MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that the man who stabbed and wounded 10 people in a central Minnesota mall before he was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer appears to have been inspired, at least in part, by extremist ideology.
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“That is not the Federal Bureau of Investigation that I used to work with”, said Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), a former prosecutor who led the Select Committee on Benghazi, which took over two years to conclude there was no evidence of wrongdoing on Clinton’s part there, either.
FBI director James Comey got a slight raking over the coals at a recent Senate hearing over his agency’s not-so-thorough investigations of potential terrorist threats. The challenge will be: “through the fingers of that crush are going to come hundreds of very, very unsafe people”, Comey said at the committee hearing, which was entitled: “15 Years After 9/11: “Threats to the Homeland”.
But Comey, who has repeatedly sought to explain the FBI’s decision making, again said that the case was not a close call and insisted that no one else would have been prosecuted for the same acts even if they might have gotten into trouble with their employer. “We have the policies and the tools we need to do this well”, adding that agents have to make a “judgment every day” about whether specific cases merit further investigation. “There is just not a fair basis for saying we did it in any way that wasn’t honest and independent”.
Rahami, the main suspect in the NY bombing, faces federal terrorism charges after a shootout with police.
Comey did not say where the intrusions were or give any additional details. “We are not weasels”, Comey said.
A Homeland Security Department official who is intimately involved in efforts to secure local elections but wasn’t authorized to speak publicly said Wednesday that it is unlikely that the department will designate voting systems as critical infrastructure prior to the November elections.
Nonetheless, he said, the system is based on names and needs to depend more on biometric data that can’t be fooled with counterfeit documents.
The panel’s chairman, Sen.
At the same time it loses territory, the group has “increased its plotting on targets outside of Iraq and Syria and continues to encourage attacks in the United States”, Johnson said. “Would you agree that that would be a natural step in an investigation?” South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy noted that the lawyer for both women-Beth Wilkinson-stated that “the Justice Department assured us that they believed my clients did nothing wrong”.
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