Whoa. According to a report Friday night on CBS News, the FBI only has “about two dozen” employees to handle the 1000 or so tips that come in each day to the FBI:
The FBI receives, by phone and email, more than 1,000 tips a day — more than 360,000 a year; the bureau has only about two dozen employees to handle them, CBS News learned. pic.twitter.com/1Le7xoQsY2
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 16, 2018
No wonder they missed the Nikolas Cruz tips.
And Mueller has what, like 17 lawyers alone on staff to investigate Russia and Trump? From the Weekly Standard in December 2017:
Special counsel Robert Mueller may be the most well-known figure in the special counsel’s office (SCO), but the attorneys Mueller has assembled for his investigation into connections between the Trump campaign and Russian government during the 2016 election are a prosecutorial dream team. The SCO has declined to identify two of the 17 lawyers on staff, but the other 15 have taken down smugglers, gangs, and terrorists in court along with more mundane white collar criminals; they have clerked for Supreme Court justices and worked for some of the country’s most prestigious law firms. As pressure grows on Mueller’s investigation on multiple fronts, his team will be facing increasing scrutiny as well.
If American can find the money to fund the Mueller probe, then certainly we can find the money to increase the FBI budget for handling tips like the ones that could have prevented the massacre in Parkland, Fla. this week.
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Annnnnd this is why we don't depend on the federal government. Funding doesn't ever seem to make it where its needed. https://t.co/bo4Vu7IVsy
— Erik (@winefishdawg) February 17, 2018
How many were dedicated to taking down a presidential candidate? https://t.co/tPBjrWyMuY
— Nieds Dead Horse (@NDH_j_m_f) February 17, 2018
And then there’s this:
So much for "see something, say something". https://t.co/6T9zs1JIeb
— Deaner (@CaliforniaDean) February 16, 2018
Right?
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Gov. Rick Scott, Sen. Marco Rubio go NUCLEAR on the FBI over Parkland shooting https://t.co/t03nyt2jfm
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 16, 2018
Go home you're DRUNK: After FBI Florida EFF-UP, Chelsea Handler's NRA tweet looks even DUMBER https://t.co/i97nGg1VuL
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 16, 2018
HOLY SH*T! FBI got tip about Nikolas Cruz LAST MONTH and did NOTHING https://t.co/J5YPh5OvW9
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 16, 2018
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