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Representative Dana Rohrabacher fighting with the mujahideen in the 1980s and with Seddique Mateen, the Pulse Nightclub shooter's father, who had been an FBI informant and frequent visitor of Washington D.C., lobbying for interests related to Afghanistan.

Mr. Mateen with Rep. Ed Royce, Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2019 and at the Capitol building

"considered trying to develop Omar Mateen as an informant" "no signs he was acting under orders"

To the dismay of Pulse shooting victims’ families Seddique Mateen attended a Clinton rally they were also present at in Florida and was placed in the eyeline of camera shots. He then endorsed Clinton and said she told the truth about Benghazi and called for gun control measures.

However , his son Omar Mateen has legally purchased the guns he used in his attack and passed several background checks even though he had been investigated by FBI and placed on terror watch list. Clinton used this opportunity to call for assault weapons ban. Fear was seized.

As questions mounted regarding just how much the FBI knew , if this attack could have been prevented , if Omar Mateen’s father was the “confidential source” they had said was connected to his case, and how he was able to legally purchase guns Comey defended the FBI’s actions.

Comey insisted the agency had used all its resources and available intel , he said following these cases information is always revealed that could have been of use if the agency was alerted and urged the public to remain every vigilant & report suspicious activity -but they had

During the trial of Omar Mateen’s widow it was revealed that Seddique Mateen had been an agency informant for over a decade before the attack and had been transferring large sums of money to Turkey and Afghanistan .

The security firm Omar Mateen worked for , G4S is the world’s largest security company via revenues , it is stationed around the globe including conflict zones like Iraq, Afghanistan and the West Bank. It provides security for half of the USA’s nuclear power plants via @orionn___

Seddique Mateen’s YouTube Channel is still up and includes interviews with the president of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani and visits to the Logar province in Afghanistan

The three congressman pictured with Seddique Mateen confirmed they had met with him but denied remembering any specifics or details. Rep. Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said he only recalled it having to do something with Afghanistan-Pakistan relations