Former FBI Assistant Director Suggests Police Were Not Yelling “Burn It Down” In Dorner Raid

Describes person screaming “burn the motherfucker” as “unprofessional”

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Feb 14, 2013

A Former FBI Assistant Director said he did not know how to respond to recordings of police officers yelling “burn it down” over the radio during the raid on the cabin where fugitive Christopher Dorner was thought to have been burned alive, suggesting that the voices may not have been those of SWAT officers on the scene.

Interviewed on CNN yesterday, Tom Fuentes admitted he was at a loss to explain why the audio, extracted from police scanners, contained such panicked yelling.

“In a SWAT operation, they’re highly disciplined, highly professional. There’s not going to be that kind of shouting and, of course, the terminology, “burn it down”, and things like that. So, I just don’t — it doesn’t fit what I’m normally used to in an operation this difficult.” Fuentes said.

“You wouldn’t hear comments like that, so I just don’t know… the sheriff’s department’s going to have a lot of questions to answer about who was making those statements on the radio and why.” Fuentes added, insinuating that he believes the words may not have come from responding officers.

The interview begins at 5 mins:

As we have reported, audio recorded from online police scanners, before they were disabled, contains innumerable examples of police discussing a plan to intentionally “burn down” the cabin before incendiary CS gas was thrown in.

CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield repeated some of the startling words heard on the audio; “most of the words I can’t say, so I’m going to have to make my way through this.” Banfield stated before listing the quotes, “Burn that smoke grenade out. Burn that “f’ing” house down. Going to burn it down. Get it going right now. “F’ing” burn this mother f’er.”

“Does that change the dynamic here, Tom?” Banfield ludicrously asked.

“It just sounds terrible, you know. I’ll admit that.” Fuentes replied, again suggesting that it is a mystery as to who was saying the words.

“It’s unprofessional. It’s unprofessional to use language like that. I don’t understand if it’s tactical teams talking to each other or their commander talking to them.” Fuentes noted, again suggesting that he believed no SWAT officer would yell those words, despite an officer having been shot dead.

“Those conversations should be on encrypted radio frequencies. They shouldn’t be out, open for widespread recording.” Fuentes added.

Fuentes went on to suggest that ” there could be other factors leading to this — leading to him to shout that.”

“…you would think you would hear gunshots in the background — so I am really at a loss to explain why, if that’s an officer yelling those commands and yelling, “Burn it down,” I really don’t understand why that would be the case.” Fuentes stated.

As we reported earlier today, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s office is ludicrously claiming that the cabin fire was not started intentionally, despite the audio evidence, which included the words “shoot the gas”, and despite an L.A. Times report yesterday which confirmed that after first having used “traditional” tear gas, law enforcement then lobbed CS gas canisters into the cabin, which are “incendiary” and “have significantly more chance of starting a fire.”

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

 

This article was posted: Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 12:37 pm

Tags: domestic news, Mainstream Media

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