Posted on 06/14/2016 3:13:14 PM PDT by Thud
""Myers said the Orlando attack was a “catastrophic failure” for the FBI and showed its policies, procedures, and resources are inadequate to the mission of homeland security.“This has to change now or a new organization, mandated to defeat this domestic threat, must be organized and fielded,” he said.'"
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Put current Sheriff Joe Arpaio in charge of the F B I and let him go for it.
Get rid of gun free zones.
Get rid of the TSA.
Get rid of DHS.
While there are many possible reasons for the OPD SWAT action delay, IMO the most likely is that the Orlando Police Chief was afraid to make a decision.
Actually, I think this should be turned over to the TSA. It would give them a job to do.
Instead of Thousands Standing Around looking for bombs in our shoes, our belts and our computers, they could be sifting through the Muslims throughout the U.S. I don’t know how effective they would be since they would probably have to think.
Someone seems awfully eager to create a domestic police agency with no Constitutional limitations to its activities.
Well, another one, anyway.
“Guidelines for a stand-off like this are so cautious, that a lot more people die than necessary.”
Nothing like a “no-risk-allowed” bureaucratic mentality to screw up first responders.
Life is not risk free.
This is all in addition to the statutory obstacles involved in shifting those responsibilities to another agency. I don't think the issue is with the FBI, it's the DOJ guidelines and policies, and possibly manning that are driving the failures.
That is actually a good question. How many agents are being detailed into Christian identity groups, sovereign citizen types, etc., that won’t do anything if left alone?
Tell that to the SWAT guy who took a bullet to the center of his Kevlar. The mark on his forehead shows he was going head first into the threat.
Remember this?
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/268282-dhs-ordered-me-to-scrub-records-of-muslims-with-terror
Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused. His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material—the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away.......
As the number of successful and attempted Islamic terrorist attacks on America increased, the type of information that the Obama administration ordered removed from travel and national security databases was the kind of information that, if properly assessed, could have prevented subsequent domestic Islamist attacks like the ones committed by Faisal Shahzad (May 2010), Detroit “honor killing” perpetrator Rahim A. Alfetlawi (2011); Amine El Khalifi, who plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol (2012); Dzhokhar or Tamerlan Tsarnaev who conducted the Boston Marathon bombing (2013); Oklahoma beheading suspect Alton Nolen (2014); or Muhammed Yusuf Abdulazeez, who opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee (2015).
And look here for what the Obama Administration did to make it so much harder to connect the dots in the San Bernadine Global Jihad attack.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/263284-administration-nixed-probe-into-southern-california
“Tell that to the SWAT guy who took a bullet to the center of his Kevlar. The mark on his forehead shows he was going head first into the threat.”
Then why did they not allow any medical people in to treat the wounded? Can’t risk them? That’s nuts. That is what those people do and train for. And I don’t buy the “we were worried about bombs” crap. They knew that the likelihood of that was low. People died needlessly because they didn’t let anyone in and didn’t try to take anyone out, until a bureaucrat said it was “OK”.
That is what I am talking about, not some swat team.
DOD.
My biggest question is why you would negotiate for three hours with somebody that you know shot people. I think that specific fact should drive an immediate and violent response. No shooting and a pile of hostages is different. You may not be able to wait for a SWAT response.
2nd thought. First the decision will be made that the FBI loses a large part of its budget. What happens then will be determined by a turf fight between Congressional committees.
Where was the wife? The older brother? Who was the ‘random’ guy who held the back door shut with the gay guy?
Where is the older brother now?
By the way, it is refreshing to have a conversation rather than Cruzbot vs Trumper infighting from the last couple months.
...and the Torecelli rule barring intelligence agencies from working with people who’d committed major crimes.
You might want to consider how astronomically unlikely it is for such an agency to be created without arrest power. That stipulation is most assuredly not on the agenda of those who have been angling to create it.
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