FBI Investigation of Mateen Actually Seems Pretty Intensive

[alcibiades_mystery]

From the just released NY Time article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/us/politics/orlando-shooting-omar-mateen.html

He came to the F.B.I’s attention in 2013, when some of his co-workers reported that he had made inflammatory comments claiming connections to overseas terrorists, and saying he hoped that the F.B.I would raid his family’s home so that he could become a martyr.

The F.B.I opened an investigation and put Mr. Mateen on a terrorist watch list for nearly a year.

James Comey, the F.B.I. director, said during a news conference on Monday that agents used various methods to investigate Mr. Mateen, including sending an undercover informant who made contact with the suspect, wiretapping his conversations and scrutinizing his personal and financial records.

They also sought help from Saudi intelligence officials to learn more about his trips to the kingdom in 2011 and 2012 for the Umrah, a sacred pilgrimage to Mecca made by Muslims. More than 11,000 Americans make pilgrimages to Mecca each year, and Mr. Comey said the F.B.I found no “derogatory” information about his trips.

[clarice]

1. No replies to this......very interesting.... I wonder why?nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Yes, interesting

Sometimes shit just goes sideways and there really isn't anyone to vent outrage upon but the perpetrator, I guess...?

Surprising, though, for sure.

[clarice]

3. Don't feel bad.... I once posted an article in the Feminism forum...

about the abuse of Women in the Middle East. If I remember correctly...it had hundreds of views
but not one single reply. hmmmmmmmmmmm

[reign88]

10. It's funny you mentioned that

I'm new and I did the same recently, lots of views and one reply. I just wrote it off, but I guess it's a thing?

[clarice]

11. It IS a thing...good luck figuring it out. nt

[cwydro]

4. Because it doesn't fit the current DU narrative, I would imagine.

DU has decided he was a closeted gay and religion had NOTHING to do with it.

Smh.

[clarice]

5. I have tried and tried and tried to find the answer to the alibiing

that goes on here about this very subject. If you have any answers...please feel free to DU mail me.
Whatever you say will be held in the strictest of confidence.

[bighart]

6. I think it is the alibiiing and deflecting are motivated by one thing:

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The right hate Islam and Muslims so therefore............

[clarice]

7. You know..it's funny... that thought occurred to me as well... but..

my reasoning went something like this.....

I hate the Bushes
The Bushes hated/fought the Middle Easterners ....thus..
I like the Middle Easterners.

[bighart]

8. I really don't know any other way to explain it.

The hatred of gays, the oppression of women, the forced religion under threat of death all being minimized and explained away as "cultural" and "tribal" by progressives just baffles my mind.

[clarice]

9. And God forbid that you bring it up. The thought police will be on you in a second.nt