FBI Investigations in Orange County
Charles Johnson
Sat May 27, 2006 at 6:26 pm PDT • Views: 556
At the Orange County Register, columnist Frank Mickadeit writes about a meeting with FBI officials in which they revealed that the FBI is ramping up their investigations in Orange County, creating three new anti-terrorist units focusing on Al Qaeda, non-Al Qaeda foreigners and domestic suspects—and they appear to be very interested in the University of California Irvine: Feds warn O.C. of terror lurking ‘down the street’. (Hat tip: oldengr.)
Were this a straight news story, I might lead with, “The FBI appears to be actively studying Muslim student groups at UCI as part of an intense surveillance program to detect potential terrorists.”
But I’m not as surprised that the FBI is doing this - as well as other aggressive anti-terrorist activities in Orange County - as I am that the FBI would tell us.
As secretive as local cops are about ongoing investigations, they’ve got nothing on the feds. They are, as Churchill once said of Russia, “a riddle wrapped in a mystery cloaked in an enigma.”
What I heard Wednesday at the Pacific Club was as revealing as anything I’ve ever heard or read about terrorist activity in O.C. Two feds – Wayne Gross, chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Orange County, and Pat Rose, head of the FBI’s Orange County al-Qaida squad - didn’t offer many details to the group of about 25 club members, but they said enough to shock.
UPDATE at 5/27/06 7:10:44 pm:
Here’s why the feds might be especially interested in UC Irvine: A First Hand Account of Hate at UC Irvine. (Hat tip: sandbox.)
Frank says: