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To Veil or Not to veil, Sur
Author: Raine
Date: 03/08/2021 14:02:13
"If you see something say something" has become an oft-used trope since that day nearly 20 years ago. There was a lot to see in the days before that egregious insurrection on January 6. Reporters were writing about it, people we seeing it all over social media. Something was going to happen. We regular folk just didn't know exactly what.
All we knew, was that the former occupant of the White House and others were going to hold a 'Stop The Steal" rally and some seditious Senators like Johnson(Q), Hawley(Q), and Cruz(Q) were going as far as they could to delegitimize President Biden's election results.
That in and of itself was far more than bad enough. What we ended up witnessing was tens of thousands of people desecrating the Capitol. I still have a hard time seeing those videos. How it was allowed to happen will be discovered, of that I have no doubt.
How was it not prevented? The FBI doesn't seem to have a clue about this. I am left wondering, well, I'm having a WTF, moment this morning. The FBI does, in fact, monitor public social media.
Put it another way, If I am planning to rob a bank or commit a felony or other high crime and state it publicly, I am pretty sure I will get a visit by authorities. Actually, that did happen in the days leading up to the insurrection. From the article: I can't help but wonder, knowing that the vast majority of these violent extremists were white and male, that an unconscious racial bias --institutionalized perhaps -- was why this wasn't prevented.
They sure are figuring out who these people are now, why? Their social media posts AFTER the violence. Just food for thought.
& 
Raine
All we knew, was that the former occupant of the White House and others were going to hold a 'Stop The Steal" rally and some seditious Senators like Johnson(Q), Hawley(Q), and Cruz(Q) were going as far as they could to delegitimize President Biden's election results.
That in and of itself was far more than bad enough. What we ended up witnessing was tens of thousands of people desecrating the Capitol. I still have a hard time seeing those videos. How it was allowed to happen will be discovered, of that I have no doubt.
How was it not prevented? The FBI doesn't seem to have a clue about this.
WASHINGTON — A senator had a simple question for the FBI's counterterrorism chief at a hearing last week about the Capitol riot.
Didn't the FBI see all those postings by extremists on social media before the event, she asked Wednesday, including promises to "occupy the Capitol" and bring "revolution" to Washington?
"To my knowledge, no, ma'am," the counterterrorism chief, Jill Sanborn, responded, going on to explain that the FBI can't monitor "First Amendment-protected activities" without a tip or an open investigation that directs agents to a specific post.
The senator, Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., kept pressing. "So the FBI does not monitor publicly available social media conversations?"
"Correct, ma'am," Sanborn replied. "It's not within our authorities."
Put it another way, If I am planning to rob a bank or commit a felony or other high crime and state it publicly, I am pretty sure I will get a visit by authorities. Actually, that did happen in the days leading up to the insurrection. From the article:
The FBI was concerned enough about violence, Wray confirmed, that agents visited a number of extremists under investigation and dissuaded them from coming to Washington for Jan. 6. At the same time, Wray and Sanborn said no intelligence hinted at an invasion of the Capitol, even though that was the site of the Electoral Vote counting that was the focus of anger among Trump supporters.
Wray seemed to imply that the FBI had tried to glean intelligence from social media but that the problem was one of volume.
They sure are figuring out who these people are now, why? Their social media posts AFTER the violence. Just food for thought.
& Raine
