Posted by Ann Corcoran on August 19, 2015
World Net Daily writer Leo Hohmann (who has written extensively on the Refugee Program) reports on a document that the FBI will not deny is theirs.
The gist of it is that the FBI is watching militia groups they claim are anti-Islam and asserts that the groups are getting their inspiration from World Net Daily, the Blaze, Fox News and Pamela Geller among others. Below we have snipped a bit of Hohmann’s report.
Is Obama’s FBI chilling free speech with report?
But, first a suggestion from a political observer to me:
This appears to be a free-political-speech threat.
Grassley (Senate Judiciary) or Goodlatte (House Judiciary) should open an investigatory hearing on this “intelligence bulletin”, swear all the administration witnesses, ask who directed such instructions, and at least publish a report or a staff study on their findings.
Here is World Net Daily (ignore the confusing headline) on the astounding “intelligence bulletin:”
Just three weeks after ISIS attacked a Muhammad cartoonist event in Garland, Texas, the FBI began circulating an intelligence bulletin that alerts state, federal and local law enforcement about the likelihood of attacks against Muslims by “militia extremists.”
The bulletin, marked “sensitive” and not for distribution without FBI authorization, cites evidence gathered since 2013 that American militia groups are planning attacks on mosques, Islamic centers and possibly individual Muslims.
The document is dated May 28, 2015, and was leaked to Public Intelligence, an online information site committed to exposing government secrets and data. Public Intelligence posted the document on its site Aug. 18.
Named in the bulletin as news sites that provide information that supposedly fuels the militia groups were WND.com, Fox News, the Blaze, Western Journalism Center, Patriot Newswire and Pamela Geller’s blog, AtlasShrugs.com.
[….]
The FBI concludes that there are “salient perceptions within militia extremism that contribute toward an anti-Muslim bias.”The FBI says such “bias” against Islam is based on the following beliefs among the “extremists”:
~“Islam represents a foreign threat, equivalent to those which emanate from illegal immigration or international terrorism.
~“The President of the United States not only sympathizes with Islamic extremists but directs U.S. Government policy to align with their goals.”
[….]
WND contacted the FBI with several questions about the bulletin and got the following response from Joshua Campbell, supervisory special agent of the FBI office of public affairs.
“Unfortunately, we are unable to provide any information on the authenticity or contents of the referenced document. Our standard practice is to neither confirm or deny investigations or comment on bulletins provided to law enforcement partners.”
One of the questions WND asked was if he FBI had documented any actual militia attacks on Muslims over the past seven years.
None, I am sure, or it would have been all over the news. ...
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