smallfil the troll states... ----- It is all a plot to prosecute Trump supporters and demonize them in extreme liberal media. ----- What he continues to refuse to acknowledge...+100,000 Republicans have left the party because of the insurrection on our Democracy and Capitol. https://people.com/politics/data-shows-tens-of-thousands-of-republicans-left-the-party/ That's not extreme media considering I watched it live on TV as it was happening on both CNN, FOX, and a conservative news channel in Québec, Canada along with the rest of the world (e.g. France). Simply, the entire world saw what the insurrectionists did in real-time on TV in many different languages and these idiots like @smallfil have been trying their hardest to downplay it, whitewash it and blame it on liberal media. I had a military friend call me from South Korea and ask me while it was happening...is that shit real ??? More stupidity by many insurrectionists...they were live streaming what they were doing (e.g. building gallows, searching the halls for Pence, Pelosi and other congregational members)...leaving a trail of evidence to be used against them later (arrests and prosecution). wrbtrader
House committee plans to seek phone records in probe of January 6, including from members of Congress https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/23/...e-phone-records-members-of-congress/index.htm The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot is poised to send notices to various telecommunications companies requesting that they preserve the phone records of several people, including members of Congress, multiple sources tell CNN. Preserving communications records is the first step in an investigatory process that could eventually lead to witness testimony. The notices are set to go out as soon as this week and provide the first window into the kinds of information the committee plans to pursue. Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, who serves as chairman of the Select Committee, has said that he hopes to issue subpoenas by the end of August. Thompson also has signed off on a broader investigative strategy that will serve as a guide for the panel's work going forward, according to a source familiar with the planning document. While it remains unclear which members' records the committee is interested in, several Republican lawmakers, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, have acknowledged speaking to then-President Donald Trump by phone on January 6. Democrats have also accused some of their GOP colleagues of interacting with individuals who stormed the US Capitol prior to the attack. In an interview with CNN on Monday, Thompson confirmed the committee was poised to send letters to telecom companies but also indicated they would be sent to social media companies, though he declined to name which ones. "In terms of telecom companies, they're the ones that pretty much you already know, the major networks, the social media platforms, those kinds of things," Thompson told CNN on Monday. "I can tell you that we'll look at everything that will give us information on what happened on January 6," Thompson said. "We will look at all records at some point." The Mississippi Democrat said the letters requesting that records be preserved have not gone out yet, but that there is a wide range of people who the Committee is planning to contact. "We have quite an exhaustive list of people. I won't tell you who they are. But it's several hundred people that make up the list of individuals we plan to contact," he said. Jordan, who has said that he spoke to former Trump on January 6, told CNN on Monday that he had not been contacted by the committee to preserve his records, but said if he does he will comply. "I've got nothing to hide. I've said that along, I've nothing to hide," Jordan, an Ohio Republican, said but then warned that should the committee take that step there could be political retribution. Much of the committee's work so far has been behind closed doors, and the exact scope of the investigation remains unclear but there are signs it could balloon into a massive undertaking. The scope and purview of the committee's work was part of what led to Republicans revolting over the concept of an independent bipartisan commission, but the select committee will likely be more expansive than the independent commission Republicans blocked in the spring. The resolution empowering the Select Committee provides no specific limitations as to what it can and cannot investigate, leaving it up to the Committee to impose its own guard rails and narrower focus. Initial plans involve compiling massive amounts of data, documents and eventually compelling testimony from a wide swath of potential witnesses, including members of Congress, former members of the Trump administration, and some of the hundreds of rioters who have been charged with assaulting the Capitol that day. It also appears that the Committee could have limitless resources. Though the group has yet to clarify how much it intends to spend, the flexible language dictating its funding mirrors the framework for the select committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi. That committee ended up spending close to $7 million over two years. The committee kicked off its work on July 27 with an emotional public hearing featuring testimony from four front line law enforcement officers. No additional public hearings have been scheduled. To date, committee officials have offered few details about potential subpoena targets though GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and other members of the panel have made clear investigators must "get to every piece of information that matters." That likely includes stitching together a detailed understanding of what Trump and his closest allies were doing that day and in the lead up to the attack. The Select Committee has also begun meeting with relevant agencies at the staff level, one of the sources familiar with the Committee's investigation told CNN, another indication that the probe may finally start ramping up in the coming days and weeks. The panel has expressed an interest in speaking to former DOJ officials who have been linked to Trump's effort to push false voter fraud claims. CNN previously reported it could seek relevant White House call logs from the National Archives, which has legal custody of all the presidential records from Trump's time in office. Earlier this month, the Archives acknowledged to CNN that it has possession of the Trump-era call logs and other potentially relevant records from the previous administration. In March, the Archives received a letter from several House committees "requesting records related to the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol," but it is unclear whether White House call logs were considered part of that specific ask. Still, the Archives noted that there is a process "by which the Congress and the incumbent administration may request access to records of former administrations." The House committees that signed the March letter have been receiving documents on an ongoing basis from the Archives, according to two sources familiar with the process. Those documents, and other materials relevant to January 6, will be shared with the Select Committee which is now running point on examining all matters related to the attack, the sources added.
Secret Service warned Capitol Police about violent threats 1 day before Jan. 6 The documents shed further light on the intelligence failures by the Capitol Police in the days before the riot. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/...ol-police-violent-threats-january-riot-506806
Let's be honest. There was no insurrection. There were however misguided individuals who wandered in, or were let in, to The Capitol and caused no harm. In addition, there were people who were not Trump Supporters that attempted violent acts in order to "pin it" on Trump and his supporters. ---I do not support the folks that went into The Capitol, but enough already. This was not an insurrection-------meanwhile Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis actual rioters have gotten away scot-free.
Jan. 6 committee demands a huge trove of Trump White House records https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/25/jan-6-committee-demands-huge-trove-of-trump-white-house-records.html The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol formally demanded records related to at least 30 members of former President Donald Trump’s inner circle. The demand was part of a sweeping records request that encompasses archives from the Trump White House as well as seven other Executive Branch agencies. WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol demanded records on Wednesday related to at least 30 members of former President Donald Trump’s inner circle. The demand is part of a sweeping formal records request that encompasses archived communications from the Trump White House as well as seven other Executive Branch agencies. In a statement accompanying the letters Wednesday, the Select Committee said it wanted information related to: the gathering and dissemination of intelligence before the attack security preparations around the Capitol the role agencies played in defense of the Capitol planning and organization of events in Washington on Jan. 5 and 6 how the events of Jan. 6 “fit in the continuum of efforts to subvert the rule of law, overturn the results of the November 3, 2020 election, or otherwise impede the peaceful transfer of power” The letters, signed by Select Committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., gave recipients until Sept. 9 to fulfill the committee’s demands. The committee has been granted subpoena powers, so agencies that fail to meet the deadline would likely receive subpoenas for the information. The longest of the eight letters is addressed to the National Archives and Records Administration, the agency that maintains White House communication records. Four of the letters are addressed to leaders of the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice and the Interior. Three letters are to the directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Counterterrorism Center and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The records being sought by Thompson’s bipartisan committee deal with the weeks leading up to the deadly assault as well as what happened on that day, when thousands of violent Trump supporters overran Capitol police in a failed attempt to stop the Senate from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. Together they represent a new phase in the committee’s probe, one that could bring to light information that the former president would prefer to keep secret. From the beginning, Trump has wavered in his approach to the attack. Under pressure from his aides, he publicly distanced himself from the riot, which left 5 people dead and stunned millions of Americans. But privately, Trump supported the rioters, first by refusing to call them off for hours during the attack itself, and since then, by offering thinly veiled praise for them. In one case, Trump has painted rioter Ashli Babbitt, who was killed by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to enter the Speaker’s Lobby through a broken window, as a heroine. Capitol Police investigated the shooting and determined that it was a justifiable use of force in the line of duty. The officer, who has not been publicly identified, will sit down for an exclusive interview Wednesday evening with NBC News’ Lester Holt.
Capitol Police officers sue Trump, extremists, alleging conspiracy, terrorism on Jan. 6 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-roger-stone-far-right-extremists/5593486001/