Get the story straight, please

Kathleen Wallace, Suquamish
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Last week, the Kitsap Sun published a letter from Port Orchard resident Dave Dalke, in which he blamed the FBI for releasing the wrong photo of the Allen, Texas shooter, thereby causing an innocent man to fear for his life. He called the FBI’s actions a “travesty.”A reputable news source, Forbes.com, investigated further and reports that the FBI didn’t release that photo at all. The FBI released the correct name of the shooter, and it was social media sleuths who linked the name to the wrong photo and spread it around the Internet.Evidently, Greg Kelly, a Newsmax anchor, spread the wrong photo further when he used it to support his theory that the shooter who killed eight people (two of them children), four of whom were of Asian descent could not possibly be a white supremacist because the man in the photo was so obviously not white. Kelly admitted the error on air, as reported by TheDailyBeast.com.I have my own quibble with the FBI. CBS News reported in February that during the previous administration, the FBI paid a violent felon $20,000 to infiltrate a Black Lives Matter group in Denver and encouraged them to engage in violent protest.Will anyone be held accountable for that travesty

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