Federal Bureau of Investigation agents would probably spend a couple of days scouring at Seccombe Lake to look for electronic items, including a hard drive that the couple hoped to destroy, and canvassing the nearby neighborhood for clues, according to David Bowdichm assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, courtesy of the source.
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“And I’m not saying there is anything like that, but we will leave no stone unturned”, he said.
Comey has said Farook had been in communication with individuals who were being scrutinized by the FBI in terrorism investigations, but that the contact he had was not enough to bring him onto the law enforcement radar.
But they were clearly prepared to carry out the December 3 shooting at the Inland Regional Center that killed 14 and injured 21 – the deadliest terror strike on American soil since September 11, 2001.
Bowdich said he would not discuss the “specific evidence we’re looking for”. The news comes a day after lawmakers said there wasn’t any evidence that they had used encryption technology.
A Russian blonde beauty who married into the family of the terrorists responsible for the San Bernardino massacre is linked to Syed Farook and the man who provided him weapons. Farook and Malik were killed hours later in a shootout with police, leaving behind a six-month-old daughter.
Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said that among the unanswered questions were why Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik chose to attack Farook’s workplace rather than a more symbolic target. The FBI has said that Farook’s wife declared her allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook posting shortly before the attack began. Investigators have found data on a tablet computer and other cell phones at the couple’s home, he said.
Counterterrorism officials told NBC that Farook and Malik were prepping for some time to “take care of both grandma and the baby”.
In his nationally broadcast speech, Obama sought to reassure the nation, insisting “we will prevail”. Since the shootings, he has waived his Miranda rights, cooperated with investigators and provided information, according to the officials.
A small group of transients said that the investigators had been at the scene since about 7 a.m. Eimiller declined to comment on the reason for the raid at the residence, reported to be next door to where Farook once lived.
Enrique Marquez, who legally bought the weapons at least three years ago, and gunman Syed Rizwan Farook had a sister-in-law in common, according to marriage records.
Documents show that ties between Marquez and Farook go deeper than what authorities revealed when they said Marquez was a longtime friend.
Marquez, who was a state licensed security guard until his license expired a year ago, checked himself into a mental health facility in the wake of the attacks, according to law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Farook and his family, like many traditional families in South Asia and elsewhere, used regional matchmaking websites to search for a suitable bride, although it’s not clear if that’s how he met Malik.
Comey said the precise origins of the couple’s radicalization were as yet unknown but appeared to predate the rise of Islamic State, the militant group that has seized vast swaths of Iraq and Syria and last month claimed responsibility for the assaults on Paris that left 130 dead.
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Velasco worked as an environmental health specialist at the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, which was holding a holiday party when the shooting erupted. “Like all Americans, Prosper is shocked and saddened by recent events in San Bernardino”. She didn’t even know he was a Muslim, the Times said.
