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The FBI investigated the Orlando mass shooter for 10 months — and found nothing. Here's why
The Los Angeles Times ^ | July 14, 2016 3:00 A.M. PST | Del Quentin Wilber

Posted on 07/14/2016 12:20:56 PM PDT by keat

The veteran FBI agent and a local sheriff’s deputy took no chances when they got a credible tip about a potential terrorist.

In a joint operation, they ran his name through a maze of federal criminal and terrorism databases and scrutinized his telephone records for suspicious contacts.

Without a warrant, they couldn’t read his emails or listen to his calls. But they watched him from unmarked vehicles to track his daily routine and to see whom he met.

They deployed two confidential informants more than a dozen times to secretly record his conversations. They interviewed him twice and convinced him to provide a written statement — in which he admitted he previously had lied to agents.

In the end, after a counter-terrorism investigation that stretched from May 2013 to March 2014, the agent and his supervisor concluded that Omar Mateen was not a threat and closed the case.

Just over two years later, on June 12, the 29-year-old security guard strode into a packed gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., and massacred 49 people and wounded dozens more in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. He pledged allegiance to Islamic State before he was killed by police.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2013; 201305; 2014; 201403; 201606; 20160612; 20160613; fbi; fbimateen; gwot; jttf; mateen; mullr; omarmateen; orlando; pulsenightclub; robertmueller
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“They interviewed him twice and convinced him to provide a written statement — in which he admitted he previously had lied to agents.”

They bankrupted General Flynn for this. Martha Stewart did time in a Federal prison for it. And they let this guy walk? That’s criminal malfeasance.

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41 posted on 06/12/2019 7:07:33 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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