“Salman’s lawyers allege the new revelation prevented them from investigating whether or not Seddique Mateen knew of his son’s plans to attack the nightclub. According to the motion, defense lawyers allege that the decision not to give Noor Salman a polygraph was possibly ‘based on the FBI’s desire to implicate Noor Salman, rather than Seddique Mateen in order to avoid scrutiny of its own ineptitude with the latter. Mateen’s father played a significant role in the FBI’s decision not to seek an indictment from the Justice Department for false statements to the FBI or obstruction of justice against Omar Mateen’ during its 2013 investigation into his alleged threats, the motion stated.”

Salman’s lawyers are unlikely to remind the court of this, but Seddique Mateen also told reporters not long after the massacre that Salman was “no longer here.” She wasn’t found until months later. Did Seddique Mateen help her disappear? Did he know where she was? If feds ever questioned him about this, that fact was not publicized.

And why did Seddique Mateen show up at a Hillary Clinton rally last summer, prominently positioned for the cameras right behind the candidate? After all, he was an open supporter of the Taliban, and the morning after the murders, he posted online a video in which he claimed that he was “not aware what motivated” Omar to “go into a gay club and kill 50 people,” but then he added: “God will punish those involved in homosexuality,” as it is “not an issue that humans should deal with.” Wasn’t this someone Hillary Clinton would have wanted to run from? Was this ineptitude on her campaign’s part? Or something else?

In any case, this is yet more evidence of the deep corruption of the FBI. This thoroughly compromised organization needs to be thoroughly and impartially investigated, and if necessary to protect the American people, shut down.

“Father of Pulse gunman was FBI informant, widow’s attorneys say,” CBS News, March 26, 2018: