Andrew Weissmann: FBI Took the BLM Protests More Seriously than 1/6; ‘They Were All Over It’

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WEISSMANN: “Well — so, one, I completely agree with Frank and his criticism and it’s important to know that you have three people on right now who care deeply about the FBI and the institution. And I hate to put more work on Merrick Garland — the FBI is a part of the Department of Justice. Many people don’t realize that. They report directly into the deputy attorney general and the attorney general. And Chris Wray had a very different response to the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer where they were all over it. The deputy attorney — the deputy director, excuse me, of the FBI said this is the most significant domestic terrorism event facing the bureau. That was the Black Lives Matter protest. And yet, when January 6 happened, the FBI really was asleep at the switch, and it wasn’t an intelligence failure. It was a failure to act on the intelligence that they had and I find that Chris Wray’s testimony was exactly what you do not want from public officials. It lacked candor and fulsomeness in saying what exactly they knew and where their failures were.”