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FBI Tried To Lure Orlando Shooter Into Terror Plot In 2013
Mint Press ^ | 20 June 2016 | teleSUR

Posted on 06/20/2016 2:46:29 PM PDT by Lorianne

A police officer in Florida has revealed that Omar Mateen was targeted by an FBI informant in a failed attempt to push him to commit a terror attack. ___

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to “lure” Orlando shooter Omar Mateen into committing a terror plot in 2013 through the planting of an informant in his life, revelations that raise serious questions about the FBI’s indirect role in shaping the recent Orlando terror attack through its entrapment policies.

In an exclusive interview published June 15, Sheriff Ken Mascara of Florida’s St. Lucie County told the Vero Beach Press Journal that the FBI dispatched an informant to “lure Omar into some kind of act” but he “did not bite.”

The plan, Mascara said, came after Mateen had threatened a courthouse deputy by saying he could order al-Qaida operatives to kill his family.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: dhs; fbi; fbisting; leeharveyoswald; mateen; mateenfbi; mateenisis; mateensting; oklabombing; orlandoterrorattack
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To: grania

Providing contract security probably only involves having a clean NCIC check. He wasn’t a convicted criminal so it came back clean.


41 posted on 06/20/2016 5:17:53 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: cgbg; Travis McGee
Don’t forget Lee Harvey Oswald. The FBI and CIA had very thick files on the guy—he probably was sent to Russia as a CIA undercover agent.

Here are the declassified documents:

Director McCone: he was working for us and these other alphabet agencies - but keep it quiet. March 1964

Hoover: while he's over there something else is going on as well, June 1960

42 posted on 06/20/2016 6:30:34 PM PDT by SGNA
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The FBI under obama found a nut and agitated him.
Blame Christians and guns afterward.


43 posted on 06/20/2016 9:47:30 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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