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FBI Needs Better Intelligence, Information Sharing Newsmax: The FBI needs to strengthen its intelligence programs and information sharing to counter the diverse and fast-moving national threats that have evolved since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a congressional...
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Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama AdministrationFrom the Investigative Project on Terrorism:An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives...
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FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’ (Wired) The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was...
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HEY! YOU GUYS REMEMBER THIS? The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath...
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Jihad Watch:Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief sees growing threat of Mumbai-style jihad attack "For the Los Angeles Police Department, the top priority is countering violent, ideological extremism from several Muslim communities in the region made up...
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Counterterror staff falls to 62%Daniel Pipes's article on Bassem Youssef is HERE.
May 22, 2008
By Jerry Seper - More than one out of every three positions in an elite FBI division that tracks al Qaeda terrorists is vacant, according to an internal bureau document. Efforts are under way at the FBI to canvass for "volunteers" to fill what the agency said is a "critical" need in its counterterrorism efforts.
A senior bureau official said yesterday that because of significant staffing shortages and a lack of experienced managers, the FBI cannot properly defend the United States against "another catastrophic and direct attack by Middle Eastern terrorists."
Bassem Youssef, chief of the communications analysis unit of the FBI's counterterrorism division, said the bureau's International Terrorism Operations Sections (ITOS) — which include those that track al Qaeda terrorists — are "inexcusably understaffed."
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Mr. Youssef, who was scheduled to testify during a subcommittee hearing on FBI whistleblowers, also said a bureau policy mandating that its agents, ITOS supervisors and counterterrorism managers do not need "subject matter expertise" in Middle Eastern counterterrorism is "indefensible and counterproductive."
He also said an FBI policy of promoting agents to its upper-management positions who have no "comprehension of the Arabic language" had resulted in the bureau's failure to have a management capable of responding to "real-time potential threats or opportunities." He said "an overdependency" of translators "can and does delay responses to situations that are time critical."
"Subtle messages and information not capable of ready translation or that which would be obvious to a native speaker who is simultaneously involved in operational activities are regularly lost," he said....
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Mr. Youssef, who was born in Egypt, has accused the FBI of improperly denying him promotions in the counterterrorism division — an accusation denied by the bureau. In July 2006, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that the FBI had retaliated against Mr. Youssef because of disclosures he made to the agency's director and a member of Congress.
No trial date has been set.
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FBI Needs Better Intelligence, Information Sharing Newsmax: The FBI needs to strengthen its intelligence programs and information sharing to counter the diverse and fast-moving national threats that have evolved since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a congressional...
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Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama AdministrationFrom the Investigative Project on Terrorism:An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives...
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FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’ (Wired) The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was...
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HEY! YOU GUYS REMEMBER THIS? The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath...
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Jihad Watch:Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief sees growing threat of Mumbai-style jihad attack "For the Los Angeles Police Department, the top priority is countering violent, ideological extremism from several Muslim communities in the region made up...