I dunno guys, I'm starting to get the faintest inkling that something unseemly and potentially dangerous is happening here.
The FBI allowed Asif Raza Merchant, the Pakistani man charged with plotting with Tehran to assassinate Donald Trump and others, to enter the U.S. in April with special permission known as 'significant public benefit parole' even though he was flagged on a terrorism watchlist and recently traveled to Iran, according to government documents reviewed by Just the News.
You likely remember hearing about this plot a while ago — turns out they learned about it before another, unrelated assassin also plotted (and nearly succeeded) in killing Trump:
Unlike the psychopath in Pennsylvania, however, the wannabe assassin in this other plot was from out of the country — and they still let him in, very willingly:
The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed Merchant, fingerprinted him and inspected the contents of his electronic devices when he arrived at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston, but then let him leave with the special parole that expired on May 11, the memos state.
‘Subject was polite and cooperative throughout encounter,' the FBI interview memo reads. ‘... Subject's notable travel outside of country of citizenship includes a recent trip to Iran.'
Dude is on a watch list, he needs to get fingerprinted and have his electronics searched when he arrived in the U.S., and still the FBI is like:
I'm starting to think that our Deep State might not like Trump! I mean, it's not like they could be uncertain at all about this guy:
The immigration records from his arrival in Houston on April 13 clearly stated in bright red that he was flagged by the Department of Homeland Security database with the identifier ‘WATCH LIST' and denoted as a ‘Lookout Qualified Person of Interest.'
Dude pretty much had a big old neon sign pointing at him like "I AM A POTENTIAL TERRORIST:"
Perhaps most hilariously (and horrifically), the FBI was allegedly trying to use this guy like they've used other criminals in the past:
Law enforcement officials who alerted Just the News to the FBI's role in April compared the parole decision to an earlier law enforcement controversy known as the ‘Fast and Furious' scandal in which federal agents allowed U.S. guns to flow to Mexican cartels in hopes of tracking crimes.
The parole in Merchant's case, the officials said, would allow agents to try to flip Merchant as a cooperator or try to determine why he was coming to the United States and who he might be working with. But such tactics also carried a risk that agents might lose track of him, the officials said.
So after the smashing success of Fast and Furious, which allowed countless guns to flow to Mexican cartels with no accountability whatsoever, the FBI was like:
I dunno, I think I might be losing faith in our intelligence bureaus. Maybe!
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