Jewish leaders express frustration with investigation into threats

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

BIG STORY 12 | Wed Mar 8, 2017 | 6:14pm EST

Jewish leaders express frustration with investigation into threats

More than 140 Jewish community center leaders sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday expressing frustration with the progress made in identifying whoever is responsible for this year's wave of bomb threats against Jewish interests.

The letter, sent by the JCC Association of North America and signed by 141 of the group's leaders, came as two more community centers received threats of violence on Wednesday. On Tuesday, a fresh round of threats were received by more than a dozen Jewish organizations, bringing the total to approximately 140 after five previous waves.

"We are frustrated with the progress in resolving this situation," the leaders wrote. "We insist that all relevant federal agencies, including your own, apply all the resources available to identify and bring the perpetrator or perpetrators, who are trying to instill anxiety and fear in communities across the country, to justice."

On Wednesday, a Jewish center in West Hartford, Connecticut, received an emailed threat early in the morning, while another center in Louisville was evacuated after a phoned-in threat arrived around noon, according to local media reports. A Vancouver center also received a bomb threat late on Tuesday night.

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[guillaumeb]

1. 140 anti-Semitic threats should call for a huge investigation.

But Sessions and Trump are only focused on Muslims.

The real terror threat has always been right wing white males.

[Igel]

2. How?

What do you investigate?

Do you expect the places to record all the phone calls?

Are there readily available lists of phone calls to a number that list the callers numbers? If so, it should be easy to track down those making threats.

Otherwise, it's back to recordings . . Z Most likely non-existent. Which leaves little evidence.

They could search for threats against Jewish organizations online and in social media. Not sure where to go after that if the threats aren't specific.

[guillaumeb]

3. The how is unknown to me.

But I assume that US intelligence agencies know how.

[Lordquinton]

4. What do you mean how?

You're proposing throwing up hands and saying "what can you do?" Mass threats against jewish places and people have been committed the authorities can do a lot, and often do with less.