I don't know if the San Bernardino massacre of Dec. 15, 2015...
Jim Garrison Keillor@books_rum
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Apr 05, 2024
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I don't know if the San Bernardino massacre of Dec. 15, 2015 involved more than just Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook. But the event fit perfectly into the needs of the law enforcement community after the Snowden releases of 2013. Just a couple of examples:
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In response to Apple and Google's default encryption, and in the wake of Snowden, FBI director Comey gave his "Going Dark" speech at the Brookings Institution. He argued for tech companies to provide access to cell phones with passwords. brookings.edu/wp-content/upl…
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Sept. 2015: Robert Litt almost directly predicts the cell phone access problem that will arise after the San Bernardino Massacre washingtonpost.com/world/national…
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The terrorists are using encryption. Dianne Feinstein from Wash. Post, July 2015: "It seems to me, if companies will not voluntarily comply with lawful court orders for information, then they should be required to do so through legislation”washingtonpost.com/world/national…
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After Farook's cell phone is recovered, in Feb, 2016 Tim Cook refuses to help the Justice Dept. unlock it. Feb 16- The Justice Dept. files a court order against Apple to provide access. Comey then writes this, appealing to the public for sympathy: fbi.gov/news/press-rel…
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If there was anyone else involved in the San Bernardino Massacre my guess is it was an FBI informant working for the Riverside Joint Terrorist Task Force. One of their informants had a few years previously entrapped the "California Jihadists" casetext.com/case/united-st…
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These guys were somehow connected to Enrique Marquez in around 2011-2012, who was friends with Farook and who bought the guns that Farook later used.
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The NSC's 2015 draft paper for how to deal with the issue of enccryption. The plan is to create a public debate. Well that's what they got! apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/na…
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A year after the massacre, the FBI was still investigating whether the couple had assistance from someone else, and hadn't ruled out a third shooter time.com/4588231/san-be…
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Right after the attack the couple posted their support for ISIS leader Abu bakr al-Baghdadi. They had to look him up online earlier that day to get his name. Weird. abcnews.go.com/US/christmas-p…
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Gonna add details from Trevor Aaronson: Informants are behind most of the terror plots you've heard of since 9/11. The FBI currently operates the largest spy network that has ever existed in the US
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The FBI's Domain Management program collects a huuuuge amount of information about Muslim Americans, especially those who could be used as informants, and it's done under the guise of "community outreach"
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The FBI has especially focused on spying on Muslims and recruiting informants in Southern California. J. Stephen Tidwell was in charge of this at one point
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The FBI has a history of using informants to engineer terrorism threats specifically to justify invasive government surveillance, or distract people from these policies. This Miami case came out the day before the news broke that Bush was monitoring people's ATM transactions
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Just some of the ways the feds could locate or track Farook and/or Malik: Farook had a profile on dating app Bestmuslim. The feds use the company Mode X to track millions of users of Muslim sites like this. aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/1…
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Just nearby in Orange County, this informant aggressively targeted Muslims at a mosque and tried to get them interested in terrorist plans aclu.org/news/national-…
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While both of the mosques that Farook attended said he couldn't have been radicalized at their locations, he was on multiple social media sites for Middle Eastern/Muslim communities. Mode X collects data from around 400 apps for the government vice.com/en/article/jgq…
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Why should you be skeptical of any Islamic-related act of terrorism in the US. In the Muslim community, since 9/11 "Everyone I know just assumes that the person praying next to them is an informant"
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As Aaronson describes, the FBI is so desperate to prosecute terrorists that they will use actual criminals as informants, and even parole them early from prison to use them and KEEP employing them while they commit crimes and fail lie detector tests
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A huge number of these entrapment cases end up prosecuting someone who had neither the desire nor the means to independently commit the terrorist act - but what if the DOJ WANTED the act to go through, and the mark was a needle in a haystack who DID have the means?
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I wouldn't even be down the rabbit-hole this far if there weren't sightings of a third shooter, unanswered questions about the day of the shooting, problems with the timeline etc.
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And here I need to talk about the DHS's mysterious entities known as fusion centers, where I think an op like this would've originated. No one's really sure who's in charge of these places, and that's just the point: they're a no-man's land between the federal gov. and the state
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They're a nexus of federal, state, and private sector power, with limited oversight and accountability. The CIA used fusion centers to arrange their "extraordinary rention" torture flights, for example
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I don't know how this got buried, from NBC's report on Dec. 3rd. Who were these people in LA and overseas who radicalized Farook? We'll never know, but intelligence sources knew about it on the day after the shooting
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I recommend reading the ACLU's entire 2007 report on the fusion centers. The LA center would've handled this "op" or whatever you want to call it. There's really no limit to what they can do, the way they're organized aclu.org/files/pdfs/pri…
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The Joint Regional Intelligence Center of Los Angeles. They cover a huge portion of Southern California, but what do they do? Whom do they answer to? The vagueness is the whole point jric.org/default.aspx?M…
