Justifying Illegal Actions in the Face of Tragedy

Hillary Clinton:

“We need to redouble our efforts to defend our country from threats at home and abroad. That means defeating international terror groups, working with allies and partners to go after them wherever they are, countering their attempts to recruit people here and everywhere, and hardening our defenses at home.”

Oh, I get it.
We failed in our efforts to export Western values into the Middle East's civil wars, and now we are going to double down on our unconstitutional efforts to change their home societies, now that they are exporting their non-Western values here?

Funny how a terror tragedy just reinforces that the Obama administration has been doing it right all along, and we just need more action abroad.

(I wonder if it might be better for Feds to develop an effective active-shooter protocol, to be delivered to local authorities when they take ownership of military weapons.  Perhaps better training might have led the local authorities in Orlando to go in earlier, and not wait 3 hours after a gunman has been initially identified and stopped at the door.  What a loss! of time and lives.)

I also wonder if the Obama administration will be forthcoming regarding the FBI error(s) that dropped the ball on this Mateen fellow.  "Case closed" on him they said, even though an associate of his allegedly went to Syria to train; his father had been posting pro-Taliban messages in his webcasts;  the shooter allegedly expressed hatred of others, and spoke of killing them, to co-workers who reported their concerns. He was determined not to be a threat?

The F.B.I. investigated Mr. Mateen in 2013 when he made comments to co-workers suggesting he had terrorist ties, and again the next year, for possible connections to Moner Mohammad Abusalha, an American who became a suicide bomber in Syria, said Ronald Hopper, an assistant agent in charge of the bureau’s Tampa Division. But each time, the F.B.I. found no solid evidence that Mr. Mateen had any real connection to terrorism or had broken any laws. Still, he is believed to be on at least one watch list.

Mr. Mateen, who lived in Fort Pierce, Fla., was able to continue working as a security guard with the security firm G4S, where he had worked since 2007, and he was able to buy guns.

If this guy was on the FBI list, why was he able to easily purchase these weapons, with no red flag going up to ... "reopen" his file?  Doesn't the killer Omar Mateen fit a profile?

A former co-worker, Daniel Gilroy, said Mr. Mateen had talked often about killing people and had voiced hatred of gays, blacks, women and Jews.

I wonder if the Obama administration can find out why this lone wolf, once on the FBI's radar, had fallen off?  Inaction matters and leads to death, the president tells us.  Here's a perfect case study:  what more will it take to keep these individuals under surveillance, and stop them BEFORE they use their guns against us at home?  How can we overcome that type of 3-hour delay that surely upped the death count as victims in the club bled out?

Those are questions worth asking...

(Is our FBI too involved in entrapping Somali teens with no resources to carry out the FBI-plots planted into their heads, and proclaiming judicial victories there, while the real threats go unchecked?  Inquiring minds want to know what our intelligence agencies are doing to protect the American people.  To hell with taking the fight elsewhere -- defensively, let's start here at home.)