The FBI has done it again. This agency that has had so many failed leaders, so much internal rot, and such a long track record of failures and partisan shenanigans, has embarrassed itself with its initial public statement following the conclusion of a weekend hostage taking incident at a Texas synagogue.
A British National of Pakistani descent took four people hostage in Colleyville, Texas, located in the Dallas-Forth Worth metro area. He demanded the release from prison of his sister, Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who was convicted of attempting to kill U.S. Army personnel in Afghanistan. The perpetrator claimed he had placed bombs in the building and would detonate them should a rescue attempt be made.
A SWAT team responded, and details are still unclear, but the hostages escaped unharmed and the suspect is dead from a gunshot. Hmm, let's see here: A Muslim jihadist, a Jewish place of worship... Sounds like a no-brainer to me. Yet an FBI spokesman, special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno, refused to identify the suspect in a news conference.
"The Texas synagogue hostage taker's demands were specifically focused on issues not connected to the Jewish community," DeSarno said. Really?
After ferocious blowback from Jewish groups, the hostages themselves, and a good portion of the media, the FBI relented. A followup statement Sunday night said, in part, "This is a terrorism-related matter, in which the Jewish community was targeted, and is being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Preventing acts of terrorism and violence is the number one priority of the FBI."
The FBI's paranoid obsession with the white racist bogeyman who wants to overthrow the government (i.e., white Trump voters, in the agency's thinking), was combined with an uber-PC sensitivity toward Muslims. They were afraid of offending Muslim Americans and triggering a wave of Islamophobia (that's another concocted threat that is not nearly as great as it was made out to be).
Authorities were aware of the suspect; he was alleged to have had ties to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. So how in the world did this guy obtain a visa to fly in to the United States a few weeks ago? I guess the gatekeepers were too busy monitoring those scary, scruffy white guys in camouflage fatigues who have a flagpole outside their barn waving the Trump and "Don't Tread on Me" flags as they take target practice with their AR-15s.
Keep in mind, this is the same agency that allowed Maj. Nidal Hasan to visit jihadist websites on Army computers at Fort Hood, Texas, AND send menacing emails full of threatening language. It would have been "insensitive" to question him about it. But obviously, not nearly as insensitive as 13 people being killed, and dozens more wounded. In one of the most idiotic PC moves I've ever witnessed, the Army dubbed the murderous rampage "workplace violence."
More recently, we've seen the FBI fall lock, stock and barrel for the Democrats' concocted Russian collusion hoax, with some FBI agents (e.g., Peter Strzok, Lisa Page) abusing their use of government-owned devices to text each other about how much they despised then President Donald Trump. The FBI was part-and-parcel of the phony FISA warrants used to spy on the Trump campaign. Leaking of classified information was rampant during Trump's administration, and former FBI Director James Comey was one of numerous high profile intelligence officers appointed by former President Barack Obama who clearly lied under oath during congressional testimony.
Also on the egregious list, the FBI was investigating convicted child molester Dr. Larry Nassar for his abuse of female athletes. In 2015, several agents interviewed gymnasts who charged Nassar with violating them. The agents pretty much sat on the investigation for a year, failing to follow up and move it forward. Meanwhile, Nassar went on to abuse many more females before he was finally arrested in 2016.
Here in Michigan, the FBI appears to have its fingerprints on the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. This may well have been a false flag operation. The men charged with the plot claim that numerous FBI agents infiltrated their group and engaged in entrapment. One FBI agent, Richard Trask, was charged with domestic abuse (against his wife).
One doesn't need to be a news hound to realize that the FBI has an abysmal track record for dropping the ball and failing to prevent terrorist incidents from happening. Besides Fort Hood, there was 9/11, the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Oklahoma City bombing of a federal office building, and many more failures.
The FBI is in such sad shape, it needs to be gutted -- stripped down to the studs, metaphorically speaking, and rebuilt from the ground up. I am reminded of a wretchedly corrupt organization involved in Democrat politics for decades -- ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). In 2008, ACORN was busted for fraudulent voter registration policies and for paying cash for votes (practices that had been going on for years). Federal funding was cut off, the U.S. Bureau of Census ended its contract with ACORN, and the IRS removed ACORN from its voluntary tax assistance program.
At some point, the dam breaks, and even former sympathizers will sheepishly admit they were deceived. There can be a point where admitting past mistakes and gullibility is clearly preferential to attempting to defend the indefensible.
When does the FBI dam break? Not sure, but cracks certainly are developing in the concrete.
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