‘Preventable tragedy’: Here are 5 ways the FBI dropped the ball before Jan. 6 insurrection – By Alex Henderson (Alternet) / Oct 18, 2023
After a mob of Donald Trump supporters violently attacked the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, many horrified Americans asked: Why was this allowed to happen?
That question is still being asked. In an listicle published on October 18, The Atlantic’s’ Ryan J. Reilly — author of the new book “Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System” — lays out five ways in which he believes the FBI dropped the ball after the 2020 election and allowed a “preventable tragedy” to occur.
Those five ways, according to Reilly, are: (1) “right-leaning political sympathies and false equivalency,” (2) “distraction from the Oval Office,” (3) “awful timing,” (4) “bureaucracy and outdated tech,” and (5) “Donald Trump.”
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