Amid Media Silence, Congressman Asks FBI Chief About Border-Jumping Yemenis
On April 5, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a press release so unusual and politically problematic for the administration of President Joe Biden that it could not possibly survive the light of even one full day in publication. It didn t.
The bulletin disappeared from the federal border agency s newsroom page only hours after proudly announcing that, amid a full-blown mass-migration crisis the Biden administration is desperately trying to downplay, Border Patrol had apprehended two Yemeni immigrants in Calexico, Calif., who were on the FBI s terrorism watchlist, one of whom also was on the No Fly List and carrying a hidden cell phone sim card inside a shoe insole. (See a captured internet archive version of the spiked CBP press release here).
The spiking appears to have worked exactly as those who ordered it must have planned, whoever they were. In the two months since, no one in America s legacy media has questioned its appearance and disappearance. As though it were the bad subject at Thanksgiving dinner, no one dared report or ask questions about terrorist suspects crossing the California border from Mexico during an unprecedented mass migration crisis that is collapsing border management systems.
Until Thursday.
That was when Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany (R) used part of his five-minute time allotment during a House Judiciary Oversight Committee hearing to pointedly ask FBI Director Chris Wray for an update on the two watchlisted Yemenis. And also for Wray s opinion about the terror infiltration threat at the southern border more generally. Rep. Tiffany had just returned from an unofficial, personally expensed foray into the Darien Gap jungle of Panama, through which these Yemeni terror suspects probably crossed among immigrants from all over the Middle East and the world. (See my June 2 CIS post about what Tiffany found out there.)
As might be expected, Director Wray weaseled out of answering with any specifics about the two Yemenis. But, significantly, in his probably appropriate dodge (no use compromising ongoing investigations), Wray acknowledged the bureau actually has an open investigation on the Yemeni immigrant terror suspects. That is important new information worth chewing on.
Also significantly, Wray did not offer that the press release and its highly unusual specificity was wrong or discredited. My sources tell me it was accurate, went through all the normal vetting and review processes, and got spiked by the Biden White House, which didn t know it was coming, because the information in it would have acted like propellant on a politically embarrassing mass immigration crisis.
via cis.org
Those darn terrorists. Always trying to sneak into the USA.