[ April 25, 2024 ]
“In addition to being in close to the exhibit around the time of the attack, the undercover agent was in communication with Simpson before Simpson and Soofi opened fire, filings show. An FBI affidavit filed in support of Hendricks’ arrest in August 2016 noted that the agent, while talking to Simpson, told him to ‘tear up Texas’ more than a week prior to the Garland art exhibit shooting.”
Remember: at our free speech event, Geert Wilders, the leader of Holland’s second largest political party, was there. He has for years been targeted for assassination. Imagine if they had been successful. My colleague Robert Spencer and I have received numerous death threats from Muslims. Cartoon contest winner Bosch Fawstin drew Muhammad. Did Obama’s pro-Islam FBI want us all dead?
What other conclusion can be reached? While I do believe that undercover FBI agents have to play along with the jihadis they’re dealing with, because in order to be in an informant you have to have credibility, it’s a whole other thing if you’re encouraging and cheering on the proposed murder of Americans who are standing in defense of the freedom of speech, and then not doing anything about it. Why did the FBI only have one agent there? And not a team waiting for them to shoot back?
The FBI knew about the attack before it happened, but did not alert law enforcement or my security apparatus. When I first heard that the FBI had prior notice of the attack, I thought that it was very short-term notice. It was assumed by many people that the FBI had had some sketchy prior knowledge of the attack, but nothing particularly specific.
They were in on the planning of the jihad attack, and did nothing about it. If you recall, the FBI only got around to alerting Garland police about Simpson’s jihad plans three hours before our event. It was Garland police, not the FBI, that coordinated all the super security efforts with our own security team.
The FBI knew about the impending attack, one of their agents told Simpson to “tear up Texas,” and an accomplice of Simpson was even communicating with the undercover agent at the time of the attack. This accomplice, who seems to have been Erick Hendricks, asked the undercover agent about our event’s security, size, and police presence, during the event. The agent’s answers have never been released. Why not?
They knew about the attack, yet they didn’t have a team there in case the jihadis started shooting? It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the Obama FBI wanted me and the other speakers at the event dead. What other conclusion can be reached?
“Undercover FBI agent will testify in disguise to partially-closed courtroom in terror suspect’s trial,” by Eric Heisig, Cleveland.com, March 2, 2018:
CLEVELAND, Ohio — An undercover FBI agent will don a disguise and use a pseudonym in a partially-closed courtroom when testifying in a trial for a man charged with working to create a cell of Islamic State supporters to carry out violent acts in the United States.
The agent’s identity must be protected when he takes the stand against Erick Jamal Hendricks in a federal courtroom in Akron because he is still working cases undercover, federal prosecutors said. To show his face to the public would put his and his family’s safety at risk, as Hendricks and others have conducted countersurveillance to detect undercover law enforcement, the government argued.
U.S. District Judge John Adams agreed, imposing nearly all the safety measures requested by prosecutors for the agent’s testimony, which is expected take place sometime this month. Jury selection for Hendricks’ trial began Friday. The trial could last up to three weeks.
Story continues below advertisementAn order issued Wednesday says the agent will testify under a pseudonym, wear a “light disguise, such as changing … facial hair, hairstyle, or dress style” and is allowed to enter the courthouse through an entrance not available to the public.
Only the judge, jury, defendant, his attorneys, the government’s team and essential court staff will be allowed in the courtroom during the agent’s testimony, the judge ordered. Spectators can listen to an audio feed of the testimony in a separate room in the courthouse. They will not be able to see the agent.
Adams noted that he may allow Hendricks’ close family in the courtroom while the agent testifies.
Hendricks, 37, of North Carolina is charged with conspiring to provide support to ISIS. Federal prosecutors say his mission was to recruit and train ISIS sympathizers in the U.S. to carry out attacks. He vetted people to see if they were suitable to join his cell and told others to vet more possible recruits through social media, authorities say.
A large part of the government’s case centers on Hendrick’s alleged connection to one of two gunmen who opened fire at “The First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest” in Garland, Texas in May 2015. Simpson and the other man, Nadir Hamid Soofi, wounded a security guard before police shot and killed them.
The undercover agent is expected to testify that he spoke to Hendricks through social media and that Hendricks connected Simpson and the agent. Hendricks also directed the agent travel to Garland, which is northeast of Dallas, because of the contest. Once there, Hendricks asked the undercover agent about security measures at the event, according to court records.
In addition to being in close to the exhibit around the time of the attack, the undercover agent was in communication with Simpson before Simpson and Soofi opened fire, filings show. An FBI affidavit filed in support of Hendricks’ arrest in August 2016 noted that the agent, while talking to Simpson, told him to “tear up Texas” more than a week prior to the Garland art exhibit shooting.
The agent made the comment “in an effort to continue their dialogue,” the affidavit says.
The measures the government requested and the judge allowed to restrict the public’s ability to watch the undercover agent testify are unusual but not unprecedented. While the Sixth Amendment guarantees a defendant’s right to a public trial, courts have taken unique steps in cases that involve law enforcement doing undercover work, especially in terrorism cases.
Judges across the country have approved measures similar to the ones Adams will impose or have taken other steps such as using a screen to shield an agent or informant’s face from a courtroom’s viewing gallery.
Hendricks’ attorneys disputed some, but not all of the measures the judge ordered to limit access to the undercover agent’s testimony….
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6 years ago
6 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Left/Liberals are bowing down so much to immigrants they are well on their way to creating more humgoats http://bit.ly/2iMxEZt
And call it cultural diversity !
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
At least, the conduct of the FBI seems to support conspiracy beliefs that they want these things to happen as a red flag to attack gun rights, or even worse considering how much attention Pam and others shine on bad govt policies . At a minimum policies such as those scrubbing jihad risk from their training and preparedness and those that left the school shooter Cruz out of jail and free to purchase guns legally have such horrible outcomes it is as if they trained and armed him to do what he did.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dean
Vegas here. Sure is starting to look like they were all handpicked for the agenda: Garland, Charlotteville, Las Vegas, Summerlin Springs, Broward County..gee who’s next?! Paddock also magically had no record only his money doesn’t add up without crime for years that should have got him a record.
6 years ago
Reply to
Jackie
after massive failures or setups the beat goes on….more laws to fail, more power to the failures and take away the most basic right of self-defense…AND TRUMP FALTERS OR CAVES.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dean
…..we don’t know…what we don’t know….until you actually know what is going on your blanket statement of what Trump is or is not doing is premature and designed to make people lose faith in Trump…..not me.
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
GOOD..no one with faith in any politician knows anything about history. WE DO KNOW THAT THE AUTHORITIES HAD A DOZEN OPPORTUNITIES TO STOP CRUZ AND PREVENT THESE DEATHS. I voted for Trump but will not abide by his duplicity and betrayal of clear and concise promises or evade criticizing each and every act by him that is contrary to our freedom. Who beside him is responsible for what comes out of his frequently stupid mouth that the “faithful” repeatedly excuse as negotiations. His comments alone encourages and supports those that want to take away all guns and disparages and threatens the rights of the innocent who have the natural right to use whatever weapons they want to protect their lives, families and property from attacks. And their excuse is someone they repeatedly and massively failed to stop used the same gun. All laws are arbitrary rules by those in power and can be ignored or erased by them instantly making criminals out of the law abiding. Even the faltering NRA defends only the 2nd A which simply codifies the natural right of self-defense, and their superiors who wrote that law intended that it be used against all aggression including tyrannical government. BUT this mob is not actually AGAINST GUNS, which will be used by their storm troopers to take away guns from private individuals who have violated no one’s rights but only their new arbitrary law, but only gun ownership by private citizens and to deny the right of self-defense by effective means. The criminals that intend to obey no law could not have a better ally and friend than those in power, including the proposal ,in order to please the mob, that young men and women should forfeit the right to self-defense evidently because this shooter, who was the overwhelming fault of those that are in power and are demanding more power that are supposed to protect the innocent, was coincidentally 19. Why not 26 Trump since you also think that insurance companies should cover everyone before that age as children and dependents?. All of this is arbitrary and an attack on individual rights including the most fundamental right of self-defense.
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Trolls don’t write that long a comment. They usually leave it at a short name calling comment like yours. Probably a bot.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dean
This corruption has been going on for decades . . . . likely infested every branch of the govt . . . . and you are disappointed that Trump has not fixed everything in 14 months ? ? ?
6 years ago
Reply to
Jackie
Vegas here also…..I knew within two hours that Paddock was Antifa…..His madam-Danley – Filipine Muslim…she has family in Dubai….in the year before the attack they took a European “cruise” with three stops in Muslim countries….she conveniently was sent on a trip to the Philippines the morning of the attack…with $100,000 wired ahead of her for when she arrived.
We hear not one thing about her since then. Where is she? Is she in custody?
…the intelligence agencies in America have been reporting for two years that radical Muslims in America have been training the Far Left of the Dimm party how to kill us…Antifa…domestic terrorists…and we’re to believe that our agencies had no clue about him? Totally off the radar?
Two months before the attack the UK Daily Mail carried a story wherein ISIS named three American cities it intended to attack….Vegas was one of them…
Prior to his attack on Vegas Paddock was a real estate speculator, gambleholic, drunk….and suddenly he’s a masterful planner of the worst mass killing in America?
He acquired an arsenal all by himself with no help at all? And didn’t raise any suspicions? He had an escape plan that failed….wild, crazy kooks don’t have escape plans….ISIS does…and they claimed him as their own which they never do unless it is true…..
Just like Garland, Texas…..the Deep State inside the FBI, CIA, and any other acronym you can think of knew this was coming….yet another tragedy that they prayed would get us to give up our personal weapon protections…..
..then a couple of months ago the FBI announces they won’t have an “answer” about Paddock until “October 2018”?!! What? Why that specific time? What are they withholding now?
In the meantime other Antifa are planning more attacks that the FBI is going to feign they had no advance notice on the next one…..like the shooting in Florida…they knew and did nothing.
The FBI would have us believe that one lone kook with his girlfriend…planned the whole thing, amassed an arsenal that a small army would love, carried all of that into the Mandalay Bay without any problem, and had an escape plan that failed so he killed himself…
Interesting to note the top four floors of the Mandalay Bay are apartments…..largely occupied by rich Middle Easterners…
And where is the so-called security guy who was shot and after he ran his mouth on Ellen… disappeared….
There are only two answers to the Vegas attack. Like Garland, Texas, the FBI knew in advance of the impending attack on Vegas and allowed it to happen….Or, they are as feckless, incompetent, and rotten to the core as the Keystone Cops of the 1940s…..
I’m with Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch….close the FBI down, let good FBI agents transfer to the US Marshall Service which has served America for almost 200 years with no stain on their record…
The Deep State is way too deeply embedded into the FBI…thanks to the Muslim Marxist Obama and his minions.
6 years ago
“An undercover FBI agent will don a disguise and use a pseudonym in a partially-closed courtroom when testifying in a trial for a man charged with working to create a cell of Islamic State supporters to carry out violent acts in the United States”. All righty then, in keeping with American law and precedent set, he should be allowed to wear a burka in court, keeping it on for the duration of the trial. His identity as a witness can be validated by another f b i agent who will confirm that he is the same person as subpoenaed.
6 years ago
A disguise for their undercover FIBer – a doxx for Pam’s kids. No one sane can stand Daily Beast
6 years ago
Pamela, I keep telling you, the Fed Bureau of Islam was very happy to let some nutball muslims kill a pesky jew. In your articles, I don’t know why you assign the fbi any higher moral plane; they are friends with and loyal to the muslim former president, and you are their enemy
6 years ago
Something on the order of being a conspiracy to commit a mass murder , and the agent is still a free man ?
Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights… Carry
D
6 years ago
Reply to
aebe
It appears goal of the FBI and Obama was to get film of the wouold be assassins of Pamela & Co., and use film of the FBI’s hoped for massacre to prosecute the would be mass murderers later on . The slaugher of Pamela & Co.would give weight to Obama’s dictum that one must not slander the prophet. The two would be mass murderers could be prosecuted later with the film as evience and maybe they would get 25 years or so :-I
6 years ago
It’s always pleasing when the “spiritually inspired” thugs get dealt with PROPERLY! I was praying for Pamela & her SECURITY TEAM that evening, and watched the videos that were made & shown…The perps got JUST barely out of there car when the POLICE stopped them…This perp NEEDS a LONG & PRIVATE spell in a SUPER-MAX, {so that he can’t infect others while in Prison}! I’m keeping notice of Pam’s activities, so that I can COVER her with prayer…She’s PRECIOUS!
6 years ago
I’m beginning to give a bit of creedence to the theory that the FBI staged a few jihadi attacks to keep their funding increasing… There are so many false flags about the Las Vegas shooting, it is either being covered up by by the FBI to hide their incompetence, or was actually staged by them.
6 years ago
A case of Comey’s FBI hard at work and earning that paycheck, right? If Mueller or any other of the current crop of government bloodhounds is looking for a target, I’ve got some suggestions.
6 years ago
It has been said that the Negro Moslem and sodomite had CORRUPTED all your agencies. As you know the Negro was an avowed communist and leftist.
Demoncraps put him in to CORRUPT your country from the top down. And when one looks at the FIB (grammatically correct acronym) and what they tried to do to a Mr. Donald Trump is proof the Negro largely succeeded to corrupt this American law agency (even though it is unconstitutional).
Not hard to do exactly, as they are many people who hate this country and want to see it brought down and is largely how the Negro and sodomite succeeded in the first place.
America is in grave danger and so is the world hanging by the blond thread of a Mr. Donald Trump.
6 years ago
This FBI agent that urged them on should be before a firing squad period. This seems to be all the FBI does is watch terrorists kill Americans.
6 years ago
Reply to
James Stamulis
Very….very….very Deep State…fomented through the decades starting with the feckless idiot Carter….the Globalist Bush Cartel, Clinton Cartel, and lastly…..the Muslim Marxist Obama….won’t be corrected in one term of President Trump….the only way I see it ever being cleaned out is 8 years Trump…followed by 8 years of Pence….
6 years ago
“…To show his face to the public would put his and his family’s safety at risk.” But it was okay to put Pamela Geller’s life at risk? and Geert Wilders’ and her other guests and attendees’ lives? I hope the judge asks that question of the traitor and his defense lawyer. And the defendant is still working? What a joke.Why isn’t he wearing an orange suit?
6 years ago
But should the F_I-B agent be a witness? Or a defendant?
6 years ago
FBI and CIA—Law?? We don’t need your stinkin’ laws cause we gots our OWN laws!!
6 years ago
Help Pamela Geller have another contest! This needs to happen often!
6 years ago
This is heinousness. Together with the lawsuit against the FBI, no other conclusion is possible. Imagine if the FBI had the same information on 9/11 and didn’t act.
6 years ago
The claims made by the government are one thing. The actions of UCE-1 are another. I don’t buy ANY of the government’s claims that UCE-1 was merely trying to protect his cover. At the cost of the lives of Garland officers? At the cost of the lives of the attendees at the event — myself included? Exactly where and when did UCE-1 rendezvous with Soofi and Simpson prior to their drive the event center? Why was Soofi and Simpson even allowed to get within a thousand miles of the event let alone shooting range of Garland PD officers? Are we supposed to believe that Soofi and Simpson drove all the way from somewhere and managed to arrive at the precise moment the event ended? No way!
