December 9, 2015, - 5:51 pm
Famous But Incompetent: FBI Missed This Important Evidence on San Bern Jihadis; Now, It May Be Lost Forever
In “investigating” Islamic terrorist mass murderers Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the FBI failed to look at what could be the most important piece of evidence. And, now, it may be lost forever. Here’s yet another reason why I (and most agents in other federal law enforcement agencies) refer to the FBI as Famous But Incompetent. And it’s yet another contrast in what Muslims are willing to do and we aren’t.
The FBI failed to spend the necessary time to do something Muslims have done while investigating Americans. And it shows the difference between who they are and who we are. They are relentless. We are at the mall and watching the Kardashian-Jenner-Wests. Even the FBI. The FBI neglected this one thing, and it now may be lost forever.
I’m sure you probably saw some of the news stories on Friday and over the weekend about the press tramping through the Farook/Malik residence after the landlord let them all in. I’m sure you probably also saw that FBI agents “managing” the investigation said they didn’t have a problem with it. The FBI maintained that it took all the necessary evidence from the residence and had turned that crime scene over to the landlord, only when the agents had completely combed through the place and taken everything they needed.
But that’s baloney. Did you see the many video reports from various news outlets? Most of them showed a bin containing shredded documents. How on earth would the FBI know that it got all of the necessary evidence, given that it left behind shredded documents which might contain important information–maybe even the next plots of other ISIS operatives in the area? And how would FBI agents know that the documents were not relevant or important to the investigation of Farook and Malik, if they didn’t even bother to piece the shredded documents back together? The shreds of documents left behind make it clear that there was no such effort. And the only thing we can conclude from this is that the FBI is just lazy. Too lazy to be the lead agency–let alone, involved in–terrorism investigations. But, sadly, part of George W. Bush’s creation of the Department of Homeland Security was to make all terrorism investigations the bailiwick of the FBI and the FBI only. The FBI and the Justice Department, under which the FBI falls, get to decide if other agencies get to be involved and to what extent. Yup, the agency that refuses to piece together shredded documents in the biggest Islamic terrorist massacre on American soil since 9/11.
Contrast this FBI incompetence with the diligence of Shi’ite Muslims in Iran who took over the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979. They were ruthless and didn’t leave a single stone unturned, including the piecing together of hundreds, if not thousands of shredded documents. When U.S. Embassy officials saw that unrest in Tehran got so bad that they’d have to abandon the embassy and try to escape, they spent a good deal of time and effort shredding national security documents before trying to evacuate. You’ve probably seen this in scenes of movies, like “Argo” (read my review), about the siege on the American Embassy by Iranian revolutionaries led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
And you may have seen the scene in “Argo” which accurately depicts what the Iranians did next that the FBI declined to do in the case of Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik after they murdered 14 Americans and seriously injured several others. The Iranians revolutionaries tasked people with putting those shredded American documents back together. Yes, that really happened, although not with carpet weavers and child labor (author Lewis Perdue says that he was dismayed to learn from a press photo that the Iranians learned how to piece together shredded documents from one of his books). And, from those many shredded documents, the Iranians were able to uncover for themselves and publicly disclose to enemies of the United States a lot of important national security information: information about operations, methods and tactics, names of agents, and so on. Go to Google Images and look up “Iran shredded American documents,” and you’ll find countless photos of the national security cables and other classified documents the Iranian Muslims put together.
Doing the Work the FBI Won’t Do: Some of the Classified U.S. Documents the Iranians Put Back Together . . .
We’ll never know how many American agents were murdered and how many important operations foiled because secret identities and plans were discovered and exposed by the Iranians who took the time and effort to painstakingly reassemble shredded documents. Many of the documents the Iranians pieced together right away. And several others they spent months and even years reassembling. But the Iranians did the work, and they discovered a lot of important secret information. Years after the hostages were released, Iran was still piecing together shredded American national security documents and publishing at least 60 volumes of books of them, entitled, “Documents From the Espionage Den” published in the name of the ”Students Following the Line of the Imam.” Yes, Muslims are willing to do the work the FBI won’t do. Hell, the FBI couldn’t even expend the three calories it would’ve taken to bend over and bag the shredded docs for later reassembly. What–is this the “backbreaking work” only illegal aliens can do?
Now, those shredded documents are probably lost forever. Why on earth did the FBI leave them behind? Regardless of the reason, we know it’s gross incompetence to abandon evidence like that. It’s probably now lost forever.
If I were one of the reporters whom the landlord let in, I’d probably have snuck the shredded documents out, paid a professional to put them back together, and had my own exclusive story. And if I’d been that landlord who led all the press corps cretins traipse through the dwelling, I’d have charged them for access and sold the shredded documents to the highest bidder. Clearly, he’s not a capitalist.
I note that FBI Los Angeles Assistant Director David Bowdich has done numerous press conferences in the week since the San Bernardino attacks and not a single member of the press has asked him why agents left the shredded docs behind or how they could possibly know that unassembled shredded documents contained no information necessary for a full investigation into how jihadists remained under the radar and were able to murder 14. But I guess we now know how they remained under the radar: the FBI won’t even grab shredded documents now that the jihadists are very much on the radar and left such a bloody trail.
Again FBI = Famous But Incompetent. There’s a bin of shredded documents left unattended in a Redlands, California crime scene to prove it.
As I mentioned earlier, this should be a homeland security case because we’re paying up the wazoo for a Cabinet-level department that does nothing to keep us safe.
Oh – and 72 of its own employees are on the no-fly list!
America – desperate but not serious about its national security.
NormanF on December 9, 2015 at 6:08 pm