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# FBI Admits "Protocols Were Not Followed" Before Florida Massacre

While discussions of law enforcement's lack of follow-through on warnings ahead of this week's massacre at a Florida high-school have been active, The FBI has issued a statement admitting their error...

FBI Statement on the Shooting in Parkland, Florida

> On January 5, 2018, a person close to Nikolas Cruz contacted the FBI's Public Access Line (PAL) tipline to report concerns about him. The caller provided information about Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting.

> Under established protocols, the information provided by the caller should have been assessed as a potential threat to life. The information then should have been forwarded to the FBI Miami Field Office, where appropriate investigative steps would have been taken.

> We have determined that these protocols were not followed for the information received by the PAL on January 5. The information was not provided to the Miami Field Office, and no further investigation was conducted at that time.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said:

> "We are still investigating the facts. I am committed to getting to the bottom of what happened in this particular matter, as well as reviewing our processes for responding to information that we receive from the public. It's up to all Americans to be vigilant, and when members of the public contact us with concerns, we must act properly and quickly.

> "We have spoken with victims and families, and deeply regret the additional pain this causes all those affected by this horrific tragedy. All of the men and women of the FBI are dedicated to keeping the American people safe, and are relentlessly committed to improving all that we do and how we do it."

As a reminder, this is not the first time that protocols have not been followed, or when the FBI 'missed' a mass-shooter. As The Daily Caller's Peter Hasson notes, revelations that the FBI had been warned about Florida high school shooter Nikolaus Cruz fit an all-too-familiar pattern, in which apparent law enforcement errors have preceded mass murders.

The FBI was warned about Cruz after he posted on YouTube saying he was going to become a “professional school shooter.” The agency said they couldn’t identify the user who made the threat, despite Cruz posting under his own name. Five months later, Cruz pulled the fire alarm at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and began shooting his former classmates with his AR-15.

Other mass shooters and terrorists were similarly on the FBI’s radar — or should have been — before they carried out their deadly attacks.

> Dylann Roof, who in 2015 shot nine people at a black church in Charleston, was allowed to purchase his weapon in part because of errors by FBI agents during the background check process, the agency said.

> Pulse shooter Omar Mateen, who pledged allegiance to ISIS before killing 49 people at the Orlando nightclub, similarly seemed to have fallen through the cracks. The FBI investigated Mateen twice before the slaughter but ruled him not a threat both times.

> The FBI knew that Fort Hood shooter Army Maj. Nidal Hasan had been in contact with al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, but declined to investigate him. A congressional probe found that the FBI had failed to alert the Army about Hasan, and that the shooting could and should have been prevented. Hasan killed 13 people and wounded dozens of others in the 2009 shooting.

> The FBI similarly missed opportunities to stop Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers behind the 2013 Boston Bombing, a government review found. Russia warned the United States that Tsarnaev had associations with Islamic terrorists, leading an FBI-led task force to question the future terrorist. The agent who interviewed Tsarnaev closed the probe “having found no link or ‘nexus’ to terrorism.”

> The task force was alerted a year later that Tsarnaev was leaving the country for Dagestan but declined to interview him or stop him from leaving the country. FBI agents later said the failure to interview Tsarnaev was a “huge” error, according to Boston Magazine.

> Another school shooter who was on the FBI’s radar killed two students at a New Mexico high school just two months ago. Although the killing doesn’t meet the government’s definition of a mass shooting, the shooter was known to the FBI. The agency investigated the shooter, 21-year-old William Atchison, in 2016 after he commented online about committing a mass shooting.

We await Trump's response to his apparently fallible FBI's poor performance.

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JTBfromtheWL Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:44 Permalink

Of course not, too worried about politics to do any real work.

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Troll Magnet JTBfromtheWL Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:46 Permalink

They just need more funding from us. And the NSA. And all this could've been prevented.

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JimmyJones Troll Magnet Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:47 Permalink

I wonder what other protocols aren't followed regarding other MAJOR investigations?

Don't worry Sessions is going after Pot smokes and that's as good as gold.

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Dumpster Elite JimmyJones Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:50 Permalink

Colombian Gold.

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jcaz Dumpster Elite Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:52 Permalink

Wow, they really cracked the case here- raises and promotions for all the agents.........

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Joe Davola jcaz Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:55 Permalink

Is it a crime yet not to inform on your neighbor?

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WernerHeisenberg Dumpster Elite Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:55 Permalink

The FBI (unconstitutional political secret police working for the secret government) would not even exist if they weren't working under the protocols:

http://jewwatch.com/jew-references-protocols-full-text-folder.html

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. . . _ _ _ . . . JimmyJones Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:52 Permalink

> "...protocols not followed..."

No shit! Even if they couldn't arrest him, a visit from the FBI might have scared him straight. He looked pretty shook up in court.

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SoDamnMad JimmyJones Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:55 Permalink

Any minute now we can get the true story about the Massacre at Las Vegas. You know, the truth about the Saudi prince, second (and third) shooter, helos flying around. Just a few minutes more and we will have the truth. SARC

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I woke up Troll Magnet Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:49 Permalink

But Hannity said 98% of the people in the FBI are competent people!!!

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khnum I woke up Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:51 Permalink

Yes but its run by the two percent that aren't

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lester1 I woke up Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:53 Permalink

Wheres the rank and file FBI agents to speak up about corruption in the department???

crickets.....

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DillyDilly JTBfromtheWL Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:46 Permalink

What about the 'protocols' on Hillary's e-mails, Seth Rich, Las Vegas, Bundy, Waco, OK City, JFK, 911, Hans Gruber? How y'all doin' on those?

FFS ~ I'm starting to think Al Capone paid his taxes, that Bodhi, Roach, & Grommet were Moondoggie & Jan & Dean, & that Hannibal Lecter is Gordon Ramsey.

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JimmyJones DillyDilly Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:49 Permalink

Protocol screw the Americans was being followed to the letter, nothing wrong.

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Never One Roach DillyDilly Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:51 Permalink

When I called, the secretary told me, "Sorry, Sir, Agent Peter Strzok is too busy banging the fugly chicks over in the DOJ to be bothered with terrorists threats."

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lester1 JTBfromtheWL Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:50 Permalink

I wouldn't be surprised if Obama ordered the FBI to look the other way and allow these mass shootings to happen so they could push gun control.

Seriously, I don't recall that many mass shootings when Bush was in office..

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takeaction JTBfromtheWL Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:52 Permalink

Politics is PRIORITY....create a PISS ON ME PAPER and find out what that EVIL Trump is up to.

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Ignore real work...

It is so clear to everyone except the Liberal Media.

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buzzsaw99 Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:45 Permalink

nigga please. there's a god damn crony crime wave INSIDE the FBI. meanwhile you're looking for crooks in idaho.

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JimmyJones buzzsaw99 Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:50 Permalink

Hey man they might possess pot.

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Peter41 Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:45 Permalink

FBI has a lot of explaining to do on many fronts. The fish rots from the head first.

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buzzsaw99 Peter41 Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:49 Permalink

this. two dozen high level brass at the fbi were involved in a huge conspiracy with hitlary and owebomber to subvert and subjugate democracy, obstruct justice, and basically do whatever the fuck they want.

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Theta_Burn Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:47 Permalink

Quick, form special counsel?

This is what happens when everyone is focused on whos next in line, and "getting mine"

Lazy pcs. of shit, I hope the fbi is sued out of existence...

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Dumpster Elite Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:48 Permalink

"Protocols Were Not Followed" By that, they mean that they didn't follow any highly questionable leads on Russian collusion.

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MusicIsYou Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:49 Permalink

Of course protocols weren't followed, because foreign countries won't buy U. S treasuries unless the U. S conforms to the International Small Arms Treaty, and they needed a school shooting to make Americans want gun control. It comes down to: no gun control equals low dollar, great gun control equals high dollar. I don't' know any American that doesn't love money, they'll choose gun control. It must stink to be a low comprehension American and not know what it is you witness.

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DisorderlyConduct Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:51 Permalink

I am Jacks complete lack of surprise.

Of course the remedy will be more law, more funding. Funding to a group of turds that can't do their goddamned jobs.

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Ultra Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:52 Permalink

And so it goes.

Feds going bankrupt, the last, best hope for liberty.

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bsdetector Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:54 Permalink

So why can't we find out who dropped the ball on this and make sure it never happens again? It time to start terminating jobs.

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digimatt Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:54 Permalink

More egg on the face of the FBI.

They really need to clean house and get out of politics to regain the trust of the American people. The U.S. military has explicit rules about participation in partisan politics that work. Maybe it's time to extend those rules to a large chunk of the federal workforce; and then really enforce them. Nobody is forced to work for the Feds. So they can hardly complain if there are limits that come along with the job (and the better than private sector pay and benefits).

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Never One Roach Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:55 Permalink

"Protocols not followed" means they failed to indict Hillary on ANY of her 28 federal crimes. Faile dto question crooked Hillary under oath.

They failed to indict Huma, Mills, pedo Podesta, Wasserman, Aswan Brothers, Susan Rice, and on and on.

They failed to investigate Dr Nasser after numerous complaints to the fbi about his molestations of the little girls.....

I'll have to add this one to my list of far left and/or deep state excuses:

"Sorry, protocols were not followed."

Along with, "excessively careless" and "no reasonable person would have xyz."

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Bemused Observer Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:55 Permalink

Because you were too busy with your "Russia, Russia, Russia" nonsense, THAT'S why!!!

So just shut up, shut up, shut UP! You have NO credibility left, none, so just STFU!

America does not respect you guys anymore. Roll it up, call it a day, and just go home.

What a disgrace these people are, truly epic pieces of shit with no consciences, no morals, no sense of right and wrong. Morally and ethically bankrupt.

Jesus wept.

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buzzsaw99 Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:55 Permalink

the fbi was too busy surfing porn in their rented office paid for by the taxpayer.

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1.21 jigawatts Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:55 Permalink

WTF are we paying them to do?

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Cautiously Pes… Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:56 Permalink

Modern day Roman Empire collapsing in upon itself. Hedge accordingly.

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casfoto Fri, 02/16/2018 - 12:56 Permalink

Homeland Security, FBI, NSA = a bloody fortune spent on trying to do what? They have not stopped a single shooting. This is even after they have been told there was going to be a problem. Why are we wasting our tax payers money? What kind of scam is this?

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