LE had investigated Farook, despite the denials. From the scanner feed:
In a subsequent exchange at approximately 12:08pm the dispatcher addresses an officer nicknamed “Trav” upon hearing “Syed Farook.” She says: “Reference that name, I believe one of the [garbled] was working that name up for something last week. I’ll have to check.”
In a second exchange shortly after 12:20, another officer says of Farook: “I just got some info from that LAPD that they have information on one of your suspects. I heard that somebody was trying to INV that guy. Can you find out who I can give this information to?”
A third exchange, two minutes later, follows:
Officer 2: [garbled] I had received a call [garbled] that had some information that they had ran the guy or something last week and I was going to give it to your intel guys.
Officer 1: Okay, that’s what I was trying to get you to. If you’re at the mobile command – uh, what’s your 20?
This isn’t surprising. Surveillance is literally everywhere at some point these days.
So why deny it? These LE intel guys operate at the edge of the law, and often over it, so it could be a lot of reasons. Maybe Farouk’s name popped in an illegal wiretap of someone else, and they couldn’t admit they ran it down because somebody may have asked where it came from. That would make you wonder who out there, associated with terrorism and under surveillance, would be talking about him a week before the attacks.
Maybe they had been on Farook for a while a ways back, and were afraid to admit that they had previously installed illegal ears on his house, pulled his bank records through a CI at the bank without a warrant, and had assigned a couple of hundred surveillance people to him over the course of his coverage to keep their faces fresh. I’m sure there are a lot of people out there with voluminous files who have no idea.
Maybe LAPD’s intel operations (which are probably incredible) had identified the attack was going to happen, using the hairy edge of illegal surveillance, but couldn’t figure out a way to create a parallel construction cover to explain how they knew about it without revealing that their intel ops were breaking the law in some way. Maybe they arranged with San Bernardino to stage a force near the site to cut the attack short, but not prevent it outright. That would explain why they just happened to have scheduled a massive tactical training op right near the attack site on that day, and why LE had all his intel on the tip of their tongue, but then decided to deny everything later on.
You can see how as LE transitions from a Law Enforcement mentality to a spook mentality you lose something. Citizens become pawns in a greater game of chess that the spooks consider themselves positioned above, and designed to control. Bodies can be dropping left and right like flies, and the spooks will just be calculating if the ends justify the means, and how best to win big in the bigger game later on. Left by the wayside is regular Law Enforcement, who is forced to both cover for the intel guy’s crimes and endure the ignominy of being left unable to protect the innocent citizens they swore to protect.
Apocalypse looks kind of like this.
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