Posted on 03/27/2018 6:11:06 PM PDT by bitt
BEFORE OMAR MATEEN charged into the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and killed 49 people in June 2016, the FBI conducted two so-called assessments, the bureau’s term of art for limited national security investigations that do not require probable cause. In both cases, the bureau determined that Mateen was not a potential terrorist.
During the attack, while barricaded in a bathroom, Mateen suggested to hostage negotiators that he had committed the nightclub massacre in response to U.S. airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, including one that killed senior Islamic State member Abu Wahib.
“You have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq. They’re killing a lot of innocent people,” Mateen said by phone, shortly before police shot him. “So what am I to do here when my people are getting killed over there?”
After the shooting, then-FBI Director James Comey said federal agents would examine their failures to stop Mateen before he attacked “in an open and honest way and be transparent about it.” The FBI has not disclosed what came of the examination. When The Intercept inquired about it one year after the attack, the FBI answered: “We have no comment.”
A motion filed on Sunday may help explain the FBI’s lack of transparency. In it, lawyers for Mateen’s widow, Noor Salman, who is charged with material support and obstruction of justice in connection with the Pulse attack, say Mateen’s father, Seddique Mateen, worked as an FBI informant for 11 years, up to June 2016, when Mateen attacked the nightclub. The prosecution knew this but sought to hide it, Salman’s lawyers say.
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THE FATHER OF PULSE ATTACKER OMAR MATEEN WAS AN FBI INFORMANT. DID HE CONVINCE THE BUREAU TO STOP INVESTIGATING HIS SON?
A legitimate question.
He was simply a bad informant. Fire him.
Worth watching when the show re-airs later.
Pretty much sums it up!
The Obama Florida branch of the FBI is a bunch of real sharpies.
You are missing the point, which is about far more than any “one bad informant.” The (then) Director of the FBI promised complete honesty and transparency on this, and yet again the FBI has been found completely wanting. As in sooooo many other cases..... so firing one “bad informant” is not a remotely adequate response to the problems.
This is becoming fearsome.
FBI KNEW: Boston Marathon. Pulse. Parkland.
And failed to act. So, is our FBI complicit?
Terrifying.
That’s huge if true because the story the dinosaur media floated was that he was a closeted gay who purposefully shot up the bar because, you know, he was gay.
I agree, the FBI is too far gone to save.
Or, did the father groom his son to carry out the attack in a gay night club so he could go to paradise in spite of being a gay muslim? False flag? The FBI is involved in all of these atrocities in some way or another. Purposeful neglect of reports of homicidal wackos?
If we really knew what the CIA and FBI have been up to during the Kenyanesian Usurpation in the name of Americans, to Americans, it would be more terrifying.
The founders had really good reasons to exclude the children of foreign nationals from being President.
FBI informant with Dem political ties.
“..... so firing one “bad informant” is not a remotely adequate response to the problems.”
Although, if that line of action could be sold to the public as all that is warranted, that’s ASSUREDLY what the Deep State cabal would prefer.
Allah (Pam Geller) cartoon convention? Fast and Furious? Vegas massacre?
Waco? Ruby Ridge? Oklahoma City?
I think the bigger question is did he assist in his prep to do the job. Was he his son’s fbi handler?
Excellent point.
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