Florida gov calls on FBI director to resign, Sessions orders procedural review after FL shooting

The FBI received a tip with concerns about suspected Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz but protocols were not followed and it was not investigated.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is calling on FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign after discovering that the FBI failed to investigate a tip that the Florida school shooter could be plotting an attack. Scott on Friday sharply criticized the federal law enforcement agency, saying in a statement that the "FBI's failure to take action against this killer is unacceptable." The FBI acknowledged it failed to act on a tip to its hotline that Nikolas Cruz had a "desire to kill."

In a statement, Scott said that "an apology will never bring these 17 Floridians back to life or comfort the families who are in pain." U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio also criticized the FBI separately, saying it was "inexcusable" the FBI did not follow protocols. He said that Congress should launch its own investigations into what happened.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is ordering a review of the Justice Department's processes after the FBI failed to investigate a tip that the Florida school shooting suspect could be plotting an attack. Authorities say 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, 2018, killing 17 people.

Sessions said Friday the shooting that killed 17 people was a "tragic consequence" of the FBI's failures. He said it's now clear that the nation's premier law enforcement agency missed warning signs. The review will include a look at what went wrong and how the agency and Justice Department respond. Sessions says it may include "possible consultation with family members, mental health officials, school officials, and local law enforcement....

Rick Scott used to be CEO of HCA, Hospital Corporation of America.

During his time in that position, many patients of HCA hospitals died or were seriously injured due clearly preventable incidents. This includes many truly basic omissions, such as the lack of handwashing and failure to follow basic, evidence-based protocols consistently. Funny how Rick Scott never called for his own resignation as a result of those failures and the resulting harm from deep within his own organization.

Point taken. However, the blame lies here:

1. Genetics -or possibly Drugs and Alcohol abuse with the biological parents. Those are likely the strongest contributing factors for Nik.

2. The Adoption agency that placed two infants with aged-out parents (combined age in excess of 100 YO) who would likely be unable to cope or die.

3. Unfortunate circumstances - his father dying when he was six and his mother unable to control him.

3. 2013 Broward School Board which instituted a sanctuary program that hides at-risk violent juvenile delinquents from law enforcement to the detriment of the rest of the school and community. Sue them!

4. Broward School Board for mainstreaming an abnormal child in need of specialized emotional and educational support to the detriment of the rest oh his classmates, teachers and school.

5. Broward Sherriff’s office for not acting to protect the family and community in spite of 39 visits to handle a severely disturbed teen spiraling out of control.

6. The FBI for ignoring two blatant mounds of evidence that foretold a walking time-bomb set to detonate.

Someone should have been held accountable for the mistakes and malpractice that occurred at HCA Hospitals - possibly Scott. That is unrelated to this. To follow your logic, the Broward Superintendent of schools should be fired. The Super did not institute the sanctuary policy, the 2013 Board of Education is responsible for that decision.

There’s plenty of failure within the family and the system that raised and dealt with Nik Cruz. It is not the governor’s job to micromanage each of Florida’s 80-odd school districts or law enforcement agencies.

It is the FBI’s job to thwart terrorism and crime throughout America and they had 1,000 agents at their disposal in the local area who could have acted to stop Cruz.

Unfortunately, The Agency has demonstrated a distinct pattern of ignoring leads and not acting to intercept terrorist acts and mass murderers that threaten our communities: Boston, Orlando, NYC, Garland TX, San Bernadino and Ft. Hood come to mind.

Great points, and thank you.

I was attempting to be critical of the Governor’s emotional call for the FBI Director to resign. Just as Rick Scott shouldn’t be held “accountable” (punished) for all of the inappropriate acts and omissions of individuals and poor work processes within HCA (or for that matter within Florida State government) in my view neither should the relatively new FBI Director be likewise punished for all of the individual errors and bad work processes of the thousands of individuals within the FBI... The leaders jobs are to focus on improvement, perfection will not happen with imperfect people and processes in place...

Incompetence below can be used this as a weapon for a director’s ouster.
I don’t know enough to form an opinion on Wray as to whether he deserves it. But given the agency’s unforgivable history of blunders, it’s high time to clean house and install fresh patriots to do their job.

R.Scott’s call is calculating, not emotional. Maybe he should take the job!

Sheriff Israel is obvious grand-standing and bleating because his office is culpable after 39 visits to the perp. I bet his mom refused to press charges against Nik repeatedly and the deputies went along. They were too nice to him, that was their biggest mistake, they did not enforce the law.

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