It has become abundantly clear in the course of the Trump/Russia investigation that the FBI is corrupt to an extent far beyond what anyone had hitherto suspected, and its failure to act upon reports it had received of the Florida school shooter before his attack is just the latest evidence of its abject incompetence. One clear indication of its corruption, incompetence, or both, is its handling of the AFDI/Jihad Watch Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest, always erroneously referred to in the establishment media as the “Draw Muhammad” or “Draw the Prophet” event, in Garland, Texas on May 3, 2015.
Todd Shepherd of the Washington Free Beacon writes that “self-described free-speech advocate Pamela Geller created the ‘Draw Muhammad’ event at which Joiner was providing security along with the Garland Police Department.” The “self-described” adjective is a vicious jab that one would expect from some Leftist pro-censorship rag such as Mother Jones or the Huffington Post, but which should be unworthy of the Free Beacon. In reality, the Garland event, of which I was co-sponsor and co-organizer, and at which I was a speaker, was dedicated precisely to the preservation and defense of the freedom of speech. When jihadis are saying, “If you draw Muhammad, we will kill you,” free people have two choices: draw Muhammad or submit and surrender, and show that you are willing to kowtow to violent intimidation. So we held the event to show that at least some in the West will not submit to bullying, and will defend the freedom of speech.
The FBI, meanwhile, knew the jihadis were coming, and egged them on, as you can see below, but did nothing to stop them or protect us from being massacred. Why not? Bruce Joiner is trying to find out, and the FBI is stonewalling.
This shameful, corrupt institution needs to be thoroughly dismantled, and the foes of the freedom of speech in it prosecuted for anything they did to expose Americans to danger.
“FBI Might Avoid Turning Over Documents in Texas Attack Lawsuit,” by Todd Shepherd, Washington Free Beacon, February 20, 2018:
A lawsuit against the FBI for its role in a 2015 terror attack in Texas has taken a detour over discovery issues.
Bruce Joiner, a security guard shot in the leg by two radicalized Islamists at a “Draw Muhammad” event in the North Dallas suburb of Garland in May of that year, learned months later that an FBI agent had been undercover in the terrorist cell that executed the attack. The agent had texted one of the assailants to “Tear up Texas” a few days before the attack, and was also in a separate vehicle directly behind the two terrorists taking pictures of them just seconds before they opened fire at a perimeter parking checkpoint.
The undercover agent, described in court documents as being dressed in Middle Eastern attire, tried to flee the scene when the shooting began but was stopped by local police.
Attorneys for the FBI asked for a dismissal in recent federal court filings, but have taken the extra step of asking the court to delay all discovery until the court rules on the dismissal motion.
Joiner is suing the FBI for liability and is asking for just over $8 million in damages, but has maintained in other media interviews and also through his attorney that he is bringing the suit primarily to get to the bottom of the FBI’s involvement leading up to the attack.
If discovery is halted, and should the case later be dismissed, Joiner would leave the case empty handed, no closer to understanding why an FBI agent who had contacts with the attackers was so close when the gunfire started but did nothing to prevent the attack and instead tried to flee.
“I don’t know of any undercover agent that can allow their fellow officers and citizens to be fired upon in the course of an investigation,” Joiner told Dallas television station KTVT in late 2016. “You have to stop that before that happens.”…
Joiner’s attorney, Trenton Roberts, hit back against the government’s motion to dismiss without discovery last week, arguing that “by conducting discovery, [Joiner] will be able to provide a more sufficient record for the Court to rule on the crucial factual questions pertinent to the ‘discretionary function.'”
“In arguing that [the FBI] has the prerogative to weigh ‘harm to innocent victims resulting from a covert operation’ against the need for ‘maintaining secrecy,’ Defendant is effectively claiming that the FBI had discretion to allow potentially hundreds of American citizens to be attacked in a dubious attempt to maintain [the FBI agent’s] cover,” Roberts wrote in the filing.
“Put simply, Defendant’s motion to dismiss would provide any law enforcement officer immunity to aid or assist a terrorist massacre on American soil, in the name of ‘maintaining secrecy.’ This is simply not the law,” Roberts noted, adding later, “the judgment exercised by the FBI was not of the kind that Congress intended to shield from civil claims.”…
In a May 2017 hearing, less than one week before he was fired by President Trump, then-FBI Director James Comey told Sen. Cruz in a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, “I can’t go into the details of [the Garland operation] here, because they’re classified, but I think a fair thing to say is the media reports are highly misleading.”
The Garland attack is one of the legacies of the assault on the Charlie Hebdo offices by Islamist radicals over the satirical magazine’s portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad. That attack killed 12, and injured 11 more.
Less than two weeks after the attack in Paris, a Muslim community held a fundraiser at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland called, “Stand with the Prophet in Honor and Respect.” The fundraiser drew heavy protests.
In response to the fundraiser, self-described free-speech advocate Pamela Geller created the “Draw Muhammad” event at which Joiner was providing security along with the Garland Police Department.
The two attackers, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, were killed within yards of where they opened fire. It was the first attack on American soil for which ISIS claimed responsibility….
bodega says
I wonder why the FBI is so protected? Obama? The earlier Bush’s might have a lot of people in place to prevent discovery. I do not recall them ever uttering a word of protest about the invasion of Muslims in the USA.
It is time to totally dismantle the FBI, disallow any of them from contacting anyone in the Obama administsration and kick them out.
Lia says
I am not an American, I don’t live inn the USA and have never visited the USA. Years ago, in my country, where I still live, a list of the 10 best-known lies was circulating. One of them was: ‘Madam, don’;t be worried. We’re from the FBI and we’re here to protect you’. Must be at least 17 years ago, because he was still alive (he died in 2000) and we giggled over this together, never realising that it was true.
Carolyne says
I believe it was Ronald Reagan who said, “The most frightening words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.’ “
J D S says
I know that the FBI and the DOJ have a lot on their plate….Get a larger plate…another thing that might help would be for the Trump administration to become….”THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION” How is that done…Put forth an effort to remove those who are dedicated to prior “administrators” administrations.
sally says
The Bush family has been complicit in the Muslim invasion of the US from the beginning.
StellaSaidSo says
Indeed, the US under G.W.B was very Islam-friendly. The MB found the doors to the Bush WH wide open. The Bush family connections to Saudi Arabia are well-known. But the rot started before Bush. The Clinton connections to the Saudis pre-date the Clinton Presidency.
Libertyphobic says
A BIG reason why an investigation into the FBI is needed,along others. Please call, write as many politicians. JW ‘S stay vigilant and keep a keen sword.
Pablo says
The FBI agent counselled criminal offences and was and an accessory after the fact. I have now doubt he also assisted in the planning. Where is the DOJ?
mortimer says
Pablo said it right: the FBI agent was an accessory to a crime.
The only possible way to justify the action of the agent is to say he (or more likely he and his FBI bosses) intentionally herded the terrorists into a trap where security personnel were able to execute them while in the defense of the venue. Those two terrorists are now dead. WAS THAT WHAT THE FBI PLANNED?
Pablo says
The FBI did not plan a trap. They wanted carnage and if the agent was not stopped by the private security (Police) no one would know that the FBI was involved. I can assure you that no real law enforcement agency would plan an ops that exposes the public to possibly being murdered or suffering grievous bodily harm. Mr. Spencer, Ms. Gheller and Mr. Wilders were the ultimate target. This potential carnage had the FBI’s and maybe Obama’s blessing.
Also, there was enough evidence to arrest these two Jihadist while they were enroute. A Tactical Team should have been on standby and they would have chosen an advantageous location to make the arrest, so that any collateral damage would be at a minimum.
Doghouse Riley says
What the Muslim Brotherhood friendly Deep State wanted was Geller and Spencer silenced. Permanently.
Roderick MacUalraig says
I hope Spencer & Geller are also exploring legal avenues for getting the information.
Joe Speziale says
I think that Pablo has summarized it quite well.
Also: the rubbing-out of Pamela Geller would eliminate a major thorn in the side of Islam-convert ex-CIA chief John Brennan, since Geller has been reporting on Brennan’s misdemeanors in government since at least 2008. Nor Brennan would hardly have been sorry to see Mr. Spencer or Geert Wilders go away, likely delighting to hold their heads up as trophies for his confreres, international Muslim countries’ heads-of-state.
It would have been an easy request for Comey to fill for Brennan.
Carolyne says
The DOJ is just as corrupt as the FBI. Think Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch. Sessions seems afraid of his shadow.
RichardL says
I know quite a number of FBI agents and all of them HATE CAIR. There must be a thick layer of scum on top of what still is the world’s premier police force.
LeftisruiningCanada says
That’s my impression too. It’s not as if the FBI is a single entity. Agents do a lot of fantastic work against jihad.
gravenimage says
Good to know–I never doubted it. Still, that this could have happened in Garland–whatever the details–is deeply concerning.
cornelius says
It’s truly mystifying. I want to believe that whatever corruption may exist at the top of the FBI, the rank-and-file agents are still to be admired. But this case truly rankles. It’s not just that the FBI was PASSIVE about alerting fellow Americans to an impending terror attack…..it’s that the agent in question actually ENCOURAGED the attack. Something is seriously wrong here.That specific field agent needs to be grilled in front of a congressional committee (if not a grand jury). The million dollar question: Did his actions conform to the instructions of his superiors?
gravenimage says
Yes–this is what I want to know.
SusanP says
What good does it ever do to ‘be grilled by a Congressional committee”? They (sometimes) televise their putative investigations of corrupt bureaucrats but nothing ever happens to the culprits even if they are blatantly guilty. They simply deny all wrongdoing or conveniently ‘don’t recall’ and the status quo resumes. As I have been thinking and stating for years, I will remain baffled until the day I die as to why anyone with political clout, vast wealth, or high positions in government would support islam and demonize those who tell the truth about it. What could possibly be gained by glorifying a malevolent ideology that has been wreaking death and destruction on the world since its inception? The bleeding heart liberals, in their perpetual ignorance and pathetic desire to defend ‘minority groups’ no matter how malicious and evil they are, don’t look beyond identity politics and don’t care about the truth. They are incapable of grasping the truth. May they be the first to get their sniveling throats slit by peaceful muslims. But there are others who know the truth about islam, muslims, and the damage they have always inflicted when they invade en masse and yet they encourage the invasion. It’s just so difficult to accept that some people hate Western Civilization so much they would sacrifice millions to the blood thirsty holy warriors to destroy it The F.B.I. is supposed to be apolitical, although it is not and never has been but until Obama and Holder came along, they operated with discretion and political machinations were kept quiet. Now it seems all of the federal law enforcement/intelligence agencies are packed full of liberal nut jobs with agendas and that is not good, especially for we the people. Somehow we must wrest control of our institutions from the left because the left still controls all of them, regardless of who’s in Congress and who is President.
Tjhawk says
It goes beyond the FBI. The entire intelligence and justice apparatus is compromised. Brennan, Mueler, Clapper, Rice etc. ??
StellaSaidSo says
‘Brennan, Mueller…’
Deep State swamp creatures all.
elee says
The FBI has been an independent;, poorly supervised right-wing power center in our nation’s capital since its very founding with the Palmer raids. The FBI coached Dick Nixon through the HUAC follies in the McCathyist 1950’s, facilitated scandal-mongering in LBJ’s presidency, did years of opposition research on Dr. Martin Luther King, and spent decades trying in vain to convict anyone named Clinton of anything at all. If you identify yourself as right-of-center, remember that FBI men Giuliani and Comey sprang the October Surprise that made your man President. Attacks on the FBI from the right are literally unprecedented in American history in addition to being prime examples of ingratitude. But hey guys knock yourself out, go ahead and shoot your horse in the trackless desert. Meanwhile I’m not sure that fighting about the FBI belongs here. Instead we should make common cause in fighting an evil Islamic monolith that means to take away the political and religious liberties our ancestors fought and died for. If the FBI is really on board for this, I’ll be very glad to hear about redeployment of some FBI energies away from electing your man President and toward criminal activities by CAIR and other Islamist-front organizations. I’ve been listening for this forever and I’m still not hearing anything yet,
gravenimage says
So if the FBI was indeed going to sit by during a massacre at the Mohammad Cartoon Art Show you don’t consider this an issue?
Carolyne says
Obama is and was the “FBI’s man.” There is no way to fight the Muslim incursion without the involvement of the US Government. You seem to be advocating an armed insurrection. At present, the FBI is busy trying to initiate a coup d’tat against “Our man.” They did everything they could to defeat him, but even the fraudulent votes weren’t enough.
brane pilot says
Give the FBI a break.
Nullifying the results of a free and fair US election requires a lot of resources.
They are stretched pretty thin.
Be more understanding.
Carolyne says
I understand that corruption has taken over several government departments and is working against the best interests of this country. That’s my understanding.
StellaSaidSo says
Especially the FBI, IRS, DOJ, CIA, NSA. Politicised and weaponised by Obama.
Voytek Gagalka says
FBI – the Federal Bureau of Incompetence. That’s my latest recommendation to alter their name since they stop to “investigate” anything they do not wish being investigated (for whatever reason), or are simply incapable to do their statute job. Since incompetence seems to be embedded in their very nature, hence that change (however embarrassing that might be). BTW, why they always must be under the same, old name? If Cheka, a.k.a. GPU, a.k.a. NKWD, a.k.a. KGB could alter their names, why not FBI? Stagnation is the first signal of growing corrupting incompetence.
PorkToiletPaper says
Allow just enough carnage to get gun control passed.
Bezelel says
“It has become abundantly clear” That first paragraph say’s a lot. hussein obola’s legacy. It is abundantly clear indeed. As I watch the unraveling of the twisted matrix of traitors that have infiltrated our gov. and our enemedia that covers for them. Fascinating to watch but not comforting in the least.
Arthur says
It just goes to show that it doesn’t matter if most of the FBI is made up of good agents. If a minority of evil people are in control, then they are the only relevant players. This is undoubtedly the route that the Muslim Brotherhood sees as the most expedient way to take control of the USA. They’ve infiltrated the FBI and the DOJ and McMaster shows they’re into the military as well. Their success may be just one election away.
Look at all the countries in the world led by despotic tyrants and how many of those in control are from “minority” populations. Saddam Hussein was from a minority group, Bashir Assad is from a minority group, etc. It can happen in the USA too. Muslim Brotherhood does not need a 51% Muslim population majority in order to take control and replace the US constitution.
The point is, there is no security in simply being in the “majority.”
StellaSaidSo says
‘Their success may be just one election away.’
Indeed, the world dodged a bullet when MB asset Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump.
Carolyne says
I agree with you Stella, and I am getting tired of the anti-Trump corruption present in our major governmental departments, i.e. Justice, the FBI, the IRS and even Bureau of Lands and Mines. Why do they need a militia? Even the IRS has its own militia. The only purpose I can think of is to attack the citizens of the US.
StellaSaidSo says
The Deep State is everywhere, and it is the enemy of the American people. Both the First and the Second Amendments are under attack, along with the President, whose unexpected election victory severely thwarted their diabolical plan. Watch for more false flag events as they step up their efforts to disarm the citizens of the US.
Donovan Nuera says
Was that undercover FBI agent Office Noor of St. Paul, MN?? That would make more sense.
Carolyne says
Yes, Noor would make a perfect FBI agent.
gravenimage says
FBI stonewalls, fights against turning over documents showing its role in jihad attack at AFDI free speech event
…………………
Very disturbing.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
==QUOTE==
“self-described free-speech advocate Pamela Geller …” The “self-described” adjective is a vicious jab
==UNQUOTE==
How is it deprecatory to refer to someone as a “self-described free speech advocate”? The only question is, Is it true? And if it is true, what’s so bad about that? Has Pamela Geller ever described herself as a free speech advocate? If she has ever said (and why wouldn’t she?), “I am a free speech advocate”, then she *is* a self-described free speech advocate. It is hardly insulting to call Pamela Geller a “self-described free speech advocate” (or, as Hugh Fitzgerald might put it, a “soi-disant free speech advocate”).
LeftisruiningCanada says
In the real world it isn’t deprecatory.
In media land, it’s just a half baked way of insinuating that nobody else has said the same thing about the person in question, meaning that it is a false claim, i guess.
StellaSaidSo says
+1
Eric jones says
Yes the FBI may have to be dismantled. The crime lab ,crime data collection and counter intelligence functions should be the only thing that remains. The Treasury Dept and other federal law enforcement agencies can do the rest.
FBI corruptions goes back to its inception: The Mob has photos of Hoover and his boy friend on vacation. Hoover tried to induce MLK commit suicide. FBI agents were on hand when Malcolm X was murdered and did nothing to stop it. FBI dropped the ball on the Florida school shooter. They run never ending investigations to make major crime cases while the crime victims continue to suffer. Robert Mueller ran the FBI on 911. Yet he is some big hero now?
The agent provocateurs in the FBI should be indicted and imprisoned. The FBI cares only about supporting the status que and protecting its image.
Eric
Guy Forester says
After reading Peter Lance’s book “1000 years for revenge”, various other books, articles, interviews, and watching documentaries like Steven Emerson’s about the jihadi next door, and some personal experiences I have had, I have concluded the following:
The FBI is a sign or symptom of the deep rooted rot that is in our governing bodies. This is from the local level to state capitols, to DC. It seems we have elements within our governing bodies that have been systematically working against us for decades.
Talk to disgruntled LEO’s, immigration officers, soldiers, and others that have given up in disgust and left their profession due to leaders that fail act for the benefit of citizens and the nation.
Baucent says
This is really scandalous. If true the Garland event was set out as a sacrificial lamb or a tethered goat, not to catch a Tiger, but to enable the Tiger trainer and enabler to maintain his cover and escape detection.