The FBI on Wednesday admitted to senators it made a series of errors that made it much harder to try to prevent last month’s school shooting in Florida, and vowed to do better.

“We made mistakes here,” acting FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Even if we had done everything right, I’m not sure we could have stopped this act. But we could have tried.”

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