by PrestonSturges » Wed 11 Jan 2012, 16:55:49
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'W')ell... to be fair, they did travel to Afghanistan, and they did plead guilty in a US court.
Yeah, they did stupid stuff but it reads like they were way in over their heads, convinced they were going to "Koran Kamp" to show they were good Muslims. It was prior to 9/11 when even the fedgov wasn't that concerned about terrorists. Only after 9/11 did the FBI get interested and the 6 were charged with maybe someday probably doing something illegal after a year of surveillance that yielded nothing in the way of evidence of intent to do anything. Interest went all the way up. Rummy wanted them declared combatants and handed over to him but Bush said no.
I knew someone at the Buffalo FBI office who said "We've been swamped since 9-11." That was all he said, but I thought of that when the Lackawanna Six got busted a year later.