Posted on Mar 16, 2018
500K Fugitive Names Scrubbed from FBI’s National Database Under Obama Admin. | One America News...
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Sadly, I am not surprised that roughly 500,000 names were taken off the FBI's national database based on a directed reinterpretation of the laws during former POTUS Barrack Obama's tenure.
Whether or not this decision stopped authorities from identifying would-be mass-murderers has not been confirmed yet.
In any event, it saddens and frankly disgusts me that Obama’s Department of Justice directed the FBI to erase names of fugitives with outstanding warrants on the basis of a review by the Office of Legal Counsel requested a new interpretation of the law.
I am glad the practice has since been reversed and hope that this will help interdict would-be mass murderers before they inflict their despicable killings.
FYI 500,000 criminals escaped the criminal justice system after their names are wiped from the FBI’s background check system under the former Obama administration.
On Wednesday, FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying it was Obama’s Department of Justice who directed the FBI to erase names of fugitives with outstanding warrants.
In a hearing discussing law enforcement’s response to the accused Parkland shooter, Bowdich confirmed the DOJ’s decision, saying a review by the Office of Legal Counsel requested a new interpretation of the law.
“It was the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel that reviewed the law and believed it needed to be interpreted, so that if someone was a fugitive in a state, there had to be indications that they had crossed state lines,” explained Bowdich.
The deputy director referred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’s definition of a fugitive, which considers an individual a fugitive if they had outstanding warrants and had crossed state lines.
Earlier this week, Attorney General Sessions promised a crack down on federal background checks under the Trump administration while speaking in Nashville, following the tragic Parkland shooting.
The DOJ has since adopted the ATF’s version of the law, defining a fugitive as someone with outstanding warrants regardless as to whether or not they have traveled across state lines."
Image: Thomas Brandon, deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, left, David Bowdich, associate deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Lina Alathari, a researcher with the U.S. Secret Service, are sworn in to testify at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Parkland, Fla., school shootings and school safety, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Orlando Illi Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price CPT Jack Durish Capt Tom Brown MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SGT (Join to see) Sgt Albert Castro SSG David Andrews Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. CPL Dave Hoover SGT Mark Halmrast SPC Margaret Higgins SrA Christopher Wright
Sadly, I am not surprised that roughly 500,000 names were taken off the FBI's national database based on a directed reinterpretation of the laws during former POTUS Barrack Obama's tenure.
Whether or not this decision stopped authorities from identifying would-be mass-murderers has not been confirmed yet.
In any event, it saddens and frankly disgusts me that Obama’s Department of Justice directed the FBI to erase names of fugitives with outstanding warrants on the basis of a review by the Office of Legal Counsel requested a new interpretation of the law.
I am glad the practice has since been reversed and hope that this will help interdict would-be mass murderers before they inflict their despicable killings.
FYI 500,000 criminals escaped the criminal justice system after their names are wiped from the FBI’s background check system under the former Obama administration.
On Wednesday, FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying it was Obama’s Department of Justice who directed the FBI to erase names of fugitives with outstanding warrants.
In a hearing discussing law enforcement’s response to the accused Parkland shooter, Bowdich confirmed the DOJ’s decision, saying a review by the Office of Legal Counsel requested a new interpretation of the law.
“It was the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel that reviewed the law and believed it needed to be interpreted, so that if someone was a fugitive in a state, there had to be indications that they had crossed state lines,” explained Bowdich.
The deputy director referred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’s definition of a fugitive, which considers an individual a fugitive if they had outstanding warrants and had crossed state lines.
Earlier this week, Attorney General Sessions promised a crack down on federal background checks under the Trump administration while speaking in Nashville, following the tragic Parkland shooting.
The DOJ has since adopted the ATF’s version of the law, defining a fugitive as someone with outstanding warrants regardless as to whether or not they have traveled across state lines."
Image: Thomas Brandon, deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, left, David Bowdich, associate deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Lina Alathari, a researcher with the U.S. Secret Service, are sworn in to testify at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Parkland, Fla., school shootings and school safety, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Orlando Illi Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price CPT Jack Durish Capt Tom Brown MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SGT (Join to see) Sgt Albert Castro SSG David Andrews Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. CPL Dave Hoover SGT Mark Halmrast SPC Margaret Higgins SrA Christopher Wright
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Obama's DOJ --- the same fine folks who gave us "Fast & Furious", but absolutely no explanation of how guns the BATFE escorted into Mexico were to be "tracked" to higher-ups in Mexican cartels.
REASON: The sole purpose was to have guns "traced" back to American gun stores ordered to make obvious straw sales by BAFTE, to manufacture "evidence" to support Hillary's oft-repeated claim "The Mexican cartels get their guns from the USA, because of our lax gun laws".
Looks like they wanted fugitives to be armed as well as Mexican cartels.
REASON: The sole purpose was to have guns "traced" back to American gun stores ordered to make obvious straw sales by BAFTE, to manufacture "evidence" to support Hillary's oft-repeated claim "The Mexican cartels get their guns from the USA, because of our lax gun laws".
Looks like they wanted fugitives to be armed as well as Mexican cartels.
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Pvt Robert L. Lamoreaux
I thought that a number of firearms used by criminals in Mexico came from the Mexican armed forces or one of its southern neighbors. A 1930s Senate investigating committee (the Nye Committee) heard testimony that BARs and other weapons were stolen from armories (National Guard?). Note that a number of Class 3 weapons were available "over the counter" in the pre-NFA days. A number of guns used in movies were purchased from Sedgley in Philadelphia or from Bannerman in New York.
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People who break the law rarely start with the big things. They usually start with more minor offenses and if they get away with those they scale up. Terrorists too often start out small by smuggling materials or being involved in making explosives until they are trusted to go out and do more significant things. While we might not be able to (or even want to) arrest and charge everyone, information is priceless in figuring out how things happen and what can be done to prevent things we do not want.
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This doesn't seem to be an issue of if the individuals were fugitives, they were either way. What it seemed to be was a question of agency jurisdiction.
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MSG Andrew White
WHAT HAPPENS IS!! WHEN A FUGITIVE IS IN ANOTHER STATE, THE STATE HOLDING THE WARRANT REFUSES TO APPREHEND OR PAY FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF THE FUGITIVE UNLESS IT'S FOR A CATEGORY 1 CRIME (MURDER, RAPE, ARSON, KIDNAPPING, ETC...) I'M NOT SAYING THAT IS THE SOLE REASON, BUT IT ELIMINATES A LOT OF WARRANTS.
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