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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFourth of July Terror Plot and the Theater of the FBI
I'm unaware of anybody who reacts to these 'elevated threat level' alerts except to roll their eyes. Maybe the Fox-News audience breathlessly hangs on their every word? Regardless, it's horseshit.
Coming hard on the heels of the news that, during the unrest in Baltimore, law-enforcement engaged in a fairly thorough disinformation campaign, I'm going to need a lot more than than Comey's word on this.
Show me the evidence. Bring them all to trial. Until then, what is the point in telling us anything at all? If the attacks were thwarted, we really don't have to know about them, do we? Unless, of course, your point in releasing this information is to keep the fear level high enough so that you can aggrandize your own power a little more.
According to what we are allowed to know about it, the U.S. intelligence budget for 2014 was somewhere around $70 billion. If we're spending that money and still can get outsmarted by angry teenagers, and some guys driving pick-up trucks around Syria, somebody needs to get fired in a hurry.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a36323/fourth-of-july-terror-plot-foiled/
The FBI has arrested around a dozen people in the past four weeks, Comey said. "We made the arrests to thwart what we thought they were up to," he added. "Some of them were focused on the Fourth of July, and that's as specific as I can get." He declined to say how many of those arrested were planning to carry out attacks or to describe the nature of what they were planning.
Show me the evidence. Bring them all to trial. Until then, what is the point in telling us anything at all? If the attacks were thwarted, we really don't have to know about them, do we? Unless, of course, your point in releasing this information is to keep the fear level high enough so that you can aggrandize your own power a little more.
Some of those arrested, he said, had been using end-to-end encryption programs to communicate with ISIS. He warned Congress on Wednesday that it's becoming much harder for the FBI to track potential ISIS followers because of the growth in encryption technology.
According to what we are allowed to know about it, the U.S. intelligence budget for 2014 was somewhere around $70 billion. If we're spending that money and still can get outsmarted by angry teenagers, and some guys driving pick-up trucks around Syria, somebody needs to get fired in a hurry.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a36323/fourth-of-july-terror-plot-foiled/
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Fourth of July Terror Plot and the Theater of the FBI (Original Post)
phantom power
Jul 2015
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Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)1. It's not just "outsmarted by angry teenagers"
It's more routinely "outsmarted by angry teenagers", that is the problem.
questionseverything
(9,656 posts)2. comey is pandering for new spy tools
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)3. Devon Staples got away.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)4. Arrested or disappeared?