Yet More Idiocy at DHS
Remember the San Bernardino shootings? You know, that cold-blooded terrorist massacre perpetrated by a US citizen and his foreign-born spouse? The spouse who DHS allowed to enter the country in in spite of the fact that she’d made social media postings supporting violent jihad; where DHS didn’t bother even to check her social media posts because it was against DHS policy to do so; and who DHS never interviewed in person as required under Federal law before allowing them to immigrate?
Well, looks like this one gets “curiouser and curiouser” still with respect to DHS’s actions.
The two dead terrorists who perpetrated that attack got their weapons from a straw buyer – Enrique Martinez – who was a friend of the husband. The FBI determined this shortly after the attack.
Martinez had a scheduled interview at the San Bernardino US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office the day after the attack. FBI officials found out about that interview; they requested that their LE counterparts at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detain Martinez as a person of interest so that they could interview him about the matter.
Unfortunately, that didn’t go too well.
When the ICE agents went to the San Bernardino USICS office as requested by the FBI, they were refused entry. They were unable to detain Martinez.
Yeah, you read that right. The Federal personnel running that ICS office refused to allow Federal LE personnel acting at the request of the FBI to enter their facility and detain a person of interest in a terrorism case.
Tell me that isn’t evidence of a seriously out-of-whack set of priorities. In my book, when Federal immigration services personnel start ignoring requests from Federal LE to detain persons of interest in terrorist attacks something is seriously effed up.
Fox News has an article with more details. It’s worth reading.
Sounds like “you got some ‘splainin’ to do”, Secretary Johnson. Or maybe that should read “you got lots more ‘splainin’ to do”.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", DHS, Government Incompetence, Terror War, WTF?
Two words to describe a lot of the problems in USCIS Civil Service higher management…
“political appointees”
And People Wander Why Trump Is So Popular This Story Is Case In Point
When we are rid of that worthless asshole obama and ALL of his appointees, then maybe these cowards will crawl back under their rocks and we can get back to common sense governing!!
AMEN ! ! ! !
We will never be rid of them. Civil service is chock full of activists and partisans. The IRS exposed Lois Lerner, but she didn’t act alone. They have Obama screensavers and Hillary posters on their walls and they know they can violate the rules to play partisan games without fear of being held accountable.
Their motto is “reward our friends and punish our enemies” as Obama says. The only answer is giving government less power over our daily lives.
Ya lets vote republican, the only party that tries to suppress voters. When Bush was in power, he put bible pounding morons from liberty university in civil service jobs. Wrecking the economy. Under Obama, unemployment less than 5 percent, the deficient lower then its been in 20 years (as a percentage of gross domestic product, something that is beyond your comprehension) killed Bin Laden, More drone strikes than Bush. Ya lets go back to a repub president, maybe this time we can water board America citizens this go round.
Oh, look! An Obama acolyte/agitator … and it’s Bush’s fault … again … still … forever?
yeah, because Bush was caught illegally using the IRS to attack people who dared to disagree with him. That’s an impeachable offense for a white president. Nixon didn’t even do it, he was just accused of it. The left had to create fake documents to invent charges against Bush. What an effin more on. Thanks for proving my point troll. That’s what happens when R’s try to play nice. No more.
What is in the world is that mess, Tom Norf? Hittin’ that bottle hard, ain’t ya?
Suppress illegal voters. You know – something called upholding the law?
Isn’t this the same thing that happened prior to 9/11? One federal agency not talking to another or cooperating, thus allowing some pretty bad shit to go down.
Yes, somewhat. But there’s a huge difference in degree.
However, here there are two major differences. First, I don’t think any Federal agency flatly refused to cooperate with another before 9/11 – they simply didn’t share information effectively. Second, here both entities involved are part of the same parent department (DHS, AKA “Disfunctional Homeland Security”.) Don’t believe that was generally the case regarding the bad info sharing prior to 9/11.
What happened here is akin to one precinct in a city’s PD flatly refusing to let a detective from another precinct enter their station and talk to someone they have in custody, then refusing to turn the guy over to them and letting the suspect leave by the back door while keeping the detectives from the other precinct busy at the front door.
Think I would have gone full jackass on them and arrested them for interfering with a federal investigation.
Sure, it would have caused a shit storm and lots of butt hurt, but fuck them.
Elsewhere, there has been push-back in taking a “hands-off approach” when it comes to dealing with ragheads/muzzies. (I can’t help but wonder if there is somehow a connection between this and that?)
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-releases-new-special-report-u-s-government-purges-of-law-enforcement-training-material-deemed-offensive-to-muslims/
Meanwhile, a solid family from a friendly nation wanting to immigrate legally to the U.S. and having viable work skills to support themselves, get the white light, third degree treatment and hem hawed to death.
Obama and his appointees have had their collective heads up Obama’s ass for coming on eight years and if, (I shudder to even type the words) Hillary is elected, kiss the nation we know now goodbye and learn to say hello in the Arab tongue of your choice.
ya, he deported 3 times as many illegals as Bush, and No 9/11s under Obama, and no invasions of countries that had nothing to do with 9/11. No wrecking of economy. If Hillary is elected, Why don’t you move to Russia? They will take a friendly family.
Would you just go away.
This comes from the same administration and political party that wants to prosecute people for speaking ill of islam.
ALLAH PIGSNOT.
don’t forget the DOJ has stated before a congressional hearing that they are using RICO Act to go after corporations and individuals the don’t believe in man made climate change or speak out or fund activities to undermine what the administration is preaching
When did DOJ say that?
Technical correction. When L. Lynch testified regarding that, it was a ‘friendly question’ by (if I recall correctly) some critter from CT. She said that they were looking at that–using civil suits to stop the climate change doubters as was previously done to stop Big Tobacco from saying that the science of harm from tobacco use is unsettled. The DOJ has not sued anyone–yet–but the prospect alone may have been the desired end, to shut up those who question “the fact” of man-made climate change.
Lynch’s yapping hasn’t stopped me from questioning any of those ‘facts’. <3
All the more reason I do not support forcing Apple to unlock the phone of our recently departed.
You had about a dozen red flags waving in your face already, but that wasn’t enough?
Thanks for posting this, I saw it last night and was thinking I’d need to gobble a couple of the wife’s high blood pressure pills to keep from exploding.
I thought territorial pissing matches over jurisdiction were supposed to another sad legacy of a bygone era, not the precursor to a potentially murderous rampage by a guy who’d already supplied the means to a previous murderous rampage.
When I read this yesterday I was almost in tears. I’m serious. One story I read said there was a ‘misunderstanding’ between the two groups. Horsefeathers. It’s call protecting one’s turf and who cares if the public suffers. Heads should roll but some dimwit will announce that it will never happen again, all the while not really giving a shit if it does. Please! Can the adults be in charge for a while? This is beyond the pale. Heads roll? Not a friggin chance. Fucking douchebags.
“Director Saldaña is the recipient of several meritorious awards and was most recently named Latina Attorney of the Year at the Hispanic National Bar Association’s 38th Annual Convention. In September 2011, Director Saldaña became Texas’s first Latina chief prosecutor.” Well, there you go. It’s what makes this country great. In 2012, Senora Saldana took her oBaMajob. She is good at what she does: not enforcing the law. And the other guy, Senor Rodriguez, is the son of Cuban immigrants. What are you people, racist? Why would we expect the government to be any better in one area than it is in another? You do know who’s in charge. And you do know who has oversight. So?
I agree with Skippy’s comment – this does help explain why Trump is so popular. When the government routinely does things that make no damn sense (and this is certainly a prime example and only one of many), then only an idiot would be unable to understand why a candidate like Trump is doing well. My youngest son, who is fairly liberal, surprised me when he said he agreed with much of what Trump was saying. Mr. Trump is hitting all the hot buttons of frustrated people in this country. He’s saying things out loud that many people know make sense but they see their ‘normal’ politicians tapdance around. It’s ‘politican correctness’ run amok, and apparently a good part of the population is fed up with it. Hence Trump’s popularity.
I don’t know if Trump is going to be the best choice for Presdient; I am certain he isn’t the worst choice (that would be Shillary! or Bernie – take your choice as to which is worse). If he is the nominee, I will vote for him. I’ll take the chance on Trump versus the sure-fire disaster of either Clintoon or Sanders. I definitely won’t sit this one out. That’s a definite vote for one of the disaster twins.
“[The ATF] and the [Justice] Department deeply regret that firearms associated with Operation Fast and Furious have been used by criminals in the commission of violent crimes, particularly crimes resulting the death of civilians and law enforcement officers,” assistant attorney general Peter Kadzik said in a Tuesday letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman….”
The Tuesday referred to was yesterday. El Chapo had a .50 cal rifle c/o the US gov’t. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed by one in 2010. There are other shootings and killings that trace to the scheme. As of January, 885 of the guns have been recovered with some 470 recovered in Mexico and 415 in the US. And oBaMa, you know, The Transparent One, claimed executive privilege when inquiries were posed. Idiocy indeed.
Google Jaime Gorlick, aka: mistress of disaster. She’s the poster child for dysfunction in government…
I did. Holy smokes! She truly could be the poster child–and a very rich one, thanks to Fannie Mae. Talk about screwing up everything she touched–and despite that was on oBaMa’s short list for something or other. Cripes.
Not just something or other, Air Cav, she was on the short list to become Director of the FBI, back in 2011.
Ø would have politicized the IRS and the FBI, if he could have.
I forgot to add, Gorlick walked away from her stint at Fannie Mae $26 million richer. Not bad for 5 years time put in.
Great. That’s just great. Is there a directory of assholes that The Transparent One relies upon for these considerations?
It’s called the “Inverse Midas Touch”, 2/17 Air Cav. With that, everything the individual touches turns to crap.
I’ve always thought her name sounded like an indecent proposition (or question) regarding a certain former VP.
They should just laterally transfer them over to the VA.
Problem solved.
And now you know why this election season is so wild.
Of course, California in general is especially weird.
Comes from too much exposure to California sun combined with pollution, all fried in a hookah full of prime CA weed. For variety, add a touch of acid or meth and top off with a dose of Gov Moonbeam. It’s a recipe for weird bordering on insanity.
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