The FBI just released a video that purports to be "a rare look inside our tactical operations center as personnel coordinate the FBI's role during the presidential inauguration".
In fact, the video (sorry, no embed) is a brilliant work of non-information, unless you're massively interested in watching men in ties and shirtsleeves watch CNN, confer in hushed tones, and talk on the telephone.
How's this for inside information, from Joe Gordon, Special Agent, National Capital Response Squad?
We certainly expected the volume and certainly unexpected as to where the streets are today. The planning process for this has been going on for six months in the detailed level but really in years.
Or this gripping nugget from Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge, Washington Field Office:
The day's only half-finished. We won't be finished until the president ends up back at the White House, so we've got probably another maybe 10 or 12 hours to go.
Either of those statements could have been spoken by my editors here in the Washington Field Office Command and Tactical Operations Centre of the Guardian.
