Thread by @McAdooGordon

@CSpenc32683 @factsMa22309408 @DonLew1s @youreyeondenver @shipwreckedcrew It says in longer form what I said about how FBI investigations into political groups are actually supposed to & do usually work -there are requirements, tho they’re sometimes evaded, & then people have to explain what the hell they were doing if it goes wrong. /1

@CSpenc32683 @factsMa22309408 @DonLew1s @youreyeondenver @shipwreckedcrew It also makes clear what I was saying about the backdrop- that since the COINTELPRO scandal & the Church Commissioner, the govt is reluctant to initiate investigations of groups that are clearly not criminal per se & are exercising First Amendment rights. /2

@CSpenc32683 @factsMa22309408 @DonLew1s @youreyeondenver @shipwreckedcrew They know there will be shit to pay if they do & they get it wrong. That’s basically what Wray told the Senate in March - the Bureau can’t just investigate groups whose ideology isn’t popular. No less than Andrew Weisman was COMPLAINING about exactly that today in WaPo.👇🏻/3

@CSpenc32683 @factsMa22309408 @DonLew1s @youreyeondenver @shipwreckedcrew As I said in my thread, since there was some, but really very little clear evidence that the militia groups were engaged in *criminal* planning prior to Jan 6, why would we expect FBI to have infiltrated them? They shouldn’t have been. As I also said in my thread. /4