By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--December 14, 2015
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The FBI is said to be frightened of crossing the White House's party line while they attempt to investigate the San Bernardino shootings. After 9/11, and the more recent attacks in Paris, law enforcement officials served warrants, investigated known associates, and did what they needed to do to gather evidence and make arrests. Now, the FBI is afraid of investigating the mosque Farook attended, as Obama's priority seems to be avoiding anti-Muslim backlash. All Director Comey can do is plead with the White House to allow his agents to properly investigate the crime.Obama has also said there is no intelligence showing that Farook and Malik received guidance or money from terrorist groups abroad. This reportedly contradicts the findings of the Department of Defense and Special Operations Command's Threat Finance Agency which "has concluded that Malik and Farook most likely received funding from terrorists abroad ... [and] has issued alerts to the appropriate banking institutions to flag financial transitions from specific banks accounts." Presumably, Obama is lying and downplaying the couple's terrorist connections so he can avoid ramping up anti-Islamic State efforts in the Middle East. To recap what transpired on Dec. 2, the attackers in San Bernardino were killed hours after the assault in a shootout with police. Just before the attack, Malik reportedly used social media to pledge her allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Farook is thought to have previously made contact with several Muslim terrorist organizations. Days after the attack, Islamic State's official radio station praised the duo and described them as "supporters" of the group. When their rented townhouse in Redlands was searched, authorities found thousands of rounds of ammunition and a dozen pipe bombs. It was the "75th Islamist-inspired terrorist attack or plot in the U.S." since Sept. 11, 2001, according to the Heritage Foundation. On the day of the attack, Obama and his allies at the terrorist-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) were on the same page. Both put significant resources into misinformation efforts aimed at exonerating Islam and its followers. While the bodies of those sacrificed for jihad were still warm, CAIR began putting out word before much was known about the attack that Islam had absolutely nothing to do with it. They were joined by logorrheic pundits on TV who spent the afternoon that day speculating at length about the shooters, predictably blaming conservatives, Tea Party supporters, and militia groups. As soon as Farook was publicly identified as a suspect, CAIR set up a presser for that evening. "We don't know the motive," said Hussam Ayloush, the incurious executive director of CAIR's Los Angeles branch. "Is it work, rage-related? Is it mental illness? Is it extreme ideology? At this point it's really unknown to us and it is too soon for us to speculate." Of course, there will never be enough evidence to convince CAIR or Political Islam's legions of useful idiots that America has an ongoing problem with Muslim terrorists that is growing more serious every day.
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Matthew Vadum, matthewvadum.blogspot.com, is an investigative reporter.
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