We covered Karakrah's January Chicago plea hearing before Cook County Circuit Court Judge Evelyn B. Clay, and later obtained a copy of the official court transcript,
which missed some key information about the behavior of the FBI
representative in attendance. The FBI agent, a white male in his 40s,
with short brown hair and an ID badge hanging from his neck, waved and
nodded in Karakrah's direction. We did contact the FBI asking for
comment on this report, but it declined to respond, as it has when
reached for comment on other stories in the on-going narco-terror
series.
We have provided extensive coverage of
the role Karakrah played in the narco-terror ring centered in El Paso,
Texas, with connections in Chicago and New York. This is what we know
right now. Your Judicial Watch has verified that Karakrah is no longer
in custody at the County Cook Jail, which the Illinois Department of
Corrections confirmed to us in
writing. We don't know what his exact whereabouts are right now and we
don't know if the FBI knows his exact whereabouts right now. But JW has
discovered, through a number of sources we have cultivated, that
Karakrah spent his summer as a truck driver for militant Islamists,
delivering supplies and materiel to terrorist cells operating in
Brooklyn, New York, and Saddle Brook, N.J.
Let's
go back and review what ultimately lead to Karakrah's arrest. Recall
that he took police on a high-speed chase through Chicago streets in
late August and threatened to blow up his car. An Islamic State of Iraq
and Syria (ISIS) flag waved from the vehicle and Karakrah was also
charged with making a false car bomb threat. Despite all this, on
January 7, 2015, Karakrah reached a plea deal in Cook County Court, and
was released from prison. We repeat: What is going on here?
Among his alleged accomplices in the 2009 truck bomb plot is Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah - al Qaeda's director of North American, who flew in and out of the United States as "Javier Robles" - most recently in March 2014 in Anthony, New Mexico. Shukrijumah was killed in
a Pakistani Army raid in the northwestern territory of Pakistan in
early December 2014, a few days, not coincidentally I think, after we
first reported his role in the bomb plot.
But Shukrijmah's terrorist ally Karakrah (who
is not an American citizen) is on the lam thanks to a failure of
federal law enforcement. Why didn't the federal government arrest this
avowed ISIS terrorist who we know wanted to kill thousands of Americans
in various terror plots?
Judicial
Watch investigators in several states continue to track leads about the
border-terrorist threat. As a result of disclosures and pressure from
Judicial Watch, inquiries from Congress and other authorities are
underway into both the underlying border-security terrorist threat and
the Obama administration's continuing cover-up and reckless disregard
for the safety of the American people.
Obama Amnesty May Be a Federal Crime
So,
just how much money is being spent in response to executive actions
taken to house and accommodate illegal aliens? Your Judicial Watch is
calling on members of Congress to take a hard look at the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the Deferred Action to
Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA)
program. These programs are two key parts of Obama's illegal amnesty
effort and involve violations of law that carry civil and criminal
penalties. Yesterday, as Obama's Democrat allies (with silent support,
I'm sure, from more than a few Republican colleagues) mounted a
filibuster in the United State Senate to prevent funding of the
Department of Homeland Security in order to enable Obama's continued lawlessness, we urgently put out an action item for your elected representatives:
"Judicial
Watch calls upon Congress, its committees, or its members to request
that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate, analyze,
and opine on the following issues:
"Whether
Congress has specifically appropriated the funds or has specifically
authorized the assessment of fees necessary for the U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) to implement the plans to extend Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA) and establish Deferred
Action to Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA);
"To
the extent no funds have been specifically appropriated, whether USCIS
is using funds appropriated, including any monies raised by fees
assessed by USCIS, for a different, designated purpose to fund the
implementation the plans to extend DACA and establish DAPA;
"To
the extent any funds, including any monies raised by fees assessed by
USCIS, are being used to implement the plans to extend DACA and
establish DAPA, whether the use of such funds is unauthorized or
prohibited.
"Whether
USCIS is using property or employees designated for a specific purpose
to implement the plans to extend DACA and establish DAPA, regardless of
such designation.
"The
legal issues involving the improper use of taxpayer dollars are urgent
given that the USCIS may have already entered into or imminently will
enter into contracts and/or do so. This unauthorized spending may be a
direct violation of the Antideficiency Act, which makes it a violation
of law, with potential civil and criminal penalties, for government
officials to spend monies that have not been appropriated by
Congress. President Obama's nullification of immigration law is broad
and involves numerous policies in multiple federal agencies, but the
center of the storm is in USCIS, where monies are being misspent in ways
contrary to the fundamental purpose of that law enforcement agency."
Our legal team reports that the Antideficiency Act generally prohibits an officer or employee of the U.S. government from:
[M]aking or
authorizing an expenditure from, or creating or authorizing an
obligation under, any appropriation or fund in excess of the amount
available in the appropriation or fund unless authorized by law;
involving the government in any obligation to pay money before funds
have been appropriated for that purpose, unless otherwise allowed by
law; accepting voluntary services for the United States, or employing
personal services not authorized by law, except in cases of emergency
involving the safety of human life or the protection of property; making
obligations or expenditures in excess of an apportionment or
reapportionment, or in excess of the amount permitted by agency
regulations.
To
the extent an officer or employee may be in violation of the
Antideficiency Act, Congress mandates that the Comptroller General, the
head of GAO, conduct an investigation of the matter. The Obama gang was
most recently found to have violated this law by the GAO in the
scandalous release of terrorists in the Bergdahl swap scandal.
The GAO warns that violators of the Antideficiency Act:
"[S]hall
be subject to appropriate administrative discipline including, when
circumstances warrant, suspension from duty without pay or removal from
office."
In
addition, an officer or employee who "knowingly and willfully" violates
[the law] "shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more
than 2 years, or both."
Some
in the U.S. Senate seem to understand the legal stakes. Sen. Jeff
Sessions (R-AL) joined with Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
(R-IA) and Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI.) to write a letteraddressed to Joseph Moore, Chief Financial Officer for the USCIS, that asks
for highly pertinent financial information. The letter correctly points
out that Obama's directives "will redirect scarce resources away" from
the USCIS's "core mission" for activities Congress never approved. And,
it makes the following, very pointed, request:
To
assist us in our constitutional oversight responsibilities, we are
asking you, as Chief Financial Officer, to provide a detailed accounting
of all expenditures by USCIS to date and a projection of all temporary
and permanent expenditures for these executive actions, including the
source of the funds to be used and the specific accounts in which the
funds are located, in dollar amounts. Please also indicate the amount
USCIS is projected to spend on these programs from FY2015 through FY2025
on a monthly and annual basis.
Instead
of doing the public's business to enforce immigration law, the USCIS
has been hijacked by President Obama and his appointees to aid, abet,
and harbor illegal aliens - in absolute violation of the
law. Obviously, Congress never appropriated money for the
lawlessness. The strict enforcement of the Antideficiency Act against
this egregious misappropriation of government monies (your tax dollars)
is one more "rule of law" tool that may help to bring the
administration's illicit actions to a halt.
Tucson, AZ Drunk Drivers Are Free to Go
In breaking news just today, Judicial Watch released information that
is difficult to believe even coming from this lawless
administration. Citizens of Tucson, AZ, should drive with extreme
caution. In a notice to Border Patrol agents in Tucson, AZ, titled "Enforcement
Options With Alcohol-Impaired Drivers," are guidelines that endanger
innocent human beings in a whole new way by allowing impaired drivers to
"go on their way":
The
document acknowledges that this feels counter-intuitive for Border
Patrol agents, but eases concerns by answering a hypothetical question
for the officers who have sworn to uphold the law: "If you allow this
driver to continue down the road and they kill someone, aren't you
liable?" The answer is no, according to the new Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) memo. "There is no legal requirement for a Border Patrol
agent to intervene in a state crime, including DUI," the order says,
adding that "therefore there is generally no liability that will attach
to the agent or agency for failing to act in this situation."
The
directive offers another scenario-detaining the impaired individual at
the request of state or local law enforcement officers (LEO). "There is
no duty to detain the alcohol-impaired individual," the memo says, "but
if you do this option can raise potential liability for the agent and
the agency." The document goes on to say that Border Patrol policy is to
cooperate with local and state law enforcement officers who alert of
suspected violations under state law. That means the agent would be
considered to have been acting within the course and scope of his
employment while detaining a drunk driver at the request of local law
enforcement officers under Arizona law, the document confirms.
The
last scenario offered in the recently issued decree has a Border Patrol
agent detaining a drunk driver in Arizona without a request from a
state or local law enforcement officer. "This option poses the greatest
liability for both the agent and the agency," according to the order.
After revealing that private citizens in Arizona can make felony and
misdemeanor arrests, it nevertheless prompts Border Patrol agents to
stay away from drunk drivers. "Be advised, this option poses the
greatest threat to an agent for a civil lawsuit," the memo warns.
This
preposterous order has not been well received by agents, according to
Judicial Watch's sources inside the agency. The Border Patrol Tucson Sector covers
262 miles along the Mexican border and is one of the country's busiest
in both illegal immigrant apprehensions and marijuana seizures,
according to the agency website. During fiscal year 2014 the Tucson
Sector Border Patrol recorded 87,915 apprehensions that
included members of notorious international gangs and felons convicted
of serious crimes such homicide, rape and child molestation. Agents also
seized 971,180 pounds of marijuana as well as large quantities of
cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines.
Just
when you think this administration has reached the limit of
recklessness, something new comes along. There is no end to it. Judicial
Watch, through its strong relationship with law enforcement, will
continue to make information like this available to you.
"Politics
over public safety" is the Obama's administration's approach to
immigration enforcement. This directive will result in death and
injuries to American citizens and other innocents. Senators now
deciding whether to fund the president's lawlessness should know the
deadly stakes of their votes. Each and every U.S. Senator should be
asked about this directive and why on Earth taxpayer funds should
support this deadly lawlessness. In the meantime, families across
America are now at risk on the roads, as President Obama and his
appointees at the Department of Homeland Security have given illegal
aliens a license to drive drunk.
Until next week...
Tom Fitton
President
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