I have been watching and listening to all the finger pointing surrounding the attack in Orlando……my first reaction was to ask why all the accusations not much is said about the attacks in South Carolina last year…these “people” bring up the Boston bomb and the attack in California but nothing on the attack in SC….I have a good idea why but refuse to be part of this…..
Some blame Muslims while others blame the guns……and few put the blame where it belongs…..the FBI.
The FBI is grappling with the aftermath of what a former Homeland Security counterterrorism coordinator calls one of its “great nightmares: someone they looked at who ultimately goes out and carries out a successful attack.” The FBI—which investigated and cleared gunman Omar Mateen twice—also investigated but failed to stop Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Texas gunman Elton Simpson, leading some experts to say the agency is hampered by strict guidelines and limited resources, the Washington Post reports. The FBI’s initial probe of Mateen, which began when colleagues at security firm G4S reported suspicious statements in 2013, took 10 months and involved phone surveillance, interviews, and the use of informants. It found no evidence of radicalization, but experts now wonder if more clues could have been found if more agents had been used.
The FBI is hampered not just by guidelines, but by the sheer volume of counterterrorism tips, with up to 10,000 investigations open at any one time, reports the New York Times. Sources say the agency is currently investigating more than 1,000 suspected “homegrown violent extremists,” a task that involves thousands of agents and analysts. Authorities say they’re trying to determine whether any leads were missed in the Mateen case. He was no longer on an FBI watch list when he bought the weapons used in the nightclub massacre, meaning the agency was not alerted, and Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates says authorities are considering changing the system to ensure the FBI is notified when somebody previously investigated for terrorism links buys guns. (The FBI is considering charges against Mateen’s wife, who may have known about the attack beforehand.)
To try and change the conversation the government and the media have thrown suspicion on the present wife….
This is a typical story…..just change the name of the location and it would be the same worthless information it always is…..
The FBI does NOT need a BIGGER staff. They just need to do their job properly.
COMMENT: It may surprise you now to know that I have been on their (not so secret) WATCH LIST for decades. And, it may surprise them to know that I have been collecting data & documenting my own (truly secret) SH*T LIST on them.
Sometimes, I just LOVE being ME and basking in the privileged of once having the following:
Canadian Government – Level II Security Clearance
NATO Clearance
NORAD Clearance
No telling what list I am on….tee hee….
Say No More!
Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
Once the whistle sounds for the beginning of the “blame game”, any truly rational exploration will always lead to the same culprit, to wit; all of us. Since very few people take personal responsibility for their actions, the societal norm has become in such instances a fruitless, futile search for somebody to blame.
In the final analysis, such searches never lead to any real reform; they only serve to create more division.
We are all to blame when antisocial acts occur, for what is such an act but an indictment of society as a whole, for existing in a way that fosters this sort of insanity? It isn’t possible to ascribe rational motives to insanity, and such acts are nothing less, and nothing more than insane.Finding the root cause of the act only serves to find out why THAT person went mad; it doesn’t deal at all with the problem at large. which is the nature of the society we humans have created….
gigoid, the dubious
That is why I dislike profilers…..finding one reason does not solve all reasons…chuq
One of the problems that exist within federal law enforcement is that agencies do not communicate with each other. I don’t know how many remember when a FBI agent tried getting attention on men from Saudi Arabia attending flight schools in America, and she was ignored. Then came 9/11.
Local government is quick to tell civilians to contact their local FBI, and the local FBI tells them to contact their local law enforcement who, if they investigate, will then convey things to them. The proverbial buck is passed.
Lord help the folks who call local FBI offices whose phone numbers default to the office in D.C. The gatekeepers there think they are interrogators.
A circle jerk?
“I have been watching and listening to all the finger pointing surrounding the attack in Orlando”
Well, there’s your first mistake! Other than the 10 minutes I accidentally subjected myself to when I turned on my TV Sunday morning, I haven’t watched a moment of this speculative, point-scoring, bullshit that’s really irrelevant anyway. Nothing will come from it. The American gridlock is so complete, you can’t even get consensus that this shooting was a negative thing.
As for the FBI, those fuckers might as well be run by J Edgar Hoover again. They have at least 10,000 paid “informants” trying to set up every Muslim in America in bogus, FBI manufactured, terror plots, so they can suck on the Homeland Security tit like everyone else is. Meanwhile, any fuckwad with anger issues can easily buy an AR15 and mow people down whenever the mood strikes.
I have more on the FBI on this incident….FBI is as much as terrorist group as any of them…
And the worst part is that, when it comes to US government agencies, they’re probably still the “good” guys.
Not with me