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Rhiannon12866

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Thu Dec 12, 2024, 10:01 PM Dec 12

Watchdog report says FBI missed 'basic step' when gathering intel before Jan. 6 attack - MSNBC Reports



The FBI failed to take the "basic step" of canvassing its field offices for intelligence ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a long-awaited Justice Department's Inspector General report. - Aired on 12/12/2024.
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Watchdog report says FBI missed 'basic step' when gathering intel before Jan. 6 attack - MSNBC Reports (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Dec 12 OP
The basic step being having the slightest interest in stopping a violent RW coup. RockRaven Dec 12 #1
Somebody sure screwed up. But doesn't change fact trump and Nazis started it. Silent Type Dec 12 #2
Exactly. TFG and his minons planned and called for it ad did nothing to stop it despite the violence Rhiannon12866 Dec 12 #3

RockRaven

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1. The basic step being having the slightest interest in stopping a violent RW coup.
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 10:18 PM
Dec 12

What a shock that people who made it into the upper echelons of a right wing authoritarian institution had zero interest in that...

Rhiannon12866

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3. Exactly. TFG and his minons planned and called for it ad did nothing to stop it despite the violence
Thu Dec 12, 2024, 10:30 PM
Dec 12

And the calls from members of his administration and members of Congress to stop it. He ignored them and did nothing - except watch.

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