The FBI Did Not Even Try

The FBI was warned about the shooter last year, and they were lying to the cameras today saying they had no way to find the person who made the threat on YouTube.  Any of you who blog and/or YouTube know better; maybe others do not, but we have been told for years that anything you do online lasts forever.  I know that YouTube knows exactly where their account holders are if they wish to look.  Here is an example of a free service available for bloggers, showing some recent visitors to this blog. 

There are many different options for me to search visitor information, and if I do that along with checking comments it is easy to put a name to the pins on the map.  The information has changed a bit since many people are not hard-wired to the Internet now, but with warrants, law enforcement investigators have the ability to easily dig deep and come right to your doorstep. The FBI investigators should have gone to YouTube with a warrant, collected information, and then obtained a warrant for the Internet provider, then picked up and interviewed the perpetrator who made the threat.  There is no doubt that Google and YouTube hold more information on their customers than we would like them to have.  I guarantee their surveillance capabilities far outweigh the free Statcounter I have on this blog.  The school administration failed on several levels, too, and those failures are systemic throughout the country in nearly every school system. 

Today I was hearing once again, "See Something, Say Something."  That happened, and it did not do a bit of good.  The Good Samaritan who contacted the FBI is proof once again that if you report a crime or possible crime, you become a prime suspect.  Agents showed up on his doorstep right after the shooting and wanted to know what he knew about it.  He is lucky he is not in a holding cell right now being interrogated.