FBI Trying to Dodge Turning Over Documents in Texas Jihad Shooting Attack Lawsuit

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Geller Report readers are long-familiar with this gross miscarriage of justice. The FBI undercover agent was in on the ISIS-directed jihad plan to attack our free speech event, and the FBI was there — not to ensure our safety, but as part of the Islamic cell. A security guard was shot, and sued the FBI for aiding and abetting ISIS. Now they are trying to get the case dismissed.

A lawsuit against the FBI for its role in a 2015 terror attack in Texas has taken a detour over discovery issues.

FBI Might Avoid Turning Over Documents in Texas Attack Lawsuit

By Todd Shepherd, Washington Free Beacon, February 20, 2018:

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Security guard injured in 2015 shooting wants answers to level of FBI’s undercover involvement

Bruce Joiner, a security guard shot in the leg by two radicalized Islamists at a “Draw Muhammad” event in the North Dallas suburb of Garland in May of that year, learned months later that an FBI agent had been undercover in the terrorist cell that executed the attack. The agent had texted one of the assailants to “Tear up Texas” a few days before the attack, and was also in a separate vehicle directly behind the two terrorists taking pictures of them just seconds before they opened fire at a perimeter parking checkpoint.

The undercover agent, described in court documents as being dressed in Middle Eastern attire, tried to flee the scene when the shooting began but was stopped by local police.

Attorneys for the FBI asked for a dismissal in recent federal court filings, but have taken the extra step of asking the court to delay all discovery until the court rules on the dismissal motion.

Joiner is suing the FBI for liability and is asking for just over $8 million in damages, but has maintained in other media interviews and also through his attorney that he is bringing the suit primarily to get to the bottom of the FBI’s involvement leading up to the attack.

If discovery is halted, and should the case later be dismissed, Joiner would leave the case empty handed, no closer to understanding why an FBI agent who had contacts with the attackers was so close when the gunfire started but did nothing to prevent the attack and instead tried to flee.

“I don’t know of any undercover agent that can allow their fellow officers and citizens to be fired upon in the course of an investigation,” Joiner told Dallas television station KTVT in late 2016. “You have to stop that before that happens.”

While the federal government can be sued for damages in some situations, it also has immunity from tort lawsuits in cases where the government is carrying out policy so that persons cannot stop the federal government from carrying out their policy objectives by filing liability lawsuits. This is known as the “discretionary function” exception.

Joiner’s attorney, Trenton Roberts, hit back against the government’s motion to dismiss without discovery last week, arguing that “by conducting discovery, [Joiner] will be able to provide a more sufficient record for the Court to rule on the crucial factual questions pertinent to the ‘discretionary function.'”

“In arguing that [the FBI] has the prerogative to weigh ‘harm to innocent victims resulting from a covert operation’ against the need for ‘maintaining secrecy,’ Defendant is effectively claiming that the FBI had discretion to allow potentially hundreds of American citizens to be attacked in a dubious attempt to maintain [the FBI agent’s] cover,” Roberts wrote in the filing.

“Put simply, Defendant’s motion to dismiss would provide any law enforcement officer immunity to aid or assist a terrorist massacre on American soil, in the name of ‘maintaining secrecy.’ This is simply not the law,” Roberts noted, adding later, “the judgment exercised by the FBI was not of the kind that Congress intended to shield from civil claims.”

It is not uncommon in civil cases for discovery to happen between the litigating parties even though a motion for dismissal will be ruled upon later.

At various points in 2017, Republican senators Ted Cruz (Texas), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), and Ron Johnson (Wis.), all made inquiries to the Justice Department about the issue, especially after a ’60 Minutes’ report in March highlighted for a national audience the FBI’s close proximity to the attack.

In a May 2017 hearing, less than one week before he was fired by President Trump, then-FBI Director James Comey told Sen. Cruz in a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, “I can’t go into the details of [the Garland operation] here, because they’re classified, but I think a fair thing to say is the media reports are highly misleading.”

The Garland attack is one of the legacies of the assault on the Charlie Hebdo offices by Islamist radicals over the satirical magazine’s portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad. That attack killed 12, and injured 11 more.

Less than two weeks after the attack in Paris, a Muslim community held a fundraiser at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland called, “Stand with the Prophet in Honor and Respect.” The fundraiser drew heavy protests.

In response to the fundraiser, self-described free-speech advocate Pamela Geller created the “Draw Muhammad” event at which Joiner was providing security along with the Garland Police Department.

The two attackers, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, were killed within yards of where they opened fire. It was the first attack on American soil for which ISIS claimed responsibility.

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Phil McDonald
Phil McDonald
6 years ago

Why does FBI lie to the public they have been sworn to protect??

Juan Martinez
Juan Martinez
6 years ago
Reply to  Phil McDonald

Because the FBI at the top levels have been compromised by left wing progressives and we are starting to see that spread to rank and file.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago
Reply to  Juan Martinez

It spread to the rank and file … a very long time ago.

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
6 years ago
Reply to  Phil McDonald

phil, why on earth do you think they care about you? it’s a muslim-run organization controlled by the democrat party for the benefit of the party, no different than the KGB

UnderzogD
Underzog
6 years ago
Reply to  Phil McDonald

The FBI wanted to see the..Jewess get hers.– and the film that the FBI coild’ve taken of the massacre would help build street cred with the Islamic terrorists. It’s truth tellers such as Pamela who are the threat — not Nicholas Cruz /sarc

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago
Reply to  Underzog

I wonder if they were trying to implement the 0mahdi’s public promise to the UN: “that the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of islam”.

UnderzogD
Underzog
6 years ago

That appears to be the case. I can only hope that the sheer incompetence of the FBI willhelp those in power expose the FBI’s venality in Garland.Tx. That organization needs to be fumigated and, then dissolved.

USMCLt
USMCLt
6 years ago
Reply to  Phil McDonald

Answer: Islam promotes lying to the infidel. Islam infiltrates FBI. So, now the oath sworn by FBI agents is simply taqiyya in action. Shut down the FBI!!!

marlene
marlene
6 years ago
Reply to  Phil McDonald

Because they can and because that’s what they’ve been paid to do for decades.

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
6 years ago

pamela, i admire your tenacity, but let’s face it, the Fed Bureau of Islam was quite willing to allow some nut-jub muslim to get rid of a pesky jew, and you can’t do anything about it unless the donald decides to get off his fat rear end and go after these pukes

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Rocinante44

Agree. Hillary Left/Liberal media/Mafia runs fake investigation. Nobody is touching the mafia itself. And Hillary mafia killed another witness to email investigation http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l

Nobody even investigates it bcoz Hillary gang is running FBI/DOJ/state dept/NSA.

USMCLt
USMCLt
6 years ago
Reply to  Rocinante44

Instead, the WH announces it will leave the door open to an assault weapon ban. Seriously??? Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Michelle Palmateer
Michelle Palmateer
6 years ago
Reply to  USMCLt

Where did you see that the WH may ban assault weapons. I think you made that up. I’ve seen the bump stock news, however the only folks I have heard that want to re-impose an assault weapon ban are the Democrats.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago
Reply to  Rocinante44

Now you see why I carry a concealed weapon on me everywhere I go, especially to church.

Be safe, be trained, be alert.

Nabi Rasch
Nabi Rasch
6 years ago

Just one of those pens or what?

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago
Reply to  Nabi Rasch

TOO funny .. A titanium pen, with a glass breaker 5.99 (with free shipping, if you watch the sales) at BudK or True Swords, might provide some protection if some ninety year old granny is attacking you …

Nabi Rasch
Nabi Rasch
6 years ago

The problem is that us responsible types, even though maybe armed, are the most reticent to violence. Crazy leftards instinctively take advantage of this.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago
Reply to  Nabi Rasch

A Beretta 96-A1 (.40 S&W) in an ankle holster.

AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
6 years ago

Sorry Pamela,… FBI too busy assisting terrorist on American soil and ignoring threats !!!

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Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago

FBI has not announced any plan to remove muslim sensitivity training materials and brainwash that certainly happened under Obama, and almost certainly began under Bush.

That mindset in in place. It will take an atomic war against the United States to remove it. That’ll fix ’em.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

All this foolishness by the f b i is entrenching the mistrust of it and the government as well as the extreme dislike of muslims everywhere.

marlene
marlene
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I disliked and distrusted muslims even before I disliked and distrusted the FBI

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago
Reply to  marlene

Ditto, but now we have muslums working IN the F_I-B!

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
6 years ago

Muslims in the FBI, in effect enemies of the country employed by the now useless, subverted FBI, tells a huge amount about FBI leadership.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
6 years ago

The government needs a house cleaning to rid of all sedition in all branches of government , and those guilty of same should pay the maximum penalty rid the system of traitors .

Bradley Lexvold
Bradley Lexvold
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Part of the problem is new overseer of FBI, Jerry Nadler extreme communist. Nadler heads the committee that the FBI is answerable to. It used to be John Conyers, another extreme communist, but he resigned amongst scandal, so we went from bad to worse. THIS is only part of the problem.

JayPee
JayPee
6 years ago

Why and What is the FBI trying to hide ?
The fact they are doing this is
PROOF
they are
Corrupt to their core
And must be reconstituted
In other words
FIRE EVERYBODY
and reconstruct.

Investigate Gov Corruption NOW
Investigate Gov Corruption NOW
6 years ago

It’a “Fart Bureau of Investigation”.
(FBI) Fart Bureau of Indigestion

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago

Since Bush 43 it should have been called, “Federal Bureau of Islamization”.

Investigate Gov Corruption NOW
Investigate Gov Corruption NOW
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Read the article.
Who Is Being Influenced By Foreign Powers?

At the time, Republican Congressman Dick Armey suggested that the
Clinton weapons technology transfers to China, while he was receiving
millions of dollars in contributions from Chinese agents, amounted to
“treason.”
dailycaller.com/2016/11/08/who-is-being-influenced-by-foreign-powers/

Was there an FBI then???
“Fart Bureau of Investigation”.
(FBI) Fart Bureau of Indigestion

marlene
marlene
6 years ago

Thanks for the link. Everyone should read it. It’s always islamic and communist countries that our corrupt “leaders” sell us out to. They obviously have the biggest lobbies and pay the most.

Investigate Gov Corruption NOW
Investigate Gov Corruption NOW
6 years ago
Reply to  marlene

Send this article to all your friends.

marlene
marlene
6 years ago

Done.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago

Good info – adding to what was presented here – thanks.

Ron Cole
Ron Cole
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

Gee that is what we call the pantiesgone.

Jimbo Lero
Jimbo Lero
6 years ago

The FBI has been turned into a leftist political agenda enforcement organization. How easily the left corrupts every governmental entity by allowing, indeed encouraging personal political bias in day to day agency operations. Neither Geller nor Joiner can ever expect fair impartial treatment from such partisans.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago
Reply to  Jimbo Lero

Q: What did the FBI say when an elephant walked into their office?
A: Nothing. They never saw it.

robert v g
robert v g
6 years ago

No surprise Fibbies trying to keep this covered-up,to the detriment of the injured & the public.

juan davidc
juan davidc
6 years ago

phil, why on earth do you think they care about you? it’s a muslim-run organization controlled by the democrat party for the benefit of the party, no different than the KGB

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago

What does Comey mean by “highly misleading”? Why don’t the citizens of this republic have the right to determine who or what is being misleading? Could it be because the F_I-B and Comey are being misleading? The whole rotten group of corrupt criminals in the F_I-B should be disbanded, it’s clear their organisation no longer represents the citizens of this republic. Maybe they would all be happier living in some muslum sh!ttystan somewhere where they can murder/persecute/incarcerate innocent civilians with impunity and facilitate muslum terrorism.

Rick Gouveia
Rick Gouveia
6 years ago

What ever happened to Anonymous? They need to reveal the personal details of all male FBI undercover agents who wear dresses to work.

bannedquran20
bannedquran20
6 years ago

Get rid of Jeff and replace him with Trey or Col. West and either one of them will clean house from the top to bottom in all agencies and fire anyone who refuse to follow the law. End of story.

Dagonet
Dagonet
6 years ago

“Never let a good disaster go to waste.” – Rahm Emanuel, Chicago mayor

False Flag operation/black ops

Emanuel once said something about (politically) taking advantage of a tragedy. In this case it looks like a set-up, a false flag operation that may NOT have been approved by the FBI, but instead executed by rogue agents acting on their own or for a splinter head in the FBI (Comey, perhaps?).

The FBI agent sets up these two turds to commit a terrorist act and the gov’t then has what it needs to FURTHER seize our rights empowering the gov’t and extending it’s over reach. The FBI agent was directly behind dumber and dumber taking pictures of the act to use as evidence. When a POS like Comey, Mueller, HRC or BHO, rises in power with impunity, they want more. The FBI was saying that cooperating with the investigation, releasing information, would reveal the ID of an undecover FBI agent (endangering him) and was therefore trying to cover their A-es. These are FBI people doing what they are not supposed to do, working outside of the scope of FBI operations, this is “black ops”.

Can’t wait for more S- to implode on Mueller, Comey, HRC, BHO, Holder,….. We need to SOON get to the point where it’s politically safe for Trump to fire everybody and let Sessions go after ALL the S- that needs to be cleaned up.

Trump 2020

bannedquran20
bannedquran20
6 years ago

These Federal agencies, especially the DOJ thought that dusty ovaries was going to win (it was in the bag by a score 500 to 38) and that’s why the big mess of blob that’s going on from one agency to the next. I don’t think that Jeff is up to the task neighbor. All these knots of a mess would have been untied by now, either under Trey or Col. West and many would have been sent up the river for treason, among others federal charges.

Norbus
Norbus
6 years ago

Smells like the Las Vegas shooting being covered up to mask FBI involvment

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

This is a further indication of how politicized and out of control the FBI became under Obhammud. As we are finding out daily, there was an upper echelon who did pretty well as they pleased, protecting and promoting each other while the actual workforce did the real work.

GR Arnold
GR Arnold
6 years ago

Why would they try to avoid releasing the documents if they did nothing wrong? With the fact that injuries and deaths occurred it seems this would be standard requirement. The FBI sure has a lot to answer for in the past several years.

marlene
marlene
6 years ago

Most of us already know how corrupt our congress and federal agencies are. It’s time for mass protests against them.

James Stamulis
James Stamulis
6 years ago

Whenever CAIR demanded something the FBI jumped to make them happy but real American victims need not apply! Time to dissolve the FBI for the good of all America.

Snod
Snod
6 years ago

FBI is looking like a very corrupt agency that must be looked at very closely. All the garbage they did to Trump and other Americans was no accident!

Really?
Really?
6 years ago

It appears that the FBI is a domestic terrorist organization helping to carry out mass shootings and murders of American citizens, including, but not limited to, school shootings.

Dpear1
Dpear1
6 years ago

Fbi is coming across as an outlaw police group that do what they want with little regard for the laws all Americans are expected to uphold. Time for a major shake up to root out the corruption. We don’t want to be another Mexico.

Nabi Rasch
Nabi Rasch
6 years ago

What about the exhortation to ‘Tear up Texas’?! The FBI’s gone rogue and screwy.

Jackie Puppet
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago

The agent that allowed the attack to happen needs to have ranger justice administered to him, and send a message to other feds that this’ll happen to them if they don’t fall in line.

AmDT
AmDT
6 years ago

Please sign up on minds.com (Tucker Carlson hosted the man who started it on his show tonight) Its a social media and advertising platform minus censorship and crazy algorithms designed to stifle free speech. I’d like to share some of your content there. 🙂

DW3
DW3
6 years ago

Disarm ALL the police

Disband the FBI.

ARM THE CITIZENRY TO THE TEETH.

BUILD the WALL.
DEPORT 100% of Illegal ALIENS.

#MAGA

marty martin
marty martin
6 years ago

Lets face it every Federal agency under Obama was corrupted,

John Nosser
John Nosser
6 years ago

I think the reason they do not want to turn over information is because they have something to hide. So it may be that not only some FBI agents were participating with the terrorists in the Texas attack, but that it may be something done by a widespread (from top to bottom) portion of the FBI with many different terrorist groups and many different planned attacks. This one event may be just the tip of the iceberg, and it is all starting to be revealed thanks to Pamela Geller’s case. Worrisome, the FBI colluding with terrorists! FORCE THEM TO REVEAL IT PAMELA! Keep safe also!

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