'Preventable tragedy': Here are 5 ways the FBI dropped the ball before Jan. 6 insurrection

After a mob of Donald Trump supporters violently attacked the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, many horrified Americans asked: Why was this allowed to happen?

That question is still being asked. In an listicle published on October 18, The Atlantic's' Ryan J. Reilly — author of the new book "Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System" — lays out five ways in which he believes the FBI dropped the ball after the 2020 election and allowed a "preventable tragedy" to occur.

Those five ways, according to Reilly, are: (1) "right-leaning political sympathies and false equivalency," (2) "distraction from the Oval Office," (3) "awful timing," (4) "bureaucracy and outdated tech," and (5) "Donald Trump."

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"Nearly three years have passed since the January 6 attack," Reilly explains. "The January 6 Committee was originally supposed to examine how the nation's law-enforcement institutions had failed to plan for such an event. But (then-Rep.) Liz Cheney and the Committee's Democrats were determined to keep the public's ire focused on the former president, and as a result, the Committee's final report breezed past the issue."

Reilly continues, "This is too bad, because the country deserves accountability. January 6 was a preventable tragedy, an onslaught that the United States government could have fended off had law enforcement sent a more rigorous warning to would-be rioters ahead of January 6, and had stronger security measures been put in place around the Capitol Building."

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Read Ryan J. Reilly's full article for The Atlantic at this link (subscription required).