Watchdog report says FBI missed 'basic step' when gathering intel before Jan. 6 attack - MSNBC Reports

[Rhiannon12866]

The FBI failed to take the "basic step" of canvassing its field offices for intelligence ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a long-awaited Justice Department's Inspector General report. - Aired on 12/12/2024.

[RockRaven]

1. The basic step being having the slightest interest in stopping a violent RW coup.

What a shock that people who made it into the upper echelons of a right wing authoritarian institution had zero interest in that...

[Silent Type]

2. Somebody sure screwed up. But doesn't change fact trump and Nazis started it.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Exactly. TFG and his minons planned and called for it ad did nothing to stop it despite the violence

And the calls from members of his administration and members of Congress to stop it. He ignored them and did nothing - except watch.