what the fuck??? like maybe they should look into these things before looking stoopid.
Or did maybe someone release info they shouldn't have and this is damage control?
Fox:
FBI: Source Lied About Terror Threat
By Mike Levine
Published October 15, 2010 FoxNews.com
Federal authorities said Friday that intelligence they obtained about a possible threat to the U.S. homeland from Pakistan was based on a source who had lied to them the whole time. The development comes one day after Fox News reported that the U.S. government had obtained information indicating the group that orchestrated the failed Times Square bombing may be looking to strike again.
The FBI said Friday it was charging Syed Omair Ali with “knowingly and willfully” making false statements to federal investigators.
Since May, Ali has been providing information to the FBI concerning “several individuals” who “were planning to commit a terrorist attack in the United States,” including an individual he said “has ties with the tribal guys back in Karachi-Pakistan” and “has been planning on hurting our motherland,” according to FBI documents.
He said the individuals had decided to attack Times Square because it would likely inflict the most casualties, according to the documents.
The information provided to Fox News is not identical to the information cited in the Ali case, but it is very similar.
As reported Thursday, sources told Fox News that recent intelligence indicated the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, was looking to launch another Times Square-style attack in the United States and may have successfully placed another operative inside the United States. A senior intelligence official said the operative would have come from Pakistan’s tribal regions. But sources also said authorities were concerned because they knew little about the potential operative or any possible plot, including a location for a possible strike.
While sources had described that information as “credible but not specific,” Fox News quoted a source on Thursday saying, "In many cases, intelligence we get ends up washing out."
Fox News was unable to determine how or when the intelligence was obtained.
Ali was interviewed most recently by the FBI on Thursday, the same day Fox News reported on the new intelligence obtained by the U.S. government.
“During the interview, Ali admitted that all of the information he had previously provided to the FBI regarding a terrorist plot had been false, and that he had deliberately misled the FBI,” said the FBI documents.
Ali said he provided false information, in part, “to get [one of the suspects] in trouble due to a personal conflict,” the FBI said.
It’s unclear what would have led Ali to make such admissions to the FBI on Thursday, the day of the Fox News report.
FBI spokesman Rich Kolko said Friday that lies like those allegedly made by Ali “take valuable time away from investigators” when they “could be following real information.”
A counterterrorism official agreed, adding that it is “wholly appropriate, responsible and required for law enforcement to run down every lead even if the vast majority of them end up being non-threats.”
“At the end of the day, you want the kind of result where you’ve appropriately reviewed the material and come to a conclusion that there [is not] a credible threat,” the official said.
Ali “will now have to answer to [his actions] in court,” Kolko said.
Faisal Shahzad, the man who tried to detonate a bomb-packed SUV in Times Square on May 1, has been sentenced to life in prison.
4 comments:
Man, I hate to admit to finding joy in watching the FIBBIES make fools of themselves yet again, but let's just say this is payback.
"Ties with the tribal guys back in Karachi-Pakistan"?!? "Motherland"?!?
This is what we are getting as "intelligence"? No wonder we have to depend on alert airline passengers, beat cops, and pushcart peddlers for jihad prevention.
Nice of agent Kolko to admit that the wasted time that could have been spent "following real information" for a change being led down the primrose path by their little friend Ali because after all, we wouldn't want them doing something mean such as WATERBOARDING THE BASTARD and getting the "real information" in the first place.
We are, as they say, on our own, folks.
"FBI spokesman Rich Kolko said Friday that lies like those made by Ali “take valuable time away from investigators”
No waste here. They are fairly useless anyway.
Could this: http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/willful-blindness-fbi-special-agent-says-barack-obama-has-so-demoralized-our-intelligence-community-they-are-virtually-paralyzed/
(It's from PJTV's "Willful Blindness" story in case this link doesn't work.)
have anything to do with this prime slice of FUBAR? The FBI is strung along by some "informant" who "lies" to settle a personal score, and not only do they figure that out but they announce a terror alert on that basis? Where did this "Ali" come from, why did they think he could be trusted, what else is going on that they are missing because they are too busy following halfassed "leads" like this?
My concern exactly, RRA. Distract over here attack over there while their heads are turned.
Or, plant a bad intel source to discredit or at least have FIBS etc question and doubt ANY intel source.
Additionally, I still want to know how this got out. Fox had it but I don't recall seeing it (doesn't mean it wasn't there) on any of the other bigs. So was it intentionally leaked and why? Something else going on we don't know about?
Or, being ultra cynical, did they hope to scare and sway votes with this major fuck up and got questioned on it and had to walk it back?
Something stinks with this whole story.
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