Posted on 02/16/2018 2:44:54 PM PST by Kaslin
UPDATE: Florida Gov. Rick Scott calls on FBI Director to resign for failing to follow up on tip about Florida shooter (via CBS News):
Florida's Republican Gov. Rick Scott is calling on FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign, after the FBI admitted it received a tip about the suspect in the Parkland shooting as recently as January, but failed to follow through on it.
The FBI admitted in a statement Friday that it received a call on Jan. 5 detailing concerns about Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old law enforcement officials believe is responsible for the deaths of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School earlier this week. The FBI determined "protocols were not followed" when a tip was phoned into the FBI's public access line, but was never forwarded to the FBI's Miami field office and received no further investigation.
Scott called that "unacceptable" in a statement he issued Friday.
"The FBI's failure to take action against this killer is unacceptable," Scott said. "The FBI has admitted that they were contacted last month by a person who called to inform them of Cruz's 'desire to kill people,' and 'the potential of him conducting a school shooting.'
BREAKING: Florida governor calls on FBI director to resign after discovering FBI failed to investigate tip about Florida school shooter.— The Associated Press (@AP) February 16, 2018
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They knew, folks. The FBI knew and didn’t follow proper protocols on a tip about Nikolas Cruz, the shooter in the recent high school shooting in Florida. FBI Director Christopher Wray said the bureau was still investigating this matter, along with reviewing the processes in which such information from citizens offering tips are analyzed. The FBI received a tip on January 5 that Cruz had the potential to commit a school shooting Cruz killed 17 people and wounded at least a dozen more at Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida on Wednesday (via Politico):
The Federal Bureau of Investigation acknowledged Friday that some “protocols were not followed” after they obtained a tip in January that shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz had the potential of “conducting a school shooting.”
“We are still investigating the facts,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. “I am committed to getting to the bottom of what happened in this particular matter, as well as reviewing our processes for responding to information that we receive from the public.”
The FBI said a caller had provided them “information about Cruz’s gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts” on Jan. 5.
So it's another one where the authorities knew about the guy, but concluded there was nothing to be done. Added to Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Pulse, and Sutherland Springs.— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) February 15, 2018
The New York Times has more:
The F.B.I. failed to act on a tip in January from a person close to Nikolas Cruz warning that he owned a gun and might conduct a school shooting, the bureau acknowledged on Friday, in its first admission that it might have been able to prevent the deadly attack at a Florida high school.
The tipster said Mr. Cruz had a “desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts” and advised the F.B.I. of “the potential of him conducting a school shooting,” the agency said in a statement.
The information should have been assessed and forwarded to the Miami F.B.I. field office, the agency said.
The FBI was alerted about Cruz in September, when he was reported by a YouTube vlogger for making a threat in his comments section. The FBI concluded that they couldn’t verify the identity of the user (via Miami Herald):
Thursday morning, the FBI special agent in charge for South Florida told reporters that agents — after “reviews and checks” — could not identify the user behind the YouTube comment.
“We were unable to identify the person who made the comment,” said Rob Lasky said at a press conference, also saying that no other information was included with that comment which would “indicate a time, location, or the true identity of the person who made the comment.”
The comment, posted in September on a YouTube page of a Mississippi bail bondsman, was made by someone with the user name “nikolas cruz.”
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Ben Bennight, a Gulfport bail bondsman who goes by “Ben the Bondsman” on YouTube, said in a video posted Wednesday night that he spoke to FBI agents in September about a comment left on one of his videos by someone with the username “nikolas cruz.”
“Im going to be a professional school shooter,” the commenter wrote.
He used his own name as his YouTube handle. https://t.co/uovFXd4Itq— jon gabriel (@exjon) February 15, 2018
Also, Cruz was the subject of an email warning at Marjory Douglas Stoneman about being him a potential threat to students and should be barred from venturing onto campus with a backpack. In the past, he brought bullets to school, reported the Herald:
He preened with guns and knives on social media, bragged about shooting rats with his BB gun and got kicked out of school — in part because he had brought bullets in his backpack, according to one classmate. He was later expelled for still-undisclosed disciplinary reasons.
The portrait of Nikolas Cruz, suspected of fatally shooting 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and wounding 15 others at his former school, is a troubled teen with few friends and an obsessive interest in weapons. Administrators considered him enough of a potential threat that one teacher said a warning was emailed last year against allowing him on the campus with a backpack.
and there won't be so much as a letter of reprimand
The FBI can follow protocols when they want to have someone be President, someone not be President.
They were too busy defending the agency from Trump’s vicious and untrue attacks.
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I call on the fbi to be dismantled and replaced by Homeland Security.
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I will NEVER understand this mentality. As a great (black) man once said, paraphrasing here, “Dismantled and replaced! Would you put out a fire and replace it with ANOTHER fire?”
Even the Founders were wise enough to note govt does NOTHING but grow, fester and take-over.
Dismantle, cut off the head, salt the Earth and nuke it from orbit. That govt shit will STILL, most likely, attempt to rise from the ashes.
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“Do you think the information (sending it to the field office) could have been held back on purpose to create another horrible shooting?”
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No,and you really shouldn’t let yourself go there,that type of thinking could drive us all nuts.
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Rights violations from Lincoln to Tuskegee to Waco....You have (much) more faith in govt than, I fear, many here.
You are so right. We knew at Waco this outfit was no damned good.
If only there were some Federal bureau that the People could count upon to investigate tips about armed looneys that threaten to shoot up schools...
So they media will quit talking about the saintly FBI for awhile.
You can't kill it. You can but an SOB in charge with order to pull out incompetents by the roots and burn them in a heap on the mall.
We have to cut the FBI some slack...
They were too busy working for their democrat masters, trying to remove a legally and lawfully elected President, after all and that takes resources....
No real surprise here. The FBI seems to have become focused on political actions rather than law enforcement actions under Obama. Neither Comey, Wray nor Sessions seemed/seem willing to clean up the organziation
They were too busy Sniffing Mattresses in Moscow!
So, we have a school that knew about this kid from last year. WE had a warning from a YouTube person who called the FBI. We had the FBI. We had some security at the school. 4 levels of defense, not to mention, another level of laws for defense and also the Mental Health sysem. 6 layers of defense but the libs think the gun did it.
So—Here we are with two major screw-ups by the government that resulted in multiple deaths: 1) The FBI doesn’t follow procedure and 17 kids are murdered at school; and, 2) The Air Force doesn’t follow procedure and 20 people in a Texas church are murdered (remember that one?).
And I’m supposed to surrender my guns?
HA-HA-HA and, may I add, HO-HO-HO!
By the way—Whatever happened with the Mandalay Bay shooter in Las Vegas? That one went down the memory hole fast.
Apparently over on 4chan there were claims that there were multiple shooters and also that one eyewitness was walking and talking with Cruz when the shooting began. I have no idea as to the veracity of these claims, but I flat-out don’t trust the federal government (Deep State) not to run false flags; and there’ve been too many oddities with the past few mass shootings to simply think they were organic. (Las Vegas was [and still is] really weird, no video of the shooter in the casino/hotel at all? C’mon, you got to be shitting me.)
the fbi, politicized during the obama administration, was too busy manufacturing dirt on trump to actually do their job.
His dead body was autopsied by Helen Keller, and then his body was cremated to ensure all evidence was completely destroyed.
PROTOCOLS WERE NOT FOLLOWED
Somehow more palatable than
SOMEONE F*CKED UP
Betcha no one even gets a mark on their Permanent Record.
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