TUCSON, Ariz. (AP/The Blaze) — Arizona authorities say a second man has been cleared of any involvement in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shooting.
Pima County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Ogan said Sunday that the man, a suspected accomplice in the shooting Saturday, was not involved.
The office has said a man possibly associated with the suspect who was near the scene was being sought. The man, who was photographed by a security camera, was described as white with dark hair and 40 to 45 years old.
The prime suspect, Jared Loughner, remains in FBI custody has been formally charged for Saturday’s shooting spree. The federal government is charging Loughner with an attempt to kill a member of Congress; two counts of first degree murder; and two counts of attempted murder. Though six people were killed, the federal government only has jurisdiction to to bring charges for the deaths of federal employees who died Saturday, including one Giffords staffer and a federal judge. State charges are still pending.
“This was an attack on our institutions and on our way of life,” FBI director Mueller told reporters.
Additionally, Mueller noted Sunday that authorities were continuing to investigate possible ties to any hate groups, suggesting there may be a case for hate crimes charges.
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reckless
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:52pmI’ve noticed a chanbe in the rhetoric from the liberal media. When they were certain this gunman was a tea Party fanatic, they were readily labelling him as full of hate ans using any and all other names to associate him with intentional and premeditated actions driven by the hate filled teachings of the right wing .
Report Post »Now that it has come to light that the gunman’s political leanings may be more closely aligned with their own, they have begun to proclaim that the gunman was obviously mentally challenged, and that there were not any political motivations to his actions.
red penny
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:39pmThe Green Hornet,The Lone Ranger,Superman,Bat Man and Robin,The Three Stooges,The LIttle Rascals and numerous others are alive and well in Hollywood.Yeah,just as stupid as some of the conspiracy posts,unfortunately,placed here.The PERP was a lone mentally ill nutjob and it’s as simple as that.The idiot sheriff should be fired for his verbage and conduct is way way out of line.O’ I forgot Elvis,who was recently spotted on the corner of Hollywood and Vine.
Report Post »thejackal
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:23pmYou gotta love the progressive scum…. They realize that the guy is a major Obama supporter and left wing pinko moron, so they try to blame, Rush and Beck for “making him” lose it…. It‘s Rush and Beck’s fault because the guy is a democrat loser, like most democrats.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:19pmI am sure has got his team on this and when the time is right will expose what the situation was, is and will be. – The clips of the left wing media will be put in context of who and what this disturbed kid was>
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:14pmSounds to me they (Law Enforcement) kinda was in a rush for judgement with the second fellow. And Home land Security pushing the idea this kid was associated with “America Renaissance” The idea for law enforcement pushing unfounded evidence before hand is just as bad as the media claiming this kid was a Afgan war veteran. Stuff like this get people hurt. CNN cant stop bringing up Palin there obsessed with blaming her.
This statement kinda bothers me from the FBI Director “This was an attack on our institutions and on our way of life,” FBI director Mueller told reporters. Let me remind the Director to be PC correct, you shoud have said “This was an attack on our institutions and Americas way of life” Thats the problem in this country folks in political elected/appointed positions class themselves away from the rest of America.
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:04pmDid that pea-brained, pinhead of a sheriff issue an apology? I’m sure not.
Report Post »Bernard
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:04pmJust like Lee Harvey Oswald, Mr. Jared Loughner was no “lone gunman”. All indications point to him being a “fall guy”, hired to do a job that would have broader implications. If this case is take over from the Arizona authorities to the Federal government as was the case in Texas after the assassination of John F. Kennedy we will never know the truth.
Report Post »Mr. Loughner was too well trained in the use of fire arms, well prepared with a note to state what his “personal” objective were and the after effects were predictable enough to glean that there is more to it than a “crazed” lone gunman.
The left jumped too quickly without any substantial evidence to blame the Tea party, the Conservatives, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh as distraction from any investigation at this critical point whether this was pre planned by those in power who want to push agendas now weakened by the new Congress.
The same people in Congress who found the reading of the Constitution unsavory are also the very members who have called a postponement of the repeal of the Obama care health program that was slated to occur.
How convenient that what Glenn Beck told has come to pass. Create a crisis in order to justify actions normally not approved. This is no lone gunman but a fairly clumsy attempt to derail the new Congress and keep pushing the Obama issues.
It is clumsy due to the fact that the second step of taking down the assassin as was the case with Lee Harvey Oswald failed. It was equally clumsy since the Senator survived unlike John F. Kennedy, and it has exposed the duplicity of this act by the immediate demonizing of the conservative movement and those who espouse it.
Moonbat
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:35pm@ Bernard
So the left “jumped too quickly” to blame the Tea Party, but you have a full-blown false-flag government conspriacy theory the very next day.
This guy was crazy, Bernard. He wasn’t working for Palin or Obama or anybody else. We don’t need one more thing to drive us apart. I’m a liberal, and I could be your neighbor. We have problems to solve — could we start with a little good faith?
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:49pmJared Lee Loughner’s profile pic from his MySpace profile (it was scrubbed from MySpace today shortly after he attempted to assassinate Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords).
http://hillbuzz.org/2011/01/08/my-congresswoman-voted-against-nancy-pelosi-and-is-now-dead-to-me-eerie-daily-kos-hit-piece-on-gabrielle-giffords-just-two-days-before-assassination-attempt-on-her/
Report Post »treshall
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:17pmThere’s a piece on HotAir that links to the ******** who posted this hit piece originally, the “Blue Boy”, who wrote that Giffords was “dead” to him and he has now, rather indignantly, written a response that involves saying “F_ _ _ You!“ to the right for ”daring” to associate him with this vile, hateful crime! Yes, how dare we, Blue Boy, take your words and the map with targets on it, which DailyKos has now pulled so that they can demonize the right without fear of rebuttal? How dare Paul Krugman? How dare Keith Olbermann? How dare MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, etc., all of whom are jumping on the right as if we all personally pulled that trigger? Enough is enough- I cannot stomach idiocy. Perhaps that is why I am a proud conservative- I don’t deal well with fools and, unfortunately, they are out in abundance. Soldier on, friends, soldier on. God bless.
Report Post »sheenester
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:38pmI have been arguing with a few liberal folks about this all day. They claim it is a ‘right wing’ guy that acted on Beck, Palin, Hannity, etc… I finally got them to shut up when I posted this, (Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun” Maybe the guy took Obama up on that. See how ridiculous this can be? ) It is clear this guy has issues beyond anything the tea party stands for. A sad event; I feel for the families that lost loved one here.
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:37pmThe Sheriff is entitled to his views like any other American. But, in the discharge of his duties he should have kept his personal feelings to himself. I posted elsewhere that I was giving him the benefit of the doubt due to the horrendous circumstances surrounding this atrocity. I stand by that.
He should retire, however, if he cannot execute the duties of his position in a professional and unbiased manner.
Report Post »Moonbat
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:43pmHi, Cykonas, and right on. The wake of a tragedy is a terrible time for either side to practice politics.
Report Post »ruffnex
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:19pmAgain…Hasn’t anyone noticed the error in the article? “The federal government is being charged with attempting to kill a member of congress”,
Report Post »Eternal Lucy
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:28pmWow…. yeah.
Freudian slip?
Report Post »ozz
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:40pmI think most did. It is kind of glaring. Maybe not though. The author did not :D
Report Post »ozz
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:14pmWe have to go there politically because that is where the left lame stream media goes and we must defend ourselves from their lies or they magically become the truth in the history books.
Report Post »Just like it needs to be pointed out that he must have acquired the gun ILLEGALLY ( the mentally ill can not own fire arms) or the left will go there and use this as an excuse to pass some new law furthering the federal infringement of our second amendment rights.
We have to go there because THE LEFT HAS NO CLASS.
joan k
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:12pmJared appears to be a paranoid schizophrenic. He has had problems with the police in the past and that would explain his paranoial rants against government. The fact that he is anti-government is why the left keeps trying to portray him as a tea party guy.
He was kicked out of College due to his emotional problems. His parents were called in reportedly and told that in order for him to come back he would have had to have undergone a psychiatric evaluation and have some help. I assume this happened this past Fall. It is reported that he bought his gun in November.
What I want to know is if his parents EVER brought him in for an evaluation. Because this guy needed some help big time. He reportedly still lived at home with parents and they may have some culpability in this if he never received an evaluation.
For those who are trying to peg him politically….If anything the guy is more of an anarchist-type who doesn’t believe in God and who burns American flags.
Report Post »ozz
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:19pmHis own friends described him as an outspoken liberal. Do not let the left off the hook that they so quickly tried to impale the tea party on.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:59pmAnti-government is anarchist, and anarchists are radical leftists. Big government is a progressive ideal. Totalitarianism is the commie Utopia, and that would be Obama.
Report Post »ruffnex
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:08pmIsn’t anyone going to mention the error in the article? “The federal government is being charged with an attempt to kill a member of congress”,
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:16pmYou are right; I had to read the article twice again to make sure to the wording, glad someone caught that part.
Report Post »komponist-ZAH
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:48pmAha! So it is a conspiracy! :)
But I think we can come up with worse charges…
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:57pmWhat are the odds on Jared not making it to court?
Report Post »William113
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:06pmThere is more to this story.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:09pmTo paraphrase Crocodile Dundee:
“Better than average.”
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:10pmSorry, meant to add this as well…
I want him to face charges; so we all can see just what a monster and what evil revealed are all about in all their ugliness.
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 6:25pmIt would give Nancy Grace something to talk about other then Natalee Holloway or Casey Anthony. But with this Administration in KSM still has a better shot.
Report Post »hopester55
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:52pmClearly mentally ill. Sad we have to politicalize it. Why aren’t we addressing how this guy fell thru the cracks even though there were lots of red flags
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:01pmWhy aren’t we addressing how this guy fell thru the cracks even though there were lots of red flags
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Why blame the local authorities for their ineptness and incompetance when bigger targets like
Report Post »Palin-Bush-Limbaugh- Beck- FOX- Rumsfeld-Halliburton-Cheney – melting steel etc can be taken down ?
Why let a crisis go to waste ?
snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:15pm@Cheezewhiz
Sometimes people just fall through the cracks, and a chain of events sets off in rapid succession. Often there are the flags that should be seen; in some ways it is like a team effort on a ball game, you have a fairly good idea of the other teams intentions, and can usually make a difference when the play begins. Sometimes you just get it wrong and they score.
In this case, from friends and family, to the authorities and anyone else who may have seen the signs and flags; no one made the connection for the nightmare coming.
Report Post »JROCCOD
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:48pmWell, the shooter is turning out to be a gay, socialist anti American, anti goverment radical mental case…. WOW and all the energy exerted by the left to look for a right wing Glenn/Rush/Bill/Sean conspiracy!!!! Whoda thunk it????? Ill tell ya who, the idiot Sheriff of Pima County. The same county where the shooter was able to purchase a firearm despite documented mental health issues and previous criminal record. Way to go Sheriff. Just keep on blaming conservatives…It will make you feel better im sure.
Report Post »Cliff
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:57pmFrom the WP: “Dupnik, 74, a Democrat who has served as Pima County sheriff since 1980, is known for his colorful and often bluntly partisan commentary. Last year, he refused to enforce Arizona’s aggressive new law targeting illegal immigrants, calling it “stupid” and “racist.“ He coined the phrase ”political fornickaboobery,” to describe the motives he felt were behind the crackdown.”
He is just guilty in towing the party crap… EXPOSE these people before we lose this great country to ignorant, uniformed people!!
http://www.mentordvd.com
Report Post »Bullion Luminary
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:45pmAll so strange…
Report Post »maryslittlelamb
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:36pmWhy is it when some drug-addled miscreant does something outrageous he is characterized as ‘emotionally disturbed’ and the drug-addled aspect is never mentioned?
Report Post »Cliff
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:49pmbecause that would hurt their desire to legalize that crap… it is called DOPE for a reason…
http://www.mentordvd.com
Report Post »maryslittlelamb
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 8:18pm@Cliff
Report Post »You’re absolutely right. The left glamorized drugs in the 60′s and American society has been on a downhill slide ever since. But nobody talks about it. God forbid you should light a cigarette but drugs?, oh well, everybody knows that’s just recreational. Not even worth mentioning. It makes me sick!
cheezwhiz
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:29pmsuggesting there may be a case for hate crimes charges.
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Well Giffords IS Jewish , so whats the hold up ?
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:33pmI imagine they want the case to be as air tight as it possibly can be humanly determined to be; there will almost always be someone claiming a setup or frame-job being done. Let them run each and all ends to ground and see what gets turned up.
It is just possible (not likely I will admit) that something on another crime or links to other crimes may have turned up as well and need to be run to ground.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:28pmAttempted murder in the 1st degree win additional manslaughter charges is sufficient. Add hate crimes by a leftist commie is bonus!
Report Post »Bearfoot
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:02pmI submit that all crimes are hate crimes.
Report Post »Love for your neighbor will prevent all crimes
CatB
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:53pmSounds like (the more I read about the guy) like an MSNBC .viewer .. or show “host” .
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:27pmPima County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Ogan -
Is this the same person who declared that the conservatives were responsible for the shooting?
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:43pmNo…that was Dupnik
Report Post »JROCCOD
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:54pmI think the Sheriff of Pima County should be relieved of his duties and promptly committed to the nearest mental health facility. And that is comming from someone who has been a law Enforcement Officer for going on 32 years. I have never seen this level of unprofessionalisim.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:08pm@ jroccod Maybe he was since the deputy sheriff is making the statements now. BTW, thanks for your 32 years of service!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:09pm@Jroccod
At the very least a early retirement for him would be a option he needs to strongly consider.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:52pmThis reminds me of the Ft. Hood shooting, when the FBI was calling Hasan a lone wolf before their agents even got to the base.
For the first time in FBI history, the director himself was sent to the crime scene to take care of the cover-up. Ya think when the commie Traitor ordered Mueller to go, he didn’t already know this kid belonged to the fringe left? Until late this morning, the local police had been searching for the second suspect, and now all of a sudden the man has been cleared? WTF? Did they speak to him? When?
Report Post »DeltaHawk
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:27pmOne lone Left WIng Nutjob is all it takes! Now how about all that Media hype?
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:36pmThey make up a lot of the other Left Wing NutJobs – only they make up the news (or propaganda) to fit their jaded and blinder fixed views of reality.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:50pmHow about Sharptoon and Shakira and LaRaza and Calderon causing rioting by illegals on the streets of AZ ?
Report Post »How about the boycotts of AZ by LA and SF Mayors and the trashing of AZ Gov by mehicans in US Congress ?
And the Department Of Jihad suing AZ just because people of AZ want to live ?
Who can forget Obama taking potshots @ the people of AZ on behalf of the mehican drug cartels ?
Will they now ratchet down their hatred for AZ and its people ?
snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:08pm@Cheezewhiz
I was in downtown Phoenix when Sharpton and his lunatic society were stirring up the trouble, I guess they will be here soon enough seeking for heads to roll and reparations to be made to some group or another. Personally I hope they come, and let me have a chance to talk with him, I would love to ask him to explain his own racist attitudes of my mixed heritage (half german and half hindi; all natural born American!!!) since I fall into many of his enraged ideas of what a racist is.
Report Post »Eternal Lucy
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:31pmI bet the left was all excited about this second, middle-aged white guy; on the surface he might have passed for a Tea Partier. Remotely. (maybe that’s what they were “looking for”??)
Anyway, Strike Out!
Report Post »John 1776
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:26pmGuess they have to flush out all angles, but this was a lone nut. Not left, right, or anything. Just a nut.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:31pmAgreed, a nut is still a nut; just this one bore the most painful and dangerous of poisoned fruits you can deliver upon. Thank God he acted alone.
Report Post »grandma7
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:42pmYes,
Report Post »But they (media, etc) always look to the right for blame.
Tired of that abuse!
snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:52pm@Grandma7
Look at it this way – if they can only make stuff up about us, and none of it sticks, then we have to be doing stuff the right way after all. They cannot stand the truth and the light upon their own actions. So let the sunlight work as a sanitizer indeed.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:03pm(Sorry misplaced my comment)
This reminds me of the Ft. Hood shooting, when the FBI was calling Hasan a lone wolf before their agents even got to the base.
For the first time in FBI history, the director himself was sent to the crime scene to take care of the cover-up. Ya think when the commie Traitor ordered Mueller to go, he didn’t already know this kid belonged to the fringe left? Until late this morning, the local police had been searching for the second suspect, and now all of a sudden the man has been cleared? WTF? Did they speak to him? When?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 6:58pmIs this scond guy a k a “ blueboy” ?
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 3:25pmGlad to hear it wasnt organized by anyone other than the lone crazy.
Report Post »Bearfoot
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:08pmHow do you know this? Is it factual, or are you making it up?
Report Post »treshall
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 5:05pmwouldn’t surprise me in the least
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