Fri Jan 7, 2022 – 5:18 pm EST
ANALYSIS
(LifeSiteNews) — The Washington Post’s in-depth November investigation into the events of January 6, 2021, called into question the ability of law enforcement –– most notably the FBI –– to effectively detect and neutralize a major crisis after documenting hundreds of glaring calls for violence the FBI received in advance yet ultimately ignored.
Why didn’t the FBI act on all this intelligence? Is it incompetence or is there a more sinister explanation? First, let’s look at what the FBI knew.
As The Washington Post reported, by December 22, 2020, the FBI was aware of hundreds potential threats emanating from one pro-Trump website, theDonald.win. One tipster called the FBI on December 20, 2020, to say the website “is calling for violence on 1/6/2021 regarding the election results.” Forty-eight hours later, the FBI decided that tip, and one that called for the armed arrest of lawmakers in D.C., did not “warrant further investigation at this time.”
A report from the FBI’s Norfolk Division One sent to the Washington field office on January 5, 2021, quoted one website user as saying, “Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent … stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or
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