Posted on 10/08/2014 3:26:07 PM PDT by jazusamo
War On Terror: Though they've given material assistance to terrorists by fighting for the Islamic State, which is a federal crime, the FBI director says American jihadis are "entitled" to come home and move about freely.
FBI Director James Comey told Scott Pelley on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday that we know who the dozen or so Americans fighting with the Islamic State are, but we can't do much more than follow them around if they decide to return to the U.S.
In the aftermath of 9/11, and in the face of IS atrocities and threats, this is an appalling statement.
"Ultimately, an American citizen, unless their passport's revoked, is entitled to come back," Comey said. "So someone who's fought with ISIL, with an American passport, who wants to come back, we will track them very carefully."
Presumably we will do a better job than we did with the Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed the Boston Marathon after Tamerlan Tsarnaev spent time in the terrorist-infested Russian republic of Dagestan.
It is not enough to track American jihadis whose passports should be revoked and who should upon their return be greeted with arrest warrants.
At a House hearing last week, Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., expressed his amazement that "we can revoke a United States passport if ... an individual owes arrears of child support in excess of $25," but the State Department won't commit to revoking the passports of Americans fighting with IS.
We are reminded of the case of Abdirahmaan Muhumed. Before he went to Syria to fight and die for the Islamic State, he worked at Delta Global Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines.
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That we are even having a discussion about this is truly absurd.
It truly is absurd.
We know who they are and they fought with terrorists but we have to wait until they commit a terrorist act here.
I’m not buying it.
The FBI can’t track one cop killer in the PA woods with 140 “special” Agents.....
If every decision made by this POTUS and his administration ends up harming the United States, over and over and over, how can we not eventually conclude that their vision of “fundamentally transforming” the USA means to sabotage, hobble, infect and castrate it? To reduce it to also-ran, third-world status, under a socialist dictatorship, Venezuela at best? IMHO, Obama is the greatest traitor mole in history. Philby, Walker, all of them are not even in his league or ball park. It’s as if Benedict Arnold kept his treason a secret, ran for president, and won.
How many short buses does it take to haul 140 “special” agents?
Question always been whether to arrest them right away or
keep watch to try expose others who may be involved
Delicate balance when to roll them up.....
I can’t disagree with anything you said.
We have badly overestimated the reach of the law; we have badly underestimated the desire of the people to engage in personal idolatry in the person of the POTUS, and we have badly underestimated the ability of the populace to discern the patterns you speak of; in other words, their intelligence. It will probably take 3-4 presidential terms to erase or otherwise correct the damage that has been done both to the country and to the presidency itself by this pathological liar, but there are still plenty of folks who think he’s just great.
I don’t think Comey is as competent as people have been led to believe.
When he came in as the new FBI Director, he made a really stupid comment that the FBI wasn’t going to do to anyone what they did to Martin Luther King Jr (probably referring to surveillance on him due to a heavy KGB/Communist Party USA presence among his key advisors, Levison and O’Dell).
Also, there were some moral issues about King’s behavior that came to the Bureau’s attention (you won’t find much on this topic in leftist articles or books).
If Comey doesn’t know what was involved in the King surveillance, then he is incompetent and should never have said what he did.
Now he wants to track terrorists coming back into the US. Good luck. It took the police 5 years to find abortion doctor killer Randolph, and the police killer Fren in Pennsylvania is still on the loose, as is the person who shot a police officer recently in Ferguson, MO.
The FBI was once a great organization. Today it has been politicized and PCed in part, so that it’s leadership is more like the Keystone Cops than the Hoover boys (who didn’t take any political shit from anyone).
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You’re absolutely right.
The FBI has become a political tool, especially under 0bama.
What in the world is Comey doing going on “60 Minutes” before the whole world and making announcements like this? It’s pathetic.
all they have to do is post who they are
They are fighting for an army which has killed Americans and declared war on the U.S.
They should be shot on sight or after their conviction for being traitors.
They’d arrest him if he had in his possession a 100-watt incandescent light bulb.
That’d work!
not arrest, KILL.
“but we can’t do much more than follow them around if they decide to return to the U.S.”
County sheriffs need to run these 50 IQ FBI apes out of town if they show up. They’re liberal tools. I had the displeasure of working with these brainless morons back in the 1990s when I was in local government. I can assure you that these FBI people are clueless clowns.
Not your daddy’s FBI.
Good luck with that.
Well past time to go virtual Galt.
Perhaps they should all be thrown under one large bus?
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