"We can see from our investigation that in late 2013 — before there is a physical meeting of these two people, resulting in their engagement and journey to the United States — they are communicating online, showing signs in that communication their joint commitment to jihad and to martyrdom. Those communications are direct private messages.
"So far in this investigation we have found no evidence of the posting on social media by either of them at that period of time and thereafter reflecting their commitment to jihad or to martyrdom. I’ve seen some reporting on that. That’s a garble. All right?
"This investigation continues, but we have not found that kind of thing. These communications are private, direct messages, not social media messages."
"So far in this investigation we have found no evidence of the posting on social media by either of them at that period of time and thereafter reflecting their commitment to jihad or to martyrdom. I’ve seen some reporting on that. That’s a garble. All right?
"This investigation continues, but we have not found that kind of thing. These communications are private, direct messages, not social media messages."
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I accept that. Having just checked with the Public Occurrences in-house social media consultant by calling into my daughter's bedroom, "Hey honey, can you have private Facebook and public Facebook?" and receiving the reply "Yeah," and following that research up with the further inquiry, "How does that work?" and receiving the explanation, "If you have private Facebook only your Facebook friends can see," I say, having looked into this further I accept Comey's statement.
So..."online," one thing. Could be private or public. "Social media," public. Facebook, social media ergo public but you can have private Facebook ergo...uh, private communication on a public site or frigging "platform" or whatever. Like, I could make Public Occurrences private, "by invitation only" or whatever, "members only," "membership has its privileges," "if you don't swing don't ring" kind of thing and if I invited 276,557 of my "friends" Public Occurrences would be Private Occurrences or frigging Semi-Private Occurrences, nudity permitted, or some frigging thing. But look, Blogger is social media, right? Public. Right. Okay...Ah! Blogger is the platform!, the frigging launch pad or whatever and you can see that, like at Cape Canaveral or whatever but you can't see two astronauts copulating inside their private capsule or whatever. Only friends can. Like the Post Office is public, you can walk into a frigging post office but you can't see into every frigging envelope.You idiot. So, I guess the FBI wasn't "friends" with the San Bernardino Muslim terrorists in 2013. Why the fuck not? Doesn't FBI stand for Friendlier Betterer Islam? Couldn't the frigging FBI ask to become "friends" with whomever they fucking want? Adopt an "ask, don't tell" policy where they go, "Allah Akbar, I Muhammad el-Fbi, let's be friends"? They could do that. And if the person of interest tells them they don't want to be friends with the FBI on accounta they're TERRORISTS, arright fine! At least you tried! No pain no gain! Whatever.
