rss2008 FBI Audit Flagged Failure to Place Terror Suspects on Watchlist
Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 12:06 pm
- 9 Comments
While the State Department is fending off questions about why it didn’t revoke Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s visa and points fingers at the National Counterterrorism Center, it’s worth noting that the FBI last year was told, following an in-depth audit by its inspector general, that it had a big problem with failing to place terror suspects on the NCTC’s terror watchlists.
As Spencer has pointed out, the State Department says it passed along the warning about Abdulmutallab from his father to the rest of the government through an interagency process. That does not appear to have alerted the FBI, which itself seems odd. But even if it had, there’s no guarantee that would have landed Abdulmutallab on the terrorism watchlist — also called the “no-fly list.”
As the 2008 FBI audit released last May explained, the FBI’s practices for nominating people to the terror watchlist were a mess. Although “FBI policy allows for the nomination of known or suspected international terrorists for whom the FBI does not have a terrorism investigation,” the controls over those nominations were “weak or nonexistent,” the report concluded. The report further found that in 15 percent of cases, terror suspects who should have been nominated for the terror watchlist were not — including one suspect who was under investigation for four years.
When Congress takes up the matter next month, it should consider why the FBI wasn’t informed about a Nigerian Muslim flying to the United States after his own father warned he was an Islamic extremist presenting a safety risk — and whether the FBI and the rest of the government has cleaned up its own procedures enough to flag a suspect like this in the future.
9 Comments
Pingback posted December 31, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Ron Pratt, WashIndependent. WashIndependent said: 2008 FBI Audit Flagged Failure to Place Terror Suspects on Watchlist http://bit.ly/8J8jVE [...]
Pingback posted December 31, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
[...] 2008 FBI Audit Flagged Failure to Place Terror Suspects on … [...]
Comment posted December 31, 2009 @ 4:31 pm
People bitch if our government does what they think is right, and they bitch when they think our government doesn't do enough. Now they voice their opinion that Waterboarding this man is the right thing to do, yet a few months ago it was wrong to waterboard terrorist to get info to protect the lives of people around the world. You cannot please all the people all the time, and that's a fact. I feel that our govt. should do any and everything possible to protect us, and waterboarding is minute when you compare it to what 3000 individuals went through on 9-11. Pull their toe nails out, pull their eyes out, do whatever it takes to save a life. Bring our military home and remove all the illegals from the U.S.A., and guard our borders and protect us, it's a fact our govt. isn't doing it…why Obama is even here illegally, and no one is doing anything to remove him, or make him produce evidence he's legally here and entitled to be in our Whitehouse. It's time for American's to take back over their country and try to undo some of the damage the elected officials have done to us.
Pingback posted December 31, 2009 @ 6:08 pm
[...] 2008 FBI Audit Flagged Failure to Place Terror Suspects on … [...]
Pingback posted December 31, 2009 @ 7:08 pm
[...] 2008 FBI Audit Flagged Failure to Place Terror Suspects on … [...]
Comment posted January 1, 2010 @ 6:36 pm
Torture does not produce useful intel. The real experts all know that. Torture is for amateurs.
As for your contention that the President of the US is an illegal, well that just marks you out as an ignorant fool.
Pingback posted January 2, 2010 @ 6:17 am
[...] 2008 FBI Audit Flagged Failure to Place Terror Suspects on … [...]
Comment posted January 3, 2010 @ 3:00 pm
welcome to
????????????????
http://www.wowowbiz.com
????????????????
The website wholesale for many kinds of fashion shoes,
like the nike,jordan,prada,adidas, also including the
eans,shirts,bags,hat and the decorations. All the
products are free shipping, and the the price is
competitive, and also can accept online payment.,after the
payment, can ship within short time.
our price:
jordan air max oakland raiders $34–39;
Ed Hardy AF JUICY POLO Bikini $25;
Christan Audigier BIKINI JACKET $25;
gstar coogi evisu true jeans $35;
coach chanel gucci LV handbags $36;
coogi DG edhardy gucci t-shirts $18;
CA edhardy vests.paul smith shoes $32;
jordan dunk af1 max gucci shoes $37;
EDhardy gucci ny New Era cap $16;
coach okely Adidas CHANEL DG Sunglass $18;
thank you for your visit I wish you a happy new year
??? http://www.wowowbiz.com
Comment posted October 8, 2010 @ 4:24 am
it's good article ,thank you for your sharing
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
