"The FBI does put these jihadis on their radar."
— @realDianaWest (@realDianaWest) August 21, 2026
Yes, and then FBI protects them *by design (we call it "PC," etc., but whatever it's called, it's *by design). Some, naturally/Islamically, will go full jihad. That's the design. There are other designs. Our gov chose this one. https://t.co/qVvKF1aBjU
Pay Attention America - I need you to learn this….
Below is an Interesting question. Someone just asked why the FBI never interviewed the Orlando nightclub Islamic shooter or the San Bernardino jihadi terror couple.
They did!!
Omar Mateen, the Pulse jihadi who murdered 49 people while pledging allegiance to ISIS, was investigated by the FBI twice.
In 2013, after coworkers reported him claiming ties to Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah and talking about dying as a martyr, the FBI ran a 10-month investigation. They interviewed him two times.
They used confidential informants. They recorded his calls. They put him on the terror watchlist. Then they closed the case in March 2014, deciding he wasn’t a threat. 
In 2014 they opened a second investigation because of his connection to Moner Abusalha, the first American suicide bomber in Syria. Same mosque. They closed that one too. You can’t make this level of failure up.
Even more damning: Mateen’s own father, Seddique Mateen, was a longtime FBI confidential informant from 2005 through June 2016, the month of the massacre.
Agents consulted the father while assessing whether the son was a threat.
After the attack, receipts for money transfers from the father to Turkey and Afghanistan were found, and the FBI opened an investigation on him.
I learned all of this during in court during the trial of Mateen’s widow.
Now let’s discuss California….
San Bernardino’s Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were terrorist in the waiting for years, discussing jihad and martyrdom long before they slaughtered 14 people.
Farook had contacts with people under FBI investigation and was in the social orbit of a disrupted Southern California jihad cell. You would think that this would make the FBI pay close attention.
Neighbors even noticed suspicious activity, multiple Middle Eastern men coming and going from the house, but in interviews they admitted to deliberately chosing not to report it because they did not want to be accused of racial profiling or Islamophobia. (You can thank CAIR for making people terrified to speak out)
Malik went through U.S. visa interviews. The ideology was still missed.
So the promise of this question is not actually correct. The FBI does put these jihadis on their radar. Then political correctness, risk-aversion, and a refusal to treat Islamic ideology as the actual threat lead them to close the files.
Americans die. That’s the documented record.
Let’s not forget there were others, the FBI had also spoken to these terrorist before they launched their attacks….
Nidal Hasan – Fort Hood, Texas – 13 killed – 2009
Tamerlan Tsarnaev – Boston Marathon – 3 killed – 2013
Esteban Santiago – Fort Lauderdale Airport – 5 killed – 2017
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad (Carlos Bledsoe) – Little Rock recruiting station – 1 killed – 2009
But honestly NONE of this is surprising. They close these cases because the FBI was deliberately stripped of its ability to understand the ISLAMIC threat.
Under the Obama administration, with Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller, the bureau purged hundreds of pages of its own counterterrorism training materials on Islam, jihad, and related ideology after pressure from groups including Hamas-linked CAIR.
Accurate instruction on the doctrinal drivers of the violence was labeled “offensive,” “stereotypical,” or imprecise and removed.
To this day, the full details of exactly what was purged and the identities of the outside “subject matter experts” who helped decide what agents were no longer allowed to learn have never been fully released. Although when I testified in Congress and people showed up to harass me, I believe one of those people was present, who is behind the purge.
When you gut the institution of the knowledge required to recognize the enemy, closing cases on known jihadis becomes the predictable result.Sadly, to this day this continues….
