245. The Georgia School Shooter and Other FBI Misses
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The FBI had advance contact with a growing list of mass killers. Sharyl asks whether there is a flaw in procedures and priorities that keeps them from recognizing and acting upon true threats.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison |
| 0:07.0 | Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison Podcast. |
| 0:13.5 | Today, the Georgia School Shooting and other FBI misses a disturbing list |
| 0:19.1 | cast doubt on training and priorities. |
| 0:28.0 | You may have heard that the FBI had a line ahead of time on the 14-year-old Georgia boy charged in the murders of two other 14 year olds and two adults at |
| 0:34.9 | Appalachian High School in Georgia in recent days. Nine other people were injured |
| 0:40.0 | were told that those people thankfully are expected to fully recover. |
| 0:45.0 | But after someone tipped off the FBI in May of 2023, |
| 0:50.0 | police interviewed Colt Gray, then age 13, and his father, Gray, the suspect in the Georgia |
| 0:56.6 | shooting. |
| 0:57.8 | The boy at the time had allegedly explicitly threatened on social media to do the very thing he allegedly did on the timeline he'd laid out, commit a mass shooting. |
| 1:08.0 | His father told police that Gray had been bullied by kids who thought or knew he was gay. |
| 1:15.2 | The social media post in question reportedly read, quote, |
| 1:19.1 | I'm committing a mass shooting and I'm waiting a good two to three years I can't kill myself yet |
| 1:24.0 | because I'm not contributing anything to culture I need to go out knowing I did it |
| 1:29.6 | further read I'm ready with a picture of two guns. It referenced another school shooting and |
| 1:37.2 | it implied that transgender should be accepted according to reports. The |
| 1:42.2 | FBI apparently found no reason to follow up or monitor further. |
| 1:47.0 | This got me thinking to reporting that I've been doing over the years about how the FBI seems to have incredibly missed so many |
| 1:56.7 | mass attacks on US soil when they were alerted ahead of time, sometimes by the suspect themselves. |
| 2:04.0 | A couple of the cases that you'll hear about of this podcast today are going to really shock you |
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