Just two months apart, the FBI stopped two Pakistani men near the border. Both were on the terrorist watchlist. Both are now charged with plotting heinous crimes. But one was stopped in Canada before he crossed the border, while the other was allowed to enter for weeks despite concerns he was working with Iran to assassinate Donald Trump.
The vastly different treatment of Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, now charged with plotting to shoot up a Jewish center in New York, and Asif Raza Merchant, charged in the Trump assassination plot, has perplexed security experts, confounded members of Congress and even left a former top FBI G-man without explanation on this 23rd anniverary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
“The scenarios don’t compute,” said Bassem Youssef, a decorated retired FBI counterterrorism unit chief and former whistleblower who for years ran one of the bureau’s most sensitive terror-fighting tools that culled phone records looking for possible threats.
Just the News has been in constant contact in recent days with federal law enforcement officials in multiple agencies, all of whom are concerned about the disparate handling of Khan’s and Merchant’s cases, noting that the first diverged from protocols designed to keep terror threats outside the border while the second conformed to normal, traditional tactics. […]
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