The US Capitol has been Breached [Action and Developing stories]

[Whitewater Horn 972]

What time is the inauguration? The Q folks aren’t big on specifics. 

[Js1 87174]

2 minutes ago, Whitewater Horn said:

What time is the inauguration? The Q folks aren’t big on specifics. 

Noon ET.  Like the CONSTITUTION SAYS BEFORE IT WAS CHANGED BY THE DEEP STATE

[Red Five 41703]

Where will the inauguration take place? Do they have to put back up all that scaffolding and shit? I imagine there's a lot that has to happen at the White House as well, with the transition and everything. I hope someone is on top of all this. 

[TexArcher 39037]

5 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Where will the inauguration take place?

Mar-A-Lago.  That was the original capital city before the Northeastern liberals took over and moved it to D.C. and whitewashed Mar-A-Lago from the history books.  It's all online, man, you just have to know where to look for the truth.  Why do you think Trump put his resort down there?  He's been playing the long game and now it'll be the new White House in an hour.  Checkmate, libtards.  

[Neonmoon 38130]

5 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

 

Hang this traitor 

[Willfully Horn 8258]

5 hours ago, B00M said:

I guess this is breaking news so I can't find a transcript or any news source elaborating on it. Big if true.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/03/973292523/dod-took-hours-to-approve-national-guard-request-during-capitol-riot-commander-s

[RomaVicta 30556]

6 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Hang this traitor 

I read the earliest newsstories about this. When it was first revealed that Flynn had been present at the meetings, Penatagon officials claimed he played the most minor of roles and was not involved in any decision-making. There were also sources who spoke highly of Flynn and thought it would be a tragedy if his fine record was diminshed by who his brother is.

Whaddaya know. More lies.

They also told us the delay was due to "optics." No it wasn't. The National guard was delayed pending the outcome of the insurrection. Period.

[Neonmoon 38130]

Geee, I wonder who this could be 

 

[RomaVicta 30556]

2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Geee, I wonder who this could be 

 

So, these US lawmakers were communicating with Antifa? Get a rope.

[hayden_horn 11402]

4 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Geee, I wonder who this could be 

 

bring em all down. 

[RDCanecutter 26871]

A'ight Libtards. Rest easy. Night is falling, and Q/Oathkeepers/ProudBoys are fixin to swoop down out of the sky like Flyin' Monkeys wearin them squirrel suit thangs.

YOU AIN'T NEVER GON SEE IT COMIN TIL IT'S TOO LATE.

[Satchel 6982]

2 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

bring em all down. 

Hehe, there’s more:

“FBI collection of phone metadata and geolocator data — permissible under federal law — was the subject of multiple lines of questions this week by some senators who pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray to reveal what investigators were doing with communications and financial data. Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Josh Hawley of Missouri suggested at a hearing Tuesday that the FBI could be overstepping its authority by scooping up communications data.

Investigators also have Capitol Police security footage that Democrats want examined to see if any members gave tours to riot participants in advance of January 6. Democrats have accused unnamed Republicans of providing rallygoers access, suggesting they were surveillance opportunities ahead of the riot.

Other lawmakers have a separate concern, that as investigators move closer to the activities of lawmakers, some members of Congress could use the protections of the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause to try to block the work of the FBI. The clause provides legal immunity to members of Congress when carrying out their legislative duties.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, says he’s asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate because he believes Congress will be able to get information that the FBI may have trouble getting because of the Speech or Debate protections.”

 

[Guest Lobo]

Publish the names of every Republican who sought protection under those provisions.  Publish the legal request for them, when they received it, when they replied with their denial of the request, and when you received that denial.  Ask for the same from a number of Democrats in the interest of balance and transparency and make damn sure they consent immediately.  And then let the handful of independents in this nation see the awkward list of 17 GOP Senators and 94 GOP House Members that said, "No, I do not consent to you seeing any correspondence I may have had, or didn't have, with these many named insurrectionists because it falls under 'Debate Protections'."  

[mdmost 43946]

Hey look, we had no idea these crazy people who we've been feeding crazy conspiracy theories to thus creating a tinderbox that was bound to ignite would actually do something crazy. We just gave these crazies a tour. 

[Satchel 6982]

Regarding the proposed 1/6/21 Commission:

 

Members of the 9/11 Commission urged Democrats to carefully define the scope of their proposed Jan. 6 panel. Legislation establishing its mission, they said, should exclude extraneous issues but focus on painting the most comprehensive picture possible of who and what fueled the insurrection, including the funding of its participants, and who botched the security response.

"During the course of [the 9/11] investigation, we asked the staff again and again to tell us what the mandate was," Hamilton said. "The mandate governs the process, and it has to be very carefully worked out.”

The commission must also have subpoena power and adequate resources, they say. Kean also told POLITICO that the 9/11 Commission became a clearinghouse of sorts to debunk conspiracy theories about the event — suggesting that any 1/6 commission could fulfill a similar purpose.

"This is a time when rumors spread, when falsehoods abound," he said. "It’s hard for people to understand what’s true and not true."

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/16/capitol-riot-commission-469157

 

 

[Guest Lobo]

Yeah, that's about what it's coming to.  That's gonna be their last line of defense.  How can they feign surprise.  Yeah, I gave that tour of the pharmacy to that group of Patriotic Rehab patients because they said they wanted to see America be great again.  I had no idea they'd use that detailed list of which drugs were on which shelves to do something sinister the next day.  

But these fucking Magats and their enablers inside Congress:

"Very well, I knew them.  I corresponded with them.  We gave them a tour.  We gave them detailed maps of the facility.  We gave them a close-in parking visitors permit for the following day.  And I even talked to them that morning.  But dammit, I have rights as a Legislator...I'm not gonna reveal the contents of our conversations...you can't violate my privacy or free speech rights.  But by the look on your face, you've already heard the tapes.  Dammit, I have the worst fucking attorneys."

 

[TwiceHorn 32071]

This protest of FBI tactics is not without precedent.  Before Wm. Jefferson (D-La) was indicted and convicted, his office in the Rayburn Building was tossed and evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant.  There was a big bipartisan kerfuffle about that, and a motion to quash evidence in his criminal case.

Here's what the DC Circuit said about the Speech and Debate "privilege:"

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Thus, our opinion in Brown & Williamson makes clear that a key purpose of the privilege is to prevent intrusions in the legislative process and that the legislative process is disrupted by the disclosure of legislative material, regardless of the use to which the disclosed materials are put. See 62 F.3d at 419. The bar on compelled disclosure is absolute, see Eastland, 421 U.S. at 503, and there is no reason to believe that the bar does not apply in the criminal as well as the civil context. The Executive does not argue otherwise; the search warrant sought only materials not protected by the Speech or Debate Clause. Although Brown & Williamson involved civil litigation and the documents being sought were legislative in nature, the court's discussion of the Speech or Debate Clause was more profound and repeatedly referred to the functioning of the Clause in criminal proceedings. See, e.g., Brown & Williamson, 62 F.3d at 416.^[4]

So, documents and things bearing a legitimate relationship to the legislative process are absolutely privileged by the Speech and Debate clause.

Electronic location data probably has no legitimate relationship to the legislative process, so would not be covered, and there's probably not a privacy interest in it that requires a warrant prior to acquisition.

Text messages and emails and phone calls are going to depend on what's in them and what if any relationship can be claimed to the legislative process.

[Satchel 6982]

The FBI on Thursday arrested Federico Klein, a former State Department aide, on charges related to the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, marking the first known instance of an appointee of President Donald Trump facing criminal prosecution in connection with the attempt to block Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory.

Klein, 42, was taken into custody in Virginia, said Samantha Shero, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Washington Field Office. Details on the charges against him were not immediately available.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/04/trump-appointee-arrested-for-capitol-riot-473825

[bolverk 30313]

I guess this is the right thread for this.

 

[Satchel 6982]

 

[NWBuck 8629]

38 minutes ago, Satchel said:

 

That's a title? Man, I spend my life working to be either "special" or "in charge", and this lucky son of a bitch gets to be both.

[Guest Lobo]

Are we just tracking our state extra close or does 20+ Dallas-area arrests out of <300 seem like a lot?  

Is the Big D the Big Stupid of America at this point?  

[Zepol87 9340]

Don't blame Dallas for these northern suburb pieces of shit

[MaybeACoordinator 8350]

3 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

Don't blame Dallas for these northern suburb pieces of shit

Suburbs of Hate

[Guest Lobo]

5 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Suburbs of Hate

Nah, I think he's in Spring.  Something near the Woodlands.  Was out there at his place a few years back, nice spread.  

[WhatTheBuck 28928]

11 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Suburbs of Hate

The deploraburbs.

[TheStoicPaisano 9953]

Too busy and pissed at Miller to listen right now.

 

[Captainant 28507]

On 3/11/2021 at 2:36 PM, TheStoicPaisano said:

Too busy and pissed at Miller to listen right now.

 

Miller gave more detail in a closed-door house hearing yesterday.

Reuters: Trump wanted troops to protect his supporters at Jan. 6 rally

President Donald Trump wanted National Guard troops in Washington to protect his supporters at a Jan. 6 rally that ended with them attacking the U.S. Capitol, leaving five dead, Trump's former Pentagon chief testified on Wednesday.

Former Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller told a House of Representatives panel that he spoke with Trump on Jan. 3, three days before the now-former president's fiery speech that preceded the violence and led to his second impeachment.

According to Miller's testimony, Trump asked during that meeting whether the District of Columbia's mayor had requested National Guard troops for Jan. 6, the day Congress was to ratify Joe Biden's presidential election victory.

Trump told Miller to "fill" the request, the former defense secretary testified. Miller said Trump told him: "Do whatever is necessary to protect demonstrators that were executing their constitutionally protected rights."

Miller made the remarks during a contentious hearing held by the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating security failures in the days leading to and during the riot.

Representative Carolyn Maloney, the Democrat who chairs the committee, demanded answers from Miller on why National Guard troops did not arrive until hours after the building was overrun.

Miller testified that the U.S. military was deliberately restrained that day when Trump's rally turned into an assault by hundreds of his followers that left five dead, including a Capitol Police officer.

Miller testified that he was concerned in the days before Jan. 6 that sending National Guard troops to Washington would fan fears of a military coup or that Trump advisers were advocating martial law.

[Satchel 6982]

• A GOP lawmaker who has said there was no insurrection was seen barricading the House on January 6.
• Rep. Andrew Clyde said last week that the riot resembled a "normal tourist visit."
• But he had been photographed pushing furniture against the chamber's doors.

https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-rep-who-called-capitol-rioters-tourists-photographed-barricading-house-2021-5

[David Dennison 19518]

SIAP:

 

[Francisco 2.0 32585]

I was told Blue Lives Matter and the GOP always support the police

 

 

[Jhawkmvp 1514]

The GQP and the Trumpanzee brigade doesn't really care about the military or police. They are just props and a way to "virtue signal" fellow GQP/Trumpanzees about how "patriotic" they are. The minute the military or police inconvenience them they will ignore them or become hostile to them, as we have seen repeatedly during the last year or so.

[Born to Run 6601]

The GQP and the Trumpanzee brigade doesn't really care about the military or police. They are just props and a way to "virtue signal" fellow GQP/Trumpanzees about how "patriotic" they are. The minute the military or police inconvenience them they will ignore them or become hostile to them, as we have seen repeatedly during the last year or so.

The entire gun control expansion in my life was entirely based on the notion that "cops are worthless and you have to protect yourself, and the govt can't be trusted and you need a shitload of guns to counter Obama's national guard routine ops. Load up to kill fellow American govt officials and military. The casual shift is astounding.

The hyper flag hugging started when black people protested getting murdered and that uppity dude kneeled. Before that half the fans were grabbing a beer during the anthem