A Fairfax County Police sergeant who admits tipping off a terrorism
suspect that he was under FBI surveillance also helped kill what had
been a successful intelligence and terrorism-related training program
within his police department.
Sgt. Weiss Rasool was sentenced to two years probation
on April 22 after pleading guilty to illegally accessing a police
database to run license tag numbers for a friend who thought he was
being followed. Those tags traced back to FBI agents who had Rasool's
acquaintance under surveillance as part of a terrorism investigation.
The Washington Post reported
that Rasool cried during his sentencing and apologized for what he
called "errors of judgment. But I never intended to put anybody's life
at risk." The Post further reported:
"The target was arrested in November 2005, then convicted and
deported, according to court filings in Rasool's case. Assistant U.S.
Attorney Jeanine Linehan said that the target and his family were
already dressed and destroying evidence at 6 a.m. when agents arrived
to make the arrest, indicating that they had been tipped off."
Now the president of an Arlington, Va.-based counterterrorism
research center is asking Rasool's bosses to reconsider their 2006
decision to cease using training programs offered by the center.
Complaints by Rasool and an officer from another local agency that the
training was anti-Islam prompted Fairfax County police to break with
the Higgins Center for Counter Terrorism Research.
In a letter to Police Chief David Rohrer
written two days after Rasool's sentencing, Higgins Center President
Peter Leitner said Rasool's complaints were unfounded and harmed his
company's reputation:
"We were deeply disturbed and offended that the leadership of your
Department sided with Rasool and essentially blackballed our non-Profit
(sic) organization from teaching within your Academy. Several scheduled
classes were cancelled and we were never invited back…We were dismissed without recourse, suffered financial and
professional reputation losses, and the resulting pressures caused
serious damage to our ability to function properly. All on the basis of
spurious charges made by someone who later proved to be unreliable --
at best."
Leitner said he has received no response to his letter.
"This is precisely why Fairfax PD needs our training," Leitner told
the Investigative Project on Terrorism in an e-mail. "They need to
learn about 5th column activities and penetrating agents. It also shows
how ignorance and/or political correctness at the local level can
jeopardize national security interests and assets."
As usual, the folks at www.investigativeproject.org has shown a light on the cockroaches that are Islamic extremists with this distrubing story of a cop who let a terrorism suspect know he was the subject of an investigation.
First off, this cop deserves WAY more then the sentence that he got. He is supposed to protect society, and he chose to protect a religion instead. Secondly, it does show you that we're letting political correctness get in the way of routing out and capturing or killing Islamic terrorists and their sympathizers.
Had this happened 5 years ago, this cop would have been given almost a life sentence. But now, we have liberals making light of terrorism and attacks, and people will become complacent like we did in the 90's when Al-Qaeda festered into the threat they are today.
Mark my words, if we don't route these people out from under the rocks they slither from, we will regret it in the blood, sweat, and tears of innocent Americans.
Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com
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