FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests
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#2No taking responsibility for it, no promise to investigate the failure and prevent the like in the future, and an obvious lie: “The FBI was prepared,” the official said. Nice.
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#3Theres a video of the police letting the protesters into the capitol. They opened the door and are standing to the side
EDIT:
I urge people to go watch the video.
My opinion is that many walking in thought it was a protest and was just something the group was doing.
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#4The article is a little light on details, but I can’t help wondering why, especially given the massive amounts of resources and funding going into surveillance and intelligence gathering post 9/11.
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#5> Over the past 12 months, the Anti-Defamation League sent 1,000 tips to law enforcement based on tracking of social-media comments made by U.S. extremists groups leading up to Wednesday’s riot, and noted the increasing ratcheting up of violent rhetoric.
The FBI didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/biden-trump-electoral-colle...
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#6Let’s be blunt... because white people.
This is the same thing that happened in Charlottesville and the after action review of Charlottesville made that clear. No one listened.
The need here isn’t more police or more training or more gear. Any of those things would just be used to harm people of color and low income communities.
What needs to happen is people stop being taken in by bad faith arguments about “free speech” and “both sides” and take the threat of white supremacist violence seriously. It is the most frequent type of terrorism in this country.
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#7The article is a little light on details, but I can’t help wondering why, especially given the massive amounts of resources and funding going into surveillance and intelligence gathering post 9/11.
that's why it's called security theater
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#8"At the DHS unit, called Intelligence and Analysis, management didn’t view the demonstrations as posing a significant threat"
DHS, under the executive, led by an unlawful director.
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#9Theres a video of the police letting the protesters into the capitol. They opened the door and are standing to the side EDIT: I urge people to go watch the video. My opinion is that many walking in thought it was a protest and was just something the group was doing.
If true, looks like they thought “stand back and stand by” was meant for them.
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#10So you're telling me there was more thoughtfulness in the risk assessment for the Area 51 Alien Raid meme from 2019 [0], than real threats on the U.S. Capitol? Fascinating.
The FBI was knocking on people's door for that joke. [1]
[0] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/15/air-force-war...