Of course it did, because the FBI is still institutionally committed to ignoring, downplaying, or denying the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism. Failing to investigate suspected jihadis is all part of the same willful ignorance. The bureau doesn’t want to appear “Islamophobic” by scrutinizing these people too closely; such scrutiny would abet the impression that there is something about Islam that incites some believers to violence, and the feds have already ruled out that possibility.
The Horowitz report won’t lead to the fixing of the problem, either. It makes scant mention of Islam and jihad, and makes no attempt whatsoever either to identify or explain the importance of the motivating ideology behind jihad terror attacks. The failure of the intelligence community to study and understand that ideology is what led to a great many of the procedural errors upon which the report does focus: agents in all too many cases simply didn’t know what to look for, or how to understand the significance of the information they did have. Unless and until this is corrected, these failures of oversight and procedure will continue, no matter what safeguards are put into place.
“FBI missed chances to stop domestic terror attacks because of lack of follow-up: DOJ watchdog,” by Jeff Mordock, Washington Times, March 4, 2020:
The FBI missed opportunities to stop domestic terrorists from killing Americans because they failed to conduct follow-up investigations of people identified as violent extremists, the Justice Department watchdog said in a scathing report released Wednesday.
At least six terrorists who carried out separate attacks killing 70 people had been on the FBI’s radar, but agents quickly closed the cases after concluding they were not national security threats, Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said in the report.
The lapses in the bureau’s assessments allowed perpetrators of some of the most deadly attacks in recent history to fall through the cracks. Among them were:
⦁ Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016.
⦁ Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who killed three people at the Boston Marathon in 2013.
⦁ Nidal Hasan, who massacred 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
⦁ Esteban Santiago, who killed five people in a 2017 attack at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
“The FBI has acknowledged that various weaknesses related to its assessment process may have impacted its ability to fully investigate certain counterterrorism assessment subjects, who later committed terrorist acts in the United States,” Mr. Horowitz wrote.
The inspector general’s report is the latest black eye for the bureau, which has been besieged by allegations of political taint and questions of competence.
“Anytime there is criticism, of course, it undermines the public faith in the bureau, and that can never be good because the FBI depends on the public trust,” said Lewis Schiliro, a former head of the FBI’s New York field office….
No kidding, really?
Walter Sieruk says
Since the FBI is still institutionally committed to ignoring, downplaying, or denying the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism is a clear the the FBI needs to throwaway the folly of politically correct philosophy and likewise have a reality check .
Which is that those brutal and deadly jihadists are actually putting in to the practice, with all their ruthless actions, the violence and killing that is part of the teaching of the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran. Which contain the doctrine of extreme violent force for the advancement of Islam. As seen in the Koran, for example, 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4.
Then and only then will the FBI be effective in the enforcement of the laws of this nation which are designed for the protection and safety of the American citizens
Walter Sieruk says
The man and women of the FBI are or should be intelligent enough not to let the many apologists and propagandists for Islam deceive or even influence them into embracing the error filled false idea that Islam is “religion of non-violence.”
Therefore people of the FBI should have a valid education and be aware that the many apologists for Islam is will endeavor to set up a smokescreen to hide the reality of the truth about the violence and deadly essence of Islam.
For example individuals of the FBI should see that the apologists for Islam making bogus claim that the al Qaeda operatives mass murderer on 9/11 were not real Muslims and that they were breaking the laws of the Qu ‘ran by their violence and deadly actions.” The apologists for Islam will further make the totally false claim that “Those terrorists on 9/11 were only criminals who hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam for Politics.” Those outrageously false claims are weak attempt of damage control for the image of Islam to the West. For the “holy book” of Islam the Qu ‘ran. For the Qu ‘ran instruct in Sura 9:111. Muslims who are engaging the jihad that “The believer’s fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain ,they kill and are killed “ That’s just what happened on September 11, 2001 the jihadists of al Qaeda “killed and were killed” in those 9/11 jihad attacks against both humankind and America. The Quran also teaches in Sura 9:123 to that jihad –minded Muslims behavior towards non-Muslims “let them find harshness in you…” Those Islamic attacks on 9/11 were indeed very “harsh.” As Sura 2:191 instructs “kill the disbeliever wherever you find them.” That’s a very strange kind of “peaceful religion” if there ever was one. Just to site one more out on many from the Qu ‘ran about the instruction of deadly violence is Sura 47:4. Which instructs “Whenever you encounter unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them …” Let’s face it, using jet planes a missiles as those jihadist/ Muslims did of September 11, sure made a greater “slaughter among them” then sword can.
The FBI should and needs to wake up the the facts of reality about the actual nature of Islam before it’s too late.
James Lincoln says
The Department of Homeland Security is not much better than the FBI.
In the following YouTube video, the late DHS Whistleblower Phil Haney exposed the Obama administration during a Press Conference.
He discussed how the terrorist attacks in both San Bernardino and Orlando could have been prevented.
Start watching it about the 17 minute mark, although I most highly recommend that all Jihad Watch readers watch the full video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ5B4RRicag
GreekEmpress says
I’m almost done with his book. Totally convinced it was NOT suicide now. People were telling him to watch his back years ago. He stated it in the book. I hope his next one is released.
topassistant says
Our USELESS law enforcement could not find their asses with both hands!
RonaldB says
Robert Spencer doesn’t mention that he himself came close to being a victim of FBI bungling/complicity at the 2015 Garland Draw Muhammad event. The FBI had an informant who was tracking, and probably encouraging, two Muslim assassins who drove to the event specifically to kill Spencer, Pamela Geller, and as many of the attendees as they could reach. As it turned out, the assassins were shot by an off-duty Garland policeman hired for security, very little thanks to the FBI.
The US government has been protecting Islam for a long time. President Bush touted Islam as a religion of peace right after 9/11. True to his principles, the Bush administration allowed a plane full of Saudi royalty implicated up to their eyeballs in 9/11 complicity to take off for Saudi Arabia. The Center for Security Policy has multiple papers and videos documenting Muslim Brotherhood penetration of the US government from the time of the Bush administration, probably before.
In 2011, the White House sent a directive that no materials holding Islam in a bad light shall be used in any training or resource material for security agencies. This immediately resulted in renowned experts such as Frank Gaffney, Stephen Coughlin, and Robert Spencer being blocked from presenting classes on Islamic doctrine and jihad to security or military personnel.
Fortunately, for any enterprising FBI, intelligence, military, or security agent, the material is available either free or at a nominal price either from Amazon or from the Center for Security Policy itself. The bigger problem, frankly, is the intertwining of the US government with foreign centers of financial and political power, and the high degree of in-group cohesion and identity politics by Muslims to which a representative political system like the US is highly vulnerable. In other words, the bungling probably originated not in the ignorance of the individual line agents, but the bureau chiefs in command who are necessarily susceptible to the political winds.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that grim reminder, Ronald.
TimothyS says
As of 2003, I was unaware of the political forces unfolding within the security intelligence agencies. It will always be harmful to “fight them over there so we don’t fight them here”, when you refuse to identify who and what you are fighting.
More particularly when “We’ll invite them here so we don’t have to fight them there.”
elee says
Missing Islam when looking for possible mass-violence perpetrators is like…….looking for coronavirus vectors and ignoring coughs and sneezes. Hey FBI did you learn this in your cultural sensitivity class with CAIR?
topassistant says
Doesn’t national security have a higher priority than something put out by the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL)?
gravenimage says
FBI missed chances to stop several jihad massacres in the US, failed to investigate suspected jihadis
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Just appalling to hear–but who can be surprised? I wonder how many other suspected Jihadists are being ignored right now?
Stephen O'mara says
The British police are far worse. They ignored mass sexual abuse against British girls for about 30 years. High ranking police men fully aware but politically dismissive of the situation, came and went but the rapes endured. When an Englishman Tommy Robinson tried to raise awareness the police and law made sure he was eventually jailed.
OLD GUY says
Our immigration laws are not helping with this problem. The more muslims and islamic people we allow into this country the harder it will become for our law enforcement organizations. The plan of the islamic jihadist is to take over through immigration. You don’t have to look far to find muslim/islamic individuals who either hold or are running for public offices throughout the U.S. and most will not defend the Constitution. Think twice before you vote for one of these candidates, you maybe electing the ENEMY to your freedoms.