it adds legitimacy to the entire thing when you later find out that the entire thing was called out well in advance, and this also means that members from within our government were aware of the threat, and took steps to document all the crimes as they happened.
allowing them to do what they did may have been the only way to later prosecute them for their crimes.
it's harder to prove someone intended to do something than it is to prove that they did something that already happened.
this was done on purpose.
it adds legitimacy to the entire thing when you later find out that the entire thing was called out well in advance, and this also means that members from within our government were aware of the threat, and took steps to document all the crimes as they happened.
allowing them to do what they did may have been the only way to later prosecute them for their crimes.
it's harder to prove someone intended to do something than it is to prove that they did something that already happened.