Seriously what is even going on? Two days ago a senior FBI official said that they had no indication of any violence. ??? Today, reports (see below) that they sent a threat assessment to Capitol police. This is...inconsistent 1/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/fbi-nypd-told-capitol-police-about-possibility-violence-riot-senior-n1253646 https://twitter.com/adamgoldmannyt/status/1348454681144668162

What made my head explode was this graf (from article linked in previous tweet)...?!?!? So FBI was aware of people who intended to travel across state lines to engage in violence and managed to “discourage” them. Umm...why weren’t they *arrested*?????

It just makes no sense. Director Wray has testified several times — to Trump’s dismay — that right wing groups are the greatest domestic threat. So clearly he’s not afraid to take action, even if he might get fired. How did the ball get dropped?? 3/

I also find it VERY odd that DOJ officials conclusively stated (on Thurs, I think) that Trump wouldn’t face any charges. Again — ????!? How do they know without doing an investigation? Why are they commenting without an investigation?

BTW I don’t buy DOJ/FBI conspiracy theories, mainly because I think the bureaucracy prevents it. But with what we have seen with Trump appointees in DOJ and elsewhere, I do believe that there might be individuals who bottleneck or bury info and we need to know who and why.