Why Is The U.S. Government Hiding This Boston Bombing Suspect?

BOSTON - As the events of the Boston Marathon bombings played out on Monday there was a flurry of information all over the web, much of it untrue or mere speculation. This is the price we pay for a media that would rather get the story first than get the story right. One piece of information we are now being told was untrue was that a Saudi suspect was being guarded by law enforcement at the hospital where he was taken.

This, however, isn’t as untrue as we are being led to believe. Official reports about the Saudi suspect, whom we now know is named Abdul Rahman Ali Isa al-Salmi al-Harbi, have changed drastically from calling him a suspect, to a person of interest, to a witness, and now having no connection to the marathon bombings whatsoever. However, theBlaze.com has reported that Abdul Rahman Ali Isa al-Salmi al-Harbi’s visa has been revoked, and that he was scheduled to be deported back to his home country this Tuesday under section 212 3B “security and related grounds”. This is apparently because he has ties to prominent Saudi family.

If this were all we knew about the situation it would be enough to seem weird. First, why would we deport someone who was an eyewitness to the bombings, clearly he is valuable as a material witness? Also, why is he being deported for security reasons if he apparently had nothing to do with the bombings? And lastly, are we to believe that someone who is being deported for security reasons happened to be at the site of bombings with no connection to them at all? Thankfully, this is not all we know.

After Abdul Rahman Ali Isa al-Salmi al-Harbi was taken to the hospital he was initially considered by local law enforcement to be a suspect. His home was raided by police while the media took photos of them carrying out items of interest from the apartment complex. The next day U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had an abruptly closed to the press meeting with the Saudi Ambassador.

The next day, Wednesday, President Barack Obama happens to run into the Saudi Prime Minister while walking the halls, and has a 20 minute meeting which he claimed was related to Syria and not the Boston bombings. Wednesday night, while on Sean Hannity’s program, terror expert Steve Emerson reported that the Saudi suspect was being deported on national security grounds.

On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refused to answer questions from Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) on Capitol Hill regarding the deportation of the Saudi suspect. Also Thursday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) report stated that claims that the United States was deporting Abdul Rahman Ali Isa al-Salmi al-Harbi were “categorically false.” However, a congressional source is now contradicting the ICE report. According to the source, documents have been presented to congress that show Abdul Rahman Ali Isa al-Salmi al-Harbi’s visa was revoked with plans for deportation. Also Thursday, the Saudi suspect was visited in the hospital by First Lady Michelle Obama.

This brings us to Friday, as Glenn Beck on his radio program made claims that six congressman have confirmed to him that a classified file on the Saudi suspect does reveal that he is being deported on national security grounds, and that the file states, linked to the Boston Marathon bombings. He claims that he has sources from every agency involved in the investigation, who are risking their jobs and imprisonment to reveal the information. Beck claimed he had revealed everything he had with other major news outlets, in the hopes they would report everything as well, which they haven’t. He also brought Joel Cheatwood on his program, a man who has been an executive at CNN and Fox News for his credibility in revealing the information. Beck has given those responsible in Washington until Monday to come clean about the Saudi suspect and save their credibility, before he reveals it all anyway. He said he knows all about Abdul Rahman Ali Isa al-Salmi al-Harbi and was dropping hints that only those in Washington would understand to prove he actually knew saying he was “a bad, bad, bad man”. What Beck allegedly has on the suspect we won’t know until Monday, until then we can only wait.