“Seventeen innocent people are dead and acknowledging a mistake isn’t going to cut it,” Mr. Scott said in a statement. was not the only law enforcement agency to be warned about Mr. Cruz. Sheriff Israel said on Friday that his office was still reviewing what it knew about Mr. Cruz before the shooting. In December, Mr. Trump said the F.B.I.’s reputation was “in tatters” and the “worst in history.” This month, Mr. Trump said the F.B.I. has only increased after Mr. Mueller began to ensnare associates of Mr. Trump, including Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager, and Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser.

Source: New York Times February 16, 2018 17:44 UTC