The FBI used two confidential informants and surveillance of the alleged plotter’s WhatsApp account to reveal plans to smuggle assassins into the U.S. to murder the former president, according to a search warrant application discovered by Forbes.
An ISIS-linked Iraqi man allegedly carried out surveillance on the properties of former President George Bush in what the FBI described as a revenge plot to assassinate him. Much of it was being organized over WhatsApp, investigators claimed. The FBI used two confidential informants and surveillance of the alleged plotter’s WhatsApp account to reveal plans to smuggle assassins into the U.S.
A snippet from the search warrant uncovered by Forbes detailing the plot on George Bush's life. The name of the suspect has been redacted.The alleged plot organizer had been in the U.S. since 2020 and had an asylum application pending, according to the FBI’s search-warrant application.
After traveling to Dallas with the informant to take video of Bush’s residence, the accused took more footage at the George W. Bush Institute, according to federal agents. Dallas was the site of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. His plan, according to the warrant, was to get the ISIS operatives Mexican visitor visas — using passport information he would send to the informant over WhatsApp — before getting them over the border. Meanwhile, he was communicating with a contact in Egypt over a fake Facebook profile, which carried a profile picture of two individual hands each holding a rose, designed to look romantic and “not suspicious,” according to the FBI’s account.
“It also shows that while the debate on so called ‘going dark’ can be overcome through the use of undercover operatives.” The term “going dark” is used by law enforcement to describe how they are unable to get content from encrypted apps.As part of its surveillance of the alleged plotters, the FBI recently received permission to acquire mobile location information from AT&T.
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