The media was seemingly brushing off his ties to terrorists. It is not making HEADLINES that he was in contact with ISIS. They were only emphasizing his comments in the past and brushing it all off as some PTSD from the Iraq war. IOWs he is crazy...but aren't all terrorists crazy?

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Hours before his first court appearance, Esteban Santiago has told his interrogators that he had been in contact with the ISIS terror group online.

In November, Santiago showed up at the FBI's Anchorage office claiming that "his mind was being controlled by a U.S. intelligence agency," according to Marlin Ritzman, special agent in charge of that office, who was speaking at a press conference on Saturday.

During that incident, Santiago "appeared agitaged, incoherent and made disjointed statements," but "stated he did not wish to harm anyone," Ritzman said.

ABCNews

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 1/9/17 at 11:57 am to cajunangelle

I WILL SAY THIS (with my tinfoil hat on)

the fact that the media isn't doing their usual frenzy about gun control makes me think that there may be a "radical islamic terror" angle, so they're dumping the whole story before anyone really looks into it so it will die

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Posted by Pettifogger

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Posted on 1/9/17 at 12:03 pm to cajunangelle

I don't think we should be too concerned if he's more crazy than terrorist.

I think that's likely the case, but who knows. My main driving factor is that more terrorist than nutjob likely wouldn't go complain about ISIS controlling his thoughts to the FBI.

But either way, the narrative is the same. He's either a true believer, or he's a nutjob and the ideology of radical Islam is so dangerous that it can aggravate mental illness to acts of terror.

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