On Sunday FBI Director James Cormey told CBS News’s 60 Minutes that Americans fighting with ISIS are entitled to return to this country:
Ultimately, an American citizen, unless their passport’s revoked, is entitled to come back. So, someone who’s fought with ISIL, with American passport wants to come back, we will track them very carefully.
On Saturday, the day before the interview quoted above, ABC News reports:
An Illinois teenager was arrested Saturday at a major airport as authorities say he was attempting to travel to the Middle East to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Mohammed Hamzah Khan, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen from Bolingbrook, appeared in court today to face charges for allegedly attempting to provide material support for a terrorist organization. If convicted, Khan could face up to 15 years in prison.
Federal authorities said Khan was arrested Saturday at Chicago’s O’Hare airport by members of the FBI’s Chicago Join Terrorism Task Force. In court today it was revealed he had purchased a ticket to Istanbul, via Vienna. Investigators allege he planned to slip through the porous Turkish border to Syria or on to Iraq.
So, an American citizen who allegedly has an intention to join terrorists abroad can be arrested before he boards a plane, but American citizens who have actually fought alongside terrorists are free to return home and face only … careful tracking?
Well, why not? Why should Obamian law enforcement be any more coherent than Administration policy in other areas?
