In a letter obtained by Rolling Stone, two senators are asking the Justice Department how “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh was able to meet with a convicted ISIS supporter in full view of the FBI while out on parole.
, Sens. Maggie Hassan and Katie Britt wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland to “express concern over the federal government’s ability to monitor and prevent threats to public safety from people convicted of terrorism-related crimes upon their release from federal custody.”
Hassan and Britt also ask the Justice Department to provide answers on whether Lindh met with any other known extremists and how it handled the discovery of his apparent parole violation. The two also state their concern that “compartmentalized information between Department of Justice agencies may have prevented authorities from taking appropriate action” in Lindh’s case., that Lindh met with convicted ISIS supporter Ali Amin while both men were on probation and under surveillance by the FBI.
On three separate occasions in late 2021, FBI agents allegedly spotted Lindh meeting with Ali Amin. Lindh, the first American prosecuted as part of the decades-long “War on Terror,” was sentenced to 20 years in prison and given early release and probation in 2019. Like Lindh, Amin was out of prison on early release and both men were subject to rules requiring that they not associate with known extremists.
FBI officials notified Amin’s parole officer of the violation in October 2022. A federal judge terminated his early release and Amin was re-arrested and sent back to prison in January. But no such intervention was apparent in Lindh’s case and the October 2022 notification provided to Amin’s parole officer took place months after Lindh’s sentence officially ended.
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