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How the FBI botched tips about the Parkland school shooter
MSN News ^ | August 29, 2018 | Paula McMahon and Brittany Wallman

Posted on 08/29/2018 2:18:02 PM PDT by detective

The FBI's quest to protect the public - a job it bungled in the case of the Parkland school shooter - has long depended on low-paid, overworked employees who were evaluated partly on how quickly they disposed of tips from callers.

The FBI has spread the message that "if you see something, say something," but then it mishandled two ominous tips to its national call center about Nikolas Cruz, the teenager who later gunned down 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an AR-15 rifle.

Both tips suggested that Cruz was a school shooter in the making, but neither was sent to agents in South Florida to check out.

The episode has exposed serious questions about how the FBI's call center operates, years after it was established to try to head off deadly trouble before it happened. And it has left the FBI scrambling to plug holes that allowed Cruz to slip through despite warnings that he was a danger.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: fbi; parkland; shooting
This is an excellent article.

The question I have had since the shooting occurred:

Was the FBI incompetent or did they deliberately(on orders from higher ups) not interfere with the planned shooting?

Or were the FBI active participants in planning and executing a false flag event?

1 posted on 08/29/2018 2:18:02 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

The FBI had no jurisdiction on the Parkland school shooting what so ever. I am amazed at the ignorance of people who think that.


2 posted on 08/29/2018 2:21:34 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump promised “shut down the government” in September; if no wall!!)
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To: detective

The FBI, like most agencies of Fedzilla, has been completely corrupted by eight years of the Kenyanesian Usurpation.

The founders were correct to exclude the children of foreign nationals with the natural born citizen requirement.


3 posted on 08/29/2018 2:21:58 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yup. Totally, utterly useless as anything other than a tool for coverups and political oppression.

Disband and defund NOW!


4 posted on 08/29/2018 2:23:34 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: detective
I think Strozk (gone) was too busy finding "The RussiansTM"
5 posted on 08/29/2018 2:25:05 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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The Broward cops were called to Cruz’s home 47 times.......but the imbecile Sheriff never figured it out.

And neither did Obama’s hand-picked Chicago geek.....Supt of Schools Runcie.

They were too busy cashing $53 million govt checks-—Obama’s rewards for keeping the law off of minorities.


6 posted on 08/29/2018 2:32:31 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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“The FBI had no jurisdiction on the Parkland school shooting what so ever.”

The FBI has spread the message that “if you see something, say something,” but then it mishandled ominous tips to its national call center about Nikolas Cruz, the teenager who later gunned down 17 people. Both tips suggested that Cruz was a school shooter in the making, but neither was sent to agents in South Florida to check out.

The FBI also dismissed several warnings about the Pulse night club shooter. One was from a Deputy Sheriff.

It turns out the Pulse shooter’s family were working for the FBI. The shooter may have also been working for the FBI.

Look at the FBI involvement in other crimes like the shooters at the draw Muhammed event in Texas. Look at how the FBI refused to investigate the shooters in the San Bernadino shooting, the Marine recruiting station shooting, the Boston bombing etc.


7 posted on 08/29/2018 2:34:10 PM PDT by detective
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The FBI has more important matters to attend to, like deposing the President.


8 posted on 08/29/2018 2:38:37 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: detective

Two of those options aren’t mutually exclusive.


9 posted on 08/29/2018 2:44:47 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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[The Broward cops were called to Cruz’s home 47 times]

Yeah, but only 47 times. It’s not like it was 48.

Good thing that one sheriff stayed back 500 yards or so. He might have saved some lives.

Fortunately, David Camera Hogg was able to cash in on the deaths.


10 posted on 08/29/2018 3:28:29 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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They are way out of juridictional authority and have become national police force and that is not in their mandate under statute. It needs to stop but the whole organization is corrupt to the bone.


11 posted on 08/29/2018 3:30:02 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump promised “shut down the government” in September; if no wall!!)
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To: detective

I still blame the Obama Admin, the school district and the sherrif more than the FBI.


12 posted on 08/29/2018 4:16:51 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: SaveFerris

“deputy” I meant.


13 posted on 08/29/2018 4:35:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: detective

Lets try DELIBERATE


14 posted on 08/30/2018 4:16:10 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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