Congressional lawmakers are making inquiries into how the FBI and Meta responded to the New Orleans terror attack on New Year's Day, the AP reports. Why it matters: Lawmakers are questioning the whereabouts of the FBI's top agent in New Orleans when the attack occurred,

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Congressional lawmakers demanded answers Wednesday about the FBI’s response to the Jan. 1 truck attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people, questioning why the bureau’s top official in the city was out of town and raising concerns about its initial, erroneous assertion that the rampage was “not a terrorist event.”

The attacker who killed 14 pedestrians on Bourbon Street was “influenced by the discourse and messaging of the Islamic State,” the terrorist group said in a bulletin dated Thursday.