Posted on 12/03/2015 6:33:33 PM PST by SE Mom
There was just a press conference in San Bernadino with local and federal officials.
It was originally scheduled hours earlier.
They were coming out with what "sources" had implied would be new information .
Instead, a few new crime scene photos were offered. Then the press was thanked for their patience.
In lieu of one new piece of information, an officer who was first on scene yesterday was asked to give his account of events. It was a compelling story, and worth hearing.
HOWEVER, it was not a press conference. Not one bit of information was given.
It appears this investigation has been told to stop informing the public. It seems someone(s) has given suggestions/orders.
Meanwhile, maybe in an effort to inform the public anyway, all kinds of stuff is coming out, but not officially. On background from "sources"...we're learning about servers being wiped, cell phones being smashed, etc.
WTH?
This press conf was unreal.
Did you see that?
Complete lack of info.
But keep in mind, they knew who this was within an hour or two and didn’t tell us. They knew it was terrorism and didn’t tell us.
So you expected them to tell us something now?
It doesn’t really matter. Americans purchased enough firearms on Black Friday to arm an entire new branch of the U.S. military. If there’s one thing we all know, it’s that our government is no more trustworthy than ISIS.
I’m surprised they didn’t come out and tell us that this was just a reaction to some horrible you tube video that the US government had nothing to do with.
It seems we need more than a few brave whistleblowers.
Well yeah, but I expect in the early hours for info to be witheld.
This ...this was different.
I started listening and wondered what the heck it was all about. Turned it off. It was not informative, but a testimony of what law enforcement experienced and how they felt. Weird.
I suspect Obama and his cohorts are scrubbing, erasing and covering up as best they can....so perhaps my imagination is as overactive as yours. Funny how this administration brings that out in people.
Bread and circuses - get the public distracted about the veteran cop with a desk job rushing to the scene, like a reality show episode.
Yes, it was “feelings” not information.
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Remote control car left at scene is Al Qaeda/ISIS signature per Catherine Herridge, Fox News.
I guess the chief will be getting an IRS audit letter dhortly.
Text from link above:
I sit here today and, for the first time in my life it seems…I’m speechless. And it’s not speechless because I have nothing to say. It’s because I have so, so much on my mind, I cannot find the right words to start with.
So let me try this.
I live in Californiaâ€â€San Fernando Valley to be exactâ€â€with my family. It’s about 60 miles West of San Bernardino, the scene of yesterday’s mass shooting where 14 people died people and 17 were wounded. Only 60 miles away. It’s not New York, not Texas, not Paris, not Lebanon, not London. It was on my doorstep. It was on the doorstep of millions of Californians who woke up thinking the exact same thing as I did as I dropped my son off at daycare. It was just another day. How wrong we were.
Something we take pride in here at Absolute Rights is to report the facts as and when we get them. If news breaks, we report it. If they are unconfirmed reports, we’ll say that and update as and when it’s confirmed (or not if the case may be). Yesterday, the media did a stellar job reporting the facts as active shooters unleashed terror, in Southern California. Such is the power of social media and the 24/7 news reporting this day and age, we sometimes get the story before the police get to the scene. This was apparent yesterday. It’s also thanks the power of social media where, deep in the bowels of the Internet, around 100,000 people were listening into the police scanner and reporting minute by minute updates.
Let me tell you what you may not know. We (the media) knew the shooters were Muslim from around 1pm. We knew Syed Farook was the main suspect. We knew that the international press named him and called the shootings a “terrorist attack.†We knew there was a woman involved by around 3pm. We knew that the authorities knew this too. We knew there were an unknown number of explosives at one or more locations. We also knew that this was, most likely, going to point towards a terrorist attack. We also knew that, if the media knew, then President Barack Obama knew this. So why, a day later, are we still skipping around calling it EXACTLY what this was? Why, a day later, are the authorities not taking all the evidence they have so far and admitting that this is a terrorist attack? Because make no mistake about it. They know what this was. They just won’t admit that the enemy is here and the war has begun.
We live in the greatest country in the world. The land of the free and home of the brave. A country where the most well-known law enforcement agencies in the world work tirelessly to protect the law abiding citizens. A nation filled with patriots who would, quite literally, die to protect their families, their homes and the soil they stand on. This is the United States of America. So can you tell me why our FBI, our police force and our government are looking like a bunch of inept fools just now? Can you please explain to me why not one of them seems to know ANYTHING about this coordinated attack by three heavily armed Muslims wearing body armor? Anyone? Let me help. It’s because they are not allowed. Why? Simple…President Barack Obama.
Our Commander In Chief will not tell the nation what we all know because this is his worst nightmare coming true. Everything he has done during his time in the White House has been fine tuned to suit his needs and agenda. By using the left leaning media, he’s managed to control what we read, what we see and what we hear. This is the man who, when Nidal Hasan murdered 13 people and injured more than 30 others at Fort Hood, Texas while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar‘ as he opened fire, called it “work place violence.†This is the man who has yet to attach the word “Islamic†to any jihadi terror attack. This is the man who wants to bring 20,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. even when his closest allies and White House confidants strongly advised him not to. This is the man who, only last week, told us there are no known threats to our nation and it’s citizens. This is the man who thinks our greatest threat is Climate Change. And this is the man who, even when all roads seem to point to a Jihadi Terror Attack where 14 American’s were cut down where they stood and now lie in a morgue, pushes gun control during a time when EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD BE ARMED to protect themselves and their family.
Our President. Barack Hussain Obama. The man who ripped our nation apart from the very foundations Americans spilled blood to build had his world rocked yesterday. This is the one situation when good Americans unite. This is when our patriotism shines. No matter what your color may be or what your political standing is, when our loved ones are put in danger from an enemy with deep hatred for everything we stand for, we stand tall. And when that enemy, who are so savage, so unforgiving and so brutal that they will die for their cause are integrated in our society and can strike at anytime, every one of us will want to use our 2nd Amendment rights to protect ourselves and our loved ones.
And if our president thinks he can take away our right to protect our families at the time when we need our guns the most, he will find out the power of We the People and his days in the Oval Office will be over!
I expect law enforcement to do their job.
That doesn’t necessarily include telling us what they’re doing. They must share details only if we need to know what is happening in order to take precaution.
Let them do their work.
At this point, our curiosity should take a back seat.
However, I did glance in afterwards, now and then, into CNN and they had an interview with one of the victim’s family. She was Christian Syrian. And another interview with a man who had been shot and some of the shrapnel was in places too dangerous to remove ( I think that is what he said). He was a cubicle mate of the shooter. This man said that if he had a gun in the bathroom where he was hiding with others, he would have used it to protect them.
Nothing to see here, folks. Just your ordinary, garden-variety treason by the Chief Imam.
Sounds like CNN is actually reporting some news without completely
catering to the lunatic in the WH.
Heads will roll.
I understand your point and I’m not even criticizing LE. It’s that this had been billed ahead of time as something very different, and in cases like this, it’s more than idle curiosity - the public does have a right to know about terrorism.
Maybe there’s a fear of liability for government there. According to news, Farook was employed by either a California County or by the State. Government-employed foreign terrorist. Wouldn’t that be something. But it appears that journalists have failed to make that connection.
I saw that and was shocked. I had to check to see if I was really watching CNN. This was not a live interview so that means the program director allowed this to air.
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