From Michelle Mark's 2-16-18 Business Insider article "The FBI Failed to Act on a Tip It Got About the Florida High-school Shooter":
"The
FBI said on Friday that it had failed to follow protocols in handling a
tip on the suspected Florida shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, who
authorities said killed 17 people on Wednesday.
"A
person close to Cruz had phoned the FBI's tip line in January to report
details about his 'gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic
behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of
him conducting a school shooting,' the bureau said in a statement.
"'Under
established protocols, the information provided by the caller should
have been assessed as a potential threat to life,' the statement went
on. 'The information then should have been forwarded to the FBI Miami
field office, where appropriate investigative steps would have been
taken' [...].
"More details have emerged in recent days from
Cruz's former classmates, teachers, and neighbors about the pattern of
disturbing behavior he had displayed in recent years.
"Cruz reportedly flaunted photos of his guns, introduced himself to people as a 'school shooter,' and had frequent run-ins with law enforcement.
"The FBI also received a tip from a YouTube vlogger about
a comment from a user who called himself 'nikolas cruz.' The comment
said he wanted to be a 'professional school shooter,' but the FBI said
it couldn't confirm the identity of the user."
Compare the above with Greg Farrell and Anders Melin's 2-16-18 Bloomberg article "This Short Seller Pressed 'Tweet.' Then the FBI Showed Up":
"Short-sellers
aren’t known for restraint and decorum, and that goes double on
Twitter, where Marc Cohodes vowed to take down a CEO he accuses of
fraud. 'I will bury the little fella in a shoe box,' Cohodes tweeted in
October.
"Weeks
later, a black Ford Expedition pulled up to the short-seller’s Sonoma
County ranch. Two FBI agents emerged. They showed Cohodes a printout of
his tweet and a second one that mentioned loaded guns. 'Stop sending
threatening tweets' about the CEO, one of the agents warned, or else.
"The
feds’ Dec. 1 visit, which wasn’t previously reported, is documented in a
sheriff’s report and described in a letter of complaint Cohodes’s
lawyer sent to the U.S. Department of Justice.
"It was a novel turn in what, until then, seemed like a familiar struggle between a public company, MiMedx Group,
and investors betting on its fall. That kind of drama has typically
played out online, in the media or in court. But it hasn’t, by the
recollection of several lawyers, previously drawn this sort of
intervention by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The agents’
appearance at Cohodes’s house has touched off a dispute over whether the
tweets merited intervention or whether the FBI overstepped — and how
the messages came to the FBI’s attention."As a colleague of mine wrote, "Looks like you need to be a CEO of a B.S. company to be taken seriously."
What follow are two more recommended analyses regarding the Parkland Shooting....
1) Loren Coleman's 2-16-18 Twilight Language post entitled "Parkland Syncs," and
2) a 2-15-18 Secret Sun post entitled "Everyone Predicted It."
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