The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has done an audit on the FBI’s record on homegrown terrorists and the FBI’s record on evaluating their threat. In recent years, the FBI has cleared 6 of these terrorists under the leadership of James Comey, who killed 70 people and wounded many more. This includes the Boston Marathon bombers, the Pulse Nightclub shooter and the Ft Hood shooter.
All of these came under James Comey and the arrogant SOB under questioning from Rand Paul testified that the FBI did everything exactly right Somehow, I don’t feel that clearing the murderers of 70 people is exactly right. Never have I seen anyone be so arrogant with so little to be arrogant about. Let’s face it, as the FBI director, james Comey was a total screw up.
BREAKING: IG report finds HVEs (Homegrown Violent Extremists) carried out 20+ attacks (since 9/11) in US, “some of which occurred after the FBI closed a counterterrorism investigation..FBI has not taken sufficient action to address weaknesses” @CBSNews
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) March 4, 2020
Herridge added:
“New IG report ‘…we found at least six attacks committed in the United States by individuals who the FBI had previously assessed or investigated…’ including 2009 Fort Hood, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, 2016 Pulse Nightclub.”
“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,” Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in the report, as reported by The Washington Times.
The FBI “failed to conduct follow-up investigations of people identified as violent extremists,” the report outlined, the Times notes.
The murderous terrorist action that followed the apparent FBI slips include the 2016 attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the 2009 Fort Hood massacre, and an attack at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in 2017.
Following the release of the report, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) ripped former FBI Director James Comey on social media Thursday.
“When I asked James comey after the Pulse mass shooting if in retrospect the FBI concluded too soon that [redacted] was not a threat. The arrogant Comey refused to admit any mistake & maintained the opinion that [redacted] was not a threat. Comey: tell that to the 49 people who died,” Paul wrote on Twitter. (As a matter of policy, The Daily Wire does not print names of mass killers.)