A #Uvalde 🧵

The steel doors designed to keep killers out were used by the shooter to keep police out. w/o a key to open them, police would've had to use infantry techniques (explosives) to breech the outer walls. The kids and teachers were not the enemy. Blowing holes /1 in walls, police indiscriminately spraying the room with bullets, or engaging a full body armored shooter using kids as human shields were NOT good options. (Imagine THAT forensic pathology report it would have generated, proof police killed X number of the innocent during /3

It was hot. After the school bus crash, the 9-year-old came home to an empty house, again. His mom worked a split-shift @ Ma Bell. Dad stopped again for beers after 6-3 days @ the USPS. Sis was visiting her friend. Brother was doing another stretch in juvenile jail. He opened a can of cream-style corn, ate it, and fell asleep on the living room couch, head hurting from the bump.

He heard dad angrily say, "Get up!" He must have groggily said no or was too slow. Dad threw him across the room, sat down, and drank.

It made him pray, and stronger. 🙏🤔

They are right: Uvalde could have been so much worse. At Beslan, 333 were killed, incl 185 children. Those marauders also planned, hit a soft target, shot the protectors, baited a trap with the screams of the innocent, barricaded to ambush responders, and wanted to die in place. COL @KurtSchlichter is right: We need to *know* [e/a] a lot more from officials about how this 18-year-old grew to become the shooter, acquired upwards of 5K for guns and gear, and why he targeted Robb Elementary. We need to *know* how and why the police responded as they did.

To all, please retweet this extraordinary #deepstate response to my FOIA for 9/11 Commission documents. See attached letter; they estimate it will take 12 years to respond. WTF? The background. For 8 years I have been bounced around trying to determine who has the 9/11 Commission's 7,000 word "detailed summary" of PDBs for the 4 years leading up to 9/11. According to Commission Chariman Tom Keane it could be released with few to no redactions.

Imagine you are leading a platoon-sized combat patrol of dismounted infantry into enemy-controlled territory where U.S. forces have been attacked each and every time they ventured there during the previous 30 days. Without doubt, it is a combat zone, not Anytown, USA. /1 WIthin the past 3 weeks, an enemy sniper shot a U.S. soldier in the throat and a planted IED wounded 2 soldiers on that same ground you must travel to reach your objective. Using motorcycles, there has been a recent spike in VBIED suicide bombing attacks by the Taliban ... /2

House #FISAmemo Details Use of Steele Dossier to Spy on #Trump Campaign Adviser bit.ly/2FHCZvc by @AndrewCMcCarthy #MemoDay #CarterPage "The dossier was a compilation of Steele’s reports, based on anonymous Russian sources. His informants provided information based on accounts that were multiple levels of hearsay removed from the events they purported to describe." #MemoDay #FISAMemo #FisaAbuseMemo #Trump