Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 3
I would have thought they would assigned something like 100 or maybe as many as 300 agents to round up the J6'ers. Boy, was I wrong.
The real number was over 5,000. That's like 13% of the FBI's entire strength to investigate 1 riot.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/fbi-employ...Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, in a Friday memo with the subject line “Terminations,” had given FBI officials a noon deadline Tuesday to submit the details of thousands of agents and analysts. Bove previously ordered the firing of eight senior FBI officials, including those who oversaw cyber, national security and criminal investigations.
More than 5,000 employee details were submitted, including employee ID numbers, job titles and their role in the January 6 investigations, sources said, but not their names. There are more than 13,000 agents and 38,000 total FBI employees.Woof.
No. of Recommendations: 2
And to be clear, the 5,000 number isn't the agents, it's the total number of employees.
No. of Recommendations: 15
The real number was over 5,000. That's like 13% of the FBI's entire strength to investigate 1 riot.
One "riot"? More like one attempt to overthrow the elected Constitutional order... involving 3000 who entered the Capitol, paramilitary groups holding arms caches at the ready in VA.... bombs placed at RNC and DNC, untold threads leading to the likes of militias, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Congresswomen Lauren Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Green.
It's a wonder that week didn't pull twice that many FBI agents/support staff.
In any event, they failed to halt the plot.... it simply resumed two weeks ago.
No. of Recommendations: 0
One "riot"? More like one attempt to overthrow the elected Constitutional order...
Yeah, not so much. That's the story that gets told.
Riddle me this. Why wasn't there a bigger conspiracy unfolded given the UNLIMITED resources they had?
The answer is that because there wasn't one.
Meanwhile, DOGE is going to show us how much of the FBI's strength was dedicated to say...the first World Trade Center bombing, or Oklahoma City or things like that.
For perspective. That's why the FBI brass didn't want to say; it would be embarassing.
No. of Recommendations: 4
One "riot"? More like one attempt to overthrow the elected Constitutional order...
Yeah, not so much. That's the story that gets told.
It's the story we watched unfold in real-time.
Who you gonna believe? Dope, talking about "stories" or your own lyin' eyes?
No. of Recommendations: 3
The real number was over 5,000. That's like 13% of the FBI's entire strength to investigate 1 riot.
How many different states were involved? 22? Not sure. So you locate and talk to them. To locate them you go through all the footage.do forensics on all that you can, track things and people down, interview and get data from all the hotels, etc. Lotsa leg work and just confirming things on 1500 people takes a lot. Then building cases, lotsa paperwork, secretaries, clerks, lab staff, different departments, anyone who touched a paper, looked at a video, drove out to confirm where someone lived, all of that. After all, you are building a Federal case on them.
No. of Recommendations: 3
For perspective. That's why the FBI brass didn't want to say; it would be embarrassing.
Just a note, Dope, for your own consideration.....
You spend an inordinate amount of time constructing motives.
How 'bout..... The FBI doesn't reveal such information ... and they didn't in this case either.
The question is..... Why is DOGE on a mission to wreck the government?
