“A yearlong investigation by the House Armed Services Committee has concluded that the Obama administration broke the law in swapping five Taliban members for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — and went out of its way to hide the negotiations as they were happening.
The report said the administration broke a law requiring it to give members of Congress 30 days’ advance notice of any detainee transfers from the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, where the senior Taliban leaders were held.
It also found that it misled reporters and lawmakers about a potential prisoner exchange. Congress was instead notified just hours before the May 2014 transfer took place.”
“”Our report finds that the Administration clearly broke the law in not notifying Congress of the transfer,” said the committee’s chairman, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas).”
“Last year, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office also found that the Obama administration violated the law on the Bergdahl swap.
While Democrats on the committee agreed that the administration broke the law, they strongly objected in a dissenting report to the broader conclusions that the administration kept the swap secret for a political motive.”
“Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a new video featuring a former Guantanamo detainee, Ibrahim Qosi, who is also known as Sheikh Khubayb al Sudani.
In July 2010, Qosi plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism before a military commission. His plea was part of a deal in which he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors during his remaining time in US custody. Qosi was transferred to his home country of Sudan two years later, in July 2012.
Qosi joined AQAP in 2014 and became one of its leaders. Qosi and other AQAP commanders discussed their time waging jihad at length in the video, entitled “Guardians of Sharia.””
“Qosi’s appearance marks the first time he has starred in jihadist propaganda since he left Guantanamo. His personal relationship with Osama bin Laden and time in American detention make him an especially high-profile spokesman.”
““Detainee is an admitted veteran jihadist with combat experience beginning in 1990 and it is assessed he would engage in hostilities against US forces, if released,” JTF-GTMO found.”
“The California college student who stabbed four people last month in a campus spree that ended when he was killed by campus police was described by his roommate as “an extreme Muslim” and carried a manifesto and a photocopy of an ISIS flag — more than enough to convince John Price he was a terrorist.
Yet, more than a month after the Nov. 4 attack at University of California Merced, local and federal authorities continue to insist that Faisal Mohammad, 18, carried out the vicious attack because he’d been banished from a study group. Price, whose son Byron Price, a 31-year-old construction manager for the family business who was working nearby and was stabbed when he heroically intervened, suspects the White House’s reluctance to identify acts of radical Islamic terror has trickled down to investigators who are still probing the Merced attack.
“Why don’t we just call it what it is — domestic terrorism?” said Price. “Everyone is afraid to be politically incorrect. I do believe in law enforcement and believe they will do their job, but it seems like to me we aren’t getting the whole story. I just wonder how much of this is driven from way higher up and is politically driven — I just don’t know.””
“The hesitance to call a crime “terrorism” is a familiar scenario replayed last week some 326 miles south in San Bernardino, where authorities took several days to ascribe terrorism as the motivation for an attack despite what seemed like overwhelming evidence. And while authorities, including President Obama, have now said the attack that left 14 dead in San Bernardino was a terrorist act, the motive for Mohammad’s spree, which resulted in no fatalities, remains unattributed.
The manifesto authored by the 18-year-old freshman, copies of which were found both on his body during the autopsy and in the trash can in his dorm, bore names of his targets, a vow “to cut someone’s head off” and as many as five reminders to “praise Allah.””
“A spokeswoman for the FBI in Sacramento would not provide any information other than to report, “the investigation is ongoing.” Neither UC Merced police, the lead agency on the case, nor the university’s administration, have made public the manifesto or the copy of the Islamic State flag Mohammad was reportedly carrying, despite repeated requests from FoxNews.com, also maintaining the investigation still continues.”
Could it be that in the coming weeks we are going to learn that the FBI had been investigating Farooq and/or his wife for years, and they were aware back in 2012 that he was plotting an attack. The FBI has already said that Farooq was plotting an attack back in 2012, only they are claiming that they learned about it only recently through photographs of local area schools they found on Farooq and his wife’s cell phones. Think about that: the FBI, which is a dept. of the Obama DOJ – part of an admin that won’t even mention radical Islam and does everything within its power to characterize every attack as anything but terrorism – is now jumping to the conclusion, based solely on photographs of schools that Farooq may have taken in connection with his job as a county health inspector, that he was involved in a series of terrorist plots.
Read each comment attributable to the FBI in this story:
Doesn’t it seem that the FBI found out way too much about these people and what they were doing over the past two years way too quickly?
So why would the FBI want to claim that they just found out everything about Farooq, Malik, and their friend, Marquez? Is it:
a. They’re telling the truth.
b. They’re covering up for the fact that they dropped the ball with this guy.
c. 2012 was an election year, and they didn’t want it to appear that Obama’s national security policies were failing, and we were again the object of jihadist attacks.
d. b & c
Wandering Views 
I’m shocked………
It appears Obama lied to us, and broke the law….
Again.
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/262772-house-report-says-obama-officials-misled-public-on-berghdahl-swap
“A yearlong investigation by the House Armed Services Committee has concluded that the Obama administration broke the law in swapping five Taliban members for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — and went out of its way to hide the negotiations as they were happening.
The report said the administration broke a law requiring it to give members of Congress 30 days’ advance notice of any detainee transfers from the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, where the senior Taliban leaders were held.
It also found that it misled reporters and lawmakers about a potential prisoner exchange. Congress was instead notified just hours before the May 2014 transfer took place.”
“”Our report finds that the Administration clearly broke the law in not notifying Congress of the transfer,” said the committee’s chairman, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas).”
“Last year, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office also found that the Obama administration violated the law on the Bergdahl swap.
While Democrats on the committee agreed that the administration broke the law, they strongly objected in a dissenting report to the broader conclusions that the administration kept the swap secret for a political motive.”
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And speaking of detainees released by Obama….
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/ex-guantanamo-detainee-now-an-al-qaeda-leader-in-yemen.php
“Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a new video featuring a former Guantanamo detainee, Ibrahim Qosi, who is also known as Sheikh Khubayb al Sudani.
In July 2010, Qosi plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism before a military commission. His plea was part of a deal in which he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors during his remaining time in US custody. Qosi was transferred to his home country of Sudan two years later, in July 2012.
Qosi joined AQAP in 2014 and became one of its leaders. Qosi and other AQAP commanders discussed their time waging jihad at length in the video, entitled “Guardians of Sharia.””
“Qosi’s appearance marks the first time he has starred in jihadist propaganda since he left Guantanamo. His personal relationship with Osama bin Laden and time in American detention make him an especially high-profile spokesman.”
““Detainee is an admitted veteran jihadist with combat experience beginning in 1990 and it is assessed he would engage in hostilities against US forces, if released,” JTF-GTMO found.”
And yet he was released by the Obama admin……
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Here’s more on yet another case the Obama admin refuses to admit is terrorism.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/10/with-spotlight-on-san-bernardino-yet-more-questions-about-college-knife-attack/
“The California college student who stabbed four people last month in a campus spree that ended when he was killed by campus police was described by his roommate as “an extreme Muslim” and carried a manifesto and a photocopy of an ISIS flag — more than enough to convince John Price he was a terrorist.
Yet, more than a month after the Nov. 4 attack at University of California Merced, local and federal authorities continue to insist that Faisal Mohammad, 18, carried out the vicious attack because he’d been banished from a study group. Price, whose son Byron Price, a 31-year-old construction manager for the family business who was working nearby and was stabbed when he heroically intervened, suspects the White House’s reluctance to identify acts of radical Islamic terror has trickled down to investigators who are still probing the Merced attack.
“Why don’t we just call it what it is — domestic terrorism?” said Price. “Everyone is afraid to be politically incorrect. I do believe in law enforcement and believe they will do their job, but it seems like to me we aren’t getting the whole story. I just wonder how much of this is driven from way higher up and is politically driven — I just don’t know.””
“The hesitance to call a crime “terrorism” is a familiar scenario replayed last week some 326 miles south in San Bernardino, where authorities took several days to ascribe terrorism as the motivation for an attack despite what seemed like overwhelming evidence. And while authorities, including President Obama, have now said the attack that left 14 dead in San Bernardino was a terrorist act, the motive for Mohammad’s spree, which resulted in no fatalities, remains unattributed.
The manifesto authored by the 18-year-old freshman, copies of which were found both on his body during the autopsy and in the trash can in his dorm, bore names of his targets, a vow “to cut someone’s head off” and as many as five reminders to “praise Allah.””
“A spokeswoman for the FBI in Sacramento would not provide any information other than to report, “the investigation is ongoing.” Neither UC Merced police, the lead agency on the case, nor the university’s administration, have made public the manifesto or the copy of the Islamic State flag Mohammad was reportedly carrying, despite repeated requests from FoxNews.com, also maintaining the investigation still continues.”
Gee, I wonder why……. 🙄
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Could it be that in the coming weeks we are going to learn that the FBI had been investigating Farooq and/or his wife for years, and they were aware back in 2012 that he was plotting an attack. The FBI has already said that Farooq was plotting an attack back in 2012, only they are claiming that they learned about it only recently through photographs of local area schools they found on Farooq and his wife’s cell phones. Think about that: the FBI, which is a dept. of the Obama DOJ – part of an admin that won’t even mention radical Islam and does everything within its power to characterize every attack as anything but terrorism – is now jumping to the conclusion, based solely on photographs of schools that Farooq may have taken in connection with his job as a county health inspector, that he was involved in a series of terrorist plots.
Read each comment attributable to the FBI in this story:
http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-sb-shooting-20151211-story.html
And this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/us/enrique-marquez-buyer-of-guns-used-in-san-bernardino-attack-is-studied.html?_r=0
Doesn’t it seem that the FBI found out way too much about these people and what they were doing over the past two years way too quickly?
So why would the FBI want to claim that they just found out everything about Farooq, Malik, and their friend, Marquez? Is it:
a. They’re telling the truth.
b. They’re covering up for the fact that they dropped the ball with this guy.
c. 2012 was an election year, and they didn’t want it to appear that Obama’s national security policies were failing, and we were again the object of jihadist attacks.
d. b & c
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Ummmm…..
b. and c., final answer.
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Just a note, many of these players, and the mosque they attended, are noted in the links from DiscoverTheNetworks the other day as well.
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And the mosque and the visa exploiting the man in the video discuss is touched on here as well.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/san-bernardino-attack-visas-wives-terror/story?id=35674749
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