From the first Morning Jolt of the week:
Intelligence Sources: Psst, Mr. President, Maybe This Did Come from Overseas
President Obama, last night: “So far, we have no evidence that the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas, or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home.”
Yeah, you probably should have waited before emphasizing that point, Mr. President:
The investigation into Wednesday’s terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif. has guided federal investigators in the direction of terror suspects in the Middle East who may have made contact with gunmen Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, Fox News has learned.
A high-level intelligence source told Fox News late Sunday that investigators are pursuing several lines of inquiry that ties Farook and Malik to the Middle East, including the possibility that the two’s deadly rampage had been financed from overseas.
“We felt from early on these two couldn’t have done this alone,” the source said of the shooting in which the husband and wife killed 14 people at a county office building and injured 21 others. The source also said that the amount of evidence pointing in the direction of the Middle East had forced the Obama administration to “do an about-face” about the nature of Wednesday’s attack over the previous 24 hours.
Yeah, they sure had a lot of ammunition, firepower, and pipe-bomb material lying around for a household getting by on a county employee’s salary, didn’t they? According to public records, Farook topped out at about $55,000 a year, separate from benefits and before taxes.
Here’s the jihadi couple reentering the United States. If ‘24’ had portrayed a pair looking like that entering the country to launch a terror attack, CAIR would have denounced their appearance as stereotyping.