Our community has this one major flaw where we start to pick up the scent on something that sounds interesting and only pay attention to the details and talking points that fit our narrative... While completely ignoring other common knowledge bits of information that, a lot of times, completely debunk our original idea all by themselves. Yet we act like we don't know what someone could possibly be talking about, when referencing those bits and pretend they don't exist at all..  Much like the fact that it is almost a dead off guarantee that any case in any city in this country that is this high-profile is going to have FBI assisting in the investigation, which could be something as mundane as the FBI offering the city any of the resources the city may not have as quick or as easy of access to as the FBI does... all the way to the FBI doing a major part of the investigation themselves. Another thing is whenever something like this happens they generally are going to just pull someone from whatever local field office they have and it could very well be the case that this particular agent is who was available at the time in that field office. Not to mention the fact that when you are a special agent or agent in the FBI you do a little bit of everything..  Yes you may normally head one particular unit or specialize in one particular type of investigation or crime, but that doesn't really mean anything.. they are constantly retasked in the field office. Also you also come across many situations where, even though this person specializes in human trafficking cases, they may also be the most senior agent in that field office meaning that a case that is this prominent in the media is going to garner the attention and resources of the most senior field agent at that particular location, irregardless of whether or not it falls within their normal specialty..  But if we ignore every bit of that, I suppose, and only look at it from the very edge of the surface, one could attempt to draw the conclusion that "just because this agent is known for being a sex trade / human trafficking agent, then that must then guarantee the something fishy is going on since jussie Smollett is obviously not a victim of child prostitution, seeing as how he's an adult."