President Trump & Terrorism in the USA:threat & response

[AdamG]

The children discovered at an “extremist Muslim” compound in New Mexico earlier this month were both trained to use firearms and taught multiple tactical techniques in order to kill teachers, law enforcement and other institutions they found corrupt, state prosecutors revealed on Monday.

The prosecutors provided more details about the accusations during a court hearing in which they asked that Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and four other defendants be held pending trial on child abuse charges.

Wahhaj and the others were seated with their public defenders in a Taos courtroom Monday as prosecutors presented books that were found at the compound, documents related to Wahhaj's trip to Saudi Arabia and a handwritten notebook that appeared to be some kind of teaching manual. They also pointed to evidence that Wahhaj had taken a series of firearms courses while in Georgia.

Defense attorneys, meantime, argued that prosecutors were trying unjustly to paint their clients as armed militants. Public defenders also argued that the rifles and handguns found on the property were common guns that could be bought at retail stores and that their clients made no aggressive efforts to defend their compound.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/13...-training.html

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/13...-training.html

[AdamG]

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Officials closed Arlington National Cemetery to the public Wednesday after a bomb threat was reported. All families, visitors, and employees have been evacuated safely from the area, according to the Arlington National Cemetery. The cemetery is closed to the public for the duration of the day, officials said. It is, however, open for funeral services, funeral attendees and family pass holders. The threat is being investigated.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ar...cid=spartandhp

[AdamG]

MS-13 Narco Terrorist cell mopped up.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than two dozen MS-13 gang members and affiliates were arrested and charged following a monthslong murder and drug trafficking investigation centered on a rural California farm city that the gang turned into a base for its operations, U.S. and state prosecutors said Friday. MS-13 took advantage of limited resources in the city of Mendota and used it and other areas of Fresno County to "conduct their crimes, to hide out from crimes that they committed in other jurisdictions and to prepare to commit crimes in states as far away as New York," Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp said at a news conference in Fresno with state and federal officials.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-attorn...180611361.html

[AdamG]

FEMA and the FCC are testing wireless emergency alerts.
Your phone will likely sound an alarm with a 'Presidential Alert' sometime around 2:18 p.m. ET.
It isn't coming from President Donald Trump, but in the future it might if there's a national emergency.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/03/pres...afternoon.html

[AdamG]

A Minnesota judge on Thursday sentenced a former FBI agent to four years behind bars after the man reportedly confessed to giving classified defense documents to a reporter.

U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright told Terry James Albury, 39, who pleaded guilty earlier this year, that he “knowingly” committed the crime despite its illegality, according to The Associated Press.


“You did so willingly. You knew that what you did was a criminal act, and you knew that you were putting the nation's security at risk,” the judge told Albury.

The 4-year prison term matches the seriousness of the crime, Wright said, and should serve as a deterrent to others.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ex-...ts-to-reporter

That article fails to articulate what he did -

Because of his work with the FBI, Albury held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance that allowed him access to "sensitive and classified FBI and other U.S. government information" according to a 2018 FBI release.

Court documents from Albury's guilty plea say Albury disclosed national defense information to an Intercept reporter. The documents included information that related to how the FBI assesses confidential informants, and a document "relating to threats posed by certain individuals from a particular Middle Eastern country."

https://kstp.com/news/kstp-terry-alb...enced/5113351/

[davidbfpo]

Readers may recall the political fallout from a NYT story on the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017, with Anglo-US law enforcement exchanging of information being turned off by the UK.
Link to NYT story, which now be behind a pay wall:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...s-photos.html?

Last week a US DoJ IG report found four employees mishandled sensitive information and two forwarded the email to their own personal email accounts. It gets worse, so read the linked story. The amazing fact the IG reported was that:

found misconduct by four of the more than 1,000 bureau employees who received an email containing the intelligence. (At the end) The inquiry found that British authorities had sent the report to “numerous other” US agencies, suggesting the leak may not have come from the FBI.

Link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...g-report-finds

It is well known that the Anglo-US CT LE relationship is very close, but one does wonder if the "need to know" principle is being applied.

[AdamG]

With a long history of the terror group encouraging wildland arson, al-Qaeda supporters circulated a new poster through media channels highlighting "California burning."

"They will question you about the mountains. Say: 'My Lord will scatter them as ashes,'" says the text citing the Quran, imposed over news photos from the blazes.

The al-Qaeda propaganda comes shortly after one of the many media groups supporting ISIS operations online claimed that the deadly wildfires in northern and southern California are retribution for coalition bombings in Syria.

The image circulated online by Al-Ansar Media uses a photo of a burning building and misspelled the state "kalifornia."

https://pjmedia.com/homeland-securit...3dUjL8_y0fiPsA