Thread: FORMER CIA OPERATIVE VALIDATES BREITBART WARNINGS ABOUT ISIS

FORMER CIA OPERATIVE VALIDATES BREITBART WARNINGS ABOUT ISIS




by SARAH RUMPF
3 Sep 2014,

AUSTIN, Texas — Americans were horrified today when the terrorist group ISIS released a video that purports to show a militant beheading the American journalist Steven Sotloff, who had been held hostage since being captured in Syria in August 2013. The ISIS militant is reported to be the same individual who beheaded another American journalist, James Foley last month. Now, a new report by CNN sheds light on how dangerous the threat from ISIS may be here in America.

Today, on CNN’s The Lead, host Jake Tapper asked former CIA operative Bob Baer to comment on whether ISIS posed a threat to the United States. “I’ve been told from national security experts that the concern of ISIS trying to strike here in the homeland, here in the United States, is a very real and serious concern,” commented Tapper, asking Baer what he had heard from his sources about “any cells of ISIS within the United States.”

Baer replied that his contacts in the American intelligence community were “very alarmed” and that they believed that ISIS cells have already infiltrated the United States.

“The people who collect tactical intelligence on the ground, day-to-day -- and this isn't Washington -- but people collecting this stuff say they're here, ISIS is here, they're capable of striking,” said Baer. “They don't know what their plans and intentions are. But it's a definite concern.”

When Tapper asked him to clarify what he meant by “they’re here,” Baer stated that the intelligence community believed that some ISIS agents had crossed the Mexican border illegally, while others were American citizens who had returned from Syria.

“And then there's the unknown, of how many people have come back they're not even aware of,” he added.

The CNN report validates an article from over a year ago by Breitbart Texas’ Managing Director, Brandon Darby, where he described a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) that showed how our unsecured border with Mexico and Somalia’s porous borders and lack of law enforcement were being used as a “global pathway” for illegal immigrants, vulnerable to exploitation by Al-Qaeda and other transnational terrorists.

Last week, in another article by Darby, Breitbart Texas exclusively reported on a leaked document that was distributed to federal agents all along the U.S.-Mexico border, warning about an ISIS-related terrorism threat. Darby also reported that U.S. Border Patrol agents were” taking the threat seriously” and considered it “credible information.”

“I’m glad our reporting on border security issues has, once again, been validated,” said Darby, in response to the CNN report, “but there is little comfort in that because we would much rather prefer that the situation not be so dangerous. If there weren't already enough legitimate reasons to finally get serious about border security, than today’s news should get Americans demanding that their government take action.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-T...ngs-About-ISIS

EXCLUSIVE: BREITBART TEXAS VERIFIES ISIS BORDER THREAT WITH LEAKED DOC


by BRANDON DARBY
29 Aug 2014

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Breitbart Texas has exclusively obtained a leaked document warning federal agents about an ISIS-related terrorism threat across the entire US-Mexico border. Though the document focuses on the Texas-Mexico border, Breitbart Texas has confirmed that federal agents across the entire US-Mexico border have received the ISIS terror warning.

The document was released by the Texas Department of Public Safety and warned that ISIS was actively promoting and encouraging supporters to take advantage of the porous Texas-Mexico border to carry out terrorist attacks against US citizens.

The document attributed the increased interest by ISIS to a report done by journalist James O'Keefe. Though the report did not mention O'Keefe by name, it showed images of O'Keefe crossing the porous Texas-Mexico border while wearing an Osama bin Laden mask.

In addition to the report, U.S. Border Patrol Agents confirmed that the U.S. Border Patrol agency was indeed taking the threat seriously. A Border Patrol agent in the Laredo Sector told Breitbart Texas that they had credible information that ISIS was attempting to find individuals and groups in Nuevo-Laredo Mexico to assist in gaining entry into the united states.

A Border Patrol agent in the El Paso Sector would only tell Breitbart Texas that a warning was issued to agents pertaining to ISIS.

The Border Patrol agent spoke to Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity.

Judicial Watch first reported on a threat from ISIS being issued to federal agents in El Paso agents earlier in the day. They claimed that their sources warned of an imminent terrorist threat. Breitbart Texas was unable to identify any sources in federal law enforcement agencies to verify that a specific and imminent terror plot was currently under way. Breitbart Texas spoke with the president of Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton. He said, "This is a dire situation and I can't emphasize enough the seriousness of the threat posed here. If your law enforcement sources do not have the information we have, they are being ill-served by their leadership. We put this out to protect the safety of law enforcement and citizens along the border. this is a public safety announcement."

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/08/29/Exclusive-Breitbart-Texas-Verifies-ISIS-Threat-With-Leaked-Doc

Original bulletin from Judicial Watch for reference.

Imminent Terrorist Attack Warning Update: Ft. Bliss Increases Security

AUGUST 29, 2014

Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued. Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat.

UPDATED: 08/31/2014 at 4:45 PM ET

Specifically, the government sources reveal that the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is confirmed to now be operating in Juarez, a famously crime-infested narcotics hotbed situated across from El Paso, Texas. Violent crimes are so rampant in Juarez that the U.S. State Department has issued a number of travel warnings for anyone planning to go there. The last one was issued just a few days ago.

Intelligence officials have picked up radio talk and chatter indicating that the terrorist groups are going to “carry out an attack on the border,” according to one JW source. “It’s coming very soon,” according to another high-level source, who clearly identified the groups planning the plots as “ISIS and Al Qaeda.” An attack is so imminent that the commanding general at Ft. Bliss, the U.S. Army post in El Paso, is being briefed, JW’s sources say. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not respond to multiple inquiries from Judicial Watch, both telephonic and in writing, about this information.

But two days after JW published this report Ft. Bliss implemented increased security measures. The statement that went out to the media attributes the move to several recent security assessments and the constant concern for the safety of military members, families, employees and civilians. However, El Paso’s newspaper credited JW’s Friday piece about ISIS terrorists planning an attack on U.S. soil from Juarez as a possible factor.

The disturbing inside intelligence comes on the heels of news reports revealing that U.S. intelligence has picked up increased chatter among Islamist terror networks approaching the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. While these terrorists reportedly plan their attack just outside the U.S., President Obama admits that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to combat ISIS. “I don’t want to put the cart before the horse,” the commander-in-chief said this week during a White House press briefing. “I think what I’ve seen in some of the news reports suggest that folks are getting a little further ahead of what we’re at than what we currently are.”

The administration has also covered up, or at the very least downplayed, a serious epidemic of crime along the Mexican border even as heavily armed drug cartels have taken over portions of the region. Judicial Watch has reported that the U.S. Border Patrol actually ordered officers to avoid the most crime-infested stretches because they’re “too dangerous” and patrolling them could result in an “international incident” of cross border shooting. In the meantime, who could forget the famous words of Obama’s first Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano; the southern border is “as secure as it has ever been.”

These new revelations are bound to impact the current debate about the border crisis and immigration policy.

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