Chelsea Walsh was in Kyiv as a nurse and aid worker in the early days of the war in Ukraine.
Driver killed in Deer Park after crash from driving on wrong side of road1 hour agoGet ready to travel this fall with these Insider DealsCopyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.At least four times, tips were made to U.S. government agencies including the FBI and State Department that raised suspicions about the actions of a man now accused in the apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump .
Just as troubling, she said, was Routh’s obsessive, oddly specific plotting to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, describing the various explosives, poisons and cross-border maneuvers that Routh would employ “to kill him in his sleep.” Others included a tip to the FBI in 2019 about Routh being in possession of a firearm after a felony conviction, an online report by an aid worker to the State Department last year questioning his military recruiting tactics, and Routh’s own interview about those efforts with Customs and Border Protection that prompted a referral for a possible inquiry by Homeland Security Investigations.
“Federal agencies ought to be on the highest alert to detect and combat these threats,” said Republican Sen Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “There was plenty to look into,” said Adams, who lives in Tampa, Florida. “I don’t know if they even assigned someone to work it.”
The documents state that the agents referred Routh’s case to Homeland Security Investigations for further scrutiny but it declined to pursue the matter.
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