Houston Man Charged Over ISIS Allegations… Sought ‘9/11’ Type Terror Attack
Charges allege ISIS propaganda shared on his devices
‘Beyond the shadow of a doubt.’ If any story reminds us why it’s critical that we can trust law enforcement not to create criminal cases out of whole cloth… its stories like this one.
A Houston man alleged to be involved in an ISIS-inspired bomb plot looking at ways to create a 9/11 style attack was arrested yesterday. His targets are said to include synagogues or members of the military who had supported Israel or had been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq.
Feds chasing their tails over obviously FAKE threats, or covering up for others, undermine law enforcement’s ability to prosecute real threats. Threats like this one. And it’s not just the wasted staff-hours, either. It’s the credibility cost. Especially in the instances where there is no slam dunk evidence (like this one seems to have), or there is even the slightest possibility that the evidence to convict might be manipulated.
The job of our justice process is to follow leads, gather evidence, and file appropriate charges. If there is any reasonable evidence that a particular agency has a history of falsifying leads, planting evidence and/or inventing charges with the purpose of getting a conviction against someone they are determined to prosecute, suddenly even those properly accused of serious crimes have an argument for why the jury should question the motives of whichever law enforcement group brought the charges.
Crazy stories about feds entrapping Americans in a kidnapping plot Gretchen Whitmer, for example, or other seeming attempts at entrapment are an opportunity to put the accusers on trial.
There are real threats out there that need to be dealt with, especially with Heaven-knows-who waltzing in over our border in the last few years. For example, Feds arrested an ISIS sympathizer in Houston yesterday.
A 28-year-old man has been indicted for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Williams Jr.
Anas Said is now in custody and set for a detention hearing at 2 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Bray. Authorities arrested Said Nov. 8.
According to court documents, multiple social media accounts linked to Said contained messages and posts that allegedly revealed that Said supported ISIS and the violent attacks carried out in its name.
Law enforcement executed searches of Said and his residence, vehicle and electronic devices. According to court documents, analysis of the seized devices ultimately revealed Said’s activities relating to the creation and dissemination of propaganda on behalf of ISIS.
If convicted, Said faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a possible $250,000 maximum fine. — DOJ
With new people in charge, sent with a mandate to clean up the Department of Justice, the plan is to reset the priorities of investigators with badges, where they identify crimes and look for the people responsible, instead of the Stalinist approach they had been employing lately where they start with a target they want to destroy and keep digging until they find some pretext to open a criminal investigation.
There are enough dangerous criminals and notorious con men out there that need to be taken off the streets that we don’t need to harass people for being on the ‘wrong’ side of a political debate.
Especially when those people are little old grannies who have never committed a crime in their lives.
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