Indeed…this is going to be incredibly interesting as it unfolds..
'We gotta beat Trump': Scaramucci to campaign for Biden
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci says he is ready to help Joe Biden beat his former boss. Making the remarks during a Wednesday interview, Scaramucci, who has become a fierce critic of President Trump, said that he is still a Republican but will work to help get Biden elected president. “I stay as a Republican, but I vote for Joe Biden,” Scaramucci said, noting that he is ready to do some campaigning. “Of course, I'll campaign for him. We gotta beat Trump. Come on. It's ridiculous. You know and your viewers know how crazy Trump is, and they know that sane people have to work together to beat him,” he said.
Scaramucci served just days in his White House role before going on an expletive-laden rant to a reporter with the New Yorker, insulting then-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. Since his departure, Scaramucci has frequently attacked Trump, going so far as to say he has committed treason. Scaramucci also appeared at a Biden event last August.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/we-gotta-beat-trump-scaramucci-to-campaign-for-biden
https://twitter.com/Scaramucci/status/1227995130151436288
DOJ watchdog audit finds 'weaknesses' in FBI fight against 'jihad-inspired' homegrown terrorists
The Justice Department’s independent watchdog criticized the FBI’s “weaknessesin identifying homegrown violent extremists through its counterterrorism assessments. The 47-page report released on Wednesday, which highlighted failures in preventing high-profile
"known wolf" attacks such as the Fort Hood murders, the Boston Marathon bombing, and the Pulse nightclub attack, follows an examination of the FBI’s efforts from 2012 through 2018 to identify and stop '“global jihad-inspired individuals” radicalized inside the United States without specific direction from a particular foreign terrorist organization.
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz found “weaknesses existed in the FBI’s counterterrorism assessment process” and determined the FBI did not adequately carry out a bureauwide review of closed counterterrorism assessments to see if previously investigated possible terrorists reemerged as threats. The watchdog concluded the FBI “should identify and address inconsistencies in its reevaluation of closed assessments” and “must address emerging challenges to assess potential HVEs,” or homegrown violent extremists. The investigation focused on the counterterrorism “incidents and assessments” within the FBI’s Guardian System, the bureau’s threat-tracking database. His team reviewed roughly 200 appraisals, interviewed over 100 FBI officials, and conducted audits associated with seven FBI field offices. The FBI agreed to all of Horowitz’s recommended fixes. “The FBI has acknowledged that various weaknesses related to its assessment process may have impacted its ability to fully investigate certain counterterrorism assessment subjects who later committed terrorist attacks in the United States,” Horowitz wrote. “Following these attacks, the FBI made various efforts to evaluate and improve its assessment process. However, it has not ensured that identified areas for improvement were formalized and implemented into enhanced policies and procedures.”
Though the total numbers were redacted, Horowitz said the bureau found 6% of its assessments required additional investigative steps, but, because of inefficient FBI oversight, nearly 40% of the closed assessments that were later identified as requiring additional investigative action weren't addressed for 18 months. Some delayed inquiries resulted in the FBI opening full counterterrorism investigations. The DOJ watchdog’s audit pointed to six successful attacks in the U.S. '''"by individuals who the FBI had previously assessed or investigated and who were subsequently categorized as HVEs
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-watchdog-audit-finds-weaknesses-in-fbi-fight-against-jihad-inspired-homegrown-terrorists
https://oig.justice.gov/press/2020/2020-03-04.pdf
Audit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Efforts to Identify Homegrown Violent Extremiststhrough Counterterrorism Assessments
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2020/a20030.pdf