Back in the USA
The administration reports that some ISIS fighters have returned to the US.
But not to worry—they’re being monitored by the FBI.
I’ve already stated what I think should be done with these people. I don’t think the administration is contemplating anything of the sort.
The most benign interpretation of today’s announcement is that they are being monitored in order to gather more intelligence on their activities, and the activities and identities of their associates. But if so, why make a public announcement to that effect?
And, when some of those American ISIS fighters predictably conduct terrorist attacks against Americans, Obama, Congressional democrats and their lapdog MSM will blame… the FBI.
I read today the some Afghani military have gone missing in NY.
As we all know, they’re just Lying Again.
(“Don’t worry about the Ark. We have Top Men on the job: Top. Men.”)
Neo,
Its simple. The administration simply does not care if they come back. But they want to avoid any potential bad press. So the announce that they are watching the subjects. Thus preempting a potential news story about it.
Announcing it ensures it will be completely ineffective. But as long as the administration avoid bad press then that is all that matters
Marathon and 9/11 hijackers were also being monitored. Don’t worry, be happy, strip check at the TSA and talk about ObamaCare at Christmas and Thanksgiving. That’s the Order from your President.
Helpful tip to our friends with ISIS who wish death and mayhem upon the Great Satan.
Whatever you do, don’t dress up as a convalescent caucasian octogenarian, or someone with stage 4 colon cancer or as a toddler with a full diaper should you wish to evade detection at our airports.
You most certainly can dress up as James O’Keefe portraying Osama bin Laden – that’ll work like a charm.
“But if so, why make a public announcement. ..”
Good question, but indeed why? If team obama thinks this will reassure the public they are mistaken. Perhaps this was leaked? Otoh, perhaps its just a simple matter of showing contempt of the fears and concerns of main street.
After ebola is brought back from west Africa, ISIS will be entirely forgotten.
Blert, what makes you think they didn’t pass through Africa to carry ebola as a human suicide virus?
Right away I am going away to do my breakfast, after having my breakfast coming yet
again to read other news.
Just like the FBI was monitoring the Tsarnaev brothers without letting the local authorities know about potential terrorists in their midst?
Forgive me if I don’t fell comforted by this.
“Forgive me if I don’t fell comforted by this.”
Which prompts neoneocon’s question of why make this public. It makes no sense to me, other than a show of contempt for main street.
I played the video several times but could not make out the reporter’s words identifying the source of the “In the US” info. The WH mouthpiece and the Washington Examiner story do not say who or what agency says they are back. Earnest says only they are being tracked internationally, declines to say they are back.
So, while I despise that Somalis in the Twin Cities, brought to us by our State Dept in its infinite caring of the oppressed, are generating IS fighters, I see no evidence to back up the headline.
Not that I doubt they will return, mind you.
Um, weren’t the Tsarnaev brothers also being closely monitored by authorities?
KRB
What’s to monitor? Any citizen who “enlists or enters himself, or hires or retains another to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the jurisdiction of the United States with intent to be enlisted or entered in the service of any foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people as a soldier…shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.” See here.
Sounds to me like they should be under active investigation and prosecuted, not watched until they commit an act of terror here.
LAG,
You are a gentle soul…. I want them apprehended and swiftly executed. The rest of the ‘refugees’ should be deported asap. My oldest son, daughter inlaw, and 2 grandchildern live and work in St. Paul; they stay away from Minneapolis after dark.
Be cause we do nothing about gang members fighting in Syria for Assad.
Its the appearance of doing something that matters. The illusion of safety – they are being watched, we’re okay – just like the Commander in Chief has a plan (who cares what the plans are, he has one. he’s on it – he’s a great multi-tasker, he can golf and plan at the same time, golfing clears his mind) yadda, yadda, yadda.
They make a public announcement because either they aren’t monitoring, so there’s no compromise, or the appearance means that much more to them than the tactical advantage. Because the tactical advantage doesn’t increase poll points.
Oh, lets not forget that we have this new and improved ‘neutered’ NSA. Awesome monitoring capabilities, i tell you. Physical surveillance only gets you so far. With limited ELSUR – well, good luck.
Personally, I’m concerned – between these jingleballs returning (allegedly) and the overt call to action CONUS, its a matter of time.
rd
Y…
The old, original, Mission Impossible series postulated exactly such a scheme — to be carried out by Janos Passik (Arthur Hill) in “The Carriers”. (1966)
It didn’t work out for Passik: he was infected in his final scene.
“The Carriers” must have hit home, Arthur Hill was center stage in “The Andromeda Strain.”
In the MI plot, the carriers were expected to be oblivious pawns in the evil doctor’s plot.
With jihadis, one can imagine them deliberately suffering ebola.
From what little I’ve come to read, ebola is so devastating that one can’t function normally — in VERY short order. In which case, it’s very much in the mold of Spanish flu and the Black Death.
Both were discovered to do their thing with astonishing speed.
In my grand-uncle’s case, he described soldiers digging graves in good health in the AM needing to use their own handiwork that by late afternoon!
For those new to the statistics, a virus can replicate itself and burst forth in well under thirty-minutes. The simpler the virus, the faster it can ‘reorder’ target cells.
The virulence of a virus is largely determined by how intensively it replicate itself inside a target/ victim cell. A single target cell can quite easily reproduce one-hundred or more copies of a simple virus. The victim cell ruptures when its repair proteins are exhausted — reproducing the virus, of course.
In the case of Spanish flu, the process must have been extraordinary. For it was faster, deadlier, more virulent than any yet recorded — especially when victimizing young, healthy, military males. (!)
The Spanish flu progression even beats the Black Death; which famously could work overnight. One went to bed and woke up dead! (But not without spitting your lungs and guts out.)
I don’t think that the virulence of either pestilence is unrelated to coughing — and coughing A LOT.
So, as a first stage prophylaxis: face masks for EVERYBODY — all the time.
I’m stocking up, right now. When the run hits, you won’t be able to get one for a pound of silver.
@ Parker, not so gentle. I’m happy with killing them where they stand, but if our liberal rulers advocate a law enforcement paradigm, I want them to pursue it with vigor, in particular where the laws are on the books.
The fact that they don’t might lead one to doubt their sincerity.
They are, after all, all about the law.
I’m stocking up, right now. When the run hits, you won’t be able to get one for a pound of silver.
You should see the Japanese on subways. All kinds of surgical masks, gloves, and cloth handkerchiefs. I thought it was funny at first, until I realized what it was for.
They are, after all, all about the law.
They are above the law, yes. Hussein O and his lackeys like black professor and his son Tray, make that clear.
Alana Goodman’s revelation at the Washington Free Beacon of previously unknown correspondence between Hillary Clinton and Saul Alinsky shows that Clinton has not been honest about her far-left past. The lost Alinsky letters also remind us of what we ought to know but have forgotten: Hillary is not “Clintonian.
During the years leading up to WWII British intelligence managed to identify enough members of German espionage cells to completely disrupt them once the war began. Those agents were rounded up and arrested, then given the choice of either becoming double agents or dangling on the end of a rope. Not unsurprisingly, the British gained a whole bunch of double agents, and the Germans were subsequently blinded, at least in that regard.
I would propose doing the same with Americans having any contact with ISIS, but I also expect a much lower yield of double agents. ISIS seems to have learned compartmentalization fro Al Quaeda, and their operatives are fanatical enough not to fear execution or imprisonment….
It’s been surmised by some that this announcement was to provide legal cover for the attacks on ISIS in Syria. The timing is about right
Who announced it? What was the source ? “An administration official”-who? said what?
A leak is not an announcement.
Don Carlos,
The report on time.com comes from a “senior administration official” who was briefing reporters Monday morning.
“It includes those who’ve gone, those who’ve tried to go, some who’ve come back and are under active–the FBI is looking at them,” the official said. “These are FBI matters, I refer you to them on specifics.”
As late as Monday morning, Secretary of State John Kerry said on MSNBC that “we have over 100 fighters there from America,” leaving out any mention of Americans who have returned.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-theyre-obama-admin-confirms-many-long-feared-isis/#tcHx5QS1bswiZQzC.99
Looks like it’s tailored to provide legal grounds for attacks in Syria. It’s called lawfare.
JJ…
Correct.
The White House has its flaks in full cry.
I hear Guantanamo Bay is delightful this time of year!