Per Investors Business Daily, we now know that a Muslim man (Mohammad Weiss Rasool) who was busted by the FBI several years ago and convicted for spying on behalf of al-Qaida, now works for the deputy IRS chief financial officer as a financial management analyst, drawing a lucrative salary at taxpayer expense. So we now have a convicted felon who abused sensitive government data that has access to the sensitive financial data of millions of Americans at an agency known for abusing such information. As we previously reported, the Obama administration had loosened immigration restrictions on individuals who had provided material support to terrorist activity. Rasool migrated to the US from Afghanistan in the early 2000s and took a job as a cop with the Fairfax County Police Department outside Washington. He worked his way up to sergeant before authorities realized they had an al-Qaida spy in their ranks. According to a Justice Department complaint filed in 2008, Rasool searched a national criminal database containing names of terrorist suspects and confirmed that FBI agents were tailing a Muslim pal from his mosque. When agents went to arrest the target early one morning, they found him and his family already dressed and destroying evidence. They knew they had a mole, and worked back through the system to find Rasool. Rasool at first claimed he didn’t know the terrorist target; he confessed only after hearing a recording of his message for the suspect, Abdullah Alnoshan, a close associate of al-Qaida cleric Anwar Awlaki, who had helped some of the 9/11 hijackers in Fairfax County, Va. Rasool finally pleaded guilty to illegally searching a federal database. Mr. Rasool, who now goes by the name “Weiss Russell,” should have been deported after completing his sentence. But because of Obama, we have this individual granted complete access to the private infomation of every American.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:51:55 +0000