New York Times Backtracks After FBI Denies San Bernardino Couple Promoted Jihad Online

The FBI denied reports that the couple response for the deadly San Bernardino shooting promoted jihad on social media, but that hasn’t stopped calls for more surveillance.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Comey said the two San Bernardino shooters were radicalized at least two years ago and had discussed jihad and martyrdom as early as 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

NEW YORK --- FBI Director James Comey criticized the media last week for widespread, inaccurate reports that Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik used social media to publicly advocate for terrorist violence against the United States. During a Wednesday briefing with reporters in New York, Comey called the incorrect reporting a “garble” of the real

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FBI: ‘No Evidence’ San Bernardino Attackers ‘Were Part Of Terrorist Cell’

The local and State law enforcement, in conjunction with the mainstream media, has essentially been creating a “terror plot” revolving around this couple and the attacks, based on what seems to be getting them the most attention, ratings and praise from a fearful public.

M. David for Counter Current News
By M. David for Counter Current News
In this image taken from video, armored vehicles surround an SUV following a shootout in San Bernardino, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. The scene followed a military-style attack that killed multiple people and wounded others at a California center that serves people with developmental disabilities, authorities said. (KTTV via AP)

The FBI is coming clean about the San Bernardino attackers, and it is not making local law enforcement and media very happy. For starters, the FBI head said that the media rumor about the “terror couple” texting, tweeting or “Facebooking” support for ISIS or even “jihad” has absolutely no basis in fact, whatsoever. The Bureau now says there

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Conflicting Eyewitness & Police Reports Reflect The Psychology Of Mass Shootings

“The brain abhors a vacuum,” noted one forensic psychologist who has studied the flaws in eyewitness reports.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Two residents walk along the street where a police shootout with suspects took place, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, in San Bernardino, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

SAN BERNARDINO, California --- In the aftermath of the San Bernardino shooting, some eyewitnesses suggested that three white men had carried out the attack which had been perpetrated by Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the married couple who died later that day in a shootout with police. This divergence certainly isn’t an anomaly. Police, media

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San Bernardino And The Urge To Label Mass Violence As Terrorism

Do we need “terrorism” when we already have words like massacre, assault, slaughter, and violence to describe ghastly acts committed by human beings, all of which are good enough to capture the horror?

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
A police officer deploys tape to an area near where attackers opened fire on a banquet at a social services center for the disabled in San Bernardino. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Published in partnership with ShadowProof. Another shooting. This time the violence is in San Bernardino, California. We do not know the final death toll, but at the moment, 14 people are reported dead and 14 reported wounded. It is the second shooting to occur today, after a gunman in Georgia killed a woman and injured three men. It comes on

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