Buolder massacre: yet another FBI flop
Questions were raised about the FBI's role in tracking the suspected gunman who killed 10 people in Boulder, Colorado this week amid reports that it was being targeted by the Federal Bureau.
Ahmad Alissa, a 21-year-old man from Denver who went on a rampage at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder on Monday night, was charged with 10 counts of first degree murder.
The mass shooting sparked protests, including calls for rigorous gun control and a crackdown on "white supremacists," too bad the suspected killer was born in Syria and a fairly recent American. A great boomerang for the "Anti Suprematists".
However, anger among the public and commentators escalated even further following a New York Times report claiming that Alissa was known to intelligence officials due to her ties to another individual under investigation by the FBI. .
This has prompted some experts to argue that the Boulder shooting marked the FBI's latest failure to prevent terrorist attacks on US soil, highlighting previous massacres, such as the Las Vegas shooting in 2017 and the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013. .
Conservative commentator Jack Posobiec suggested that the FBI – under its current boss Christopher Wray – did not prioritize detecting those planning attacks.
He accused intelligence officials of failing to spot a potential Alissa plot, despite the alleged shooter using "basic" methods to avoid surveillance, such as Tor software and commercial VPNs.
On her now deleted Facebook page, Alissa allegedly wrote posts criticizing the immigration policy of then US President Donald Trump. He also said Muslims killed in the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand were victims of "Islamophobia".
Some FBI critics have pointed out that the Boulder shooting occurred as the Bureau was busy looking for "right-wing extremists" like the QAnon conspiracy group in the wake of the US Capitol riots on January 6.
After the Boulder shooting, President Joe Biden renewed his calls for a ban on assault weapons and called on Congress to support bills that prevent people from evading background checks when buying firearms. Too bad he forgot to mention he was using those weapons.
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