Posted on 12/16/2015 10:02:02 AM PST by jazusamo
The semantic dance of whether or not to call the July mass shooting in Chattanooga a "terrorist" attack appears to be winding down.
FBI Director James Comey twice called the deadly Chattanooga shooting that killed four Marines and one sailor a "terror attack" during a press conference with NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton on Wednesday. Bratton and Comey spoke after addressing the NYPD Shield Conference in New York City.
"We've investigated Chattanooga as a terror attack from the beginning," Comey said. "The Chattanooga killer was inspired by a foreign terror organization. It's hard to entangle which particular source...there are lots of competing poisons out there."
That response came as Comey was asked to clarify an earlier statement in which he linked the root cause of the July 16 rampage by Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Kuwait, to the recent Islamic terrorist attack in San Bernardino.
"San Bernardino, as with Chattanooga, another terror attack we've dealt with in recent times..." Comey began the answer to a question about the Dec. 2 terror attack in California.
Abdulazeez, 24, was fatally shot by police after opening fire at a military recruiting center and then driving to a reserve center, where he killed five.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
James Comey calls ‘em like he sees them... he’s a good man.
And it took them only 5 months to make the determination.
I guess we’re making progress though, since it took officials only three days to decide San Bernadino was a terror attack.
On the other hand, we’ve got a ways to go, as the same officials can identify anti-muslim hate crimes before they’re even committed.
Amen...Good to see someone stand up to 0bama’s BS.
Between Comey at FBI, and Abrams at DOD on Bergdahl, we have not completely lost all of our patriots in this government.
This is another result of the Trump Effect. He has given folks the ability to stand up to the BS and fight for the truth again. Trump has completely changed the landscape concerning political correctness in America.
No duh.
IIRC the terrorist involved came here as a cute lil refugee kiddo too.
Grateful, wasn’t he?
Yep...It’s for sure 0bama still has Holder-in-a-skirt (DOJ) in his pocket.
This is what you get with Democrats. Endless arguments about what the meaning of ‘is’ is.
Agreed, and 0bama has to be really smarting over the slap in the face Gen. Abrams gave him.
You're right on this - AND it's having a massive ripple effect through the culture.
The knife wielder at UC Merced is still not called Islanically-inspired despite it clearly being so.
Well dip me in sh!t and call me stinky.
Sheesh.
5.56mm
NYTimes-
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -A 24-year-old Kuwaiti-born gunman opened fire on a military recruiting station on Thursday, then raced to a second military site where he killed four United States Marines,>>>>>>>> snip
The Federal Bureau of Investigation identified the gunman, who also died Thursday, as Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, who became a naturalized United States citizen and went to high school and college in Chattanooga. ...
So these Marines & Sailor should receive the Purple Heart and their families awarded benefits due.
Obama did not make the admission
We don’t know the staqtement had Obama’s blessing
I would suggest Obama has lost control of the words spoken by the FBI and the generals
Keep goin Comey, Fort Hood was too.
It sounds like he did make the admission though he parsed words as usual.
Near end of this article:
“Obama said. “It is this type of attack that we saw at Fort Hood in 2009. In Chattanooga earlier this year. And now in San Bernardino.””
workplace terror attack?
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