Posted on 03/26/2018 6:54:16 PM PDT by jazusamo
EXCLUSIVE – After he escaped from Al Qaeda in Syria, American photojournalist Matt Schrier investigated his own kidnapping and uncovered what he describes as a pattern of "betrayal" by FBI agents handling his case.
Schrier is now asking hard questions of former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who now leads the special counsel Russia probe, and former FBI Director James Comey who was fired by President Trump in May 2017.
"Not every FBI agent is bad. Some are very good people," Schrier told Fox News. "But the ones that are bad need to be weeded out. And the ones who let them be bad, and who turn their head, need to be exposed."
In an exclusive cable interview that first aired Monday on "The Story" with Martha MacCallum, Schrier went in depth, sharing emails, financial records and formal letters of complaint, which backed up allegations that after he was taken hostage in 2012, the FBI monitored his accounts as Al Qaeda terrorists used his money to buy at least a dozen computers and tablets.
While he was tortured and held by al Nusra, the brutal Al Qaeda franchise in Syria, Schrier claimed the FBI put intelligence gathering ahead of his personal security, hoping to track the computers and tablets to learn more about Al Qaeda recruits and future plots. After his harrowing escape, Schrier started demanding answers from the FBI, which at the time of his kidnapping was led by Mueller.
Since his return to the U.S. in mid-2013, Schrier shared documents with Fox News and expalined, "I faxed-- I emailed them, probably between my mother and my father and me, between 50 and 100 complaints."
Comey took over from Mueller in September 2013,...
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effing FBI
The jihadists tortured him and goy him to tell them his accounts and passwords. The FBI was monitoring all this financial activity and concluded he was taken hostage because orders were for multiple laptops and smart phones to be delivered in the Middle East. They did nothing to rescue him because the information from purchases was more valuable. They left him to be killed.
Where did he get the idea that the FBI has his interests at heart? Quaint.
Where did he get the idea that the FBI has his interests at heart? Quaint.
No doubt about it.
His story is horrible, but he was not wise, going to Syria to “experience history” (or however he put it.)
If the good ones stay mum and do nothing, permitting the bad ones to run the show, it really doesn’t MATTER that there ARE good ones, ya know.
DOES NOT MATTER.
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I agree with you. Screw Mueller and Comey, but a “photojournalist” who travels to a war zone in some Islamic sh!t-hole has no business expecting anyone to come rescue him.
FBI as it stands is totally out of control. I always thought they were the truth, justice and American way kind of guys and gals. What exactly do they stand for now when they are trying to take down a President and have their hands in so many dirty events in America?
But wait a minute. I thought torture was wrong?
Mueller has been on our enemies’ side since before 9/11.
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The reason nothing was done is because these jihadis were being funded by CIA or Pentagon or McCrazy or Mossad
Nat.Geo. story of the imprisonment and escape.
https://www.fox.com/watch/275b97decbef896bda2130873eeb43fb/
From reading the article, it seems that he is most upset over the havoc this experience created in his life. The jahadis stole his identity and no one in the FBI has stood to help him. They (FBI) suggested he stay in a homeless shelter because he had no ID, couldn’t sign a lease.
He never mentions bad feelings about not being rescued. His beef is what happened to him after he got home. A very valid beef, from what I read.
Al Qaeda is our ally in Syria and they spread the propaganda against the Syrian government and its allies like Russia involving chemical weapons and such.
Al Qaeda’s propaganda is routinely repeated by top government officials like UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.
I’m not surprised by this man’s experience after being kidnapped by the jihadists.
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