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by kaino128 1741 days ago
It certainly seems like this agent was wildly negligent in his duties but I wonder if part of the slow and insufficient response might have been induced by the way in which the CEO handed over the complaint. One of the hallmarks of this case seems to have been large amounts of willful ignorance of the part of USA gymnastics leadership. I wouldn’t be surprised if less than 100% of the full import of the accusations made it across to the FBI from the CEO. Of course the FBI ideally should investigate everything professionally and thoroughly no matter the framing and how powerful the people involved are...
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i'm not an FBI agent but it seems reasonable to me that the next thing you do after reading one accusation is pick up the phone and call the accuser. Whether you have 1,100, or 1,000 accusations makes no difference, after reading the first, you pick up the phone.