“We’re still trying to make sure we understand Abdulazeez, his motivations and associations, in a really good way…Sometimes the way we investigate requires us to keep information secret. That’s a good thing. We don’t want to smear people.”
Abdulazeez’s motivations aren’t really in doubt. He viewed material by jihad leader Anwar Awlaki online, and spoke about Islamic martyrdom. He wrote in his diary about “becoming a martyr.” He texted a hadith to a friend before he began his attack. Abulazeez’s motive is only unclear to the terminally blinkered and willfully ignorant.
And Comey does know more than he is telling: “Sometimes the way we investigate requires us to keep information secret.” Fair enough, but then he adds this curious statement: “That’s a good thing. We don’t want to smear people.” How could he possibly smear anyone by releasing information about Abdulazeez’s motivations? Is there a jihadi mastermind behind this attack, still loose in Chattanooga? Or does Comey mean that he doesn’t want to talk about Abdulazeez’s motivations because to do so would smear Islam, i.e., cast it in a bad light?
“FBI: Motive in Chattanooga shooting may never be released,” Associated Press, November 13, 2015:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The public may never know what motivated a 24-year-old Chattanooga man to kill four Marines and a sailor in an attack on Chattanooga’s U.S. Naval and Marine Reserve Center last July.
Investigators have said Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was a homegrown violent extremist but have not offered more details about what motivated the attack that began at a military recruiting center and ended when Abdulazeez was shot to death by police who followed him to the reserve center.
“We’re still trying to make sure we understand Abdulazeez, his motivations and associations, in a really good way,” FBI Director James Comey told reporters during a visit to Nashville’s FBI field office on Friday.
Comey said he understands the public interest in the shooting, but he did not know whether there would ever be a public report on it.
“Sometimes the way we investigate requires us to keep information secret. That’s a good thing. We don’t want to smear people,” he said.
Comey also praised Tennessee for being one of 16 states that uses the National Incident-Based Reporting System to collect crime data.
“You and I can find how many books are sold on Amazon by any author, but we do not have similar capability at the national level with respect to crime,” he said. That includes data about police use of force.
“I’m trying to get the entire country to move to be like Tennessee,” he said. “My goal is to be at that place within five years, and we will have far better conversations in this country about crime.”
One of the questions the FBI currently can’t answer is why homicides have increased in many of America’s large cities this year. “It’s a complicated topic, but we really have to figure it out because people are actually dying,” Comey said.
Speaking of recent outrage over sometimes deadly confrontations between white officers and black civilians, Comey said he wants his agency to contribute to a conversation that brings law enforcement and the communities it protects closer together.
Comey said it is important for officers to be able to imagine the perspective of a “19-year-old African American young man walking home from the library who has done nothing wrong and encounters one of us.”
Read more: http://www.wsmv.com/story/30515168/fbi-motive-in-chattanooga-shooting-may-never-be-released#ixzz3rb233naY

Roger says
Rug. Sweep. Then “islam is a relgion of peace”.
somehistory says
Ir’s only okay with them to reflect badly on innocent white people. With every report about moslims shooting or stabbing, there’s the secrecy and the shifting of the conversation to what is being claimed about white people being racist and the claims of the police arresting and harassing innocent black persons.
A stirring of the pot in order to advance the chaos that fuels the unrest until all sides are angry.
Yes, it’s a *conspiracy*…to further the interests of the wild beast from satan…and satan is behind the entire thing. Time, which is passing quickly, will tell the whole story.
Rob says
I bet the Catholic church would have loved some of that sensitivity!
RCCA says
He’s getting paid the big bucks to sound stupid and withhold information from the public and at the same time run an efficient organization. That is tricky.
Arthur says
Good of you to bring up the perspective of the burdened and weary FBI director! It truly must be difficult to mask organizational genius under the guise of absolute stupidity.
We’re still trying to make sure we understand Abdulazeez, his motivations and associations, in a really good way.
–because it’s hard to see the good in murdering people
Comey said he understands the public interest in the shooting, but he did not know whether there would ever be a public report on it.
–because he’s only the Director of the FBI and doesn’t have the authority to demand a report
Sometimes the way we investigate requires us to keep information secret. That’s a good thing.
–because the democracy of the people, by the people, for the people doesn’t imply the people need to know what is going on
…It’s a complicated topic, but we really have to figure it out because people are actually dying
–not like all those murder cases where no one actually died
it is important for officers to be able to imagine the perspective of a “19-year-old African American young man walking home from the library
–Quantico will add a “imagination” section to the FBI academy test battery because reality is really not important
Angemon says
Many seemingly level-headed folk hear “islam” and think “muslims”.
Champ says
“We don’t want to smear people”
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Code 4: we don’t want to upset muslims.
And it’s interesting that obama is pictured here, too …his presence is probably an added measure making certain that the unvarnished, ugly truth about islam & company remains suppressed.
Dave J says
For them to name the motive would require them to name the enemy, something they are unwilling to do. And to call him a “home grown” terrorist is not quite true either – something influenced him and it wasn’t his home.
There is one obvious commonality in all these attacks and an honest and competent investigator would be able to find it. That this information is being suppressed is treasonous.
Ban the Koran!
Diane Harvey says
All of this is, seemingly oddly, to the good. We know law enforcement is either lying or withholding evidence unfavorable to Islam or which is indicative of the thinking of a Muslim; they know they’re lying; and they are learning that we know that they know.
This diminishes their credibility in a significant way.
Jay Boo says
In nearby Charleston, SC — Obama was quick to come to the conclusion that a non-Muslim attack on a black politician and his fellow church members was motivated by a piece of fabric which was then summarily taken down from public buildings in South Carolina.
Shouldn’t we therefore remove the Koran from all Islamic hate speech centers in the name of tolerance.
rubiconcrest says
The fact that the FBI etc. are afraid to tell the truth says everything. They know the truth. They know a large majority of Muslims support Jihad or holy war. The FBI knows that the Quran calls for holy war. They are afraid to draw a line in the sand probably because real preventive measures will take leadership at the national level. Still, it is disappointing that leaders at the FBI will not stand up and demand preventive measures. They look like fools when they play this reactionary game and they are not fools.
underbed cat says
Obama is fine with not getting to the heart of the jihad attackers motivations, it would be offensive to him.
I guess that says it all, he does not want to “disrupt” the plans.
? says
You know in the wake of their efforts to suppress and avoid “hate and bad blood” between Muslims and Americans, they are actually accomplishing the opposite. And I imagine that I am not alone when I say I am sick of seeing religious criminals get a free pass and “victim” status.
Jeremiah says
I knew a CEO who let other people announce the dismissal of employees who had no reason to be dismissed.. Obama reminds me of him. Surely Comey should be more intelligent than to be manipulated like this . . . alas he is not. How do we put the FBI back again after the sanitizing of files that we have heard about?
Cunamarra says
Is it really “smearing” someone when you tell the truth about something but the “smeared” didn’t want that truth known out in the open? Only the depraved and shameful criminalize the truth. Interestingly enough, Islam criminalizes truth telling.
If you are a good person and you do not have at least 10 kids of at least one gender, then you are not really a good person. If you do not raise those kids to be moral and courageous defenders of Life Liberty, Property, Truth, and Equality before the Law, which, necessarily means educating them in the same way and with the same materials as the early colonial Americans and explicitly rejecting the garbage presented in the public school system of America, do not consider yourself a good person. A defender of these principles also prepares and rears posterity to do the same, on an intellectual and physical level equally important. It is a rigorous discipline that our culture has nearly lost. What is left of it is no longer robust.
Americans to a man were once the kind of people who were going to be free whether anyone else liked it or not. Americans are no longer the same people. If we do not reclaim that now forgotten and despised culture, then we will instead get only what we deserve.
mortimer says
FBI Director James Comey apparently understands the supremacist JIHAD DOCTRINE of warfare against disbelievers, but he is forbidden to admit it.
His ‘boss’ Obama doesn’t want anyone to hear about the JIHAD DOCTRINE of authentic, canonical Islam.
Baucent says
Comey has been told by his political masters that he and the FBI are to avoid narratives that stigmatize the muslim community as having any link to terror threats. Don’t expect any change to occur while a Democrat is President.
JD says
“We’re still trying to make sure we understand Abdulazeez, his motivations and associations, in a really good way,”
Translated from the original Weasel:
“We’re still trying to spin this in a way that minimizes the obvious role that Islam played in this attack, in accordance with our orders from the White House.”
Have they released the so-called “manifesto”? I’d like to see if there is an explanation of the odd things he lugged to the scene of a planned “mass shooting” – duct tape, cable ties, petroleum jelly. I saw a report claiming the latter was to be used to make the floors slippery. I’d like to know if that is someone’s speculation or he actually wrote that down. Because if he didn’t, I’d like to point out that those same items are found in what cops call a “rape kit”. Is that one of the things the FBI is trying to hide?
Peter says
Federal Bureau of Islamization (FBI)
James E Horn says
Cheez: You get paid all of those big bucks, are tucked away in a fancy office, rides in a limo, brunch with the Obameister and you can’t figure out that the Chatanooga killer was inspired by Mohammed?
Michal says
I see director Comey became cautious about “smearing”, since the time he accused Poles and Hungarians of collaborating with Germans in perpetrating Holocaust crimes. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/19/us-poland-us-holocaust-idUSKBN0NA0G420150419
Jeremiah says
Obama picks the best!
pongidae rex says
If you are a federal employee and you say the words ‘Islamic’ and ‘terrorism’ in the same paragraph, you are out of a job. Most people need a job. You can thank our first Affirmative Action president for that.
Joseph says
What a pity because now we will NEVER know. Does this cretin really think that the public are SO f*cking stupid that they don’t know EXACTLY what his motive is , EXACTLY which religion he espouses , EXACTLY where he gets his inspiration from ???
Peter Piper says
The FBI is in the bag. Don’t think that the FBI is going to produce an outcome that will show Hillary Clinton guilty. They will not. In fact, they will hide any information that shows her guilt and they will let her go. We have no one to prosecute her. There is no one to go to. Obama has placed all of his buddies in places that could have done anything for the American people. Checkmate. We are done.