Interesting stuff, I am not really sure of the implications yet, but I eagerly await the entertaining conspiracy theories this will surely create.
Oh it gets even more spicy in the article itself with what is transpiring.
Her lawyers' federal court motion filed Monday says U.S. Attorney Sara Sweeney sent them an email Saturday revealing some details of the FBI's involvement with Seddique Mateen's activities leading up to the Pulse attack.
"I have just received authorization to disclose the following information about Seddique Mateen," her email said. "Seddique Mateen was a FBI confidential human source at various points in time between January 2005 and June 2016."
This email was sent after jurors heard Shahla Mateen, Omar's mother, deny during cross-examination that her husband had any relationship with the FBI.
The email also revealed other details the prosecution didn't tell jurors, including the discovery in the hours after the shooting that "receipts for money transfers to Turkey and Afghanistan" made in the days and weeks before the shooting were found at Seddique Mateen's home, and that in 2012, an anonymous tipster had accused Seddique Mateen of "seeking to raise $50,000 - $100,000 via a donation drive to contribute towards an attack against the government of Pakistan."
Defense attorneys say the failure to share this information in advance of her trial violates Salman's Fifth Amendment right to due process and Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial, because her defense would have investigated "whether Mateen's father was involved in or had foreknowledge of the Pulse attack," they wrote.
Prosecutors told the jury that Salman knew Omar Mateen was buying rounds of ammunition for his AR-15, helped him spend thousands of dollars before the attack and knew about his plan when he left their home in the hours before the shooting. They also say she lied in an attempt to mislead FBI agents and had knowledge of her husband's sick fascination with violent jihadist videos and terrorism.
Defense attorneys describe Salman as a simple woman with a low IQ, who was abused by her husband. This latest evidence, they said, points instead to Mateen's father as a potential accomplice.
does this mean we get to keep are guns?
Probably just another internal or external investigation of the FBI for failure to follow through/being transparent.
This sure seems late to the party... and this is definitely the conspiracy theorist-side of me talking here, but this seems like something that a certain political party would fabricate in order to push an agenda to make the public distrust the FBI even more. Just some very interesting timing on this just now coming out with everything closing in on the T-Administration right now...
though part of the FBI is doing good work investigating our current administration, it would be a mistake to fully trust them.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
