Maybe FBI Has Lost Track of Who the Informants Are?
Here are all the informants and undercover employees listed in the criminal complaint against Erick Hendricks, who was arrested for conspiring to materially support ISIL in relation to the Garland, TX attack:
- CHS-1: a paid informant for the last year and a half with a criminal record of fraud and forgery who has not (yet?) received sentencing benefits for his cooperation; he met with Hendricks in Baltimore.
- CHS2: a paid informant for the last 4 years with no known criminal history; he posed as someone wanting to join ISIL.
- CHS-3: a paid informant for the last 4 and a half years with no known criminal history; Hendricks instructed CHS-3 to assess UCE-1 for recruitment.
- CHS-4: a paid informant for the last 4 years with no known criminal history; Hendricks provided him with jihadist propaganda on social media. He also met with Hendricks in Baltimore, at a later date.
- UCE-1: an undercover officer had conversations directly with Hendricks that mirrored those Hendricks had with a cooperating witness. UCE-1 also incited and then was present for the Garland attack.
Not mentioned at all in this narrative is the role played by Joshua Goldberg, a Jewish guy who adopted many avatars online to incite all kinds of violence, including, under the name of Australi Witness, Garland. In December Goldberg was deemed incompetent to stand trial, though in June it was decided with more treatment he might become competent enough to stand trial, so they’re going to check again in four months.
So, the cell that committed the Garland attack consisted of the two now-dead perpetrators, four informants, an undercover FBI officer, a mentally ill troll, and Hendricks.
Only now, Hendricks claims he was an informant too!
Hendricks claims to have been a paid informant of the FBI since 2009 who helped the agency identify potential terrorists. Code name: “Ahkie,” a variation of the Muslim term for “brother.”
He also claims to have been an outspoken and longtime opponent of radical Islam.
“I have publicly, privately and consistently denounced Al-Qaeda, ISIS and all extremist groups,” Hendricks said in a statement that Lisa Woods says her son dictated during a Wednesday phone call from the jail.
“I am baffled as to why the FBI (is) accusing me of terrorist ties.”
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In his statement, Hendricks says the FBI first made contact with him in 2009, when as Mustafa Abu Maryam, Hendricks was the youth coordinator of the Islamic Circle of North America Center in Alexandria, Va.
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In his jail statement, Hendricks says he was recruited in 2009 by an FBI agent named David to help identify potential terrorists. In 2010, after Hendricks had moved to Columbia, he says he worked with another FBI agent named Steve. Altogether, Hendricks claims to have developed “at least a half-dozen” cases against extremists.
Has the FBI simply lost track of who are real and who are the people it is paying to play a role? Or is it possible someone from another agency, claiming to be FBI, recruited Hendricks (don’t laugh! That’s one potential explanation for Anwar al-Awlaki’s curious ties to US law enforcement, a story that wends its way through a related mosque in VA)?
Sure, maybe Hendricks is making all this up (at the very least, it may necessitate the BoP to protect him in prison since he has now publicly claimed to be a narc). But FBI’s network of informants sure is getting confusing.
Standing in line at an airport is not the only place in America to catch the performance of security theater.
Confusion over assets is nothing new in the clandestine world, which IIRC was closely related to the problems identified by the 9-11 commission for coordination. If an asset of one agency is a target of another agency, who makes the call or does it go all the way to POTUS / National Security Adviser? What if that asset goes rogue and becomes a target for cause?
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There is already enough turf wars in DC to explain how this happens, the only thing remarkable in this case is that it was noted in the press.
I (mis)remember a cartoon once that showed a circle of KKK members, hoods back, all holding FBI creds and a pistol. It was captioned: “You mean we’re ALL FBI agents?”
@ Brian J. Bartlett
Check out a book titled ” The Man Who would Be Thursday”
It is time for the FBI to be brought to Earth and face-to-face with real Reality, known in acronym as BOLI, and also known, in the trade, as Actor’s Equity.
Those two, for wages and hours accounting and tracking, will keep records the Fibbies seem to be too busy ‘creating’ to keep, themselves. Records of who they hire and when, and in what capacities and at what status.
As they say in Hollywood, “At the bottom-line there’s gotta be a line between the make-believe and the books. A real line, not a line to be sniffed at…”