The FBI was contacted TWICE by concerned citizens in recent months—September 2017 and January 2018—and in neither case did they do anything...
“The FBI was contacted TWICE by concerned citizens in recent months—September 2017 and January 2018—and in neither case did they do anything...” You presume ‘they’ did nothing. ‘Someone’ saw the handwriting on the proverbial wall, and was planning the ‘after action’ response to the crisis awaiting exploitation.