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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 07:21 PM Aug 2014

'Hundreds' of Americans linked to IS: lawmaker

Source: AFP

Several hundred US citizens may have had contact with Islamic State jihadists in Syria, the chairman of the powerful House Intelligence Committee said Sunday.

Republican lawmaker Mike Rogers, a former FBI agent, told "Fox News Sunday" he was concerned about efforts to keep track of Americans who had links to the group.

"It's in the hundreds that have at least one time traveled, participated and trained with them," Rogers said.

"Some have drifted back, some have gone to Europe."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-americans-linked-lawmaker-212608423.html

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'Hundreds' of Americans linked to IS: lawmaker (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2014 OP
One of them is named John McCain n/t arcane1 Aug 2014 #1
You win the thread! Do they want to bomb Iran, too? freshwest Aug 2014 #3
yep jakeXT Aug 2014 #5
Yep, like his running mate said -- "palling around with terrorists"! Save the Senate! Impeach! nt ancianita Aug 2014 #15
Jesus, are they actually going to try this? Even right wingers are getting sick of this propaganda yurbud Aug 2014 #2
That is exactly what an IS undercover operative would say! arcane1 Aug 2014 #4
I'm actually with Dr. Evil yurbud Aug 2014 #8
The Feds have something cooked up to push this BS--more Constitution stripping, perhaps??? blkmusclmachine Sep 2014 #22
eeehhm, Fox News Sunday! YOHABLO Aug 2014 #6
Well, it is the GOP mothership... freshwest Aug 2014 #7
Is the military-industrial crowd throwing all kinds of shit at the wall to see what sticks? yurbud Aug 2014 #9
Yep. bvf Aug 2014 #18
There's BIG Profits in War. blkmusclmachine Sep 2014 #23
Yep again. "Good for the economy," dontcha know. n/t bvf Sep 2014 #24
Oh, OK then. Either he's talking out of his ass or committing treason... DRoseDARs Aug 2014 #10
ooga GeorgeGist Aug 2014 #11
Rogers is a thug. Dawson Leery Aug 2014 #12
Rogers pulled this out of his ass. PeoViejo Aug 2014 #13
And hundreds of commies in Congress. rickyhall Aug 2014 #14
McCarthyism, 2014. Terra Alta Aug 2014 #16
How is this McCarthyism? Renew Deal Aug 2014 #17
he made a statement Terra Alta Sep 2014 #20
It's McCarthyism in that it is designed bvf Sep 2014 #25
Total effing bullshite. Period. ReRe Aug 2014 #19
What's the definition of "is"??? blkmusclmachine Sep 2014 #21
It's the abbreviation for the country of Iceland. adirondacker Sep 2014 #27
"Republican lawmaker" "Fox News" KansDem Sep 2014 #26
I would say it was more like in the 100's of thousand, Deadbeat Republicans Sep 2014 #28

ancianita

(36,075 posts)
15. Yep, like his running mate said -- "palling around with terrorists"! Save the Senate! Impeach! nt
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 10:28 PM
Aug 2014

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
2. Jesus, are they actually going to try this? Even right wingers are getting sick of this propaganda
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 07:24 PM
Aug 2014

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
9. Is the military-industrial crowd throwing all kinds of shit at the wall to see what sticks?
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 08:37 PM
Aug 2014

Seriously, demonizing Russia, destabilizing a different Middle East country every week, going back to Iraq, trying to use our destabilization effort in Syria as an excuse to bomb that country again...

I kind of expect to hear that Germany has made a secret anti-US pact with Mexico and Great Britain is pressing American sailors into the Royal Navy at sea any day now.

Or possibly a civil war at home or alien invasion.

They will keep going until some shit sticks.

 

bvf

(6,604 posts)
18. Yep.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 11:01 PM
Aug 2014

Meanwhile the gun fetishists will be keeping a closer eye on their neighbors. They're already on high alert what with this South American kids infected with Ebola and all.

Agreed-- the MIC will keep reaching into its bag of tricks as long as necessary.

 

DRoseDARs

(6,810 posts)
10. Oh, OK then. Either he's talking out of his ass or committing treason...
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 08:51 PM
Aug 2014

...in letting these "hundreds of Americans" know they're being surveilled.

 

PeoViejo

(2,178 posts)
13. Rogers pulled this out of his ass.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 09:38 PM
Aug 2014

..with the help of one of his CIA buddies that needs funding to keep their Paramilitary Unit from being redundant.

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
20. he made a statement
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 12:05 AM
Sep 2014

whether or not it's backed up by facts is debatable. I take anything said by a Repuke on Faux with a huge grain of salt.

 

bvf

(6,604 posts)
25. It's McCarthyism in that it is designed
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 06:16 AM
Sep 2014

to induce fear by pointing to an unnamed enemy in the midst of the audience without any evidence. That whole "national security" thing provides a nice cover, no?

Warmongers in your government are doing their damnedest to arouse hysteria to gain support for military intervention. That bothers me. It should bother you.



28. I would say it was more like in the 100's of thousand,
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 01:31 PM
Sep 2014

taken consideration, that I'm counting all the CIA operatives ...

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