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On Facebook, just before the attack.

Female half San Bernardino attack team pledged allegiance to ISIS, per FBI



This is not something just bouncing around the Internet or social media. It apparently comes directly from the FBI:
The woman who helped her husband kill 14 people at a holiday banquet for his county co-workers pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader on Facebook using an alias, then deleted the messages before the attack, a U.S. law enforcement official said Friday, providing the strongest evidence to date that the rampage may have been a terrorist attack. The remarkable disclosure about the online activities of Tashfeen Malik provided the first significant details suggesting a motive for her participation with her husband, Syed Farook, in the shooting. Malik was a Pakistani woman who came to the U.S. in 2014 on a fiancee visa before Farook married her in California. They had a 6-month-old daughter. Malik’s alias on Facebook and specifics about her postings were not publicly disclosed by the law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not allowed to discuss an ongoing investigation. Another U.S. official said Malik expressed “admiration” for the extremist group’s leader on Facebook under the alias account and said there was no sign that anyone affiliated with the Islamic State group communicated back to her and no signs of any operational instructions being conveyed to her. This official also spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not authorized to discuss case details by name.

I should add this caution: This is one of the AP's notorious uses of an anonymous source who is not authorized to be saying what he's saying and that means you're left to trust the veracity of the AP. No one should do that. But this does comport to other indications we're hearing about the radicalization of these two, so with the caution about the source we're telling you about it. A lot of things about this still don't quite fit the usual terror attack narrative, especially the fact that the attackers were well known by the victims. One report even said they'd been given a baby shower some months back by the very people they ultimately killed. Then there is the report that the Farook and Malik had passed the Department of Homeland Security's vetting process - the very same process they tell us we can trust to keep terrorists from slipping in among Syrian refugees. Oh, by the way, now that it's becoming clearer by the day that these were Islamic terrorists, have you noticed we haven't heard a lot from Democrats about how we have to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees as soon as possible? Funny how that works. So what's the way forward here? During the Bush-Cheney years, increase NSA surveillance was used to keep an eye on suspected terrorists. These days that's out of fashion, and as Rob told you yesterday, neighbors who see something amiss are afraid to speak up for fear that they'll be accused of racism or racial profiling. I'd say it's time for a new president who's ready to once again take seriously the threat of terrorism, and admit that it doesn't mainly come from Christian conservatives. I'm not sure the nation's ready for that, but it's what the nation needs.

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