Several weeks before the 2015 attack, Simpson purportedly came back to the FBI’s attention for jihad-related online postings, prompting another round of monitoring and surveillance. During this period of renewed interest, a week and a half out from the attack, Simpson was put into contact with an FBI agent through his network of extremist friends online. In the course of one of their exchanges, when Simpson brought up the cartoon contest, the fed responded, “Tear up Texas,” with Simpson replying, “That goes without saying” — an apparent example of an FBI agent encouraging violence at an imminent public event, which was furthermore received positively by its recipient. It’s difficult to understand how the FBI could have allowed this attack to happen by mistake, given such an obvious telegraphing of intention. And it’s not like the pair fell off the FBI’s radar in the week and a half intervening between that exchange and the shooting — the Bureau installed a surveillance camera outside Simpson’s and Soofi’s apartment the day they left for Texas. But don’t worry, it gets worse.

Incredibly, the FBI agent that told Simpson to “Tear up Texas” wasn’t just talking shit: He was also at the event….….in the car immediately behind Soofi and Simpson’s……………….taking cell phone photographs of the people that Soofi and Simpson were about to attack……………………..thirty seconds before the shooting. An image taken by the agent is reproduced below, screenshotted from the CBS documentary on the FBI ties to the attack. Sidebar: I couldn’t find a free version of the doc, so I just signed up for a Paramount+ trial and then cancelled before they charged me. Easy enough, and I recommend it if you’re interested in this insane case. Ponder why they deployed obvious CIA asset Anderson Cooper to discuss these events. Anyway, back to business, the photo the FBI agent snapped happens to include Bruce Joiner (left), the only man Simpson and Soofi injured. The fed, who remains unidentified, fled the scene immediately when shooting broke out, but he was detained at gunpoint by local police (as seen in the second photo below, also from the CBS documentary). When CBS asked the FBI for comment on these revelations, they responded, “There was no advance knowledge of a plot to attack the cartoon drawing contest in Garland, Texas.”