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Federal lawmakers are investigating how a former Iraqi insurgent fighter was able to lie about his identity and still get through America's 'extreme' vetting process.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to find out why the terror suspect's pending arrest was allegedly spiked just over a week before the election. Trump had run on a tough-on-terror platform and had been critical of President Obama's refugee policy.
"When [Joint Terrorism Task Force] and the U.S. Attorney's office for the Western District of Texas sought to prosecute this refugee, the local law enforcement and prosecutors allegedly 'met resistance' from officials within the National Security Division's Counter Terrorism section in Washington DC," Committee chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a March 6 letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @12:42AM (1 child)
Saw this same tactic back with CRAB. When caught in a scandal, change the subject. This story is fake news. Not found anywhere else, anywhere on the real media streams. A Non-event. Nothing happened. Nobody was hurt. No blood was spilled. No dishes were broken. Nothing was blown up. Nobody died. A fake staged arrest may have been made to enhance the illusion for the cameras.
The Emperor of Chaos tweeting serious allegations of illegal wiretapping abuse by a former president and several federal agencies. All false rumors started by fake alt-right media. If Obama had done this shit he would have been in an eternal shit storm by all those fucking reds he was surrounded by every God-damned day.
Meanwhile for those not paying attention, because you're watching fox news:
1. Congress is passing a bill right now to allow your ISP to track all your browsing habits and sell your browsing history to whomever wants to buy it. Your privacy is now gone.
Read it here on that other site: https://politics.slashdot.org/story/17/03/08/2032228/gop-senators-new-bill-would-let-isps-sell-your-web-browsing-data [slashdot.org]
2. Your insurance and healthcare is going to get much worse and much more expensive. If you have healthcare at all.
3. Mexico will never pay for that wall. All americans will pay for it buying their groceries, good & services and through your taxes.
Much like the old playground game of "look at my thumb." While the public's focused on fake news, the "Look at my thumb" part, Your senators are passing laws that make your future Orwellian future look tame. The "I've got my hands down your pants and groping your junk" is the "Gee you're dumb" part.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @03:36AM
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
-LBJ