Riddle me this:
If they surveilled the man for 5 months, the FBI had plenty of time to CALL him. Why didn’t they? If he doesn’t have a phone, send him a letter by certified mail, or contact him by email or online post. Discuss the laws he is breaking by publishing specific death threats against the POTUS, and no, free speech rights do not extend to specific threats to kill the President, supported by pics of yourself holding the means. Feel out his practical intentions versus his political bluster. Depending on how this goes, perhaps ask him to come in for an interview. If all that fails, THEN escalate.
Instead they planned and executed an armed dawn raid that was inherently dangerous to FBI personnel, the suspect, his family, and uninvolved neighbors.
WHY did the FBI select the expensive, troublesome, dangerous choice?
Did they consider the likely results before proceeding?
Did the local FBI office make the decisions on this, or were they instructed by DC?
“If they surveilled the man for 5 months, the FBI had plenty of time to CALL him. Why didn’t they?”
He might have been friendly with somebody else they thought possibly worthy of nabbing, so he was not picked up, but his contacts noted.
Very recently he might have be told he had to take his son to SLC for a medical appointment and used Goggle maps to find the medical office. Google would send a copy of the mapping request to DHS.
The Google map request, the man’s past statements and Biden’s SLC itinerary might have set off a red flag alert at DHS.
This red flag alert would have triggered FBI operational planning for execution Wednesday morning.
“If they surveilled the man for 5 months, the FBI had plenty of time to CALL him. Why didn’t they? If he doesn’t have a phone, send him a letter by certified mail, or contact him by email or online post. Discuss the laws he is breaking by publishing specific death threats against the POTUS, and no, free speech rights do not extend to specific threats to kill the President, supported by pics of yourself holding the means. Feel out his practical intentions versus his political bluster. Depending on how this goes, perhaps ask him to come in for an interview. If all that fails, THEN escalate.”
The best thing to do would have been to work via his family.