This day in WND history: Secret Service officer spills beans on feds' shooting of Miriam Carey

Miriam Carey

Secret Service officer spills beans on feds' shooting of Miriam Carey

Nov. 30, 2016: It's been the most basic and simple question in the entire Miriam Carey saga.

Why?

Why would federal officers chase an unarmed, suburban mother with her infant strapped into the back seat of her car?

Why would they shoot her in the back?

Why would they kill her?

The mystery is why, on Oct. 3, 2013, Secret Service and Capitol Police officers pursued and killed Carey after all she did was enter a White House guard post apparently by mistake, then make a U-turn and immediately try to leave.

U.S. Capitol Police officers and Secret Service agents surround Miriam Carey's car at Garfield Circle on Oct. 3, 2013

An 11-year veteran of the Secret Service came forward in 2016 with an explanation that may answer that most basic question: Why did federal officers kill Carey?

The most common explanation that had been given since Day 1 is that officers had no way of knowing if she posed a threat to national security and whether she was a terrorist, so they killed her.

At the time of the shooting, NBC reported:

"The U.S. Capitol was placed on lockdown for about an hour, and police officials said they will review their response to security breaches."

The New York Times reported:

"At the Capitol, there was panic as it became clear that the police were mobilizing for a security threat. The loud buzzers were a jarring sound in a city still on edge from the shootings last month. Police officers, their semiautomatic rifles drawn, quickly sealed off the entrances to hallways and instructed people to remain where they were."

CBS reported:

"The officers who shot and killed the woman who led police on a high-speed chase through Washington, D.C. on Thursday may have thought her motive was terroristic, says a police shooting expert.

"'Our nation's capital has been and continues to be a target, and people who work for the Capitol Police, the Metropolitan Police and the Secret Service understand that and have certain protocols in place' to deal with such a perceived threat, explains Prof. David Klinger of the University of Missouri-St. Louis."

And:

"[S]ays Klinger, at the time a reasonable officer may well have thought that Carey was attempting to carry out a terrorist plot, given the fact that she appeared to be targeting two major centers of power: the White House and the Capitol building."

Not so, a Secret Service officer told WND.

Muhammad Abdul Raheem, an officer in the Uniformed Division of the U.S. Secret Service for 11 years, decided to go public and reveal his identity because he felt the killing of Carey by federal officers was unjust.

Raheem sat down with WND and discussed the Carey case for three-and-a-half-hours in a Washington, D.C., office building just a few blocks from the site of another infamous capital cover-up, the Watergate Hotel.

WND has investigated the Carey case in depth since the beginning. The stunning facts and details of the investigation and the Justice Department cover-up are revealed in WND Books' "Capitol Crime: Washington's Cover-Up of the Killing of Miriam Carey."

Long before WND uncovered many of the details indicating an official cover-up, famed civil libertarian Nat Hentoff said from all of the evidence he had seen in WND’s reports, which he called very thorough and easily corroborated, "[T]his is a classic case of police out of control and, therefore, guilty of plain murder."

Read WND's full coverage of the Miriam Carey scandal. Learn everything there is to know about the mom shot in the back by Capitol cops.

The officer, a Trenton, New Jersey, native explained how the Secret Service covered up what he said was the unjustifiable shooting.

The Secret Service officer also revealed how officers who shot Carey knew that national security was never at risk. He analyzed their actions for WND to come to that conclusion.

Raheem explained how federal officers knew that national security was never at risk during the Carey incident because officers did not act like they suspected she had a bomb.

And, he added, since they knew there was no risk to national security, they had no reason to shoot the unarmed, 34-year-old woman.

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