IBTimes: The FBI Has Spent Billions On Terror Databases. How Come They Didn’t Catch The Orlando Gunman?
Three years before Omar Mateen walked into a Florida nightclub wielding an assault rifle and handgun, he’d been questioned twice by the FBI about links to terrorist organizations overseas. But despite their direct questioning — and despite a high-tech FBI anti-terrorism database that has cost taxpayers billions of dollars to build — the gunman slipped through the FBI’s reach.
On Saturday night, using weapons he bought within the past two weeks, Mateen gunned down 49 people and injured 53 more in an Orlando nightclub. The massacre is America’s worst mass shooting in history.
As investigators piece together what motivated Mateen to unleash the bloody slaughter, another important question will linger for both the FBI and lawmakers: How effective are the country’s surveillance and database systems if a man who was at one time under terror suspicion by the federal government can freely buy an assault rifle just two years after being investigated by the FBI?
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WNU Editor: I suspect that a lot of hard questions are going to be asked .... but will the politicians listen?
1 comment:
This is an interesting position.
http://thesaker.is/the-shooting-in-orlando-a-few-very-basic-thoughts/
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