I understand your point, and do not support giving law enforcement vast new powers for star-chamber investigations. But I am not convinced by Greenwald’s claim that the FBI handled this properly.
Greenwald writes that co-workers informed the FBI that Mateen openly proclaimed association with Al Qaeda and Hezbollah. So while investigating Mateen for connections to specific terrorists, the FBI is told that Mateen himself claimed to be associated with major terrorist organizations, yet they chose to close the case for lack of probable cause?
Could daddy’s involvement with the White House as a potential Taliban go-between had anything to do with closing the case? I would certainly like to see an inquiry into all communications between the DoJ/FBI/White House related to Mateen.
I would like to see all sorts of things happen with this government.
None of them will.