How do you stop a mass shooting before it starts? Here’s an idea:
How about if FBI agents actually investigate when threat after threat is called into your tipline?
I’ve written previously about numerous warning signs about Nikolas Cruz were ignored before he shot up Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day. The FBI was well aware of Cruz and his potential to become violent before the horrific event in which 17 people lost their lives ever occurred.
But, hey, let’s blame the NRA, right?
The first report about Cruz’s potential to become a school shooter came last September, a couple of months before his mother died of the flu.
The worst thing of all, though, is that the FBI received more than one credible tip about Nikolas Cruz’s potential to be a school shooter.
The first one was in September when he made the following statement on Ben Bennight’s YouTube channel.
“Im [sic] going to be a professional school shooter.”
He signed it with his real name.
Bennight tried to email the FBI’s tip line and when his email bounced, he called the local field office. He reported the comment and two FBI agents took his statement. The FBI said:
“In September 2017, the FBI received information about a comment made on a YouTube channel. The comment said, ‘I’m going to be a professional school shooter.’ No other information was included in the comment which would indicate a particular time, location, or the true identity of the person who posted the comment,” said a statement released by Jackson, Miss., FBI field office spokesman Brett Car. “The FBI conducted database reviews and other checks, but was unable to further identify the person who posted the comment.” (source)
Bennight did everything he could to help the FBI. (Here’s the video he posted about it.)
Here’s the comment that Cruz had left on Bennight’s YouTube channel.
While the FBI questioned Bennight, they never contacted Google, who owns YouTube and could have given them the IP address to assist them in finding the commenter (who used his own name).
And it gets worse.
There was another warning that was completely ignored by the FBI.
On January 5th, a month before the shooting, an extremely credible threat was phoned into the FBI’s tipline. You can see the transcript below, and I’ve highlighted some particularly chilling segments.
You can download the FBI transcript HERE. (I always like to save things like this to my own server, since they have a way of vanishing.)
So, what happened after this alarming phone call?
Nothing.
And the FBI admitted it in an official statement
On January 5, 2018, a person close to Nikolas Cruz contacted the FBI’s Public Access Line (PAL) tipline to report concerns about him. The caller provided information about Cruz’s gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting.
Under established protocols, the information provided by the caller should have been assessed as a potential threat to life. The information then should have been forwarded to the FBI Miami Field Office, where appropriate investigative steps would have been taken.
We have determined that these protocols were not followed for the information received by the PAL on January 5. The information was not provided to the Miami Field Office, and no further investigation was conducted at that time. (source)
Wow, I sure am glad we have the FBI to “protect” us.
These epic failures could have stopped 17 murders and infinite trauma had the FBI just done their jobs.
And I’m not through. Tomorrow, I’ll crucify the Coward County Sheriff and his deputies who did nothing while people were being murdered by an untrained 19-year-old.
US President Donald Trump speaks during his address to the nation from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, on August 21, 2017. Trump warned Monday that a hasty exit from Afghanistan would create a “vacuum” that would benefit America’s jihadist foes, in a major policy address on his strategy in the 16-year conflict. / AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
The Times long ago destroyed its credibility – suppressing hard truths on vital issues, substituting willful disinformation.
The self-styled newspaper of record is part of a cabal trying to oust Trump from office for the wrong reasons – a coup d’etat plot to remove a sitting president for defeating Hillary, a media darling, guilty of wrongdoing throughout her public life.
The Times went all-out to denigrate the Russiagate FISA memo, exposing high-level FBI and DOJ wrongdoing, wanting its contents suppressed.
A previous article explained that the FBI and DOJ sought multiple FISA warrants based on unverified information from former MI6 spy Christopher Steele’s dodgy dossier on Trump – his work funded by Hillary and the DNC to denigrate him during the 2016 presidential campaign, continuing once in office.
It attempted to smear him with specious, unproven allegations of improper or illegal connections to Russia – including phony accusations of Russian US election meddling.
Former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe admitted in testimony that without the Steele dossier, he couldn’t have gotten FISA court warrants.
America’s DOJ, FBI and intelligence community have a well-documented history of abuse of power – notably against Jack and Bobby Kennedy, along with Martin Luther King, eliminated to silence them and end their influence over US policymaking.
Russiagate investigations are a scam. House and Senate investigations are vitally needed to expose abusive practices by the above agencies.
The NYT lobbied against release of the FISA memo. Following its release, it continued its campaign against important information it revealed, publishing multiple articles and commentaries.
A Sunday one headlined “Trump’s Unparalleled War on a Pillar of Society: Law Enforcement,” saying:
“Under attack by the president, the deputy FBI director, Andrew G. McCabe, was pushed out in recent days. Mr. Trump has hinted that he may fire the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein.”
“And his aides fear that Christopher A. Wray, his FBI director, may resign over the dispute with the bureau, although associates doubt it.”
“The war between the president and the nation’s law enforcement apparatus is unlike anything America has seen in modern times.”
Fact: McCabe, Comey, and Rosenstein sought FISA warrants to investigate Trump’s team based on fabricated allegations.
Fact: Trump sacked Comey earlier. McCabe resigned to avoid sacking for wrongdoing. Rosenstein should be sacked.
Fact: All three and others involved at the FBI and DOJ should be prosecuted for wrongdoing, establishing a precedent to hold high-level US officials accountable for their crimes.
A Times commentary headlined “The Memo Doesn’t Vindicate Trump. It’s More Proof of Obstruction,” saying:
Trump “said…the memo’s release…’vindicates’ him in the probe,” including for “obstruction. (I)t does no such thing.”
Fact: Trump is guilty of serious wrongdoing, major war crimes especially. No evidence suggests he obstructed justice. Claims otherwise by the Times, other media scoundrels and undemocratic Dems are phony.
Another Times commentary headlined “The Nunes Memo Is All Smoke, No Fire,” saying the memo “does not establish an ‘abuse of the foreign intelligence laws.”
Probable cause is required to get FISA warrants, wrongdoing committed if the DOJ and FBI “intentionally or willfully omit(ted) important information that could defeat the probable cause finding.”
“(T)he memo doesn’t make its case. It should prompt more confusion than outrage,” the Times falsely claimed.
Fact: Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele’s dodgy dossier was funded by Hillary and the DNC to denigrate Trump and help defeat him in the 2016 election.
Fact: As explained above, McCabe admitted that without Steele’s dossier, he couldn’t have gotten FISA warrants – several because they expire in 90 days.
Fact: Steele failed trying to get his dossier published, getting no takers. Media he approached turned him down because his information was unverified.
Fact: DOJ and FBI applications to the FISA court failed to mention Steele’s dossier was funded by Hillary and the DNC – even though high-level officials in both agencies knew it.
Fact: Privately, Steele told later demoted FBI agent Bruce Ohr he wanted Trump prevented from becoming president.
The FBI, DOJ and intelligence community have well-documented histories of abuse of power, including by targeting political leaders.
Based on unverified information in Steele’s dodgy dossier, no probable cause existed to justify issuance of FISA warrants.
Times reports failed to explain this and other vital information. It remains furious over Trump’s electoral triumph, defeating its campaign to get war criminal, racketeer, perjurer Hillary elected president – still smarting from her defeat.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte announced Tuesday morning they have officially opened a joint investigation into decisions made at the Obama Justice Department surrounding the FBI’s criminal investigation into former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. They also want to know why the FBI kept quiet about ongoing investigations into members of the Trump campaign, like Paul Manafort, while publicly discussing the Clinton probe.
“Our justice system is represented by a blind-folded woman holding a set of scales. Those scales do not tip to the right or the left; they do not recognize wealth, power, or social status. The impartiality of our justice system is the bedrock of our republic and our fellow citizens must have confidence in its objectivity, independence, and evenhandedness. The law is the most equalizing force in this country. No entity or individual is exempt from oversight,” Gowdy and Goodlatte released in a statement. “Decisions made by the Department of Justice in 2016 have led to a host of outstanding questions that must be answered.”
The Committees will investigate the following:
-FBI’s decision to publicly announce the investigation into Secretary Clinton’s handling of classified information but not to publicly announce the investigation into campaign associates of then-candidate Donald Trump;
-FBI’s decision to notify Congress by formal letter of the status of the investigation both in October and November of 2016;
-FBI’s decision to appropriate full decision making in respect to charging or not charging Secretary Clinton to the -FBI rather than the DOJ; and
-FBI’s timeline in respect to charging decisions.
“The Committees will review these decisions and others to better understand the reasoning behind how certain conclusions were drawn. Congress has a constitutional duty to preserve the integrity of our justice system by ensuring transparency and accountability of actions taken,” the statement continues.
The Department of Justice and FBI have come under extra scrutiny in recent months after it was revealed former FBI Director James Comey drafted a letter exonerating Clinton long before agents were finished with their investigation. The letter was also drafted before Clinton and her top aides were interviewed for the case.
Comey was fired in May after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded he had usurped his authority by publicly announcing Clinton’s exoneration.
While most of the mainstream media has been fully co-opted to the agenda of the Deep State, the rise of alternative media has posed a challenge to their control of the narrative. Case in point – the election of Trump despite the constant attacks by the mainstream media; something the Deep State most definitely did not want to happen. And since these sites pose a threat to the Deep State’s control, they must be stopped, and it looks like they are using their FBI stooges to do it.
In the following video, Right Wing News looks at how FBI Director James Comey, who famously refused to press charges against Hillary Clinton and has arrogantly dismissed the Trump wiretapping claims, is now getting the agency to investigate connections between such right wing sites and the Russians.
The Russian collusions seem to be everywhere, yet Comey is looking for them in every place except within the Clinton camp. How long can they continue to distract the public with the myth of the pervasive Russian boogeyman?
President Donald Trump is going to regret the day he left James Comey in charge of the FBI. The FBI is now investigating right-wing sites about alleged collusion with Russian agents while at the same time Comey is not committing to investigating the leaks that led to former national security adviser Mike Flynn resigning, which have been attributed to Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah.
Keep in mind, this is the same FBI Director that stood before the American people and confessed that Hillary Clinton broke the law, but would not seek an indictment against her.
FBI Director James Comey, who made millions via a large Clinton Foundation defense contractor and should recuse himself from any of this seeing how the real ties to Russia are within the Clinton camp, confirmed to the House Intelligence Committee that the FBI is investigating possible links between members of the Trump campaign and the alleged Russian campaign to influence the election and whether or not there was collusion between the two.
Federal investigators are examining whether far-right news sites played any role last year in a Russian cyber operation that dramatically widened the reach of news stories — some fictional — that favored Donald Trump’s presidential bid, two people familiar with the inquiry say.
Operatives for Russia appear to have strategically timed the computer commands, known as “bots,” to blitz social media with links to the pro-Trump stories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive in his race against Democrat Hillary Clinton, these sources said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is accused by the FBI of ordering a campaign intended to influence the U.S. election.
The bots’ end products were largely millions of Twitter and Facebook posts carrying links to stories on conservative internet sites such as Breitbart News and InfoWars, as well as on the Kremlin-backed RT News and Sputnik News, the sources said. Some of the stories were false or mixed fact and fiction, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the bot attacks are part of an FBI-led investigation into a multifaceted Russian operation to influence last year’s elections.
Investigators examining the bot attacks are exploring whether the far-right news operations took any actions to assist Russia’s operatives. Their participation, however, wasn’t necessary for the bots to amplify their news through Twitter and Facebook.
Since there is no evidence that there was collusion, or the FBI would have already put it out there seeing that they seem so sure Russian bots were doing what they were doing, wasn’t the media doing practically the same thing for Hillary Clinton? Aren’t foreign interests tied to just about every major news network? What about social media? Are you telling me that Zuckerburg and Company, along with Twitter and others were not censoring conservatives and Trump supporters and favoring Hillary Clinton? If you are, you must be outside your mind!
Meanwhile, as evidence comes forward that the Obama administration engaged in illegal wiretaps and surveillance of Trump and his family, as well as former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Comey has dismissed those claims and told the Justice Department to do the same.
Why? Has he conducted an investigation or is he running interference because he is being blackmailed by the Clintons?
Finally, Director Comey also would not commit to investigating the source of leaks that led to former White House National Security adviser Mike Flynn’s resignation.
Interestingly enough, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) asked whether or not Comey could confirm whether an investigation in that matter was taking place.
“I can’t, but I hope people watching know how seriously we take leaks of classified information,” he said on Monday. “But I don’t want to confirm it by saying that we’re investigating it.”
“What I don’t ever want to do is compound what bad people have done and confirm something that’s in the newspaper,” Comey added. “Because sometimes the newspaper gets it right, [but]there’s a whole lot of wrong information allegedly about classified activities that’s in the newspaper — we don’t call them and correct them, either. That’s another big challenge. But we just don’t go anywhere near it because we don’t want to help and compound the offense that was committed.”
Thus far, the only laws that we have PROOF have been broken are not being investigated by James Comey’s FBI, including whoever unmasked General Flynn’s name in the reports being circulated around the intelligence community. Furthermore, how does a whistleblower with 47 hard drives and over 600 million pages of information detailing Obama’s illegal surveillance on Americans including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, get buried for over 2 years?
TWO WORDS: James Comey
Why is the James Comey’s FBI investigating virtually anything and everything, except the circumstances where there is more than mere speculation that laws have been broken??? At one point Gowdy shakes his head in disgust, and then attacks…
YOU CAN BET JAMES COMEY LEFT CAPITAL HILL WITH A VERY UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING IN HIS STOMACH AFTER THIS EXCHANGE…
However, he’s going to go ahead with investigating these allegations with Russia and hacks and confirm that. Would that not also imply that there might be “classified information” in those investigations too?
Sadly, Gowdy wants to reauthorize a major NSA surveillance program in the fall, one that seems to be at odds with the Fourth Amendment yet, Gowdy claims “the people consent to allow government to pursue certain things with the explicit promise it will be protected.” The problem is that the Fourth Amendment is still in writing and it would take a constitutional amendment, not a bill in Congress to do such things lawfully.
“You are 100 percent correct and I am 100 percent correct that that is a distinction that doesn’t make a difference to most of the people watching television,” Gowdy said. “What we are reauthorizing this fall has nothing to do with what we are discussing, other than it is another government program where the people consent to allow government to pursue certain things with the explicit promise it will be protected. So, you’re right, they’re different, but in the eyes of people watching, it is the U.S. government officials leaking the name of a U.S. citizen … trust me, you and I both want to see it reauthorized. It is in jeopardy if we don’t get this resolved.”
Frankly, I’m beginning to wonder if anyone in DC actually has read the Constitution, understand the enumerated powers of Congress, the Executive Branch or the Judicial Branch and the Bill of Rights. From the looks of things, it doesn’t appear that many have done so.
Here’s a suggestion Mr. Comey, why not investigate the Democrat Party or the Communist Party USA. Aren’t they supposed to have the same ideology as Russia? One could make the argument that they are doing more than influencing the elections we have. I’ll bet that thought never crossed your mind.
THE VOICE OF REASON is the pen name of Michael DePinto, a graduate of Capital University Law School, and an attorney in Florida. Having worked in the World Trade Center, along with other family and friends, Michael was baptized by fire into the world of politics on September 11, 2001. Michael’s political journey began with tuning in religiously to whatever the talking heads on television had to say, then Michael became a “Tea-Bagging” activist as his liberal friends on the Left would say, volunteering within the Jacksonville local Tea Party, and most recently Michael was sworn in as an attorney. Today, Michael is a major contributor to www.BeforeItsNews.com, he owns and operates www.thelastgreatstand.com, where Michael provides what is often very ‘colorful’ political commentary, ripe with sarcasm, no doubt the result of Michael’s frustration as he feels we are witnessing the end of the American Empire. The topics Michael most often weighs in on are: Martial Law, FEMA Camps, Jade Helm, Economic Issues, Government Corruption, and Government Conspiracy.
Anthony Weiner just got caught (again) in another twisted sex scandal. Is this Weiner sex story another hoax to help Hillary by shifting focus from her crimes to Weiner’s or a bigger strategy by Soros to rig the 2016 Election?
The FBI had Hillary naled, but let her go scot free. Are we really supposed to believe the FBI will nail Hillary now because “Weiner is a pervert”? Weiner’s been a known pervert since 2011, so why is he suddenly vital just before Election 2016?
Some feel Hillary is too big to jail, but the FBI just “reopened” their investigation into Hillary’s emails. Will the dirty FBI cover for Hillary once more or could Comey actually jail her and take down half of Washington with her?
To preserve power and maintain their hold on America, the regime’s strategy may be more complex than it appears. They might be using Weiner to steal (and postpone) the rigged 2016 election by replacing the sure loser, Hillary Clinton.
