James Comey has been fired, and not a moment too soon, but questions linger. 60 Minutes ran a feature recently about the FBI’s curious role in the May 2015 Garland jihad attack at a free speech event co-organized by Pamela Geller and me. It was, predictably enough, viciously biased, sloppy, and incomplete, but it was nonetheless illuminating in raising a hard and unanswerable question: did the FBI want Pamela Geller and me dead?
Despite the fact that the jihad attack took place at our event, neither Geller nor I appear, except in one still photo, in the 60 Minutes piece. All they say is that “a self-described free speech advocate named Pamela Geller was holding a provocative contest.”
The contempt fairly leapt from the screen. “A self-described free speech advocate”? Did 60 Minutes mean that Pamela Geller didn’t have the requisite degree in free speech advocacy? Or that she wasn’t really a free speech advocate? What they really mean, of course, is that she is not on the Left, and so cannot be celebrated as a free speech advocate the way the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, who were all Leftists, can be.
60 Minutes also gave a nod to Sharia blasphemy laws by describing the contest as “provocative.” It was an art exhibit, featuring historical and modern images of Muhammad, some created by Muslims. It was only provocative to Muslims who believe in Islam’s death penalty for blasphemy (and brainwashed dhimmis). Was 60 Minutes implying endorsement of that death penalty? Why, yes. If our event was provocative, the shooters were justifiably provoked.
Meanwhile, CBS gave a lot of space to Usama Shami, the imam of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, from which the jihadis came, allowing him to exonerate the mosque of any responsibility for “radicalizing” the jihad attackers. 60 Minutes didn’t mention what Simpson’s friend Courtney Lonergan told the Arizona Republic: “Simpson would never waver from the teachings he picked up in the mosque and elsewhere….He was one of those guys who would sleep at the mosque. The fact that he felt personally insulted by somebody drawing a picture had to come from the ideological rhetoric coming out of the mosque.”
60 Minutes also doesn’t challenge Shami on his lies right after the attack, when he said that the jihadis were not regular members of the mosque.
Despite all the predictable politically correct whitewashing and appeasement, CBS did a good job of highlighting a curious and still unexplained aspect of the attack: the FBI clearly knew the attack was coming (although it didn’t bother to inform us or our security team), as the FBI agent was right there, following behind the jihadis, whom he had encouraged to “tear up Texas.” But even though they knew the attack was coming, they didn’t have a team in place to stop the jihadis. They had one man there, and one man only. The jihadis were not stopped by FBI agents, but by our own security team. If the jihadis had gotten through our team, they would have killed Pamela Geller and me, and many others. (They would no doubt have loved to kill Geert Wilders, but he left before they arrived.)
The Daily Beast wrote in August 2016 about how this undercover FBI agent encouraged the jihadis. The Beast’s Katie Zavadski wrote: “Days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent. ‘Tear up Texas,’ the agent messaged Elton Simpson days before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an affidavit (pdf) filed in federal court Thursday.”
This was not entrapment. Simpson and Soofi were determined jihadis who had scouted out other targets. Simpson, along with Soofi and Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, who supplied weapons to the pair and helped them train, sought information about pipe bombs and plotted to attack the Super Bowl, and planned to go to Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS), long before anyone told him to “tear up Texas.”
But what was the FBI’s game in telling them to do that? Why didn’t they have a phalanx of agents in place, ready to stop the attack? Or did they want the attack to succeed, so that Barack Obama’s vow that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam” would be vividly illustrated, and intimidate any other Americans who might be contemplating defending the freedom of speech into silence?
We twice asked the FBI for an investigation into this matter. They ignored us. Of course. After all, it isn’t as if this happened to someone important, like Linda Sarsour.
“10 Major FBI Scandals on Comey’s Watch,” Grabien News, May 9, 2017 (thanks to the Geller Report):
News just broke that President Trump is dismissing the director of the FBI, James Comey.
Comey will inevitably be remembered for the controversial role he played in the 2016 presidential election, where his agency conducted surveillance of the Trump campaign as well as investigated the Clinton camp for mishandling classified materials, giving both sides arguments for how the FBI ultimately swayed the vote.
But even before the 2016 campaign, the FBI endured a number of humiliations under Comey’s tenure. Most damning were revelations that the FBI was generally aware of almost every terrorist who successfully struck America over the last eight years.
Here are 10 of Comey’s biggest embarrassments at the FBI:
1. Before he bombed the Boston Marathon, the FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev but let him go. Russia sent the Obama Administration a second warning, but the FBI opted against investigating him again….
3. The FBI had possession of emails sent by Nidal Hasan saying he wanted to kill his fellow soldiers to protect the Taliban — but didn’t intervene, leading many critics to argue the tragedy that resulted in the death of 31 [sic; actually 13] Americans at Fort Hood could have been prevented.
4. During the Obama Administration, the FBI claimed that two private jets were being used primarily for counterterrorism, when in fact they were mostly being used for Eric Holder and Robert Mueller’s business and personal travel….
8. The father of the radical Islamist who detonated a backpack bomb in New York City in 2016 alerted the FBI to his son’s radicalization. The FBI, however, cleared Ahmad Khan Rahami after a brief interview.
9. The FBI also investigated the terrorist who killed 49 people and wounded 53 more at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Despite a more than 10-month investigation of Omar Mateen — during which Mateen admitting lying to agents — the FBI opted against pressing further and closed its case.
10. CBS recently reported that when two terrorists sought to kill Americans attending the “Draw Muhammad” event in Garland, Texas, the FBI not only had an understanding an attack was coming, but actually had an undercover agent traveling with the Islamists, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi. The FBI has refused to comment on why the agent on the scene did not intervene during the attack.
Mccode says
All good reasons listed, but where are numbers 2, 5, 6 + 7
quota raven says
McCode – I was about to ask the same thing myself! Very odd. Cheers! quota raven
gravenimage says
Mccode wrote:
All good reasons listed, but where are numbers 2, 5, 6 + 7
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McCode and Quota, there is nothing odd about this.
Stories are often edited for the Jihad Watch page–sometimes for length, and sometimes for content. That’s why links are provided to the original story. If you click on “Grabien News” in the story it will take you to the full article.
As I assumed, the other numbers are not Jihad related, and so are off-topic at JW.
Hope this helps. 🙂
quota raven says
Thanks, Graven – Sensible and on top of things, as always!
Cheers!
quota raven
underbed cat says
How diversified is the FBI? If the military must include soldiers of all faiths, the worry is some employee may be devout to Allah, what happened in the FBI? Has the CVE , changed ?Could he have worked under federal law that would not allow Comey to see the root of terror, or I think he knew about it but had to due to federal law retain his staff some of whom may have worked against him. Just wonder if a rouge agent that drove past the event in Texas was behind the two who as you say may have thought the punishment of sharia should be enforced. Diversity hiring is creating issues in all areas of employment I suspect. Comey turned over emails to staff and got the report…bets are they were wrong. In that case the law has to be changed and a firing would not change the situation. Just like the many “work place violence” episodes. I worry as the other article explains that Trump may not know enough of the deception in the doctrine that creates terror or allows guys that rule by sharia to misinform. Islam needs to be redefined as sharia and political. Until then we are all not safe.
Leonidas says
You are right!
Islam is a violent ,totalitarian ,political ideology of Arab male supremacy( Islamofascism > 80%) ,disguised as a religion (< 20% , a distorted heresy of judaism) ,that fights by jihad and soft jihad to conquer the world and impose the barbaric ,misogynistic Sharia Law on the planet ,as mandated in the koran by Muhammad 14 centuries ago.
Islamic jihad strikes and kills us EVERYWHERE to terrorize us into submission .
Its high time ,that all of us Kafir- infidels, threatened by islamic terror, unite and do the following to eradicate the terror and tyranny of Islamofascism by demanding:
1-No indoctrination anywhere in the world in the violent Medina part of the Koran, Sira, Hadith,the pact of Omar or the Reliance of the Muslim Traveler.
2- Ban islamic Sharia law everywhere to liberate the muslim women from slavery imposed on them by the koran.No Burkas,no clitorectomies,no ramadan fast, no Eid feast animal slaughter,no pork prohibition, no halal imam prayed upon meat,no dog killing,no gender segregation, no women inequality,no blasphemy laws, no killing of apostates ,blasphemers,adulterers by stoning , or hypocrites!No reverence ,but daily ridicule to the pedophile, murderer,bandit ,liar, rapist and slave trader Muhammad!No five prayers per day cursing the infidels !Punish the countries ,that implement islamic sharia law by denying all trade with them.
3- Ban barbaric islam and muslim immigrants and demand all muslim immigrants to denounce it before migrating to another country ,as Islam is incompatible with our values, freedom of speech, gender equality,freedom of religion, tolerance, Constitution and Democracy.
4- Close down all mosques everywhere to cleanse the minds of people from the evil commandments of islam's " Holy" books ,medina part of the koran, Sira and Hadith, as President Sisi of Egypt asked the mullahs to do.The muslims are commanded by the koran to consider women dumb and inferior to males, wives to be beaten for disobedience and that all women are destined to go to Hell! Also to never be friends with Jews, Christians Kafirs- infidels ,as they may tempt them to stray from the right path and instead to ask them to become muslims and ,if they refuse ,to kill them or force them to pay the Jizya dhimmie protection tax in humiliation.We must ban the koran as a hate book!
5-Arm all policemen so they can protect themselves and us from the jihadists.
6-Reinstate the death penalty as appropriate punishment and deterrent for the jihadists.
7- Allow no nuclear weapons to the jihadist supporting regime of Iran.
When we implement the above, we will see muslims ,especially women, will abandon islam around the world ,islam will collapse and we will be free from jihadist terror.Peace and Good Will will return to Earth after 1400 years of expanding islamofascism!With the savings from todays exorbitant jihad security costs we can fight diseases, promote green energy and fund Mars colonization after 2020!
We defeated and eliminated totalitarian Nazism, Shintoism with a very bloody WWII,and Communism by isolating it in the 20th century and now we must unite to contain and eradicate the evil and tyranny of Islamofascism ,for Humanity to survive and thrive!
Jeanette says
Actually, I just saw an article that said that Muslim women tend to support Islam.
After all, they don’t know anything else.
That’s not an excuse, as innate wisdom, or character, should be all that’s needed for humans to know that torturing animals and burning people alive are not commendable actions.
So we couldn’t assume that Muslim women allegedly running from Islam were indeed doing what they said they were doing.
It’s dangerous to trust any Muslim.
Kiel says
The swamp has to be drained, no question about it. And FBI’s Comey is for sure one of the critters. It turned out in his handling of the email case which never became a case.
Jeanette says
That might be good, since the Department of (Faux Obama) Justice would probably have seated a grand jury that was sure to refuse to indict Hillary.
There is probably a much better chance of her being indicted now, and of being found guilty at trial.
Cornelius says
If the individual who wrote “tear up Texas” and followed them to the event was an FBI informant, it’s possible the Bureau didn’t know exactly what was transpiring. If he was a bona-fide agent, then this is not just a scandal, but a bizarre one indeed. Absolutely frightening!.
Jeanette says
Not shocking during the Obama administration, however.
More swamp there than anyone could drain in a decade.
common sense says
Politically there is never a good time to fire an fbi director, had to happen.
129 federal judge seats are open across the nation out of the 2,758 district court judges and 714 courts of appeals judges.
Trump will appoint with senate approval and the dems took away the filibuster in 2013 thinking they’d get Clinton elected (to appoint someone other than Gorsuch and everyone else they could to vacant seats). Lets hope this will rebalance our amazing nation.
Comey and the dems are more than ‘mildly nauseas’ today although we will watch them politicize this regarding the investigation on Trump. 10 months and there is no evidence even by admission of democrats. Nothing will happen or it already would have, good move, drain the swamp and go after Clinton again with…..intent to do justice.
Chris Christie has been mentioned as a possible replacement who was very out spoken against jihadis and hss successfully prosecuted cases against our enemy. Not sure if he’s the right man for the job though.
Laura says
Oh no! NOT Christie!!! He has appointed moslem judges in NJ and has absolutely no idea about islam!
gravenimage says
Yes–Christie would be a very concerning choice.
Rickytee says
I read some time ago that James Comey was going to “leave” the FBI as Director and be replaced by Trey Gowdy as soon as Gowdy was available. Well, the first part has come true – time will tell if Gowdy is the replacement!
underbed cat says
If the U.S. is mandated by law to allow a “religion” a pass that is not a religion that most would recognize if the knew about it….then nothing will change. The MB has to be understood as well as the doctrine of deception, jihad and sharia. This is our enemy that causes domestic problems as they try bit by bit attack our infrastructure and social peace as the domestic political parties fight over power.
Krazy Kafir says
60 minutes ….is… the enemy.
gravenimage says
At least they reported on the story.
underbed cat says
Middle eastern money has to be removed from at least the U.S. media, that constrains the truth. Listening to the errors in understanding is nauseous. I am afraid the lack of truthful information about Islam lead to the buying up of America… not just the land but influence in banks, schools, hospitals, farm land, gas stations, airports, medical associations, politicians, media is my guess….which is why we need our own refineries, land based wells, remote island shipping harbors….too many Americans institutions, leaders take the cash from the organization. promoting sharia…ignore and are unaware of the toxic plan.
E.L.O says
Remember, were 13 deaths in Fort Hood not 31. Also San Bernardino Terrorist attack still the FBI don’t say anything who were involved, yes, those who were come and go in Farook’s home. 2) The attack to the electric grid near San Jose California on April 16 2013 a day after the Boston Bombing 4 YEARS! and still NOTHING!….
Bill says
I view the Government’s association in the failed attempt to assassinate Pamela Geller and others in Garland with great suspicion. It is similar to the Netherlands seeding Geert Wilders’ a key person in his security detail with a Jihadi. Should Ms. Geller or Geert Wilders have been killed, the respective governments would have responded with “oh, how unfortunate, but their hate speech provoked the attack”.
Sadly, the FBI’s conduct will never be investigated in this matter, even with Obama Operative
Comey out of the way.
underbed cat says
Are you sure he was a operative?….or employed with restrictions that cannot identify jihad, add to that there could be muslims FBI. For a while, diversity hiring put them in all areas.
Westman says
How high it went, is unknown. That some actors in the FBI wanted everyone at the Garland event to be shot up or killed, is beyond question. Perhaps the new slogan of the FBI could be, “Tearing up Texas”.
US infidel says
Thought da fbi had high moral standards .I stand corrected should change their letters to fib more appropriate . Maybe these untouchables be held accountable for their actions.
Joe says
That ‘tear up Texas’ was criminal incitement.
Sam says
Biggest crime is media does not honestly investigate and inform public about jihad attacks. If there was no Robert we would not be informed of this life and death issue called Islam. What a strange time we live in.
gravenimage says
Suspicious FBI role in Garland jihad attack is major FBI scandal on Comey’s watch
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All very disturbing.
Glad Comey is out; concerned about who will replace him.
Baucent says
Would it be provocative to replace Comey with General Flynn as the new FBI director?
quota raven says
Tsk, tsk, Baucent.))))
Cheers!
quota raven
Maryam says
Comey perpetrated a web of deceit and ineptitude. Good riddance, should have been done a long time ago. An investigation must be launched into the circumstances surrounding Garland. Absolutely shocking.
Carolyne says
I have noted and I’ve mentioned it here before that the FBI in every case of which I am aware knew about the terrorists, had interviewed them or declined to do so before they committed act. One wonders which side the FBI is on.
marie cameron says
America must insist on the FBI being investigated for their alleged
incompetence or flat out conspiracy
aiding the terrorists. Your comments are very disturbing to me
I live in Australia and cannot believe your smart citizens would ignore the
above mentioned facts!
Trump must address this!
Frank verderber says
This is a good example or finger print of GLADIO styled techniques for stirring the pot – regardless of who gets injured or killed. Its not a “conspiracy” mania anymore. Its fact. There are subversive elements within our government and its services, who are there to inflame situations in order to drive a particular political outcome. They wrere once called, “Fifth Column” elements.