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Authorities are investigating Bickford for potential ties to Islamic extremism. A high-level police source told Fox News Digital that Bickford was being watched by the FBI's counterterrorism task force in the weeks leading up to Saturday's attack. The source also said Bickford recently converted to Islam and a tipster claimed he had expressed interest in going to Afghanistan.
"I want to be clear that the FBI, through the Joint Terrorism Task Force, is working very closely with [NYPD] to determine the nature of this attack," the FBI's Michael Driscoll said at the Sunday news conference. "And we will run every lead to ground. I also want to be very clear, as you've heard said tonight previously, this is very much an ongoing investigation, so our ability to talk about specifics is limited."
Seems the FBI and the other alphabet agencies are good at watching while doing nothing preventative. Then they’ll send in the suits to waste time an money investigating the obvious. This is the same crap we’ve heard many times. The shooter was on our radar, we have heard chatter, relatives said, etc. But then they sat on their hands and watched it happened. There’s a higher chance of getting shot at trying to stop a criminal than investigating a crime after the fact. Wonder if they get overtime while investigating an attack?
The cops should be able to sue the FBI if they dropped the ball. Maybe they would start being proactive. I doubt it.
Rant over, for now.
Authorities are investigating Bickford for potential ties to Islamic extremism. A high-level police source told Fox News Digital that Bickford was being watched by the FBI's counterterrorism task force in the weeks leading up to Saturday's attack. The source also said Bickford recently converted to Islam and a tipster claimed he had expressed interest in going to Afghanistan.
"I want to be clear that the FBI, through the Joint Terrorism Task Force, is working very closely with [NYPD] to determine the nature of this attack," the FBI's Michael Driscoll said at the Sunday news conference. "And we will run every lead to ground. I also want to be very clear, as you've heard said tonight previously, this is very much an ongoing investigation, so our ability to talk about specifics is limited."
Seems the FBI and the other alphabet agencies are good at watching while doing nothing preventative. Then they’ll send in the suits to waste time an money investigating the obvious. This is the same crap we’ve heard many times. The shooter was on our radar, we have heard chatter, relatives said, etc. But then they sat on their hands and watched it happened. There’s a higher chance of getting shot at trying to stop a criminal than investigating a crime after the fact. Wonder if they get overtime while investigating an attack?
The cops should be able to sue the FBI if they dropped the ball. Maybe they would start being proactive. I doubt it.
Rant over, for now.
