Posted on 12/15/2016 10:35:10 AM PST by jazusamo
Full title: Judicial Watch: U.S. Customs, Homeland Security Records Reveal Somalis Given Security Briefings, Community Engagement Tours in Secured Areas at Major U.S. Airports
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released 31 pages of records from U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealing that the Department of Homeland Security has given Somalis community engagement tours, including security briefings, in secured areas at least three major U.S. airports Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Columbus, Ohio.
The records came in response to a May 2016 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which sought records, documents and communications regarding a Community Engagement Tour in Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on February 18, 2016.
The briefings provided to the Somali groups were so sensitive that in 14 instances the agency redacted portions of the records under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption (B)(7)(e), the law-enforcement risk circumvention exemption, which reads:
Exemption 7(E) of the Freedom of Information Act affords protection to all law enforcement information that would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law.
In another instance, Customs and Border Protection exempted under (B)(7)(e) a portion of a February 16, 2016, Minute by Minute Agenda provided during a tour/briefing of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP). The material that was withheld from Judicial Watch as too law-enforcement sensitive but provided in full to the Somali group included a section entitled: TSA Overview Processing [Redacted]. The invitees were provided briefings of the Global Entry system, APC [Automated Passport Control] system, secondary screening procedures, baggage-screening procedures and given tours of the holding cells/interview rooms.
Notes from the February Minneapolis St. Paul Airport tour include: Current CBP and TSA job vacancies were discussed. Attendees responded with requests for DHS outreach efforts during Somali community events to further advertise these positions to interested individuals.
The newly released records also reveal:
Eight senior ranking Homeland Security and Customs officials were tasked with accompanying and briefing the Somalis on the February 18, 2016, Minneapolis Airport tour, including the Minneapolis Area Port Director, the Assistant Port Director, the Watch Commander, a Homeland Security Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Senior Policy Advisor (flown in from Washington), the TSA Federal Security Director and TSA Deputy Federal Security Director.
The documents show Customs officials reporting that one of the invited individuals had given CBP Chicago a hard time following the last tour and noted three of the invitees had had investigations against them, which had since been closed. Another invitee had an active investigation pending.
Logically, information that is too sensitive to provide to Judicial Watch and the public should not have been given to a community engagement tour, said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. The U.S. government has been aware for years that Minnesota is a hotbed of Somali terrorist-cell activity. The behind-the-scenes tours and security briefings of the Minneapolis airport very well could have created a threat to public safety.
In August 2016, the Judicial Watch blog, Corruption Chronicles, reported on the Muslim airport tour story: The Obama administration gave Somali Muslims behind-the-scenes tours at a major U.S. airport after the group complained to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson about feeling harassed and profiled, government records obtained by Judicial Watch reveal. The special security tours not offered to any other group occurred at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after Department of Homeland Security roundtable meetings with local Somali leaders to obtain feedback for modifications to practices that would allow for operations to be more culturally sensitive.
It’s NOT stupidity! It’s treason!
DHS is the problem.
It’s absolutely treason and intentional on his part, in my view.
Homeland Security has to go bye bye.
> information that is too sensitive to provide to Judicial Watch and the public should not have been given to a “community engagement” tour
You got that right. People need to go to jail.
That explains why the govt. bought up so much ammo a couple of years ago....its for Trump to have enough to shoot all the treasonous employees in our corrupt government.
treason
TREASON FILE BOOKMARK
Off the Wall Ping!
Contact to be added.
Thanks for the link.
how to stop it ? who knows.
hope Pres. Trump adioses all moose limbs from all departments.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
I’d imagine General Kelly has an entirely different interpretation of “Community Engagement Tour”. If fact, military is probably where this term arrived.
Amen to that!
Team 0dungsh*t and his puppet media's total avoidance of pinning the recent assault at Ohio State to Islamic terror or ISIS is more proof that the Muslim Brotherhood runs the show. Are they sitting at a table in that 'secret room' build BELOW the White House?
There is a REASON Trump has surrounded himself with GENERALS. Prayers for Trump!
Who are the persons who committed these CRIMES? Have them all arrested.
If you land in MSP you would swear you landed in Mogadishu. There is not one single benefit this nation has by importing these people. Somalia is not a violent cess pool because of the dirt. It is the people.
What is done to arriving molslems that has to be classified and redacted to keep it secret from U.S. citizens?
Is the TSA using the old "Underware over the head torture" trick on these people??!
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