Federal Bureau of Investigation concludes search of San Bernardino lake at this time
But the search turned up nothing related to the investigation, a law enforcement source said.
A member of the FBI dive team searches Seccombe Lake Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, in San Bernardino, Calif., for evidence in connection with last week’s fatal shooting at Inland Regional Center, The FBI says divers are searching the… The source declined to describe the items found.
An underwater search for a computer hard drive and anything else linked to the husband-and-wife shooters who killed 14 in the California attacks has concluded. Investigators believe the hard drive was removed as a way to hide information about the crime.
David Bowdich, the assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, would not comment on what the divers were looking for.
Divers finished fishing for clues about the San Bernardino terrorist attack after pulling unknown items from a lake Saturday.
The killers were in the area “at some point”, he said, but he did not specify if it was before or after the massacre. In an attempt to ensure they did not miss threats from men and women who entered the country the same way Ms. Malik did, immigration officials are also reviewing all of about 90,000 K-1 visas issued in the past two years and are considering a moratorium on new ones while they determine whether changes should be made.
Authorities are continuing to question Farook’s longtime friend and relative-through-marriage, Enrique Marquez, who bought the assault rifles used in the shooting.
Marquez, who checked himself into a Long Beach mental hospital after the attack, told investigators that he and Farook were plotting an attack in 2012.
Officials had previously said the pair attempted to erase any digital traces of themselves by destroying emails, cellphones and other items at their home in Redlands.
The FBI has been checking into Farook and Malik’s online activities; FBI Director James Comey said the agency discovered online discussions about jihad between Farook and Malik from late 2013, even before they began dating. Because she was applying for a fiancee visa, the interview primarily sought to prove she knew Farook and really was in a relationship with him. Immigration officials don’t usually check social media posts as part of their background checks, according to the newspaper. She was first vetted by the Department of Homeland Security, which checked her name against law enforcement and national security databases.
Social media posts by San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik that showed her interest in participating in a violent jihad were never examined by USA immigration authorities when Malik passed three background checks to obtain her visa, the New York Times reported. In 2011, on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, she posted a remark on Facebook beside a photo of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center that could be interpreted as anti-American.