As it turned out 2 Jihadi Radicals decided to drive from Tennesse to extert violence on the attendees of the event. The FBI notified the Garland PD and together with the Armed Private Security detail in the parking lot they were able to neutralize these 2 threats. Without this action there WOULD have been casulties and deaths.
Here is a very good exchange about the Event between Geller and CNN immediately after the incident.
Then yesterday it was revealled that the FBI had a far larger role in the lead-up to this incident than had been disclosed before.
It seems that the FBI had infiltrated the group these 2 men were involved with and in fact had DETAILED KNOWLEDGE of their plans but could not have disclosed the information as a warning without blowing their cover - so thejust let it take place without communicating to their superiors. However when asked by a Senate Committee none of this FBI involvement was disclosed. It was not until another recent case was described on 60 Minutes did it surface.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said he learned from a recent national media report that the FBI was tailing the two terrorists, Elton Simpson, 31, and Nadir Soofi, 34, and an agent was just steps away when the pair jumped from their car and began shooting at police guarding the “Draw Mohammad” event at the Curtis Culwell Center in the Dallas suburb of Garland, Texas. The terrorists, who pledged allegiance to ISIS, struck Bruce Joiner, an unarmed security guard, in the leg, before snipers killed them. The attack was significant because it was the first that the Islamic State took credit for on U.S. soil. Soofi and Simpson had been in touch with an ISIS recruiter in Somalia.
“It is concerning that when I wrote to the FBI and Department of Justice, they never told me about the fact that they had some FBI asset, whether it was an agent or informant, tailing Soofi and Simpson,” said Johnson.
“Why didn’t they intervene? As a member of the Senate oversight committee, I think these agencies should be honest when we actually ask them the questions. But it begs the question, what was the FBI doing in Garland, and why wasn’t the agency direct with me when we first started writing letters about this back in 2015?”
Johnson is referring to two individuals who had prior contact with the shooters. One was a paid FBI informant, the other an FBI undercover agent.
“All I know is we don’t have the straight story from the FBI,” Johnson said. “We are just so fortunate that local law enforcement was able to take care of the situation to prevent another mass attack. This was a real tragedy averted.”Indeed. Is this a case of "Entrapment" gone awry - as the so often do? It looks like it.
