👇 Barr, Wray, and Haspel, just read the obituary for their careers.

The entire CIA, FBI, and AG have been outworked by a private attorney.

And let me add it is the job of the CIA and FBI to PREVENT this from occuring, not investigate after the fact. That mandate was changed after 9/11. Congress needs to ask how did this voter fraud occur and how was it able to operate unimpeded with no disruption from said agencies.
The FBI was mandated to create a Directorate of Intelligence whose main function is to identify emerging threats to the US: terrorism, foreign intelligence service operations, transnational criminal enterprises, and other things on a grand scale like election interference.
The new mandate is to disrupt, deter and dismantle. How did the FBI fail on such a massive scale? The FBI has analytical units in each field division whose sole job is to identify emerging threats in their area of responsibility.
POTUS even identified the threat for the FBI regarding mail in ballot fraud and potential foreign interference. The FBI has something they use to legally collect intelligence in their AOR to prove or disprove if certain activities are occurring.
It is called a Threat Assessment. Under a TA, FBI Agents can recruit and task informants, conduct interviews, liaison with other agencies and private entities to identify if their is such a threat. FBI analysts can use databases at their disposal.
This could have been conducted individually by each field office (independently forward thinking) or come as a mandate from the Directorate of Intelligence. The question is, was any of this conducted at all?
If the FBI did not try to collect intelligence on such a potential threat, then they failed their mandate. If the FBI did open TA's and still failed to identify such a threat, which essentially operated in the open and with impunity, then what were they doing?
This should have been a top down threat that AG Barr and Wray had their finger on the pulse and routinely received briefings and updates.
In the end, outside of 9/11, this was the biggest intelligence failure in US history where foreign and domestic actors were able to completely disrupt and hijack the presidential election.

Barr, Wray, and Haspel, failed.

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Long thread: Because I couldn’t find anything comprehensive, I’m just going to post everything I’ve seen in the news/Twitter about Trump’s activities related to the Jan 6th insurrection. I think the timing & context of his actions/inactions will matter a lot for a senate trial.

12/12: The earlier DC protest over the electoral college vote during clearly inspired Jan 6th. On Dec 12th, he tweeted: “Wow! Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal. Didn’t know about this, but I’ll be seeing them! #MAGA.”


12/19: Trump announces the Jan. 6th event by tweeting, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” Immediately, insurrectionists begin to discuss the “Wild Protest.” Just 2 days later, this UK political analyst predicts the violence


12/26-27: Trump announces his participation on Twitter. On Dec. 29, the FBI sends out a nationwide bulletin warning legislatures about attacks https://t.co/Lgl4yk5aO1


1/1: Trump tweets the time of his protest. Then he retweets “The calvary is coming” on Jan. 6!” Sounds like a war? About this time, the FBI begins visiting right wing extremists to tell them not to go--does the FBI tell the president? https://t.co/3OxnB2AHdr
Which metric is a better predictor of the severity of the fall surge in US states?

1) Margin of Democrat victory in Nov 2020 election
or
2) % infected through Sep 1, 2020

Can you guess which plot is which?


The left plot is based on the % infected through Sep 1, 2020. You can see that there is very little correlation with the % infected since Sep 1.

However, there is a *strong* correlation when using the margin of Biden's victory (right).

Infections % from
https://t.co/WcXlfxv3Ah.


This is the strongest single variable I've seen in being able to explain the severity of this most recent wave in each state.

Not past infections / existing immunity, population density, racial makeup, latitude / weather / humidity, etc.

But political lean.

One can argue that states that lean Democrat are more likely to implement restrictions/mandates.

This is valid, so we test this by using the Government Stringency Index made by @UniofOxford.

We also see a correlation, but it's weaker (R^2=0.36 vs 0.50).

https://t.co/BxBBKwW6ta


To avoid look-ahead bias/confounding variables, here is the same analysis but using 2016 margin of victory as the predictor. Similar results.

This basically says that 2016 election results is a better predictor of the severity of the fall wave than intervention levels in 2020!

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