General Discussion

Andrew Weissman just pointed out on Lawrence O'Donnell that up until a few weeks ago, the Salt Lake City FBI office was headed by a decorated veteran FBI agent who joined the FBI after 9/11. She was ethnically Pakistani, and a woman. She was unceremoniously fired by Kash Patel without any stated reason, other than stating that she was "no longer a good fit" for the office.

So, the white male now heading the office is new to the job and apparently could not hit the ground running on this shooting investigation. Weissman said it is unheard of for an FBI director to announce not once but twice that a suspect/person of interest was arrested, only to, within a couple hours, announce that the person was released.

Weissman is wondering what was wrong with Kash Patel's FBI info sources. Normally an arrest would never be announced unless the FBI was pretty sure they had their suspect. Here, Patel announced it before the guy was even interrogated, and he did that twice! Totally flailing.