A series of stories paint an unflattering picture of some of our federal law enforcement agencies. First, the Senate Homeland Security Committee issued a report cataloging some of the FBI and DHS failures before and on January 6, 2021. As NPR reported, “FBI, Homeland Security ignored the massive amount of intelligence before Jan. 6, Senate report says.” This report comes on the heels of the troubling revelations, as first reported by The Washington Post, that the “FBI resisted opening a probe into Trump’s role on Jan. 6 for more than a year.” And now, in an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, President Joe Biden says that leaders of democracies around the world have been asking him why Donald Trump has not been held accountable for the insurrection. Our federal law enforcement agencies need to fundamentally reform their practices and priorities and start aggressively holding accountable people of power and privilege, influence, and connections.
