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'Planned in plain sight': Senate report finds intel agencies failed in the lead-up to Jan. 6
Both.
I got the impression some turned a blind eye and told others "nothing to see here"
I saw and reported a trump "train" on 422 in PA like the week before.
They were blocking on and off ramps.
Driving 3 wide at 70mph.
State police told me they had the right to protest and hung up.
Local news didn't care.
Edit: Wrong road.
We had a trump train out here clog up one of the main roads to the hospital and blocked our fire station in.
The cops didn't care. Those people were choking traffic in the city, driving recklessly, and blocking emergency services while the cops pretended they saw nothing.
The Trump trains are a pretty solid demonstration of the entire maga movement.
Big, loud, disruptive wastes of resources that make everything around them worse, with no plan to accomplish anything beneficial.
Had the equivalent in my city in Canada. The response from the cops? Promptly arrest an indigenous counter-protester. They did nothing else. Oh, except bring the protesters coffee.
It's funny that they want to protest like this but when liberals do it, they suddenly want to pass laws allowing them to run people people.
I mean liberals didn't do this, ever, so, that's the real sad part. This is how they behave but they think that people protesting extrajudicial murder by gathering in crowds and not beating the shit out of police officers deserve to die for doing it.
Remember Colin Kaepernick and how they thought that his peacefully protesting by just kneeling during an anthem was the worst fucking thing ever and shouldn't have been allowed? There's no level of protest that is acceptable to Republicans unless it's Republicans protesting something, in which case they can attempt to literally kill people and it's fine.
There was a pretty big counter protest by the left in Charlottesville. And a man from Ohio plowed through the crowd in his vehicle, killing one young woman. His conviction is what prompted red state movements to cover vehicular homicide under their "stand your ground" type laws. Techleopard's post wasn't sarcasm or exaggeration. He was just citing a recent example.
Should have taken a picture and photoshopped some BLM flags in there to get them on the attack
"Hello police, there are several unarmed black..."
tires screech
Or say it was a bunch of Muslims.
422 goes through some very MAGA areas; starting in 2015, until last year or so, there were Trump signs everywhere; I’m surprised there were state cops - they usually stick to the interstates, but I could see the very Red local cops letting it happen.
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Ah, I was thinking about the western half of 422, which runs from the OH line to Ebensburg; it's discontinuous with the part of 422 you're referring to, probably because it meets up with 22 in Ebensburg.
You could call 422 a Trump Parkway; that's where you'll find the Trump-as-Rambo signs. I don't know where those people got their delusions from but that sign is one of the most hilarious fantasies I've seen in my life.
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White and identified as conservative. Plenty of white college kids were stomped by police during the “99%” protests.
It's sad to me how quickly people forgot Trump had ordered to have protestors yanked off the streets in Oregon into unmarked vans by plains clothes agents and held for a day with no contact with the outside world and no explanation.
Literal regime-style kidnapping.
I assume he was praying one of the protestors would actually shoot at some of them cuz fucking kidnapping.
Media wouldn't report on it much. Like, forget what the protests were about or whether it was lawful or not -- how does that happen and nobody give a shit, but photos of burning dumpsters safely positioned in the middle of the street is a national headliner?
Imagine the police reaction when you tell them antifa is going to engaged them and see the force come out looking para military.
I like it when folks say “red” instead of conservative.
Of course they didn't care. Their coworkers were taking part.
Going 70 doesn't sound that bad, did you mean 7 mph?
Kind of like Don't Look Up
The last eight years or so of American history can best be summed up by prefacing, “People aren’t actually stupid enough to …” with what actually happened.
This is what makes the most sense to me. They probably looked at it and thought "this'll turn out just like the storming area 51 thing"
I think they wanted to play ball
I mean, the whole internet knew about it before it happened, so I'd say TOLD to ignore it.
I know, I was part of those subreddits who were taking screenshots of all their threats and sending them to the fbi. Hundreds of them! All of reddit KNEW this was going to happen. And we told them
Yep, I was in some of those subreddits. These people were openly saying what they were going to do and the only way you could be caught off guard by it was if you were in on it or straight up not looking.
Hard to ignore something you are actively participating in and helped foment.
The fact is that our law enforcement and intelligence communities are afraid to go after politicians, especially on the right.
I mean their mishandling of Trump from Day 1 has been overwhelming evidence that they go out of their way to not rock the boat.
The reason not to rock the boat is so many of them are ON that boat
Exactly this. There were and still are Trump sympathizers within law enforcement, all across the country. These folks will gleefully turn a blind eye.
That's because the majority of them agree with and support them. It's not that they were worried about rocking the boat. They wanted to protect that boat.
I honestly believe that law enforcement has become the strong arm of far right-leaning politics.
they've always been the strong arm for authoritarian politics.
has become
always was
It's generally always been that way for minorities. Now white people are starting to understand a little better.
Far right and racist .
Part of the Republican strategy for rule-breaking and law-breaking is to cry political persecution for any hint of being punished. They create the fear of going after them.
It's very effective because there's so much going on that people aren't aware of, and all they have to do is rely on voters deciding "both sides are corrupt" and so neither one should be more punished than the other, and both sides should be equally considered for votes.
"It looks like a law was broken but the perpetrator was a republican. I'm not sure we are supposed to do these ones guys."
-The FBI, everyday.
"We don't want to be seen as political."
“Let’s get back to spending millions of dollars and man hours infiltrating that group of hippies, maybe we can impregnate a few of the members too!”
I love when right wingers cry that LE and intelligence agencies are "infiltrated by the left" or somehow always "biased against the right wing"
it's the fucking opposite of reality. pussies
I think many politicians and law enforcement officials are afraid to, and the rest agree with the law breakers. It's not a joke that members of the FBI and the military are Nazi-sympathizers and fascists, the love of brutal state power is what attracts them to the job in the first place.
The fact is many of them are not "afraid" but "complicit".
The fact is that our law enforcement and intelligence community is very right wing. They aren't all far/alt right, but they are mostly not moderates. If Trump succeeded many in the FBI and most in the police forces of America would have gladly enforced his will.
They're not afraid lol, they just support/agree with Trump. Government/federal agencies are very republican unfortunately.
I think perhaps parts of them were part of the ball itself and that’s where the problem lies.
They cheered on the ball. Some of them were involved in making the ball.
They chose not to respond. They knew it was happening and they certainly could have handled it.
They were rolling the ball
They purposefully ignored the ball in the hopes that the coup would succeed. They aren’t negligent, they are complicit and culpable.
Some of them, probably.
We always knew the FBI is infiltrated with right wingers.
The FBI has not been infiltrated by right wingers. That would imply it was at some point it wasn't dominated by them. From the beginning the FBI has been about protecting the wealthy and undermining the left. Bank robbers and communists were the targets, always.
It's Pinkerton, just scaled up and with government authority.
Let's not kid ourselves. If right-wing, anti-democracy insurrectionists took control of the government buildings and never left, the CIA would immediately recognize the insurrection as a legitimate government.
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So much for the Patriot Act stopping terrorists.
It's because they were the wrong skin color to be effected by the Patriot Act.
It's because the Patriot Act was entrusted to so many terrorists
Notice how hesitant they are to use that label....
People shooting at power grid transformers? Vandals
People pointing guns at anyone that ventures too close to their driveway? Overzealous homeowners
Protestors? Depends.... If it's BLM protest, that's terrorists, if it's a mostly white group? Not terrorists, just frustrated people
Terrorist is whatever the government charge says it is.
Crazy how the week beforehand we had a ton of discussion about that day and what the supporters would do and then law enforcement and new agencies all acted like it came out of nowhere without warning. Watching live streams from the ground I just expected armed forces to come and break it up at any moment. By the time they broke the windows and stormed inside without any confrontation I realized they had done 0 additional security preparation.
big issue is because it was supported by trump, the GOP, many in the LEO and other agencies. just like russia and wagner. they was a lot of support for the coup. pence thankfully helped to stop it by not going through with what trump wanted. saddly we spent 3 years doing ever little about it (by design or not) and will probably have a jan6 round 2.
Yeah Trump was specifically not placing assets near the Capitol.
"We didn't know" lets them avoid angry mobs and all accountability.
"THEIR INCOMPETENCE FOILED OUR BRILLIANT PLANS!" gets their volcano lair blown up with them in it.
It's clear which response to the events they worked to enable so hard they would use after it fails - the megalomaniacal villainous laughter fits are reserved for AFTER they've got you in the death camps.
To be fair, most of the intelligence community and federal law enforcement were aware of what was happening... but their bosses were part of the coup attempt.
I’m literally just an average guy who listens to podcasts and I knew something was gonna happen that day. Knowledge Fight (which covers Alex Jones) had been talking about it for a minute. Pretty sure Q Anon Anonymous had been as well. No one interested in the right wing fever swamp should have been surprised.
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I'm on the other side of the world and just from reddit posts seen by a huge number of people I knew it was going to happen. There were even comments predicting that afterwards people would say we had no way of seeing this coming.
I was just listening to Knowldege Fight's podcast after Jan 6. I got this vibe that Alex Jones thought this was just another rage rally to fire up his base for some grifting, where they all just go home at the end of the day like all the other rallies. Until "HOLY SHIT THEYRE ACTUALLY DOING IT!!"
That was the exact same vibe I got. Dude thought he was just lighting another little fire so he could pretend to be an arsonist and then that shit blew up in his face. He’s clearly panicked towards the end.
They had fucking shirts made ahead of time, Ginny Thomas and the White House were coordinating travel for thousands, Trump's social media was all 'come overthrow democracy! DC, January 6th! Will be Wild!'.
It was THAT open.
What? You don’t make shirts and coordinate travel for things you’re totally not gonna do?
I study far right extremism as a sort of hobby, out of fascination and horror, for the past 12 years or so. I like to snoop in their spaces and see what they are writing. I knew that coup attempt was going to happen a little over a month ahead of time and planned ahead to get no work done that day. I spent that whole afternoon watching livestreams from people in the crowd while thinking "this is exactly what I expected." What I didn't expect was for them to get as far as they did.
I’m similar (although probably to a lesser degree) and my wife frequently asks me “why do you do this to yourself?!?”. It’s like a massive car crash, sickening but you can’t look away. I was also taken aback by how far they got. I assumed (like I think a lot of folks did) that the feds would be prepared, it would be a large demonstration, and then they would treat the protesters (many of whom could be assumed to be armed) with the same brutality they approached the Social Justice protesters with all the summer before. Still blows me away that largely peaceful protesters were met with tear gas, rubber bullets, and mass arrests while the people literally storming the seat of federal power in this country were basically handled with kid gloves.
i remember a favorite local bakery posting instagram stories that week announcing/apologizing that they were closing the week of 1/6 and doing only pre-order pickups a few days earlier, for the safety of their bakers commuting in DC.
We’re just lucky the people they were able to trick into being their attack dogs were a bunch of incompetent shit stains.
Thanks for pointing this out. It's an important missed detail.
Right? A bunch of idiots on Reddit knew what was coming, how did the foremost experts on domestic intelligence not notice?
They did notice. They didn't just notice, a handful of the retired or 'booted by GQP' ones were telling us.
The services knew even better. The difference is We The People didn't want this to happen, while 'the aristocrats!' and their enforcers, including agency leadership, did.
Remember, when you turn the place into a fascist hellhole, THEY get to be the power behind the throne, unaccountable to all save Dear Leader.
The intelligence agencies knew; they didn't act.
They had t-shirts printed FFS. EVERYONE knew what was happening
I remember watching Andrea Mitchell in real time react to the presence of people storming the Capitol. America saw it unfold live on TV and on Twitch streams of the people personally storming the building.
There's no question the Intelligence agencies sat on their hands here. None.
The intelligence agencies knew, no one should doubt that. They just chose to ignore it and I guess were hoping the coup was successful. If they genuinely didn't know (which they 100% did obviously) then they should still be replaced. But they did know, and simply chose to support Trump which wasn't too surprising for anyone who's worked for or with certain federal agencies. Not much you can do when all the leaders of said organization are religious extremists who support Trump.
they knew, but were instructed not to do anything about it. and if the middle management in the FBI or CIA is telling you flat up that you are not aloud to do anything - "because these people haven't (yet) broken the law" - you don't start riffing on a movie script.
You look at your years of service and retirement package and back down.
Pretty much we were bracing for this on J6, the fact that they claim they were blindsided means that they either wanted it to happen or did not actually think Trump supporters were so unhinged they would actually attempt to do it.
Doesn’t inspire much confidence to know that anyone with an internet connection knew before our intelligence agencies.
They knew. They didn't care.
I'll bet that the knew even before the internet learned about it, but did nothing because they agreed with the coup.
I have a daughter who lives in Capital Hill DC. I warned her 3 weeks before to stay away from the Capital area on January 6. I’m just a guy with an I phone
They were posting about their civil war on mainstream sites.
You have to imagine how uncomfortable it was for the intelligence and law enforcement communities. They might have arrested a friend or family member.
If only they checked the deep dark underbelly of the internet that was... checks notes ...the President's twitter profile
Perfect reply….
They were promoting Jan 6th t-shirts on Twitter & Facebook before it happened.
Twitter employees raised many concerns to the CEO, Jack Dorsey, who ignored it all because he had Ali Alexander on payroll as his personal consultant - you know, the guy who paid for the buses on Jan 6th.
What else would we know if we aired Twitter’s staff meeting notes and others in public?
I don’t know but it’s weird that they got away with something like this without paying any price.
Do we want justice? I do. But how can we get it?
wow so twitter facilitated and covered for a massive right wing movement/action
....pre musk
and that was when they were crying about "bias against right wingers"
Ali Alexander? You mean the adult male that was caught sexting young boys? Young boys as in NOT 18+ year olds? That Ali Alexander?
DC activated the National Guard pre-emptively for BLM.
DC stood down the National Guard for MAGA.
Why?
(Just kidding, we all know why.)
The President's appointee to the DoD refused to give the order to activate them. In fact actively stonewalled requests by DC's mayor, Virginia's Governor, and Maryland's Governor to allow the already called up troops to deploy.
We knew THAT much from CNN live during the event.... and nobody was punished.
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The House 1/6 committee shipped a literal truckload of evidence they collected over to the DOJ. That should be interesting when Jack Smith gets it.
If BLM protesters had tried to attack the capital in the exact same way that MAGA folks did, they would have been gunned down in droves before ever hitting the steps.
Trump’s DoD refused to deploy on purpose
And now the house republicans want to expunge the impeachment from the record....
I mean, the actions of the gop are still in plain sight.
Senate chooses to coverup Intel Agencies actively ignoring Insurrection Planning.
What year is it again?
These articles should have been coming out January 2021
They can hire me for better security. I have a Facebook account and can click "join" on dumb groups, and see all their '''"'''secret'"" planning that they post from their publicly open accounts.
Everyone who was vaguely curious knew this was coming up.
So to paraphrase, high level decision makers in these agencies have been programmed by right wing propaganda to support a fascist uprising.
Programmed? Lolno, federal agencies have been rabid Republicans for ages now, it's pretty damn obvious if you've had to work for or with certain organizations. It's just always been that way and this isn't the first time stuff like this has happened, especially if you were around for the War in Iraq.
Lolno, federal agencies have been rabid Republicans for ages now,
You're telling me the federal agencies that mostly recruit out of police departments aren't secretly all left-wing havens trying to institute a socialist regime?
As a non intelligence community employee who follows politics and the news: it was painfully obvious Trump was setting this whole thing up. He and his batshit followers were all over social media. They weren't really trying to hide anything. He all but announced his coup. The Jan 6th committee only provided a warehouse full of smoking guns and connected the threads of the whole narrative.
Am I dreaming or did some news outlets actually report the planning as it was happening?
What a crock. The persons or entities responsible for stopping the insurrection were ordered to stand down or removed preemptively. Lots of folks currently sitting in Congress or who worked on the government were part of this vast insurrection plot. The question is wether the DOJ has what it takes to expose the coup. My guess is that it does not
I get it I'm like terminally online but it feels like it was reeeeaaaallly reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaallly obvious Jan 6th was coming if you knew anything about twitter, facebook, parler, etc.
This was a gaggle of loud morons who have a chip on their shoulder that they are constantly venting about forever any chance they got. The biggest "1776" gathering they ever did was not under wraps or unannounced.
Very misleading title. It should read "Federal Law Enforcement Agencies" failed.
For one, most of what the average person would consider an intelligence agency are severely restricted regarding what they can do within the US as they're focused on foreign threats. Domestic threats are in the LE domain.
Secondly, it seems the intelligence branches of the FBI amd DHS did report on what was going down, but the agency decision makers (again law enforcement, not intelligence) chose not to do anything with that info.
It's (almost) always like that. It's easy to ignore intelligence professionals assessments and get by because people won't hold you accountable for eeking out a moderate success when you could have had overwhelming success. But the moment Intel misses one needle in a haystack (this needle analogy isn't as apt here, naturally), decision makers will blame intelligence for dropping the ball as if they had all the pieces and failed to provide the warning/assessment.
The patriot act literally exists specifically to break down those type of bottlenecks in information. They invoke the patriot act provisions constantly against BLM.... 1/6 was willful ignorance and an inside job of keeping key resources hamstrung at the key moment.
Specifically as it relates to foreign terrorists that intel agencies collect on, but previously couldn't share. Intelligence agencies (besides the intel branches of LE agencies) don't (and haven't since intel oversight became a thing in the 1970s) collected intel on US citizens within the US on domestic matters.
There are no info sharing bottlenecks in this situation. The major intel agencies simply aren't involved in this kind of thing since it's entirely within the purview of federal LE.
I wonder how many federal agents worked undercover in these insurrectionist groups compared to ones who worked undercover within the BLM groups.
They're not 'undercover' in those groups.
I kept getting targeted ads on Snapchat the week running up to Jan 6 (I’m a white dude in my 20’s; Donald’s bread & butter lol) literally yelling “YOU NEED TO COME FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY THEY’RE TAKING IT AWAY FROM YOU!!!” and remember thinking “Wow this is malpractice on another level” watching those scum beat a cop to death on Jan 6
If he hasn’t done so already, Biden needs to clean house.
Failure to see this coming was either pure incompetence, or they were complicit.
Makes you feel real secure dont it? So if Government can't deal with literally ANY of the problems in this country then I really wonder what function they serve beyond pandering to special interests and vying for re elections?😠
The government’s purpose seems to be fucking over the poor
That's what happens when the government gets paid by the rich.
Marx was right as usual
You misspelled middle class
This is as Republicans want by the way. Republicans don't think government works and they go out of their way to break it. Really makes you wonder about all the republicans in law enforcement...
Some of those who work forces…
How about "allowed to happen by traitors in intel agencies in plain sight?"
Why is Chris Wray still running the FBI....he was either asleep at the wheel or afraid to speak the truth of what was happening.
The FBI "is rightly constrained from taking investigative or enforcement action against an individual merely on the basis of First Amendment-protected speech," the report continues. "However, FBI also has an obligation to take into account the larger threat picture, including social media and online calls for violence when there is a significant increase in threats that may indicate a growing danger of violence.”
Are people going to really pretend this was an “intelligence failure” or can we finally talk about who all was actively aiding and abetting this to happen, from the top down. Boebert tweeted “today is 1776” and that the Speaker of the House was being moved but let’s give her the benefit of the doubt that it was all a coincidence
Planned in plain sight, and by who?
People are in prison for seditious conspiracy, and who did they conspire with? Will any of the leaders of the conspiracy ever be charged?
Or is this another case of the government just ignoring what is in plain sight?
The leaders out in front defending Trump and attempting to impeach Biden and that asked for blanket pardons?
I'm optimistic that they are shitting their pants for a reason along with all the players in the fake elector scheme.
If nothing happens to them we won't have a democracy much longer.
Ah, the classic "well it's not a credible threat, so we're just going to sit on it." That always goes so well.
Hell, I knew what was likely to happen just from the Parlor (Parler?) Watch subreddit. I remember watching it happen aghast that more force wasn’t being used to repel them.
No shit. Our track record on actually responding to certain intel is abysmal. Between the ineptitude, politics and nepotism within federal agencies, it shouldn't be surprising they chose to not respond to the coup. It's happened before and it'll happen again unfortunately. They knew it was happening, everyone did, they just hoped it would succeed I guess.
It's almost as if some of them were looking forward to the coup...
Bullshit, anyone with 5 minutes to spare with access to rightwing forums knew what was going to happen - they weren't hiding it.
Wow… you don’t say. Almost like the DOJ was compromised and ignored as many crimes as they could without being blatant. Fucking scum are barely looking into the “false elector” case now that they’ve been embarrassed by the news and democrats demanding justice. Fuck the DOJ and Merrick Garland for being a POS.
But, it was just a tour a the capitol building. /s
failed or complicit? there are several members from some mil services & law enforcement who stormed the capitol.
They failed in the lead-up to 9/11 as well, so none of this should be shocking.
I'm not sure as many in intelligence were onboard with 9/11 as they were with this insurrection. And the really damning thing about 9/11 was attacking Iraq instead of Saudi Arabia. Similar to how police will beat the shit out of BLM protests but had the kid gloves on for the insurrection.
Uhhhh yes, I found that as well; two years ago actually
It was allowed to happen
a few thoughts...
1) Parler sent a post to the FBI on January 2nd saying there was talk about taking the capital
Parler... the free speech platform reported a user to the FBI?
2) The FBI only had two files that were not distributed widely
that reminds me of the 9/11 files that were ignored
my personal take:
It seems US agencies are not very good at dealing with sub groups let them be isis, the Taliban, or y'all quaeda/Q etc
"Failed" implies intent to prevent or stop such a thing.
An intent that explicitly was NOT there.
"Betrayed" or "aided and abetted terrorists" would be more accurate.
I’m still trying to figure out why heads didn’t roll at the DoD for this failure to properly defend the Capitol.
Failed, lol, reddit was talking about it for 3 months prior. They ignored it.
Reddit told everyone to stay home the week of 1/6. It was pretty much common knowledge that shit was gonna go down and people should stay the hell away.
Failed or were instructed to stand down?
And stand by, no doubt.
I’m an old guy living in rural England. I knew something terrible was going to happen!
Everyone who ignored or downplayed the threats need to be fired. No retirements, just fired.
All the news stations knew what was coming and promoted it in the run up. That’s why we we all watching it happen live.
There being no security to speak of is not incompetence, it’s complicity.
You can't "fail" to do something if you were instructed to not look into it.
They misspelled ‘colluded.’
They knew. They did nothing. On purpose.
More like "Planned by the Executive Branch"
Intel agencies failed in lead-up to Jan. 6...just like they failed before 9/11
Pulled the goalie.
NSA: we must live in a black-mirror surveillance state to protect America.
Nevermind.
Trump said he would do this (Jan 6) and they looked away. I wonder if the “agencies” sometimes get bribed/extorted by foreign actors too almost same way Trump is.
Why foreign actors? Domestic ones can do that too, they certainly have the most motivation.
Shit anyone on Reddit knew that there was going to be some serious shit going down in Jan 6! They were broadcasting it for weeks! The only folks who didn’t know appear to have been anyone who could have possibly done anything about it.
Fire them for incompetence and investigate if they have any ties to extremist groups and prosecute any findings aggressively. Dig so fucking deep into their lives that the next person to take their job never even thinks of not reporting or acting on this sort of information.
They knew what was going to happen and did nothing. In their positions, that makes them culpable.
US intelligence agencies seem to have learned nothing from the intelligence oversights in the build up to the 9/11 attacks
They learned they get more budget and powers when bad things happen.
Like pearl harbor, like 9/11, like they knew everytime something happened and did nothing. What the fuck do we have Intel departments for again? Oh right so once we learn about it we can let it happen and take advantage of it by removing liberties.
Pretty sure we all knew this by January 8 2021
I’ll never understand why officers didn’t start shooting. They were physical threatened and had just cause.
Didn’t trump appoint a bunch of unqualified lap dogs to key command/ authority leadership roles across a bunch of organizations and institutes? Their jobs were to do nothing and make sure nothing can stop him from overthrowing the government….so close….they got so fucking close
Wow. Just like in 9/11.
I'm beginning to notice a pattern.
Don't the same guys moderate Twitter as well ?
No shit, my company prepared for it better than Washington
Yeah, we already know.
Pretty easy to explain. When you have a far-right uprising under a President that is goading it on, how are his own agencies going to be looking for that? Even with the Patriot act, intelligence agencies (FBI and DHS) are looking for connections between citizens and known foreign terrorists. They aren’t looking at everyday citizens, especially ones with connections to the president’s staff, unless they’re tipped off by a corporation or law enforcement report. In this case, maybe, just maybe, they missed it because they really aren’t doing the mass surveillance of the population everyone thinks they’re doing.
Let me guess…… it was on their radar?
Depends on your definition of failure I guess.
America "After 911 we vow to do all in our considerable power to prevent terror attacks on our people, our lands and our institutions."
Also American "Wow these guys are totally gonna attack the government. Meh."
This is a running theme for US intelligence agencies they don't do anything or barely prevent anything. They let Oklahoma City bombing happen and 9/11. They had plenty of warning before hand but they dropped the ball due to agency rivalry and incompetence. The worse part no one gets reprimanded, massive coverups and moving around of staff to prevent being held accountable and than they are giving massive sums of money in the wake of these events only to fail again and again and again
They LET it happen because they wanted Trump to remain President and for the US to become a quasi right wing dictatorship.....DHS and the FBI are full of right-wingers and christian nationalists......probably less so now
I can’t help but feel like they knew and wanted it to happen.
If I remember correctly, didn't Trump remove specific people and replace them with others who were in on his plan?
The FBI has always been in the bag for Republicans, even before J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI was in the forefront of the notorious Red Scare raids of 1919 and 1920. Comey torpedoed Hillary with statements in violation of his own agency.
Really think any Republican was not in on this?
People over 50: “I don’t like Biden, but Trump won’t go that far.” On January 6th: shocked pikachu face
Did they drop the ball, or did they ignore the ball?