See also Sailer, 2016: “How Did the Orlando Muslim Terrorist’s Father Get Into U.S.?” Is The Answer “FBI Informant” And Why Are We Only Finding This Out NOW?

From Breitbart:

Attorneys for Noor Salman, the wife of Pulse nightclub killer Omar Mateen, moved to dismiss the charges or declare a mistrial on Sunday night after the prosecution revealed on Saturday that Mateen’s father, Seddique Mateen, worked as an FBI informant from 2005 through the summer of 2016.

According to defense lawyers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Sweeney sent them an email on Saturday night that revealed Seddique Mateen was a confidential FBI source and is also under investigation for suspicious money transfers to Turkey and Afghanistan, based on documents that were discovered in his home on the day of the nightclub massacre. Noor Salman’s trial had already been in progress for a week when this disclosure was made.

“It is apparent from the Government’s belated disclosure that Ms. Salman has been defending a case without a complete set of facts and evidence that the Government was required to disclose,” the defense attorneys declared.

The defense said the new revelations present two theories of the case that should have been on the table since the beginning of Salman’s trial: “1) Omar Mateen and his father, rather than Ms. Salman, conspired to support ISIS; or 2) the FBI’s focus on Ms. Salman was based on its own motive to avoid responsibility for its failures with its own informant, Seddique Mateen, as well as his son.”

The defense pointed out that one of the allegations against Noor Salman is that she helped Omar Mateen cook up a cover story to help him slip away and carry out the Pulse shooting, but if Seddique Mateen had “some level of foreknowledge” about the terror plot, such a cover story “would have been completely unnecessary.”

Salman’s attorneys also argued that Seddique Mateen used his connections with the FBI to block an investigation into his son in 2013. That investigation was launched after a joint operation between the FBI and the local sheriff’s department received a credible tip that Omar Mateen was planning a terrorist operation. After investigating him, putting him under surveillance, interviewing him twice, and even obtaining a written statement in which Omar Mateen admitted he lied to agents during the interviews, the operation concluded in March 2014 that he was not a threat.

Back in January, I wrote a Taki’s column called “Immigration and the Deep State” listing numerous examples of immigrants running amok who were in this country because somebody in Washington thought it would be a good idea for some Invade the World reason.

In my list, I didn’t even get to the Mateen family who are here for reasons related to America’s fundamental national interest of making sure that Afghanistan, with its strategic deposits of gravel, is within the American sphere of hegemony.

And then when they are here, the FBI can kill two birds with one stone by having them spy on other unstable potential terrorists. And if their sons flip out and murder Americans in an Islamist terror attack, well, that’s going to require some big budget boosts for all the agencies concerned that will drive Beltway real estate prices even higher.

So, it’s all good.

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