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Glenn Greenwald: The FBI was right not to arrest Omar Mateen before the shooting
Washington Post ^ | June 17, 2016 | Glenn Greenwald

Posted on 06/17/2016 10:58:33 AM PDT by Zakeet

Citizens should not forfeit their rights if they haven't committed a crime.

The massacre at an Orlando LGBT club has predictably provoked the same reaction as past terror attacks: recriminations that authorities should have done more to stop it in advance, accompanied by demands for new police powers to prevent future ones. Blame-assigners immediately pointed to the FBI's investigation of the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen. "The FBI closed this file because the Obama administration treats radical Islamic threats as common crimes," GOP Sen. Lindsey O. Graham argued on Fox News. "If we kept the file open and we saw what he was up to, I think we could have stopped it." Others cited core fundamental rights, demanding they be eroded. "Due process is what's killing us right now," proclaimed Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin about the FBI's inability to act more aggressively against Mateen.

Ever since the Sept. 11 attack almost 15 years ago, every act of perceived terror, and even thwarted ones, have triggered identical responses.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; US: Florida; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; constitution; election2016; fbi; mateen; mateenfbi; newyork; orlando; orlandoterrorattack; terrorism; trump
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To: YogicCowboy

Pretty much anything not Japanese is banned in Japan. They know how to protect their culture and the sanity of it. Whatever sanity it has, anyway.


101 posted on 06/17/2016 2:51:18 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Zakeet

Being Muslim is a criminal act


102 posted on 06/17/2016 3:09:53 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: WENDLE

We have idiots like Gifford’s husband and Petraeus trying to push gun policy. The Gen really never saw combat as he was West Point class of 74. He was a new 2LT in 74. He was a BN or BDE CO the first time he was in a combat zone. LTC’s and above are not supposed to be awarded CIB’s.


103 posted on 06/17/2016 3:17:01 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: IChing

Defending your father, FDR, is no conservative view. The interment of Americans for being of Japanese descent and the blatant stealing of their property was completely outside of the Constitution, and was one of our nation’s darkest decisions.

There is a big difference between racism and the righteous decision to not allow immigrants who espouse the violent overthrow of all secular government. It is not about race or religion.


104 posted on 06/17/2016 3:18:29 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (If those who defend our freedom do not know liberty, none of us will have either.)
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To: Lumper20

He is a convicted criminal. He can’t own a gun.


105 posted on 06/17/2016 3:49:26 PM PDT by WENDLE (Ban Wahhabi sect Sunnis here not our GUNS!!)
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To: WENDLE

Heh heh. If they announced that criminals can’t own guns, then the liberals would all start crying, “That’s Racist!”


106 posted on 06/17/2016 3:50:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: WENDLE
He is a convicted criminal. He can’t own a gun.

Wrong, he plead to a misdemeanor. He can one firearms.

107 posted on 06/17/2016 3:59:01 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: WENDLE

True. Actually it appears I am wrong about the CIB and LTC’s and even Colonel O-6. I was going by my old unit in RVN as my CO an LTC never got his star for his CIB, while our XO, a Major, got his CIB second award for a sapper attack.


108 posted on 06/17/2016 4:02:11 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Lumper20

LMAO. BTW did you know that “LGBT”, to us, means Liquor,Guns and Big Tit$?


109 posted on 06/17/2016 4:22:23 PM PDT by WENDLE (Ban Wahhabi sect Sunnis here not our GUNS!!)
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To: antidisestablishment

You’re completely ignoring the fact that our nation’s founders and protectors, up until the apocalyptic 1965 third-world immigration inversion bill, were white nationalists, and said so in word and deed:

http://www.npiamerica.org/research/category/what-the-founders-really-thought-about-race

Modern cuckservatives like yourself are brainwashed, and actively brainwash subsequent generations, in an Orwellian warping of history to deny what our founders believed, said, wrote, built, and practiced, but facts are facts.


110 posted on 06/17/2016 5:57:44 PM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: antidisestablishment

It was wartime, and warranted. Now we have endless attacks and plots, yet you pantywaists whine about us eeeeeeviiiilllll raaaaaaaaayyyyyciissssssttssss who want to put the lives of those like little 8-year-old Martin Richard before the lives and liberties of naturalized Mohammedans at the Boston Marathon finish line. You disgust me.


111 posted on 06/17/2016 6:01:58 PM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: antidisestablishment

People like you actually go around preaching that America won’t be irreparably transformed when whites are a dwindling minority!

https://goo.gl/images/873G


112 posted on 06/17/2016 6:05:30 PM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: antidisestablishment

And I know blacks, hispanics, and native Americans who agree with me — they recognize that when white men started abandoning the priorities that their ancestors held, the country started this slide into the third-world cesspit that their own genotypes perpetuate!


113 posted on 06/17/2016 6:14:55 PM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: antidisestablishment

our ancestors, that is


114 posted on 06/17/2016 6:16:00 PM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: antidisestablishment

And in the case of Islam, it is race and a martial religion intertwined in a genocidal totalitarian barbaric impulse to terrorize and conquer, and you know it.


115 posted on 06/17/2016 6:25:05 PM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: Zakeet

Turns out that the FBI made a bad call on this one. I hope they have a rating system for those on their watch list, but even if they do, this guy obviously should have been near the top of the list.

If they have a rating system, and he wasn’t near the top, then their system needs to be fixed.


116 posted on 06/17/2016 6:26:39 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: IChing
Tell your lies to the Nisei veterans. I suppose you view their service as a great propaganda campaign.

My best friend growing up in California was a third-generation American. His parents' family was interred and had their land confiscated and given to Democrat cronies. How you reconcile your hatred of other races is your own business, but I'll reserve my disgust for those who are opposed to American ideals--Democrat politicians and racists. Sorry to be redundant.

117 posted on 06/17/2016 6:43:20 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (If those who defend our freedom do not know liberty, none of us will have either.)
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To: antidisestablishment

The Issei and Nisei had it pretty good in the facilities, bowling alleys, movie theaters, etc. Give me an alive Martin Richard over some Mohamnedan keeping his mansion. Put the Mohammedan in a camp until deportation, take his property, I DON’T CARE. The bodies continue to pile up and I have to tell my wife and little son to avoid crowded places here in the D.C. area, while you wring your hands over some Mohammedan’s Mercedes.


118 posted on 06/17/2016 7:06:58 PM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: antidisestablishment

You and your cucked ilk always say you revere the founders as eminently wise, yet when someone shows you what they actually believed, said, wrote, built, and practiced, you stick your head in a dark place and refuse to acknowledge it.


119 posted on 06/17/2016 7:10:20 PM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: IChing

Islam is evil, and the illegal immigration promoted by Obama should be stopped, but your ranting only advances the left’s narrative of conservative racism.

The founders were wise, not perfect. They warred, but didn’t spend their life in hate. I’ll not either.

God bless your family. May your children grow in wisdom and stature.


120 posted on 06/17/2016 8:01:52 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (If those who defend our freedom do not know liberty, none of us will have either.)
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