The FBI is concerned about the situation in Afghanistan. This is our supposedly leading national law enforcement and intelligence agency. They have been a complete disaster for years. So, excuse me, I’m rolling my eyes about what FBI Director Chris Wray found disturbing in Afghanistan. The top terrorist on the FBI’s most wanted list serves as a top government official. I mean, who’s really shocked? A movement supporting terrorism fills government positions with… terrorists (via Washington Examiner):
FBI Director Christopher Wray said he is concerned that the leader of the Haqqani terrorist network holds a key position in the de facto Taliban government.
Wray’s remarks came during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the threat landscape 20 years after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
When Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio, asked whether Sirajuddin Haqqani would become the Taliban’s interior minister, Wray replied: “That certainly worries me.”
Asked if Haqqani was on the FBI’s most wanted list, Wray replied: “I believe so.”
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Many members of the al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network have taken top positions in the Taliban’s “caretaker” government, including leader Sirajuddin, the Taliban’s “deputy emir.” The State Department insists that the Haqqani network and the Taliban are “separate entities,” but Anas Haqqani, Sirajuddin’s brother, bluntly said last month: “We are the Taliban.”
Wray testified that “preventing terrorist attacks remains our top priority, both today and in the future” and that “we are certainly watching the situation in Afghanistan evolve.”
Abizaid said the ISIS-K terrorist attack in Kabul shows that “foreign terrorist groups continue to attach importance to attacks on the United States.”
Yes, not good. I understand why the FBI is concerned. This comes with the territory, but while they fear terrorist attacks, their track record does not inspire confidence that they will protect us. Sorry, these guys went rogue by spying on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign official in 2016. They falsified evidence to secure FISA spy warrants. They also spied on the campaign itself, relying on Clinton-financed opposition research called the Steele Dossier. They spent so much time manufacturing evidence of Trump-Russia collusion against Trump that they dismissed allegations about Larry Nassar, who sexually abused dozens of newborn American gymnasts. Nassar was convicted of molestation and sentenced to over a hundred years in prison. These women told the FBI that this guy was a jerk, but they didn’t do anything. Olympic champions McKayla Maroney, Simone Biles, Maggie Nichols and Aly Raisman told the feds about Nassar. Nothing happened.
Nor could they say that the 2017 shooting of the GOP congressional baseball team was politically motivated, even though Dudley Do-Right saw that as the obvious conclusion. The shooter, James Hodgkinson, was a left-wing radical and Bernie Sanders supporter. He had a kill list. He waited for several days at the site of the attack and loudly expressed his hatred of Republicans. He tried to kill as many as he could in an attempt to carry out a political assassination. However, the FBI wasn’t entirely sure what the motivation was or whether it was domestic terrorism, only admitting it was such an attack… in May 2021.
The FBI needs a major overhaul, and until that happens, we can’t be sure these people will do their job well.
