Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

Agents with the FBI’s elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown University in December because there was no FBI plane available to take them to Rhode Island, according to three sources and a whistleblower’s account newly provided to Congress.

FBI Director Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI’s two available jets and had given an order to hold the other for another team that would not normally respond to the scene, according to the whistleblower and the sources. The evidence response team instead had to drive through the night amid a snowstorm to reach the university in Providence, Rhode Island, by 9 o’clock the next morning, according to the whistleblower’s account…

An FBI spokesperson told MS NOW Tuesday he disputed the allegation that there were delays because of the director’s travels but said he would check into the matter more deeply to gather information.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    3 days ago

    If you’re going that far, may as well start with Washington, as I said. And yes, it’s both sides.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Then you literally can’t start with Washington, as he was a vocal no party candidate, literally not officially running for office, and the last thing he said as the POTUS, while there were people begging him to NOT step down, was, “I sincerely hope and pray that The United States never engages in partisan politics, for if we do it will lead to the downfall of this potentially great democracy.”

      Jefferson and Madison would also be questionable there since they were actively pushing for more rights for the citizenry. Jefferson actively trying to prevent the “tyranny of ancestors,” despite his questionable views, he failed but he tried. Madison meanwhile protested the “tyranny of the rich, privileged, and pirates.” Madison just HATED pirates, and also had some questionable views.

      Read your history. You have harmed yourself by not doing so.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        11·
        3 days ago

        Ah, Jefferson the slave owner who regularly raped his houseslave? Madison? I’m not sure who you think you’re educating, or what Whitewashed history you’d have me read, but please, do continue. 😂

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 days ago

          Yes, show your historical ignorance by framing people with your current understanding of morality. Jefferson was an abolishonist, or my ancestor would have lynched or shot him. Madison as well. Same for Washington, as I understand, though he never actually met my ancestor.

          Try reading and understanding history. You are just showing that you are an uneducated reactionary authoritarian.

            • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
              1·
              3 days ago

              Non-sequiter. You have no arguments, just like the southern states. Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina are why we started the union as slave states, by only a single vote. The same states rejected the policies that the first 5 presidents and all northern senators supported that would have made this country the first democratic socialist country on earth in 1808.

              Learn your history, or bless your heart, sweetie.