Just hours after Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rented Ford F-150 with an ISIS flag on the trailer hitch along a crowded Bourbon Street, evidently to kill as many people as he could, FBI special agent Alethea Duncan took to a podium in New Orleans and confidently said, “This is not a terrorist event.”
Just a few hours later she had to come back to the podium singing a different tune, the one that everyone else already had in mind.
“The FBI is the lead investigative agency, and we’re investigating this attack as an act of terrorism,” Duncan said, adding that the FBI did not believe Jabbar “was solely responsible” and the agency was “aggressively running down every lead, including those of his known associates.”
Hours after that, however, FBI Assistant Director Christopher Raia replaced Duncan as lead FBI spokesman, and again, the story changed. While Raia…
