I would like to know how many times a year foreign govts warn the US about suspected terrorists? This is not rhetorical. The excuse now is that there was no way FBI et al could have foreseen this because there are too many. What is the number that is so high that after being warned about these guys, noone followed the obvious red flags posted on their social media sites?
Simple answer, based on their performance over this past week, is that the upper echelon of the federal government (along with most states) only have one function.
Promote and grow themselves and their fiefdoms.
They’ll show up to stage some photo ops and hold audience with selected subservient media types, beat their skinny little chests about their great wisdom and the benefit of their mere appearance among the serfs, hint darkly about how their current political opponent(s) are at the root of this problem, grandly accept credit for the work done by others and then flit off in their multimillion-dollar taxpayer provided travel palaces to favor somebody else with their presence.
Terrorist? What terrorist?
That’s OLD news.
So we get to clean up the mess, bury the dead, console the injured and be-sure-you-don’t-forget-to-mail-those-tax-forms, and in case there’s some other problem that comes up like this,
we’re
on
our
own.
(Don’t you suppose that’s why there’s so many private citizens buying up guns and ammunition?)
Those are good questions. How common is this?