Security guard Bruce Joiner was shot as two jihadis opened fire at our free speech event in Garland, Texas. The FBI undercover was in on the planning and the FBI was at our event — not to ensure our safety, but as part of the Islamic cell. He sued the FBI. Now they are trying to get the case dismissed.
Joiner’s attorney, Trenton Roberts, says his client sued in an effort to get to the bottom of the FBI’s involvement in the attack.
Roberts says there are only two explanations of what transpired that day with the undercover agent.
Story continues below advertisement“It seems like it had to have been one or the other,” Roberts told the Washington Examiner. “Just a complete botched operation where they [the FBI] don’t want the attack to actually take place, or, it’s something where they need the attack to take place in order for this guy [the agent] to advance in the world of ISIS.”
“And that’s really what I think. I think that they thought, ‘he’s undercover and in order to advance, he needed to get pictures or video of this attack,’ and then that would bolster his street cred within ISIS,” Roberts said.
As a side note, this is the first media report that accurately describes the events that led up to the Muhammad art exhibit and why I organized it.
Related: ‘Draw Muhammad’ conference organizer: FBI ‘wanted us dead’
FBI, DOJ Argue for Dismissal of Suit About Garland, Texas Attack
Guard wounded in ISIS-inspired attack in 2015 claims FBI knew of attack ahead of
BY: Todd Shepherd, Washington Free Beacon, January 14, 2018:
The FBI and the Department of Justice are arguing for a liability case against them to be dismissed, while at the same time admitting to key details surrounding the bureau’s involvement in the 2015 terrorist attack on the “Draw Muhammad” event in Garland, Texas.
In that attack, the first in the United States for which ISIS claimed responsibility, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, drove to the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland in a car loaded with six guns and over a thousand rounds of ammunition.
The two men opened fire when they were stopped at a perimeter checkpoint. A security guard, Bruce Joiner, was shot in the leg and the two attackers were killed just yards away from where the shooting began.
Joiner filed suit last October, claiming the FBI was partially responsible for his injuries. His suit argues the bureau “solicited, encouraged, directed and aided members of ISIS in planning and carrying out the May 3 attack,” and is asking for just over $8 million damages.
Court filings from Thursday confirm that an undercover FBI agent was in a separate car directly behind the attackers when they opened fire, and that the agent, “was dressed in Middle Eastern attire and police almost killed him, but he saved his life by claiming to be an FBI agent.”
Lawyers with the Justice Department are asking the court to dismiss the case, arguing that the FBI is immune from liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
The origins of the attack stretch to Paris, France, in January of 2015 when radicalized Islamists killed 12 people at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for the magazine’s depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.
Fewer than two weeks after the Charlie Hebdo attack, an Islamic group held a conference at the Culwell Center in Garland, called, “Stand With the Prophet in Honor and Respect.”
As a counter to the Islamic conference, self-described “free speech advocate” Pamela Gellar organized the “First Annual Muhamed (sic) Art Exhibit and Contest,” also to be held at the Culwell Center, slated for May of 2015.
Simpson and Soofi were part of a small cell of radical Islamists in the Phoenix area, which the FBI had been monitoring. An undercover agent, identified in Thursday’s filings only as “UCE-1,” had infiltrated the group for some time and had been in communication with Simpson.
Documents from a separate court case shed light on just how deep the agent’s activity had been, which included the following messaging between “UCE-1” and Simpson abut the upcoming “Draw Muhammed” event:
UCE-1: Tear up Texas.
Simpson: Bro, u don’t have to say that…U know what happened in Paris…I think…Yes or no…?
UCE-1: Right.
Simpson: So that goes without saying…No need to be direct.
A 60 Minutes exposé last March first revealed that the undercover agent was in a separate car directly behind Simpson and Soofi when the attack began, that the agent was taking pictures of the pair just seconds before they opened fire, and that the undercover agent tried to flee the scene once the attack began but was apprehended by local police.
The government’s only comment in response to the 60 Minutes report last March was to say, “There was no advance knowledge of a plot to attack the cartoon drawing contest in Garland, Texas.”
Joiner’s attorney, Trenton Roberts, says his client sued in an effort to get to the bottom of the FBI’s involvement in the attack.
Roberts says there are only two explanations of what transpired that day with the undercover agent.
“It seems like it had to have been one or the other,” Roberts told the Washington Examiner. “Just a complete botched operation where they [the FBI] don’t want the attack to actually take place, or, it’s something where they need the attack to take place in order for this guy [the agent] to advance in the world of ISIS.”
“And that’s really what I think. I think that they thought, ‘he’s undercover and in order to advance, he needed to get pictures or video of this attack,’ and then that would bolster his street cred within ISIS,” Roberts said.
The government’s response claimed that Joiner’s lawsuit, “provides only rank speculation that UCE-1 met up with and followed Simpson and Soofi to the event, and provides no well-plead factual allegations regarding what exactly UCE-1 did at or immediately before the event that could constitute the assistance, direction, solicitation, or encouragement of an assault. Rather, the only communication Plaintiff can point to as a basis for the assault claim is the comment to ‘tear up Texas.”
The curiosities surrounding the case have drawn the notice of some congressional leaders.
Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, complained in April of last year that he was learning details of the FBI’s involvement in the attack only through the media, and two years after the fact.
“We’ve been trying to have oversight on all of these terrorists attacks in the United States, so we can do an after-action report to see if some of the FBI procedures should be changed so we can prevent these things from happening in the future,” Johnson said in a report by Fox News.
In a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last May, Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) pressed then-FBI Director James Comey on the Garland attack and the 60 Minutes report.
“I can’t go into the details of it here, because they’re classified, but I think a fair thing to say is the media reports are highly misleading,” Comey said to Cruz. “And in a classified setting I could explain to you how.”
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Would his prison cell be a classified enough situation for scummy comey, lol?!!
The Islamic holy war against our peoples MUST be brought to an end.
Did the FBI let Stephen Paddock kill concert goers in an attempt to advance his ISIS street cred? If they did it before..
Good point- if the FBI was willing to let a mass murder happen in Garland, were they willing to let one happen in Las Vegas.
How much is the FBI infiltrated with Islam 0 Nazis?
Between moslem loving islamophiliacs and outright moslems (the vilest of ALL creatures) .. I believe they run deep.
Of course they want it dismissed…..they are already the laughing stock of the U.S.A. if not the world. Not all of the regular agents though, just the big mucky mucks. They think they run things, and until someone (namely Trump) SHOWS them otherwise, they will continue on as they do….and the demondrat judges will side with them.
If the FBI were complicit in endangering US citizens, they should not only be sued but should face serious prison time.
They should be publicly horsewhipped in the public square. And, then hanged by the neck until dead.
I want to see how much BHO was implicated and complicit with the DOJ and FBI–Will we ever learn how much the traitor of the white house was a part of this criminal Islamic act of treason???
I also want to see exactly what the former administration did. However, long ago, I stopped being Pollyanna.
The F_I-b needs to be disbanded lock, stock and barrel they can’t be trusted anymore — except possibly by the muslums who have co-opted/subverted them.
What do you mean IF? They are, all the time. US citizens are just collateral damage to them.
I wonder if the F_I-b was trying to implement the 0mahdi’s scheme that there be “no future for those who insult the prophet of islam.” by proxy.
This whole mess needs to go through the courts to see exactly what happened, though treason does come to mind, as the f b i were supporting a foreign power, islam, through not intervening to protect America.
I wonder if Peter Strzok was involved being he was the top counter intelligence stooge at the FBI.
He was too busy texting his love skank on his FBI issued phone.
SESSIONS OBVIOUSLY WANTS A ” COVER- UP ” AND IS WILLING TO SACRIFICE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ! THIS GUY NEEDS LEGAL HELP AND HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BECOME A HISTORICAL LEGAL CASE .
Leavenworth will need to add more cells , or maybe just anchor a chain in a patch of poison oak and cuff all the boogers to the chain .
Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights… Carry !
Quite possibly it was intended as a hit with plausible deniability. Sure looks that way.
Shut the entire FBI down for all they do is create terrorism and when is the last time they really prevented terrorism? you have to go past the Oklahoma city bombing to see the old FBI!
More proof that the FBI are a danger to U.S. citizens. There’s a reason the constitution forbade the federal government to create it’s own police force, for fear it would become so powerful as to use it against the American people. Which is what has happened.
Yep just look what they did to Randy Weaver and Waco. Thanks to Gas and Burn’m Reno.
FBI is dirty…they will never recover their reputation.
FIB, I mean FBLie, I mean FBI.
The FBI is covering this up just like they’re covering up the Las Vegas shooting.
Bruce Joiner is still alive ? Good on yer mate ! I fully expected him to have become an RTA casualty or another convenient suicide. Our governments’ transparency mandates become more murky every day until you wonder if they know who they are supposed to be protecting from whom . I certainly do not.
Something stinks in Las Vegas.
Lets see if A.G. Sessions has any integrity in the matter of Garland, Texas.
It appears that most of the goobermint “agencies” are filled with Quislings. The Trojan horse that ovomit left us with. I also think that the media is also full of Quislings. What a pathetic circus those people put on over Trumps health, waste measurements, obese, borderline this borderline that, dementia puleazzze.