Speaking from the Oval Office Sunday, December 6, 54-year-old President Barack Obama addressed growing terrorist threats, including the Nov. 13 Paris attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] and more recently the attack in San Bernardino, Calif. Trying to reassure the public that his counter-terrorism strategy was working, Obama labored to distinguish between the Paris attacks, killing 130, injuring hundreds more and San Bernadino, killing 14 and injuring 21. “So far, we have no evidence that the killers [San Bernardino] directed by a terrorist organization overseas, or that the werE part of a broader conspiracy at home,” Obama told the American public. At the time of his speech, Obama, and his speechwriters, knew that the San Beranrdino husband-and-wife duo, 28-year-old Syed Nizwan Farrok and Tashfeen Malik, received a “mysterious” direct deposit of $28.500 in Farook’s checking account.
Reports on the “mysterious” deposit prove a wider conspiracy, whether foreign or domestic, to pay Farook and Malik for the costs involved in planning, amassing weapons and bomb-making material at their Redlands town-home safe-house. Obama’s tone was conciliatory, warning Americans to abide by the Constitution, avoiding any impression that the U.S. was at war with Islam. Obama went to great lengths to divert the terrorism issue to the Second Amendment, suggesting the need for tougher gun laws to prevent terrorists or ballistic killers from getting handguns and assault rifles. Whatever the source of the $28,500 payout to Farook Nov. 18, it wasn’t mentioned by Obama in his nationwide address. Insisting that there’s “no evidence” of a wider conspiracy, Obama minimized what he knew was a key part FBI’s investigation into the complex links involved in terrorism.
Calling for a ban of Muslims entering the U.S. on his Website of Muslims, Trump caused more media gyrations, including denunciations from both sides of the aisle. Trump’s GOP competitors jumped at the chance to call the 69-year-old real estate mogul and former reality TV a bigot, pushing unconstitutional and un-American acts. Yet Trump was the only GOP or Democratic candidate to raise the $28,500 payout to Farook, two weeks before the Dec. 2 San Beranrdino massacre. Responding to the growing possibility of a wider conspiracy, Trump asked for the ban until the Congress—and national security experts—can figure what’s going on. If Farook and Malik were part of wider domestic or foreign terror cell, it raises red flags about Obama’s plans to admit some 10,000 Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan refugees into the U.S. Trump raised Farook’s $28,500 payout before the mainstream media.
Withholding a key piece of evidence from the American public in his Oval Office address, it’s reasonable to ask what the president knew Dec. 6, the night he delivered the address. If, as many people think, Obama was fully apprised about the “mysterious” $28,500 deposit into Farook’s account, and omitted key facts it raises serious credibility questions. Obama’s Oval Office speech was his first admission that San Benrardino’s massacre was indeed terrorism. For days after the Dec. 2 incident, Obama insisted it looked like workplace violence. Yet anyone with any knowledge of workplace violence knows that spouses don’t join their disgruntled husbands in mass murder. FBI’s lead investigator, Los Angeles Asst. Bureau chief David Bowdich, said the laborious planning involved did not look like workplace violence, but rather a carefully planned and organized terrorist attack.
Focused on blasting Trump for political gain or because it makes the best headlines, the GOP Party establishment or mainstream media failed to report on the “mysterious” $28,500 deposit, suggesting that Obama withheld key evidence on in his Dec. 6 speech. Once Trump got word of the transaction, he proposed taking draconic steps, including an unrealistic ban on Muslims entering the U.S. “We have no choice,” Trump told a South Carolina audience. “It’s going to get worse and worse. We’re going to have more World Trace Centers,” concerned that under Obama the U.S. reverted bacak to a pre-Sept. 11 mindset. Obama insisted in his Dec. 6 Oval Office speech that the U.S. will destroy ISIS. Yet most Mideast terror experts, on both sides of the Atlantic, don’t see the current U.S. and allied bombing campaigns as displacing ISIS from its current strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
Withholding key evidence of a wider conspiracy in his Dec. 6 speech, Obama played down growing fears over foreign-based terror cells on American Soil. “So far, we have no evidence that the killers [Farook & Malik] were directed by a terrorist organization overseas, or that they were part of a broader conspiracy at home,” Obama told the American public Dec. 6, knowing full well about the “mysterious” $28,500 deposit Nov. 18 in Farook’s account. Before the Dec. 2 massacre, Farook transferred $15,000 in three transactions to his mother, Rafia Farook, insisting she—and her family— knew nothing of her son’s radicalization. While the FBI, ATF and JTTF [Joint Terrorism Task Force] seek to find out whether or not Enrique Marquez, who supplied Farook with the murder weapons, was paid by Farook’s mother, Obama insists there’s no evidence of a wider conspiracy.
