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Orlando nightclub shooter's father, an FBI informant, brushed off son's terror comments, agent says
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Posted on 03/26/2018 11:41:20 PM PDT by TigerClaws

The Orlando nightclub shooter's dad – revealed to be an FBI informant – told authorities who were investigating Omar Mateen before the attack that pro-terror comments the would-be gunman made to coworkers were just examples of him “being stupid," an agent testified Monday.

FBI Special Agent Juvenal Martin, who was on the stand in the terrorism trial of Noor Salman, Omar Mateen’s wife, said Omar's father, Seddique, had called him while his son was being investigated for the comments in 2006, a decade before the Pulse attack, and was upset.

Martin testified Seddique told him something like “if he had done those things he was being stupid,” the Orlando Sentinel reported.

Martin said the FBI interviewed Omar two other times as part of that investigation, but eventually determined he wasn't a security threat. The bureau even considered turning Omar into a confidential informant himself, according to Martin's testimony. mateen_wife

Noor Salman and Omar Mateen. Salman is accused of obstructing justice and aiding and abetting Mateen's allegiance to ISIS.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fbi; mateen; orlando
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1 posted on 03/26/2018 11:41:21 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

well yeah, all potential and future terrorists are “being stupid” but that does not mean they must not be taken seriously. Besides, Islam is comprehensive stupidity.


2 posted on 03/26/2018 11:47:39 PM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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FBI Special Agent


3 posted on 03/26/2018 11:48:06 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Enchante

The school shooter kid was another major ball dropped.

F.B.I. too busy framing political opponents of the Clinton Crime Family to do their jobs.


4 posted on 03/26/2018 11:54:36 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

So, now, unlike the Garland, Tx incident where the agent encouraged the shooters, this FBI Agent blew off the information. They can’t get out of their own way. Time to put the FBI to bed. Spread the agents out to the other agencies and put it to bed. Hoover and his FBI had a nice run, time for it to go.


5 posted on 03/26/2018 11:59:41 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: TigerClaws

bttt


6 posted on 03/27/2018 12:00:59 AM PDT by timestax
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To: TigerClaws

YUP


7 posted on 03/27/2018 12:11:25 AM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: qaz123

In Garland the agent encouraged the shooters and followed them to the location where the shooting took place - doing nothing to stop them or warn anyone what was coming.

They really need to clean house and purge the FBI/DOJ/CIA/State Dept., etc. of the leftists that infested Deep State.


8 posted on 03/27/2018 12:12:51 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Why didn’t they just arrest him for lying. That seems to be their crime of choice these days.


9 posted on 03/27/2018 1:06:57 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More
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To: TigerClaws; pookie18
I blame Islamophobia at the FBI and the Obama aministration...


10 posted on 03/27/2018 1:21:45 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: TigerClaws
This clown was also featured prominently at a hillary clinton rally in Florida back in 2016. He had a center seat behind her so he was on camera and highly visible. One or more of the networks interviewed him in order to establish that he "just showed up" at the rally as a regular attendee as opposed to being someone who was invited by the HRC campaign.

I don't think just anyone can get a center seat behind the candidate at a rally unless they are strategically placed there by the organizers.

11 posted on 03/27/2018 1:30:50 AM PDT by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: TigerClaws

The FBI connected to another (seemingly unrelated) shooting???? WTF??? Coincidence?


12 posted on 03/27/2018 1:34:50 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: TigerClaws
They really need to clean house and purge the FBI/DOJ/CIA/State Dept., etc. of the leftists that infested Deep State.

I have a better idea. Lets expect and facilitate "they" to destroy the permanent deep state completely, along with all its eager minions, and without regard to who may artificially identify as left or right.

The FBI and CIA serve the interests of the permanent power structure almost exclusively, which usually means they act contrary to the interests of a free people.

The CIA gives us regime changes, overseas wars, drone strikes for cultivating new terrorists, assassinations of heads of state at home and abroad, Operation Gladio to stage false flag "communist" terrorism during the Cold War, Gladio "B" to stage and foment Islamic terrorism in the post-Cold War world, Operation Mockingbird for control of mass media, and cute little projects like MK Ultra.

The FBI is closely connected to virtually every major act of terror on US soil. Every time we seem to find out, after the fact, that the FBI had opportunity after opportunity to preempt some heinous act of terror, but never seems to close the deal. That is not "dropping the ball", it is evidence of guilt and culpability. The FBI is the fireman who prolifically commits arson so he can have job security and overtime pay. Except the motivations of the FBI are far, far darker than the motivations of a fireman arsonist. I could say more on that but I'll stop now.

13 posted on 03/27/2018 1:38:22 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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I remember back in the days when we were asking what is the use of the NSA surveillance if it does not stop anyone? Well turns out it manages the terror attacks! You know, presator-prey balance game management type


14 posted on 03/27/2018 1:46:44 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

Well, well. Just another “coincidence.” Nothing to see here, move along.


15 posted on 03/27/2018 1:47:28 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: TigerClaws

Did the FBI consider developing Omar Mateen as an informant?

http://www.foxnews.com/shows/ingraham-angle.html


16 posted on 03/27/2018 2:25:47 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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Comey says in the video below that it is not clear which terrorist group Mateen aspires to support. 6-13-16

http://www.foxnews.com/shows/ingraham-angle.html

TRANSCRIPT: News 13 producer talks about phone call with Mateen 6-12-16 (Updated 6-15-16)

http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2016/6/15/matt_gentili_transcript.html

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“It was at 2:45 when I had just received the phone call of someone claiming to be the Orlando shooter. I answered the phone as I always do, ‘News 13 this is Matt,’ and on the other end I heard, ‘Do you know about the shooting?’ and I said ‘Yup, I’m getting information — I’m receiving some calls right now’ and he cut me off and said, ‘I’m the shooter.’ I didn’t know what to say, it was alarming to say the least. He sounded really calm on the phone and he started saying that he did it for the Islamic State — he did it for ISIS, and then he started speaking in a foreign language which at the time, being in Orlando, I thought it was maybe Spanish. But he was speaking so fast I didn’t know what it was, and thinking back now it was most likely Arabic, that he was speaking. I said ‘Sir, sir can you please speak in English?’ and then he started saying ‘I did it for ISIS, I did it for the Islamic State’ again. I didn’t know what to say to him. I was just blown away, and I asked him ‘Who is this? Where are you?’ and he told me that’s none of my effing business. He wouldn’t tell me who he was, he wouldn’t tell me where he was, but he wanted me to know that he did this for ISIS, he did this shooting for the Islamic State.”


17 posted on 03/27/2018 2:44:29 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: TigerClaws

Direct link to Laura Ingraham clip from youtube:

Did the FBI consider developing Omar Mateen as an informant?
Fox News 3-26-18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9hBookZAM


18 posted on 03/27/2018 2:55:28 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: GraceG

Thanks, GraceG!


19 posted on 03/27/2018 3:35:21 AM PDT by pookie18
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To: sheikdetailfeather

There is a big difference between Arabic and Spanish, even when spoken fast. If only this producer would have known that difference, it would have helped determine whether the call was a prank or legitimate.


20 posted on 03/27/2018 3:36:08 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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