and if they did that would HAVE to be obstruction of justice, right? shit it seems like it's supposed to be now.
JAN 6 COMMITTEE FINAL PUBLIC HEARING MONDAY 12/19- They're making a list & Liz is checking it twice, criminal referrals on the way, MERRY XMAS BITCHES
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Of course. But like I said, the DOJ just isn't up to it.
oughtta be able to sue them bastards for abdication of their legal duties
where tf is eric holder stedman looking ass
Trying to preserve the right to vote from being cut by the Republicans and their fellow travellers...
Its been said that, the fate of the democracy is in Merrick Garland's hands, so its doomed.
Former Overstock CEO Testifies Before Jan. 6 Committee
Wait what in the hell huh this is very interesting. Again these fucking racist ass white people tried to do a coup in America. This hearing has been extremely important I’m glad the Democrats did this because January 6 was worse than I thought. If these racist ass white people would have succeeded We would have been in a civil war right now.
Been wondering why all a sudden all these attack ads have been popping up here in VA about Congresswoman Elaine Lurian now I see why they have been going hard the last two weeks. These MFs scared of something.
Rep. Elaine Luria front and center for final January 6 committee hearing
Congresswoman Elaine Luria, of Virginia’s 2nd congressional district, will be front and center when the final January 6th Committee hearing takes place before a prime time audience next Thursday ni…www.wavy.com
Like I said a few minutes ago this shit goes super deep. Republicans really did try to use Trump to create chaos. And also I still say that a foreign entity spearheaded this bullshit (Russia)
The secret support system for former aides taking on Trump: The other women
As the Jan. 6 hearings have progressed, a cadre of young, female, former Trump aides have created an informal support network to support it.
As Cassidy Hutchinson sat alone at a long wooden table inside a Capitol Hill hearing room, her one-time Trump White House colleague Alyssa Farah Griffin, watched from the CNN green room.
Griffin felt nervous. And for good reason. Hutchinson’s testimony before the Jan. 6 committee had been kept largely secret up till a day or so before. When it was revealed, it was under the billing that it would provide bombshells about what had transpired inside the Trump White House on that day.
As Hutchinson began laying out those eye-popping revelations, Griffin texted another former colleague, Sarah Matthews, slated to soon testify before the same committee. And she reached out to Olivia Troye, a former Trump national security official who was sitting in the hearing room as Hutchinson testified.
The women felt mutually stunned as they watched. They were also concerned for Hutchinson, understanding that as soon as she left that hearing room, she’d face intense scrutiny from the media, nasty messages and encounters online and, at times, in person, and the loneliness of being a Republican in Washington who speaks out against former President Donald Trump. After all, they each experienced that themselves.
When the proceedings were done they each reached out to Hutchinson, too.
“I was so nervous watching her,” said Griffin. “But she immediately had such a commanding presence — I was beyond proud to see my friend stand up before the world and tell the truth when so many others were too cowardly to do.”
The Jan. 6 committee hearings have been among the most dramatic and significant congressional investigations into the conduct of a White House in our nation’s history. They reflect months of research, painstaking work by investigators, and testimony from dozens of Trump officials, law enforcement officers and election experts. But a key component has been a small club of women who have provided critical testimony and created a support structure for one another to combat the intense backlash it’s produced.
The small group includes a current and former member of Congress, aides long exiled from Trumpland and those who only recently decided it was time to make a break. In phone calls and text messages, they have shared tips on how to report social media harassment, passed along advice on safety and security measures — such as the benefits of wearing a baseball hat while walking through an airport — and calmed the nerves of each other’s family members.
“It is a lonely space to come forward and part of it for me was to make sure that they knew that even though it feels lonely – they bully, they intimidate, they want to make you feel like there’s no one left in the world, that’s kind of the point – for me it was important for them to know I wasn’t going to waver on them and there would be others,” said Troye.
The “small, lonely girls club,” as one woman described it, is composed largely of former Trump aides who became disillusioned with his presidency. Griffin, his onetime communications director, resigned in December 2020 and has been critical of Trump since. Troye, who was a homeland security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, broke earlier in the summer of 2020 over frustrations with the president’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis. Hutchinson’s fissure came after Trump left office, when she was subpoenaed by the committee for her direct knowledge of what happened in the White House Jan. 6. Matthews, who served as the deputy press secretary under Kayleigh McEnany, broke with the Trump White House that day as Trump failed to calm the riots on Capitol Hill.
Having found themselves largely in the same political space — persona non grata in the professional infrastructure through which they made their careers — they formed a quasi- support network of their own.
There is no central line of communication. But over phone and text, they have regularly kept in touch throughout the course of the Jan. 6 committee hearings. In interviews, they have stressed they aren’t digging for information or trying to influence the committee’s proceedings. Instead, they’re reminding each other constantly that, at one of the most intense moments of their young lives — Hutchinson is 26, Matthews is 27, Griffin is 33, and Troye and Grisham are 45 — they are not alone.
After Hutchinson’s testimony, several of the women said they formed what they called an informal kind of “rapid response” unit — defending her on TV and on Twitter from attacks from the right, who see the women as traitors to Trump, and the left, who question how they could have ever served a president whose shortcomings were so readily apparent to them in real time.
“It’s a very unique group that experienced such a specific, critical moment in history together and I think we feel bonded by it and are incredibly protective of one another,” said Griffin.
At the heart of the group’s formation is a belief — especially unique to these circumstances but true in other crisis points for Washington D.C. — that female political operatives carry different burdens than their male colleagues. It has been manifested in the death threats and smears they have faced, at times from random social media users.
“U are a f—ing traitor. U need to be raped. We know where you live bitch. Ur a f—ing Rino,” read one series of recent Instagram messages left on one of the women’s accounts and shared with POLITICO.
There also are the disparaging messages blasted out on social media by Trump himself.
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The secret support system for former aides taking on Trump: The other women - POLITICO
As the Jan. 6 hearings have progressed, a cadre of young, female, former Trump aides have created an informal support network to support it.
As Cassidy Hutchinson sat alone at a long wooden table inside a Capitol Hill hearing room, her one-time Trump White House colleague Alyssa Farah Griffin, watched from the CNN green room.
Griffin felt nervous. And for good reason. Hutchinson’s testimony before the Jan. 6 committee had been kept largely secret up till a day or so before. When it was revealed, it was under the billing that it would provide bombshells about what had transpired inside the Trump White House on that day.
As Hutchinson began laying out those eye-popping revelations, Griffin texted another former colleague, Sarah Matthews, slated to soon testify before the same committee. And she reached out to Olivia Troye, a former Trump national security official who was sitting in the hearing room as Hutchinson testified.
The women felt mutually stunned as they watched. They were also concerned for Hutchinson, understanding that as soon as she left that hearing room, she’d face intense scrutiny from the media, nasty messages and encounters online and, at times, in person, and the loneliness of being a Republican in Washington who speaks out against former President Donald Trump. After all, they each experienced that themselves.
When the proceedings were done they each reached out to Hutchinson, too.
“I was so nervous watching her,” said Griffin. “But she immediately had such a commanding presence — I was beyond proud to see my friend stand up before the world and tell the truth when so many others were too cowardly to do.”
The Jan. 6 committee hearings have been among the most dramatic and significant congressional investigations into the conduct of a White House in our nation’s history. They reflect months of research, painstaking work by investigators, and testimony from dozens of Trump officials, law enforcement officers and election experts. But a key component has been a small club of women who have provided critical testimony and created a support structure for one another to combat the intense backlash it’s produced.
The small group includes a current and former member of Congress, aides long exiled from Trumpland and those who only recently decided it was time to make a break. In phone calls and text messages, they have shared tips on how to report social media harassment, passed along advice on safety and security measures — such as the benefits of wearing a baseball hat while walking through an airport — and calmed the nerves of each other’s family members.
“It is a lonely space to come forward and part of it for me was to make sure that they knew that even though it feels lonely – they bully, they intimidate, they want to make you feel like there’s no one left in the world, that’s kind of the point – for me it was important for them to know I wasn’t going to waver on them and there would be others,” said Troye.
The “small, lonely girls club,” as one woman described it, is composed largely of former Trump aides who became disillusioned with his presidency. Griffin, his onetime communications director, resigned in December 2020 and has been critical of Trump since. Troye, who was a homeland security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, broke earlier in the summer of 2020 over frustrations with the president’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis. Hutchinson’s fissure came after Trump left office, when she was subpoenaed by the committee for her direct knowledge of what happened in the White House Jan. 6. Matthews, who served as the deputy press secretary under Kayleigh McEnany, broke with the Trump White House that day as Trump failed to calm the riots on Capitol Hill.
Having found themselves largely in the same political space — persona non grata in the professional infrastructure through which they made their careers — they formed a quasi- support network of their own.
There is no central line of communication. But over phone and text, they have regularly kept in touch throughout the course of the Jan. 6 committee hearings. In interviews, they have stressed they aren’t digging for information or trying to influence the committee’s proceedings. Instead, they’re reminding each other constantly that, at one of the most intense moments of their young lives — Hutchinson is 26, Matthews is 27, Griffin is 33, and Troye and Grisham are 45 — they are not alone.
After Hutchinson’s testimony, several of the women said they formed what they called an informal kind of “rapid response” unit — defending her on TV and on Twitter from attacks from the right, who see the women as traitors to Trump, and the left, who question how they could have ever served a president whose shortcomings were so readily apparent to them in real time.
“It’s a very unique group that experienced such a specific, critical moment in history together and I think we feel bonded by it and are incredibly protective of one another,” said Griffin.
At the heart of the group’s formation is a belief — especially unique to these circumstances but true in other crisis points for Washington D.C. — that female political operatives carry different burdens than their male colleagues. It has been manifested in the death threats and smears they have faced, at times from random social media users.
“U are a f—ing traitor. U need to be raped. We know where you live bitch. Ur a f—ing Rino,” read one series of recent Instagram messages left on one of the women’s accounts and shared with POLITICO.
There also are the disparaging messages blasted out on social media by Trump himself.
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The secret support system for former aides taking on Trump: The other women - POLITICO
January 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service for records
US Secret Service Director James Murray listens during a news conference on July 9, 2019, in Alexandria, Virginia.
(CNN)The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has issued a subpoena to the US Secret Service, marking the first time the panel has publicly done so for an executive branch agency.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who chairs the committee, wrote in a letter Friday to Secret Service Director James Murray that the panel is seeking Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, and reiterated three previous requests for information by congressional committees.
"The Select Committee has been informed that the USSS erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 as part of a 'device-replacement program.' In a statement issued July 14, 2022, the USSS stated that it 'began to reset its mobile phones to factory settings as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration. In that process, data resident on some phones was lost.' However, according to that USSS statement, 'none of the texts it [DHS Office of Inspector General] was seeking had been lost in the migration,'" Thompson wrote.
"Accordingly, the Select Committee seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021," he continued.
The committee had planned to reach out to Secret Service officials to ask about the erasure of text messages from the day of the US Capitol attack and the day before, including the agency's process for cleaning out files to see if that policy was followed, Thompson previously told CNN.
Earlier Friday, Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari told the committee in a briefing that the Secret Service did not conduct its own after-action review regarding January 6 and chose to rely on the inspector general investigation, according to a source familiar with the briefing. The Secret Service, Cuffari told the panel, has not been fully cooperative with his probe.
Thompson confirmed the inspector general's remarks on a lack of cooperation, telling CNN, "Well, they have not been fully cooperating," and that the panel has "had limited engagement with Secret Service."
"We'll follow up with some additional engagement now that we've met with the IG," he said, adding that the panel would work "to try to ascertain if those texts can be resurrected."
The US Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency's response to the US Capitol riot, according to a letter given to the House select committee investigating the insurrection.
The letter, which was originally sent to the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, said the messages were erased from the system as part of a device-replacement program after the watchdog asked the agency for records related to its electronic communications.
"First, the Department notified us that many US Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program. The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol on January 6," Cuffari stated in the letter.
"Second, DHS personnel have repeatedly told OIG inspectors that they were not permitted to provide records directly to OIG and that such records had to first undergo review by DHS attorneys," Cuffari added. "This review led to weeks-long delays in OIG obtaining records and created confusion over whether all records had been produced."
A DHS official provided CNN a timeline of when the IG was informed by Secret Service of the missing information caused by the data transfer. In a statement Thursday night, Secret Service had said the IG first requested information on February 26, 2021, but it did not specify when the agency acknowledged the problem.
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January 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service for records - CNNPolitics
US Secret Service Director James Murray listens during a news conference on July 9, 2019, in Alexandria, Virginia.
(CNN)The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has issued a subpoena to the US Secret Service, marking the first time the panel has publicly done so for an executive branch agency.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who chairs the committee, wrote in a letter Friday to Secret Service Director James Murray that the panel is seeking Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, and reiterated three previous requests for information by congressional committees.
"The Select Committee has been informed that the USSS erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 as part of a 'device-replacement program.' In a statement issued July 14, 2022, the USSS stated that it 'began to reset its mobile phones to factory settings as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration. In that process, data resident on some phones was lost.' However, according to that USSS statement, 'none of the texts it [DHS Office of Inspector General] was seeking had been lost in the migration,'" Thompson wrote.
"Accordingly, the Select Committee seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021," he continued.
The committee had planned to reach out to Secret Service officials to ask about the erasure of text messages from the day of the US Capitol attack and the day before, including the agency's process for cleaning out files to see if that policy was followed, Thompson previously told CNN.
Earlier Friday, Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari told the committee in a briefing that the Secret Service did not conduct its own after-action review regarding January 6 and chose to rely on the inspector general investigation, according to a source familiar with the briefing. The Secret Service, Cuffari told the panel, has not been fully cooperative with his probe.
Thompson confirmed the inspector general's remarks on a lack of cooperation, telling CNN, "Well, they have not been fully cooperating," and that the panel has "had limited engagement with Secret Service."
"We'll follow up with some additional engagement now that we've met with the IG," he said, adding that the panel would work "to try to ascertain if those texts can be resurrected."
The US Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency's response to the US Capitol riot, according to a letter given to the House select committee investigating the insurrection.
The letter, which was originally sent to the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, said the messages were erased from the system as part of a device-replacement program after the watchdog asked the agency for records related to its electronic communications.
"First, the Department notified us that many US Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program. The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol on January 6," Cuffari stated in the letter.
"Second, DHS personnel have repeatedly told OIG inspectors that they were not permitted to provide records directly to OIG and that such records had to first undergo review by DHS attorneys," Cuffari added. "This review led to weeks-long delays in OIG obtaining records and created confusion over whether all records had been produced."
A DHS official provided CNN a timeline of when the IG was informed by Secret Service of the missing information caused by the data transfer. In a statement Thursday night, Secret Service had said the IG first requested information on February 26, 2021, but it did not specify when the agency acknowledged the problem.
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January 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service for records - CNNPolitics
Rachel Maddow: Merrick Garland Gave Donald Trump a Reason to Announce 2024 Presidential Run Early (Video)
Benjamin Lindsay
Tue, July 19, 2022 at 12:29 PM
Attorney General Merrick Garland is extending a policy that mandates he sign off personally on any Department of Justice investigations of presidential candidates and their affiliates, citing “election year sensitivities.” The previously unprecedented policy was first instated in February 2020 by former AG William Barr and was largely seen at the time as a means of protecting Donald Trump.
The news broke Monday night with exclusive excerpts of the memo on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” where the host revealed that Garland first sent the memo in May 2022.
While much of the memo’s contents were standard practice, the stipulation in question reads: “No investigation (including any preliminary investigation) may be opened or initiated by the Department or any of its law enforcement agencies: 1. Of a Declared candidate for president or vice president, a presidential campaign, or a senior presidential campaign staff member or advisor absent prior (i) written notification to and consultation with the Assistant Attorney(s) General and U.S. Attorney(s) with jurisdiction over the matter and (ii) written approval of the Attorney General, through the Deputy Attorney General.”
Putting it in layman’s terms, Maddow emphasized: “In essence, nobody’s allowed to investigate anybody connected to a presidential candidate without his permission, personally, as AG.”
So what’s been happening on Capitol Hill since Garland sent out that instruction to all Department of Justice employees? Maddow posed the rhetorical to her at-home audience.
“Well, former president Donald Trump has had the delightful experience of the Jan. 6 investigation, essentially rolling out a real-time, primetime criminal referral of him to the justice department,” Maddow said, answering her own question. “And also since this memo went out, Trump has responded to all these revelations about him and Jan. 6 by reportedly moving to speed up his own declaration that he’s going to be a candidate for president again.”
Spotting a potential correlation between the two developments, Maddow indicated that the sooner Trump announces his 2024 presidential bid, the sooner he will have another barrier to criminal prosecution for his alleged actions surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“Yes, it would be unorthodox for him to announce two years in advance that he’s a candidate for president. Why would he do that? Well, now we know now that we’ve obtained this Justice Department memo from a few weeks ago.
Now we know for sure that it does kick something into action, if he in fact announces himself as a declared candidate for president,” Maddow said. “That means any investigation that relates to him or anyone working for him has to be personally cleared in writing through the very highest echelons of the justice department.
Benjamin Lindsay
Tue, July 19, 2022 at 12:29 PM
Attorney General Merrick Garland is extending a policy that mandates he sign off personally on any Department of Justice investigations of presidential candidates and their affiliates, citing “election year sensitivities.” The previously unprecedented policy was first instated in February 2020 by former AG William Barr and was largely seen at the time as a means of protecting Donald Trump.
The news broke Monday night with exclusive excerpts of the memo on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” where the host revealed that Garland first sent the memo in May 2022.
While much of the memo’s contents were standard practice, the stipulation in question reads: “No investigation (including any preliminary investigation) may be opened or initiated by the Department or any of its law enforcement agencies: 1. Of a Declared candidate for president or vice president, a presidential campaign, or a senior presidential campaign staff member or advisor absent prior (i) written notification to and consultation with the Assistant Attorney(s) General and U.S. Attorney(s) with jurisdiction over the matter and (ii) written approval of the Attorney General, through the Deputy Attorney General.”
Putting it in layman’s terms, Maddow emphasized: “In essence, nobody’s allowed to investigate anybody connected to a presidential candidate without his permission, personally, as AG.”
So what’s been happening on Capitol Hill since Garland sent out that instruction to all Department of Justice employees? Maddow posed the rhetorical to her at-home audience.
“Well, former president Donald Trump has had the delightful experience of the Jan. 6 investigation, essentially rolling out a real-time, primetime criminal referral of him to the justice department,” Maddow said, answering her own question. “And also since this memo went out, Trump has responded to all these revelations about him and Jan. 6 by reportedly moving to speed up his own declaration that he’s going to be a candidate for president again.”
Spotting a potential correlation between the two developments, Maddow indicated that the sooner Trump announces his 2024 presidential bid, the sooner he will have another barrier to criminal prosecution for his alleged actions surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“Yes, it would be unorthodox for him to announce two years in advance that he’s a candidate for president. Why would he do that? Well, now we know now that we’ve obtained this Justice Department memo from a few weeks ago.
Now we know for sure that it does kick something into action, if he in fact announces himself as a declared candidate for president,” Maddow said. “That means any investigation that relates to him or anyone working for him has to be personally cleared in writing through the very highest echelons of the justice department.
Yup behind the scenes they are putting the screws in trump.
Trump didn't call off his mob until 4:17 p.m. on Jan 6. Why did he do it then? He didn't do it because he thought it was the right thing to do.
He did it because he had just received the message that Mike Pence had usurped his authority and called out the National Guard (thread)
Trump finally realized that he did not have the people or the weapons in place to defeat the National Guard.
But, his plan had been to declare martial law after the mob took over the Capitol.
Let's look at the timeline for that day:
At 2:12 p.m., Pence was rushed off the Senate floor as the mob closed in.
Twelve minutes later, at 2:24 p.m., Trump tweeted:
"Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a ...
corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify.”.
At 3:36 p.m., Kayleigh McEnany tweeted that Trump had just called in the National Guard. We now know that this is not true. ...
We now know Trump was not the one who called in the National Guard, Pence did that. A few minutes after Pence called them into the Capitol, someone informed Trump. Trump then told Kayleigh McEnany to put out the tweet that he was the one who had called out the National Guard. ...
At 4:08 p.m., Pence placed an urgent phone call from the Capitol to Stephen Miller, informing him that the Capitol was not secure, that rioters were brutalizing police and vandalizing the building, and asking for military leaders to provide a timeline for securing the building.
Nine minutes later, at 4:17 p.m., Trump realized that his mob had not overrun the Capitol, and it was going to be defeated and embarrassingly beaten down by a stronger force. So, he then tweeted out his video message to the organized mob of rioting thugs he had incited. ...
"I know your pain. I know your hurt," he begins. "We love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens. You've seen the way others are treated. ... I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace."
Enough District of Columbia riot police and National Guardsmen had arrived to thwart his coup plan. Maryland and Virginia were also preparing to send additional National Guard and state troopers to DC to help secure the Capitol. Realizing this, Trump THEN tells his mob to retreat
Invoking martial law after his organized and incited mob had overrun the Capitol, forced Congress to flee, and disrupted and delayed the certification process was the plan for Jan. 6.
If 100,000 people had shown up that day, instead of just 20-30,000, the plan might have worked.
The mob was deceptively well-organized and had a specific plan to disrupt the certification of the vote. They headed straight to the parliamentarian's office and immediately ransacked it looking for the electoral college ballots.
The ballots were with the fleeing Congresspeople.
“I believe those rioters were keenly focused -- this was not a protest, it wasn’t -- this was an effort to stop a transition of power,” said Karl. “I believe they were searching for those ballots with the intent of destroying them.”
Capitol insurrection: Jonathan Karl reveals Senate Parliamentarian office was ransacked the most during riots - EconoTimesA pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol in the final weeks ahead of the official inauguration of Joe Biden in an effort to stop the counting of electoral votes by Congress. According to ABC journalist Jo…https://www.econotimes.com/Capitol-...e-was-ransacked-the-most-during-riots-1621641
Wikipedia has an extensive timeline of Jan. 6. It has many interesting details about the deployment of the National Guard on that day, and it illustrates the utter chaos that transpired.
Timeline of the 2021 United States Capitol attack - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2021_United_States_Capitol_attack
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said that the Department of Defense “repeatedly denied” requests to authorize the deployment of Maryland’s National Guard troops to help quell violence at the Capitol. The troops were stuck at the state border waiting for hours.
Maryland Governor Says Pentagon ‘Repeatedly Denied’ Approval To Send National Guard To CapitolHogan said Congressional leaders were ‘pleading’ with him to send assistance but that he was delayed by an hour and a half.https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrew...d-approval-to-send-national-guard-to-capitol/
Statement by Acting Secretary Miller on Full Activation of D.C. National Guard
(Released on Jan. 6, 2021, after speaking with Pence, Pelosi, Schumer, and McConnell)
Chris Miller served as Acting Secretary of Defense, from Nov. 9, 2020, until Jan. 20, 2021
Statement by Acting Secretary Miller on Full Activation of D.C. National GuardActing Defense Secretary Miller issued a statement on the full activation of the D.C. National Guard.https://www.defense.gov/News/Releas...ller-on-full-activation-of-dc-national-guard/
“We need to hear in detail the extent to which domestic terror groups like Oath Keepers and Proud Boys were prepared for battle and planned to breach. There was a month's worth of food supplies stocked around DC. Think about preparing for a battle...”
Frank Figliuzzi: ‘There was a month's worth of food supplies stocked around DC’ ahead of January 6Former Assistant FBI Director Frank Figliuzzi, former U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg, and former RNC Chairman Michael Steele join Andrea Mitchell, Katy Tur and Hallie Jackson ahead of the seventh Janua…
Acting Sec. Def. Christopher Miller sent out a memo on Jan. 4 specifically requiring his “personal authorization” for DC National Guard to employ riot control agents & other tactics on Jan. 6.
Was he in on the coup until it was clear that it would fail?
More info on Christopher C. Miller.
One lone cop led an advancing mob from an unsecured door to the main hall.
A handful of staffers secured the ballots and took them with them while fleeing.
Pence chooses to stay put instead of getting in a car.
It's crazy how, short a few very specific actions, this whole thing might have turned out way worse. And it's still pretty bad as a failed attempt.
i don't know how to feel about this shit
All this shit should be a tv series when it's all said and done, there is a enough for at least 3 to 4 seasons
45 maybe, maybe not but, all the rest off them they will get cause they already selling each other out cause they are starting to figure out they all have been put in the pawn position to be sacrificed.
Right.
If they had any real evidence on trump the DOJ would have already had grand jury up and running.
Again this is just the mainstream media leading you around for hits and clicks.
Like they been doing for 6 years now
‘Sprint through the finish’: Why the Jan. 6 committee isn't nearly done
The panel has a much-anticipated hearing Thursday that is expected to feature former Trump White House press aide Sarah Matthews and former deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger. But that won't be the end.
As new material pours in and a potential second round of hearings gets slated for the fall, though, this week looks more like a season finale than a season ender.
Committee members, aides and allies are emboldened by the public reaction to the information they're unearthing about the former president’s actions and say their full sprint will continue, even past November.
The Jan. 6 select committee once envisioned a single month packed with hearings. Then a fire hose of evidence came its way — and now its members have no interest in shutting or even slowing the spigot.
As its summer hearings show some signs of chipping at Donald Trump’s electoral appeal, select panel members describe Thursday’s hearing as only the last in a series. Committee members, aides and allies are emboldened by the public reaction to the information they’re unearthing about the former president’s actions and say their full sprint will continue, even past November.
The only hard deadline, they say, is Jan. 3, 2023, when Republicans likely take over the House.
Thursday’s hearing will focus on Trump’s hours of inaction on Jan. 6, 2021, while a mob ransacked the Capitol and supporters, aides and family members begged him to speak out. But beyond that, the committee is pursuing multiple new avenues of inquiry created by its investigation of Trump’s scheme to seize a second term he didn’t win, from questions about the Secret Service’s internal communications as well as leads provided by high-level witnesses from his White House.
“It’s been amazing to see, kind of, the flurry of people coming forward,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of the panel’s two Republican members. “So it’s not the time to wind it down.”
The new open-ended timeline is a marked shift in the public posture of a committee that once eyed a conclusion as early as springtime, then looked to a September wrap-up. A confluence of forces, led by a series of recent breakthroughs, has led to its new posture.
A major reason to continue, for many select panel members, is the public discussion they’ve driven about what they see as an ongoing threat to democracy posed by Trump and his allies. With every new hearing, particularly as White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described an enraged Trump directing armed supporters to the Capitol and trying to join them there, the panel has seemed to get further under the skin of the former president as he contemplates a third bid for the White House.
Each hearing has offered new insights about the Trump-driven push to unravel his loss based on false fraud claims — and as a result has motivated new witnesses to come forward. Aides and members say Thursday’s, featuring witnesses including former Trump White House press aide Sarah Matthews and former deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger, will be no different.
“We’re going to sprint through the finish,” select panel member Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) said in a brief interview.
“The peak investigative time was probably February, March, or April,” he said. “It’s fewer interviews right now, but I don’t think that means we’re letting up. We’re doing some re-interviews of folks, but it’s important.”
The panel has spent recent weeks highlighting several facets of Trump’s election subversion effort: his bid to deploy the Justice Department to help sow doubts about the election, his pressure on state legislatures to defy the will of voters by appointing alternate electors, his push for then-Vice President Mike Pence to single-handedly reverse the outcome, and the way his rhetoric activated domestic extremists and conspiracy theorists to march on the Capitol.
As Aguilar observed, the rhythm of witness interviews has remained steady, far from an indication of a wind-down. Former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne participated in a lengthy interview Friday to discuss his participation in a Dec. 18, 2020, Oval Office meeting in which Trump and outside advisers discussed the prospect of martial law and seizing voting machines.
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The panel has a much-anticipated hearing Thursday that is expected to feature former Trump White House press aide Sarah Matthews and former deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger. But that won't be the end.
As new material pours in and a potential second round of hearings gets slated for the fall, though, this week looks more like a season finale than a season ender.
Committee members, aides and allies are emboldened by the public reaction to the information they're unearthing about the former president’s actions and say their full sprint will continue, even past November.
The Jan. 6 select committee once envisioned a single month packed with hearings. Then a fire hose of evidence came its way — and now its members have no interest in shutting or even slowing the spigot.
As its summer hearings show some signs of chipping at Donald Trump’s electoral appeal, select panel members describe Thursday’s hearing as only the last in a series. Committee members, aides and allies are emboldened by the public reaction to the information they’re unearthing about the former president’s actions and say their full sprint will continue, even past November.
The only hard deadline, they say, is Jan. 3, 2023, when Republicans likely take over the House.
Thursday’s hearing will focus on Trump’s hours of inaction on Jan. 6, 2021, while a mob ransacked the Capitol and supporters, aides and family members begged him to speak out. But beyond that, the committee is pursuing multiple new avenues of inquiry created by its investigation of Trump’s scheme to seize a second term he didn’t win, from questions about the Secret Service’s internal communications as well as leads provided by high-level witnesses from his White House.
“It’s been amazing to see, kind of, the flurry of people coming forward,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of the panel’s two Republican members. “So it’s not the time to wind it down.”
The new open-ended timeline is a marked shift in the public posture of a committee that once eyed a conclusion as early as springtime, then looked to a September wrap-up. A confluence of forces, led by a series of recent breakthroughs, has led to its new posture.
A major reason to continue, for many select panel members, is the public discussion they’ve driven about what they see as an ongoing threat to democracy posed by Trump and his allies. With every new hearing, particularly as White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described an enraged Trump directing armed supporters to the Capitol and trying to join them there, the panel has seemed to get further under the skin of the former president as he contemplates a third bid for the White House.
Each hearing has offered new insights about the Trump-driven push to unravel his loss based on false fraud claims — and as a result has motivated new witnesses to come forward. Aides and members say Thursday’s, featuring witnesses including former Trump White House press aide Sarah Matthews and former deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger, will be no different.
“We’re going to sprint through the finish,” select panel member Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) said in a brief interview.
“The peak investigative time was probably February, March, or April,” he said. “It’s fewer interviews right now, but I don’t think that means we’re letting up. We’re doing some re-interviews of folks, but it’s important.”
The panel has spent recent weeks highlighting several facets of Trump’s election subversion effort: his bid to deploy the Justice Department to help sow doubts about the election, his pressure on state legislatures to defy the will of voters by appointing alternate electors, his push for then-Vice President Mike Pence to single-handedly reverse the outcome, and the way his rhetoric activated domestic extremists and conspiracy theorists to march on the Capitol.
As Aguilar observed, the rhythm of witness interviews has remained steady, far from an indication of a wind-down. Former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne participated in a lengthy interview Friday to discuss his participation in a Dec. 18, 2020, Oval Office meeting in which Trump and outside advisers discussed the prospect of martial law and seizing voting machines.
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