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Anonymous ID: a42516 May 16, 2018, 10:14 a.m. No.1432162   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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FBI: California man planned ISIS-inspired Christmas terror attack on San Francisco's Pier 39

 

Friday, December 22, 2017

 

SAN FRANCISCO -- Officials say they've arrested a California man who was planning a possible Christmas terror attack in San Francisco.

 

The FBI arrested Everitt Aaron Jameson, a tow truck driver from Modesto. They say he planned to target Pier 39. The 26-year-old reportedly stated that "Christmas was the perfect day" for a terror attack in San Francisco and "did not need an escape plan because he was ready to die."

 

According to a handwritten letter obtained by the FBI, Jameson also referred to himself as Abdallah adu Everitt ibn Gordon.

 

According to FBI documents, Jameson picked out that location because he "had been there before and knew it was a heavily crowded area." He added that it would be easy to "funnel" people into an area where he could inflict casualties.

 

Jameson is charged with attempting to supply support to a foreign terrorist organization, specifically the Islamic State. According to FBI documents, he posted and liked pro-ISIS and pro-terrorism content on Facebook.

 

A criminal complaint filed by an FBI agent alleged Jameson posted radical jihadist messages online and suggested the use of his tow truck for "the cause."

 

Jameson also expressed support for the Halloween terror attack in New York City involving a truck. That attack killed eight people.

 

On Nov. 2, days after the New York City attack, Jameson allegedly told an FBI informant, "I'm glad to know we Muslims are finally hitting back. Allahu Akbar! The Kuffar deserve everything and more the lives they have taken," the complaint said.

 

FBI agents also allege Jameson communicated with more than one undercover agent. In meeting with one of the agents, Jameson expressed his belief that the U.S. "needed another attack like New York or San Bernardino," according to the FBI complaint, and Jameson said he wanted to use both vehicles and firearms to carry out an attack.

 

Jameson allegedly named the popular pier in San Francisco for an attack possibly involving explosives on Christmas Day, according to the FBI.

 

"Jameson said he would go to the mountains to build bombs for the attack," the FBI alleged in the complaint.

 

"He wrote a letter stating among other things: 'You all have brought this upon yourselves. There are no innocent Kuffar! Each and every Kuffar in this Nationalistic, Godless society has a hand in this. You've allowed Donald J Trump to give away Al Quds to the Jews. Both You and he are wrong, it belongs to the Muslemeen,'" The FBI complaint said.

 

According to the FBI, Jameson told an undercover agent on Dec. 18, "I also don't think I can do this after all. I've reconsidered," after an agent mistakenly called him from a Washington, D.C. phone number.

 

Jameson's home was raided by FBI agents Dec. 20, where they allegedly found a "martyrdom letter" along with several guns.

 

The FBI said Jameson told agents during the raid that he supported ISIS and planned an attack, and that he "would be happy if an attack was carried out," according to the complaint.

 

Jameson was trained as a basic recruit in the Marine Corps in 2009 and graduated with a "sharpshooter" qualification, but was later discharged for not disclosing a medical history of asthma, according to the FBI.

 

ABC7 News in San Francisco contacted officials at Pier 39 to ask for a response. They say they did not know about this plot.

 

ABC News contributed to this report.

 

http://abc7.com/fbi-ca-man-planned-christmas-terror-attack-on-sfs-pier-39/2812490/

Anonymous ID: a42516 May 16, 2018, 10:28 a.m. No.1432277   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>1432236

>thin blue line

seems there's a related movie:

 

The Thin Blue Line is a 1988 American documentary film by Errol Morris, depicting the story of Randall Dale Adams, a man convicted and sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. Adams' case was reviewed, and he was released from prison approximately a year after the film's release.[2] The Thin Blue Line has been lauded since its release and has won multiple awards.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096257/

Anonymous ID: a42516 May 16, 2018, 11:27 a.m. No.1432788   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Senate panel backs intel report on Russian meddling, after interviewing Obama officials

 

Senate Intelligence Committee leaders on Wednesday backed the 2017 intelligence community report that formally accused Russia of trying to interfere in the U.S. presidential election to boost then-candidate Donald Trump.

 

Their statements followed a final closed-door interview on the matter with top Obama administration officials. The committee, led by Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., spoke Wednesday with former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan and former National Security Agenda Director Michael Rogers (who retired earlier this year).

 

Former FBI Director James Comey was invited but did not show up – skipping the closed-door session due to a “previously scheduled engagement,” his attorney said. Comey, who was fired last May, has been on a media blitz in recent weeks promoting his memoir, “A Higher Loyalty,” in which he is highly critical of now-President Trump.

 

Despite Comey’s absence, the committee leaders announced afterward they were able to complete the review of the intelligence community’s Russia assessment.

 

“Committee staff have spent 14 months reviewing the sources, tradecraft, and analytic work, and we see no reason to dispute the conclusions,” Burr said in a statement. “There is no doubt that Russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections. I look forward to completing the Committee’s inquiry and issuing our findings and recommendations to the American people.”

 

Warner said, “After a thorough review, our staff concluded that the ICA conclusions were accurate and on point. The Russian effort was extensive, sophisticated, and ordered by President Putin himself for the purpose of helping Donald Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton.”

 

Burr and Warner, who are leading the panel in investigating Russian meddling and coordination with Trump campaign associates in the 2016 presidential election, hope to wrap up their probe by the end of summer.

 

“This gives staff the month of August in all likelihood to wrap up our investigation and for staff to work intensely while we’re out of here and not getting in their hair,” Burr told reporters last week, referring to Senate members being on summer recess.

 

The U.S. intelligence community assessment titled “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections,” was released just two weeks before Trump’s inauguration in January 2017—the heat of the transition between the administration of former President Barack Obama and the new Trump administration.

 

The report was an unprecedented collaboration among the nation’s leading intelligence agencies to examine whether Russia had any influence on the 2016 presidential election. The report was drafted with the help and expertise of Clapper, Comey and Brennan, among others.

 

Among its findings was that Russian President Vladimir Putin “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election” – and “aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him.”

 

Trump, throughout his presidency, has defended himself, his administration and his campaign against allegations that they colluded with Russia during the election period, calling the investigation a “Witch Hunt.”

 

But on the other side of Capitol Hill, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence led its own investigation into the allegations, releasing its findings in a 250-page report and closing the majority-led probe last month. Democrats on the committee vowed to continue their investigation.

 

The GOP-authored report found “no evidence” that the Trump campaign “colluded, coordinated or conspired with Russia.”

 

The panel investigated the “Steele dossier,” noting that the now-infamous multi-page memo of salacious accusations against Trump was paid for as opposition research by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

 

…

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/16/senate-panel-backs-intel-report-on-russian-meddling-after-interviewing-obama-officials.html