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I have told you this for years as I’ve covered several cases ABC is focusing on in this piece. Glad people are finally catching up. I covered the Kentucky case in November of 2015 (also an ABC story).
Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.
“We are currently supporting dozens of current counter-terrorism investigations like that,” FBI Agent Gregory Carl, director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC), said in an ABC News interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC News’ “World News with Diane Sawyer” and “Nightline”.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if there were many more than that,” said House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul. “And these are trained terrorists in the art of bombmaking that are inside the United States; and quite frankly, from a homeland security perspective, that really concerns me.”
As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News – even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets. One Iraqi who had aided American troops was assassinated before his refugee application could be processed, because of the immigration delays, two U.S. officials said. In 2011, fewer than 10,000 Iraqis were resettled as refugees in the U.S., half the number from the year before, State Department statistics show.
Source: Exclusive: ‘Dozens’ of Terrorists May Be in US as Refugees
When neverTrump Republicans were calling Donald Trump a fake during the primary election and saying he was changing his views so he would win Republicans over, I took to playing old interviews with him. Interviews from the 1980’s in which he sounds just like he sounds now. Back in the days when the GOP was routinely courting him to be their candidate. Back in days when the general public nearly universally agreed with what he was saying regardless of their political affiliation. I’ve always found it so interesting to see how well received he was back then saying the same things he says now. Today, however, he is demonized for saying those things.
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A couple of days ago a video from the JCPenney at the UP Mall here in Mishawaka, IN went viral. It shows a loss prevention officer in an altercation with a young woman. Predictably, there are calls of outrage, and racism based on this report from WNDU:
I’ve been in media long enough to know when a story is missing some major elements, and is being steered in one direction. Naturally, I was skeptical the narrative one gets from this report is the full, accurate picture of what happened.
When the story broke, I posted it on my Facebook page. Listener reaction was swift. They didn’t see anything wrong with the conduct of the officer, and all assumed a lot was missing from the story.
Shortly after I posted the story on Facebook, the loss prevention officer contacted my station (95.3 MNC) to let us know he wanted to do an interview with me when he was allowed, but at that time he was forbidden from talking to the media.
On Thursday afternoon I came into work, and was told there were people waiting for me. It was Troy, the officer you see in the video above.
He’d been fired by JCPenney, and was now free to talk to me.
He provided me with a brief rundown of his version of events, the JCPenney report, the Mishawaka PD case number, and some videos on Facebook uploaded by the other party in the incident. I did the interview the next day, Friday morning.
This interview is his version of events so he can get his side of the story out there, and people can make an informed decision about what happened.
I also spoke with Mishawaka PD who stated to me that based on the police report, and several witnesses, it would be likely that the girl in the video would face charges. That decision, however, was up to the prosecutor.