Thread by @DavMicRot

Reading through washingtonpost.com/politics/inter… will share things that jump out for me ...

Article paints devastating picture of domestic intelligence services doing a great job of collecting information, but FBI refusing to act on it.

Director Wray appeared too concerned about what then-President Trump thought about him, when he should have been concerned about stopping a coordinated attack on the Capitol.

Clearly the federal government has some serious conflicts & problems when the personal orchestrating the attack on US was the US President. Admittedly, an edge case that the government is not very well prepared to handle.

Seems like Capitol Police just had incompetent leadership. "So unprepared was [Cap Police] that some shields, helmets and other crowd-control gear were locked away & 100's of officers were either stationed away from the Capitol or allowed to remain on previously scheduled leave"

T-102 Days: Trump's message at the first debate, "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.” was received very clearly by future right-wing white-supremist insurrectionists around the country.

T-63 Days: Trump & Family directly inspire "Stop the Steal" and menacing mobs outside of various vote-counting locations in days after election. Assume WaPo is going to paint a very straight line from this moment to the insurrection.

WaPo also noting that @SpeakerPelosi was all over this as early possible, taking Trump's threats both seriously & literally that he would try to steal the election in congress.

T-53 Days: WaPo outlines preliminary confrontations between Trump supporters and police that seem, in hindsight, almost like preparation. Including, taking & holding, Black Lives Matter Plaza for a bit.

T-25 Days: WaPo outlines the December 12 attacks by Proud Boys and Stop the Steal. FBI notes they wore ear pieces & coordinated their attacks, but again they underestimate what this means for future, escalating attacks on US.

WaPo notes that there was not just less attention to *way bigger threat* of domestic right-wing terrorism than foreign attacks, but huge hurdles to conducting investigations. Again, FBI looks super culpable here.

FBI hiding behind Free Speech on why it did not bother investigating masses of very specific chatter of an attack on US on January 6 by right-wing terror organizations. Director Wray should be in front of congress tomorrow.

T-3 Days: WaPo notes that Trump had a few avenues to steal the election, but his last plan (other than Pence on 1/6) was squashed on 1/3 when his stooge Attorney General threated mass resignations if Georgia was threatened further. Making 1/3 all the more "necessary" for Trump

On 1/5 FBI released a final assessment for 1/6: "The report noted people had shared maps of tunnels underneath Congress, and planned rendezvous spots in the eastern part of the United States to travel together to Washington ...

The [FBI] memo [on 1/5] — like the others before it — was jarringly prescient. But ... cautionary language was a telling example of how the bureau tempered its reaction to threats of violence from White, middle-aged and middle-class Americans."

washingtonpost.com/politics/inter… is powerful read. "Before" paints a damning picture of Trump's directional control and the FBI's willful disregard for mounting evidence of coordinated serious attack on US Capitol on 1/6. Director Wray must answer for mix of disloyalty and/or incompetence