Posted on 03/08/2017 4:48:25 PM PST by Hadean
Federal lawmakers are investigating the possibility that senior Department of Justice officials interfered in a terrorism probe involving a refugee just prior to the November election in an effort to deny campaign momentum to Donald Trump, Fox News has learned.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has launched a formal inquiry into the Texas, case, in which a terror suspect’s pending arrest was allegedly spiked just over a week before the election. Trump had run on a tough-on-terror platform and had been critical of President Obama’s refugee policy.
“When [Joint Terrorism Task Force] and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of Texas sought to prosecute this refugee, the local law enforcement and prosecutors allegedly ‘met resistance’ from officials within the National Security Division’s Counter Terrorism section in Washington DC,” Committee chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a March 6 letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
" ... local law enforcement and prosecutors allegedly ‘met resistance’ from officials within the National Security Division’s Counter Terrorism section in Washington DC." - Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., in letter to DOJ
“The ‘resistance’ allegedly occurred a few weeks before the 2016 election, and local authorities believed the lack of progress in this case was handled inadequately,” Johnson wrote.
The suspect, an Iraqi man who had entered the U.S. under a false name, is now at large. His real name was not released.
Fox News has learned the JTTF confirmed through U.S. Special Forces who encountered the suspect during operations that he had participated in attacks against American troops as an insurgent.
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OMG. Is this true?
O.M.G.
Yep
Why is it no one is asking “How many Muslim Brotherhood operatives did Obama install at the National Security Division’s Counter Terrorism section in Washington DC” ???
Yeah, its hard to get our collective minds around the fact that every exec branch agency was on-call to do Obama’s bidding and assist Hillary. The rats soil and politicize everything.
Yeah....a Muslim terrorist cashing US govt paychecks.
Yawn........so what else is new?
Collusion with Russia?! That’s the unsubstantiated bushido that they’re beating to death? Depending how high this goes up, we may have Obama collusion with terrorism and obstructing justice!
They showing their expose of Sea World again, or something with celebrities and sex in it?
Especially now that Iraq has been removed from the 7 countries that President Trump had on the list
This doesn’t make sense to me. I think a terror attack just before the election would’ve HELPED Trump, not Hillary. Why would Zero’s administration do such a thing?
Well, let’s see some heads roll? Otherwise, “who cares, everyone does it, (insert dem talking points here).
Talk is nice, punitive action is what’s needed.
You can’t drain the swamp if you’re just going to stand by it and wag your finger at it.
And we would be foolish to believe this is an isolated case.
Everyone involved should serve time!
Words fail me.
What? He didn’t get through “extreme vetting”. He got through under Obama’s admin.
I noticed that there is an inconsistency in the time frames mentioned in the story and the headline too.
We’ll see what develops. Or maybe not. Hopefully this guy will run into his nightmare here.
Great. “Lawmakers probe” = lots of time, hot-wind and taxpayer $$ for a white-wash (SEE: Lerner, Cankles\IT guy, Holder)...
How ‘bout a independent council to get to the heart of Congress sitting on their hands while the obvious took place (IE: accomplices a/o doofus’).
I’m so glad to see how many dept. ‘raised a concern’, they re-plugged their heads into their anus. Not *ONE* person cared enough (for the JOB\Citizens\country) to do a a damn thing.
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Good pinging, whenifhow.
“Federal lawmakers are investigating the possibility that senior Department of Justice officials interfered in a terrorism probe involving a refugee just prior to the November election in an effort to deny campaign momentum to Donald Trump, Fox News has learned.”
If I were more active I would ask to be on your list.
And note — this is the same day when Jeff Sessions cleared out over 40 Obama-ites from the DOJ. Makes a person wonder about the timing.
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