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White House: ‘No apparent’ ties between Colorado shooting and terrorism
Yahoo! News ^ | July 20, 2012 | Olivier Knox

Posted on 07/20/2012 9:03:09 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

The White House said Friday that it had no evidence of ties between the tragic mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and organized terrorism.

"This is a local law enforcement investigation at this point, and what we can say is that we do not believe at this point that there is an apparent nexus to terrorism," press secretary Jay Carney told reporters.

Obama, who was cutting short a campaign swing through Florida in response to the shooting, received his first briefing on the incident from Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan at 5:26 a.m. A few hours later, he heard from FBI Director Bob Mueller, White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew, and Brennan.

"The president was told that, at approximately 12:30 am mountain time, or 2:30 am eastern time, a male suspect entered a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and opened fire on people watching the Midnight premiere of the movie the Dark Knight Rises," said Carney.

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KEYWORDS: aurorashooting; jamesholmes; whitehouseaurora
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1 posted on 07/20/2012 9:03:14 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Uh, the act itself IS terrorism. This knee-jerk denial always cracks me up.


2 posted on 07/20/2012 9:06:08 AM PDT by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The White House is confirming that this is a convert


3 posted on 07/20/2012 9:07:00 AM PDT by scooby321 (h tones)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If Jay Carney says it, then I’ll take it as gospel. </sarc>


4 posted on 07/20/2012 9:07:30 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That could have been hussein’s son.


5 posted on 07/20/2012 9:08:59 AM PDT by sunny48
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To: Free ThinkerNY
...what we can say is that we do not believe at this point that there is an apparent nexus to terrorism...

Confirmation of earlier reports that said the shooter was Iranian. Remember, all Muslims are innocent after proven guilty.

6 posted on 07/20/2012 9:09:13 AM PDT by kidd
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Triple BS as usual


7 posted on 07/20/2012 9:09:17 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (Going mobile, posts will be brief. No spellcheck for the grammar nazis.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

When did the murdering b@$t@rd convert to Islam?


8 posted on 07/20/2012 9:09:43 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If the shooter were white, christian, conservative, constitutionalist, only THEN would he be a “terrorist”. Ask Janet.


9 posted on 07/20/2012 9:10:37 AM PDT by nonsporting
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This means the guy was a Moose Limb and they are in damage control mode.
10 posted on 07/20/2012 9:12:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The White House said Friday that it had no evidence of ties between the tragic mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and organized terrorism.

Note the keyword. Only an individual Muslim going Jihad on us; nothing to see here!

11 posted on 07/20/2012 9:13:11 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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Workplace violence, obviously. /s


12 posted on 07/20/2012 9:14:03 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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Do we know for sure yet, Barack, that these weapons are not tied to Fast & Furious?

He ought to keep his yap shut until we know more.


13 posted on 07/20/2012 9:14:10 AM PDT by bergmeid (Leftism kills babies and economies. Leftism is truly a DEAD END.)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

That’s what they said about the Ft. Hood shooting as well!!!!!


14 posted on 07/20/2012 9:15:06 AM PDT by Carbonsteel
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To: bergmeid

Obama said, “If you’re a shooter, you really didn’t shoot them, somebody else made that happen.”


15 posted on 07/20/2012 9:15:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
This statement that there are no ties to terrorism is a TOTAL relief to me!

For a minute there, I thought it might be tied to Tea Party extremist domestic terrorists.

16 posted on 07/20/2012 9:16:19 AM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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Obama, who was cutting short a campaign swing through Florida

One good thing - and stay out!

17 posted on 07/20/2012 9:18:41 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: kidd; rightwingintelligentsia

A White Iranian named James Holmes?

With a mother in San Diego who, as soon as she heard on tv of the shooting, said the police had the right guy if it was her son they had, and made arrangements to fly immediately to CO?

I don’t get it.

The WH says no evidence it’s terror related, and YOU conclude that proves he’s Iranian??

Beam me up.


18 posted on 07/20/2012 9:21:48 AM PDT by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR." - Glenn Beck)
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To: C210N
I thought it might be tied to Tea Party extremist domestic terrorists.

On Good Morning America, ABC News’ Brian Ross and George Stephanolpoulos suggested that the Tea Party might be connected to the mass shootings early this morning

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2908622/posts

19 posted on 07/20/2012 9:27:02 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The picture of the guy on the TV news shows a red-headed white male with a small mustache and a beard on his chin.

Could very well be a Muslim convert, with that beard—although that is purely speculative. Not a born Muslim, but there have been white American leftists who have converted.

We’ll need to hope for information from his acquaintances, because the authorities certainly won’t tell us if he’s Muslim or not. The media will do everything they can to pretend that he is a conservative, as they did with that left-wing Satanist in Tulsa.


20 posted on 07/20/2012 9:29:43 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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