FRANK GAFFNEY JR.: FREE THE F.B.I. TO DO THEIR JOB
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On April 15, 2013 at 2:49 pm, three people were killed and 264 were wounded at the Boston Marathon in one of the worst terrorist attacks since 9/11. The alleged terrorists were the two Tsarnaev brothers, jihadists – Islamic Chechen terrorists.
The pain and suffering of these victims and their families is just beginning. Our hearts go out to them.
But this act of terrorism could have been prevented, if the FBI and other government investigators had been permitted to do their jobs and catch the two terrorists before they set off their bombs.
The FBI leadership’s problem with “political correctness” and their willful blindness to the threat of Islamic jihad is a problem for all Americans. We don’t know how many other investigations have been shut down by the Obama administration’s policies that limit what law enforcement professionals are permitted to see, to say and to think.
Patriotic, hard-working investigators in the FBI and across the government have been shackled for years when it comes to radical Islam. The Obama administration has even forbidden FBI and other counterterrorism professionals from using fact-based terms to describe the threat of terrorism. They can’t use terms like “jihad” or “Islamic terrorism.”
And it gets worse.
Obama-appointed officials are reaching out to “experts” affiliated with groups linked to the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, to pre-approve any training materials for law enforcement and the military.
In 2011, the Obama administration actually purged FBI training materials of information that warns of the connection between the Tsarnaevs’ kind of “religious fervor” and terrifying acts of jihad.
That same year, something went seriously wrong when, on a tip from Russian counter-terrorism experts, the FBI interviewed Boston Marathon terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a man who had declared his willingness to die for Islam. The FBI filed a report that they found nothing wrong and in June 2011, they closed the case. The investigators were not permitted to stop him.
In January 2012, Tamerlan Tsarnaev left to visit Russia. But the FBI had closed the case in 2011, so when other agencies were alerted that he was leaving the country, they were not permitted to stop him.
Half a year later, in July 2012, Tamerlan Tsarnaev came back from Russia having spent months attending a known radical mosque and possibly receiving additional training. But when other agencies were alerted yet again, they were still not permitted to stop him. The case had been closed.
Only a month later – August 2012 – Tamerlan’s youtube video account included a playlist celebrating “Terrorists.” But because the case was closed, no one was watching – other than his fellow jihadists.
Finally in April 2013, the FBI and law enforcement were allowed to pay attention – after Tamerlan and his younger brother had killed, maimed and wounded hundreds of people.
But the FBI still isn’t being allowed to do their job. After the older brother was killed, the FBI had 48 hours to interrogate the surviving younger jihadist without giving him “Miranda rights” – including his right to stop speaking to them. Only 16 hours into that interrogation, Obama’s justice department read the admitted terrorist his rights and stopped the interrogation – and he stopped talking.
This just isn’t right.
Our FBI needs to be free to do their job, within the law – but without this constant political interference from the Obama administration’s dangerously misguided leadership.
This is a formula for permitting many more jihadist attacks in America. This last week and a half has shown us that there is no time to stall. We need your support to tell President Obama: change the policies on training and procedures, and free the FBI to investigate and stop jihad in America today!
We urge you to speak up and visit www.FreetheFBI.com to sign a letter to Obama now.
And we need your support to provide training for the FBI and law enforcement – serious, fact-based training that addresses the very real jihadist terrorist threat. We urgently need your help to protect America.
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is President of the Center for Security Policy and a columnist for the Washington Times.
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