FBI director hasn't explained how he 'dropped the ball' on Jan. 6 – making it 'hard to move forward': former FBI counsel

FBI director hasn't explained how he 'dropped the ball' on Jan. 6 – making it 'hard to move forward': former FBI counsel
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FBI Director Christopher Wray has never given a full explanation to the American people about how the state and national FBI offices failed so profoundly on the Jan. 6 attack.

"Christopher Wray is leading the FBI at a time when the threat environment is as dramatically different from those post-9/11 years as at any other point," MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said to New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt. "What is your sense of how he has transformed the bureau to deal with the threat?"

Schmidt said that there is a question about how much counterterrorism is focused on foreign issues over domestic threats, which was the norm after Sept. 11. Now that there are a heightened number of threats from within the U.S., but no real understanding of what the FBI is doing to deal with such a threat.

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Andrew Weissmann, who previously served as the FBI's general counsel under Director Robert Mueller, recalled a story of a conversation with former President George W. Bush who said he didn't care about bringing the terrorists to justice as much as he cared about preventing the next attack. It was the "marching order," he said, that changed the FBI.

Now that the country faces an increase in domestic terrorism, it means another shift, where the best agents focus on militia groups and anti-government extremists. So, it requires a new set of expertise, new agents and different targets.

"Many people say that one of the reasons that the FBI and other agencies really dropped the ball on Jan. 6th and were very slow to react is because they weren't thinking and correctly evaluating the problem of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers," Weissmann continued. "The internal text messages and communications. And the Secret Service is an example of that. These were white supremacy groups where they have not been traditionally viewed as posing the same kind of threat. And I think that was obviously wrong. I think there was a tinge of racism in that. And certainly comparing it to how they responded to Antifa."

He went on to say that the FBI must evolve, but also be held accountable.

"I would say Chris Wray still has a lot more work to do," Weissmann closed. "You know, he still has not actually given a very public, candid account of what exactly happened on Jan. 6th and the intelligence failures and the inaction with respect to the intelligence they did have. And so it's very hard to move forward without that kind of very public accounting, which I think would have happened under -- certainly under Robert Mueller. He sort of beat that into us, of being super candid about failures and how we're going to deal with them going forward."

See the full discussion in the video below or at the link here.


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President Donald Trump’s flurry of about 60 Truth Social posts over two hours on Sunday left documentary makers behind the Shallow State X account alarmed.

Conservative attorney and avid Never Trumper George Conway highlighted the post and wondered why the press was not focused on what the Shallow State described as a “a hypomanic episode.”

According to the post from the account from documentary makers Daniel Partland, Art Horan and behaviorist Howard Marks, the deluge of posts that contained AI slop on a variety of topics was anything but normal.

“Trump has been having a hypomanic episode the past 2 hours. Post after post after post,” they wrote. “I count about 60 of them - mostly images, many of them AI. All his trademark pathologies; all his underlying themes: Malice. Grievance. Division. Entitlement. His gut is a simmering stew of agitation, rage, and desperation. His disordered brain is filled with paranoid fantasies of revenge alongside fantastical visions of regaining his grandiosity.”

“He hates being trapped and stuck in Iran. He hates that Epstein won't go away. He hates being told his speech at the dinner was inappropriate. He hates that his name needed to come off a building. He hates that musical artists canceled from his show. He hates losing in court. And he especially hates his own mortality,” they continued.

“Neither you nor I can EVER feel the kind of frenzied fear and fanaticism that Trump feels now. This is a man, who knows he's in his final chapter, who is confounded that he, all that he is, all that he ever said he was, his lifetime of secrets and lies and false constructs - is vulnerable to exposure,” the post added before warning”

“How can he possibly sit still? How can he sleep? Who can he trust? Malignant narcissists in decline always get worse, it's always messy, and they never want to go down alone.”

Conway added, “None of this is abstruse or difficult to explore or explain. There are countless books on the subject. There are countless experts in psychology, psychiatry, history, and political science who can explain the significance of what we are seeing with President Trump. The press needs to do its job.”


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President Donald Trump is using a Supreme Court decision in Mullin v. Doe to terminate Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for approximately 348,000 Haitians, effective Monday.

According to CBS, the ruling bars federal judges from reviewing presidential TPS decisions, eliminating judicial oversight.

The termination threatens healthcare infrastructure nationwide, as the affected population includes 13,000 nursing assistants and 8,000 caregivers who provide critical services in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, found Princeton University research fellow Phillip Connor.

Peer-reviewed research by The Gerontologist warns staffing shortages in these settings create "dire consequences for residents" and increase risks of neglect, infection, and rehospitalization.

Certified nursing assistants provide up to 90% of direct resident care.

LeadingAge, representing nursing home providers, warns facilities may close units or turn away new residents due to vacancies, Axios reported.

The Haitian Bridge Alliance executive director describes the community as experiencing "extreme trauma, fear and terror," with families fearing separation. Yet Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, told Fox News it was a "tremendous win," adding TPS "was never intended to be a pathway to permanent status."

The Department of Homeland Security offers departing Haitians $2,600 and airfare home.

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Rob Schneider, a Hollywood star who has grown controversial in recent years for his ties to the MAGA movement, is publicly opposing the Texas GOP.

The bizarre reason is that he believes they have let Islamic law take over the Lone Star State.

Schneider, a notorious conspiracy theorist who has long pushed crank medical misinformation and quack cures for illnesses, took to X on Monday to outline his case against senior Republican officials in Texas, including Gov. Greg Abbott, and attorney general turned Senate candidate Ken Paxton.

"I never thought I would watch the Islamic and Marxist threat seize large parts of our great nation," wrote Schneider. "For years we have seen the damage this alliance has done to Europe, and now we are witnessing the same damage unfolding in the blue states. What I never fully understood until recently is how deeply this threat is already embedded — and how rapidly it is gaining power —inside red states."

Schneider then went on to list what he saw as the evidence Texas is under siege by an Islamic takeover.

"Organizations with terror ties receive nonprofit status and political access while most elected officials either pander or look the other way," wrote Schneider, accusing Texas of being complicit through taxpayer funding of "madrasas." "Does anyone even care what is happening to the children trapped inside these abusive training schools that pump out imams? Your state has Sharia courts, Sharia judges, and Sharia patrols — and not one has been shut down."

"I will keep speaking until every Texas politician takes this transformation seriously and understands the threat that every Texas citizen is up against — because this threat is advancing," wrote Schneider, before slamming the GOP for "the protective circle around their most powerful elected leaders — Ken Paxton, Greg Abbott, and Dan Patrick."

Conspiracy theories about Islamic takeovers of Texas have propagated for years, spread by pointing to immigrant communities that have taken root in the state. Recently, a moral panic erupted over an Islamic event planned at a water park in North Texas.

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