Thread: Somali “Community” Given Special Access to Secured Areas of Airports

Somali “Community” Given Special Access to Secured Areas of Airports

December 16, 2016

The Obama administration’s willful failure to recognize the potential threat from radical Islamists here at home continues to place Americans at risk. The latest example of this will shock you and in is found in just 31 pages of records we pried loose from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The records reveal the

Department of Homeland Security has given Somalis “community engagement tours,” including security briefings, in secured areas in at least three major U.S. airports – Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Columbus, Ohio.

The briefings provided to the Somali groups were so sensitive that in 14 instances the agency redacted portions of the records under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption (B)(7)(e) the law-enforcement “risk circumvention” exemption, which reads:

Exemption 7(E) of the Freedom of Information Act affords protection to all law enforcement information that would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law.

In one instance, Customs and Border Protection exempted under (B)(7)(e) a portion of a February 16, 2016, “Minute by Minute Agenda” provided during a tour/briefing of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP). The material that was withheld from Judicial Watch as too law-enforcement sensitive – but provided in full to the Somali group – included a section entitled: “TSA Overview — Processing [Redacted].” The invitees were provided briefings of the Global Entry system, APC [Automated Passport Control] system, secondary screening procedures, baggage-screening procedures and given tours of the holding cells/interview rooms.

Notes from the February Minneapolis St. Paul Airport tour indicate: “Current CBP and TSA job vacancies” were discussed. Attendees responded with requests for DHS outreach efforts during Somali community events to further advertise these positions to interested individuals.”
The newly released records also reveal:

• In addition to the Minneapolis Airport tours/briefings given to Somalis during 2014 and 2015 – and first revealed by Judicial Watch in August 2016 – tours of U.S. airports and security briefings also have been provided to other groups at airports in Los Angeles and Columbus, Ohio: “Once we agree on the dates we will select the time based on prayer schedules. Another idea could be the roundtable to take place at the airport after the tour. We have done that before in LA and Columbus and it worked well both times”.
• The timing of the Minneapolis Airport tour given to a group of Somalis in February 2016 was scheduled between 6-8pm because it would “accommodate prayer times well”
• During the “annual” tour, federal authorities granted excursions of the facility’s “secure areas.” It is also noted that two parties in the previous year “did not pass vetting.”
• The invitation extended to the Somalis for the Minneapolis Airport tour addressed them as “Dear Colleague,” and promised “walking people through CBP’s process, walking people through TSA’s process” and provide “a step-by-step tour of our operations, designed to offer a greater understanding of airport processes and procedures.”

Eight senior ranking Homeland Security and Customs officials were tasked with accompanying and briefing the Somalis on the February 18, 2016, Minneapolis Airport tour, including the Minneapolis Area Port Director, the Assistant Port Director, the Watch Commander, a Homeland Security Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Senior Policy Advisor (flown in from Washington), the TSA Federal Security Director and TSA Deputy Federal Security Director.

The documents show Customs officials reporting that one of the invited individuals had given “CBP Chicago a hard time” following the last tour and noted three of the invitees had had investigations against them, which had since been closed. Another invitee had an active investigation pending.

Logically, information that is too sensitive to provide to Judicial Watch and the public should not have been given to a “community engagement tour.” The U.S.
government has been aware for years that Minnesota is a hotbed of Somali terrorist-cell activity. The behind-the-scenes tours and security briefings of the Minneapolis airport very well could have created a threat to public safety.

We’ve been on watch for this issue for some time. In August 2016, the JW Corruption Chronicles blog reported on the Muslim airport tour story: “The Obama administration gave Somali Muslims behind-the-scenes tours at a major U.S. airport after the group complained to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson about feeling harassed and profiled, government records obtained by Judicial Watch reveal. The special security tours not offered to any other group occurred at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after Department of Homeland Security roundtable meetings with local Somali leaders to obtain feedback for ‘modifications to practices that would allow for operations to be more culturally sensitive.’”

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The Obama Administration is an imminent threat to the United States.

Judicial Watch is amazing. God Bless Them.

Originally Posted by Judy

This Administration is an imminent threat to the United States.

Judy, we have had many discussions over the last couple years about the true motivation of Obama and his fundamental change of America.

I think we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg and America is in for a rude awakening of the true damage Obama has done to this country
and the American culture as we new it for 250 years.

It's why there's a natural born citizen clause in the US Constitution, born in the US to 2 US citizens. When Americans ignore it, they do so at their own peril.

The anchor baby loophole needs to be changed immediately - or interpreted as it was intended.

Pres. Obama has been a disaster - we know that, we see that.

One thing, however, we really, really need to make ourselves understand, he is just the tip of the iceberg. This started many years ago, with the Clinton Admins, actually Reagan and his amnesty. Pres. Bush was the most openly pro illegal and pro immigrant President - until this last one.

The insanity of our war on terror, which has cost so very many lives, so very much money, allowed restrictive laws to be passed is so scary.

All the while this is being perpetrated on this nation, we have an open and inviting border - kept open by the very people in charge who are screaming 'terrorists'.

Just weeks after 9/11, our government allowed a group of ME men into this country to take flying lessons. Now this school is taught only in Arabic. This school is also near a metropolitan area of millions and very near, by air, to a nuclear plant.

The irony of that is astounding.

Also, I don't want to start a discussion on the pros and cons of vaccine, but our government and the media has gone all out to demonize parents who don't vaccine. Yet, they are allowing thousands of people into this country with all manner of diseases for which we have no vaccine, no inherited immunity, and in some cases, no known treatment or cure.

The irony.

Like I've said for many years now, we are in our "Period of Ironies and Opposites". When people are being ironic, they are being the opposite of what they should be, that means they're liars, cheaters, cons, crooks and traitors all involved in their art of deception for illicit purpose against the best interest of the American People and the United States.

It has to end, we have to right our ship and get back on course.

Trump will help US do that. But we all must wake up and see things are they really are and work together to end this travesty and wake up from this nightmare we're in.