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Judicial Watch Pinch-Hitting for the FBI


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judicial_watch_pinchhitting_for_the_fbi.htmlAmerican Thinker:

Despite the growing menace and media savvy of the terrorist Islamic group ISIS, the FBI appears to be, once again, failing in its investigative and enforcement responsibilities. The agency that let us down with 9/11 and, afterward, reacted mainly in a flurry of political correctness and appeasement toward Muslims is now trying to reassure the American public that we have nothing to fear from ISIS on the North American continent.

 

This despite warnings from the nonprofit Judicial Watch of ISIS activism in Mexico, and recent ISIS-related arrests in Minnesota. More is needed from the nation's top domestic intelligence and security agency than this whistling in the dark if we are to be safe in our own country.

 

Official government estimates of ISIS recruits vary widely from 20,000 to 50,000. Nicholas Rasmussen, director of the federal National Counterterrorism Center, who places the number at more than 20,000, reports that fighters hail from 90 countries, with an estimated 3,400 from Western countries, including over 150 from the United States. Rasmussen admits that there is "likely more information out there that we have not yet been able to collect," and that there could also be "greater numbers of foreign fighters, and potentially even greater numbers of individuals from western countries and the United States who've traveled to the conflict zones."

 

Meanwhile, FBI assistant director for counterterrorism Michael Steinbach has reinforced the level of risk by admitting, "Certainly I would not be truthful if I told you we know about all the returnees."Scissors-32x32.png


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Well maybe not so much.


Has ISIS Established a Training Camp 8 Miles From the Porous Texas Border?
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
16th April 2015 - Quoted by Samuel Smith


The conservative watchdog website Judicial Watch is claiming that Islamic State terrorists have established a training camp located 8 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border and plan on infiltrating the United States with the help of drug cartel smugglers.

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However, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, counterterrorism analyst at the Washington-based think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told The Christian Post on Thursday that he questions the validity of the Judicial Watch report, as some of their previous claims about ISIS near the border have been proven to not be true.

 

"It's entirely based on anonymous sources, so it is impossible to assess the credibility of their sources, but [Judicial Watch] has a pretty poor record with respect to claims of ISIS' infiltration into the United States previously," Gartenstein said. "Judicial Watch, for example, [previously] pushed the idea that you had a large number of ISIS fighters who were arrested at the border trying to enter the country. We know for a fact, at this point, that is not true."

 

Gartenstein-Ross added that he has not heard of any actual evidence that ISIS has established a presence near Ciudad Juarez and added that it wouldn't make sense for the cartel and "coyotes" to want to help ISIS infiltrate the U.S.

 

"This training camp in Juarez, I have seen no evidence of it," Gartenstein-Ross asserted. "In general, the incentives of the cartels and other organizations, like the coyotes, is in the opposite direction of trying to align with ISIS. These guys are profit centered. They are bad guys, but they are bad guys who are out to make a profit. There is nothing that can jeopardize their profits more than smuggling a bunch of ISIS fighters into the United States. That would be extraordinarily disruptive to their entire business model."

 

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