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.
The Clintonian “Mistakes were made” BS.
Whatever happened to the good old: MISTAKES WERE MADE?
Those claims sound ridiculous to me.
Only thing missing was Jamie Gorelick.
Geeze - folks, give ‘em a break. they were busy...50,000 text messages between lovers bashing President Trump. There are only so many hours in a day!!
That is most definitely possible, especially by politically-connected persons within the FBI.
If the IRS can use its power to hurt Tea Party donors, the FBI can use its power to hurt people to get at Trump and conservatives.
This is rank and file work. Obviously they didn’t give a damn.
Yes. Between this and Las Vegas, the conspiracy theories aren’t so “out there” after all
This guy is basically a terrorist and the FBI ignored warnings about him. How many other “bombs” are about to go off?
Amazing how many of us are ready to accept the possibility that elements in our government and law enforcement agencies are actively working against us, to include the murder of American citizens.
Five years ago I wouldn’t have believed any of it. Now I don’t believe a thing my government or the MSM hacks tell me.
Sara Barracuda wrote:
“...The FBI has been screwing things up since 9/11..Boston Marathon, Pulse Nightclub Jihadist attack.
...”
And this latest attack.
Too many times.
>>No,and you really shouldn’t let yourself go there,that type of thinking could drive us all nuts.
Not really. The government has proven that it cannot be trusted to do much of anything beneficial other than to fight the World Wars. For everything else, inept is the best-case scenario, and when the FBI is involved, their typical result is to be detrimental to freedom.
No, “going there” is a mark of sanity.
Too much down the memory hole indeed...
Edward.Fish wrote:
“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.)”
“No, “going there” is a mark of sanity.”
No doubt,I’m definitely in the minority here.
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The FBI failed to investigate and analyze its own internal warnings and memo’s which was fundamental to its failure to prevent 9-11. The fact is playing politics with PNAC signers and neocons wanting a Pearl Harbor event may have co-opted them then.
It is known functional weakness when FBI leadership is busy playing politics instead of doing their job. It is not beyond the pale that Obama appointees want school shootings for advancing gun control.
From 2005. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060902000.html
Mueller was FBI director on 9-11-01. Who’s to say that there are not authorities at the highest level who might allow something vile and evil to happen even if it would sacrifice Americans. The important element for some is advancing an agenda, be it gun control or giving us more fear to allow sacrifice of our rights such as surveillance, or a war in the Middle East. There is true evil in this world.
Perhaps not.
The FBI has an... “interesting” relationship with high profile cases and early reports of multiple perpetrators: OKC and Sandy Hook spring immediately to mind.
My point is that they’ve undermined their credibility so badly that it’s easy to think of them as “the enemy”/rogue — the Bundy ranch; Lavoy Finicum; Waco; Ruby Ridge; and Comey’s “no intent” speech all paint a picture of an agency without restraint and without morals, which can [and does] murder citizens without remorse.
No,and you really shouldn’t let yourself go there,that type of thinking could drive us all nuts.
HELL YEAH!
They are deliberately sacrificing American lives to create incidents that enable the RATs and RATagandists to scream "GUN CONTROL".
They do it all the time, and the RATs predictibly jump into action...Every freaking time!
The FBI dropped the ball on Ruby Ridge.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Waco Massacre.
The FBI dropped the ball on Richard Jewell.
The FBI dropped the ball on Columbine.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on 9/11.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Xerox murders.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Los Angeles International Airport shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Nevada County shootings/
The FBI dropped the ball on the 2003 Ennis shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Seattle Jewish Federation shooting
The FBI dropped the ball on the Colorado YWAM and New Life shootings.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Trolley Square shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Virginia Tech shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Westroads Mall shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Skagit County shooting spree.
The FBI dropped the ball on the University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the 2011 Grand Rapids mass murder.
The FBI dropped the ball on the 2011 Tucson shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Aurora Colorado shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the 2012 College Station, Texas shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on Sandy Hook.
The FBI dropped the ball on the 2013 Santa Monica shooting
The FBI dropped the ball on the Washington Navy Yard shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Ft Hood shooter.
The FBI dropped the ball on the 2014 Isla Vista killings.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Charleston church shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the 2015 Chattanooga shootings.
The FBI dropped the ball on the 2015 San Bernardino attack.
The FBI dropped the ball on the 2015 Tyrone shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Umpqua Community College shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the 2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Orlando nightclub shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Boston Marathon Bombing.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Bundy Ranch case.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Florida niteclub shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the 2017 Congressional baseball shooting.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Las Vegas Massacre.
The FBI dropped the ball on the Sutherland Springs church shooting.
All committed by whackjobs, illegal aliens, previous violent criminals and moslems.
Why were these bastards out running around loose, and if the FBI wasn't watching them like a hawk....why the hell not?
If it prevents even ONE school shooting, it is WELL WORTH deporting ALL the DACA “kids”!!
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