koran.
And the news cameras kept focusing on and broadcasting it, while Arabs in sleeper cells all over the US are pointing, slapping thighs, laughing their fool heads off.
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