Special counsel questioned witnesses about 2 rooms FBI didn't search inside Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence: Sources

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44. Looks that way. Plus his FBI chief of counterterrorism lied, saying the FBI isn't "authorized" to monitor social media

The hell it isn't. "Threat Assessment" is the FBI's official core mission. Wray failed to lead and assess his assessors.

The [Senate] report shows that the FBI and DHS’ Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) collected tips and intelligence that threatened or predicted the kind of violence that occurred on Jan. 6. This included plans to come to Washington, D.C. armed, threats against politicians and opposing protesters, and sharing of maps of the Capitol’s tunnel system.

Some of this information had been previously reported, but Erik Dahl, an associate professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School who has written extensively about the specific intelligence failures in the lead up to 9/11, told Just Security in an email that while reading the report he was surprised by “the sheer volume of warnings that were in the system before January 6.”

The agencies, however, largely did not deem those threats to be credible or imminent. Many were dismissed as hyperbole. The report determines that this was in part due to a mistaken belief that the Capitol could not be stormed.

Among other recommendations, the committee states that “the agencies should assess potential biases toward discounting intelligence that indicates an unforeseen or unprecedented attack or event.”

https://www.justsecurity.org/87214/fbi-dhs-failed-to-take-jan-6-threats-seriously-senate-report-says/