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Saturday, February 17, 2018

Florida School Shooting: FBI Hole Gets Deeper

Yesterday we ran a story on the blame game associated with this week’s tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Specifically, we addressed reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had been made aware of an online threat involving someone with the same name as the school shooting suspect more than five months ago.

Did the FBI drop the ball in failing to link this threat to Nikolas Cruz (the 19-year-old who killed 17 people and wounded fifteen more in an attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School)?

Not necessarily …

“Hindsight is always 20/20,” we wrote yesterday. “Tragedies like this are so big it’s difficult to think that one person could be responsible for setting them into motion. Hence the reflexive need to assign blame in as many different directions as possible.”

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