Like I've said, even a lone wolf is raised by a pack before it goes off the reservation. It appears the NYC truck attacker, Sayfullo Saipov, was known to US authorities, and was interviewed by the FBI in 2015 because his name was listed as a point of contact for two known terrorists (one of whom has apparently just gone to ground and disappeared).
Nothing was done by the FBI or any other government agency or organization, including not opening a contact file on him, which is standard operating procedure, I think (though Mister GMAN is the expert on these matters, not me). From what it looks like, neither was his permanent resident status under the Diversity Visa Program reviewed, revisited or reexamined. I guess because doing so would have been populist or nativist or Islamophobic, or something.
Feds interviewed accused NYC truck attacker in 2015 about possible terror ties - ABC News
"The suspected New York City attacker, Sayfullo Saipov, was interviewed in 2015 by federal agents in the Department of Homeland Security Investigations Unit about possible ties to suspected terrorists, but the agents did not have enough evidence to open a case on him, law enforcement officials tell ABC News.
Saipov's name and address was listed as a “point of contact” for two different men whose names were entered into the Counterterrorism and Criminal Exploitation Unit’s list after they came to the United States from “threat countries,” one federal official told ABC News.
One of the two men has vanished and is being actively sought by federal agents as a “suspected terrorist.”
I'm curious as to why, after being cited as being a point of contact for two terror suspects, this gentleman wasn't put under at least casual or intermittent surveillance? If he had been -- which I know is a case of 20/20 hindsight on my part -- maybe the feds would have noticed this:
"Investigators searching Saipov’s online activities have found social media links to people who are or were subjects of terror investigations, sources said; however, it appears that the suspect found ISIS propaganda online and was not part of a terror cell."
C'mon, feds. Don't be this guy:
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
Nothing was done by the FBI or any other government agency or organization, including not opening a contact file on him, which is standard operating procedure, I think (though Mister GMAN is the expert on these matters, not me). From what it looks like, neither was his permanent resident status under the Diversity Visa Program reviewed, revisited or reexamined. I guess because doing so would have been populist or nativist or Islamophobic, or something.
Feds interviewed accused NYC truck attacker in 2015 about possible terror ties - ABC News
"The suspected New York City attacker, Sayfullo Saipov, was interviewed in 2015 by federal agents in the Department of Homeland Security Investigations Unit about possible ties to suspected terrorists, but the agents did not have enough evidence to open a case on him, law enforcement officials tell ABC News.
Saipov's name and address was listed as a “point of contact” for two different men whose names were entered into the Counterterrorism and Criminal Exploitation Unit’s list after they came to the United States from “threat countries,” one federal official told ABC News.
One of the two men has vanished and is being actively sought by federal agents as a “suspected terrorist.”
I'm curious as to why, after being cited as being a point of contact for two terror suspects, this gentleman wasn't put under at least casual or intermittent surveillance? If he had been -- which I know is a case of 20/20 hindsight on my part -- maybe the feds would have noticed this:
"Investigators searching Saipov’s online activities have found social media links to people who are or were subjects of terror investigations, sources said; however, it appears that the suspect found ISIS propaganda online and was not part of a terror cell."
C'mon, feds. Don't be this guy:
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."