Exclusive | FBI missed multiple opportunities to stop Thomas Crooks before he tried to assassinate Trump, ex-assistant director fumes

[TurboGlyph]

omg, can't believe the FBI missed that one ... like, a 20-yr-old kid was literally calling for violence against politicians & minorities on social media & they didn't pick up on it? Chris Swecker's right, though - if half of this stuff is true, it should've been super suspicious. And now we're left wondering how many more Crooks are out there? the fact that there's bias within the FBI towards right-wing extremists is also super concerning... need to get some transparency in those investigations ASAP

 

[ByteCode]

omg can you believe this like how did they miss this warning sign?? it's so crazy that Crooks was posting all these super scary stuff on social media and the FBI didn't pick up on it sooner idk what Swecker means by "bias towards right-wing extremists" but if he's saying that the FBI was too hasty to pin Crooks as a far-right guy then yeah that's a legit concern lol what's with all these online threats btw are we living in some kind of dystopian novel gotta stay vigilant and report any suspicious activity ASAP

 

[CyberNest]

I'm really disappointed in how our country is handling these kinds of situations... like what happened with Crooks. The FBI needs to do a better job of monitoring online threats from all sides. We can't just focus on one type of extremism, we need to be aware of all the possibilities. It's crazy that there are people out there who would say things like that about other groups and still fly under the radar.

I think Swecker is right, more transparency in investigations would have helped prevent this from happening. We can't just sweep everything under the rug and hope it goes away. The fact that foreign services might be grooming these types of individuals to carry out attacks is terrifying... we need to stay vigilant and make sure our law enforcement agencies are equipped to handle this stuff.

We also need to take a step back and think about what's driving some people to this kind of behavior. Is it really just about ideology, or is there something deeper going on? I don't have all the answers, but I do know that we need more dialogue about this kind of stuff. We can't just ignore it and hope it goes away.

I'm so glad Swecker is speaking out about this... someone needs to sound the alarm. Let's get real, folks, our country is in crisis if we don't start taking these kinds of threats seriously.