Thread by @weareoversight

This month, the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection will hold eight hearings to shed more light on the violent attack.

We’ve also been investigating. Here’s some of what we uncovered. #FoiaFriday

Last November, the @washingtonpost published an exhaustively reported story showing the attack "was neither a spontaneous act nor an isolated event.” The Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting cited records we’d obtained.
washingtonpost.com/pr/2022/05/09/…

The Post’s report cited Secret Service records we obtained. On the morning of Jan. 6, a Secret Service alert said some people arriving at the “Save America” rally were “wearing ballistic helmets, body armor and carrying radio equipment and military-grade backpacks.”

The Secret Service records we obtained show that at 11:35 a.m., just minutes before Donald Trump left the rally at the White House, D.C. police responded to reports of a man with a rifle nearby.

But even in the aftermath of the Jan 6. insurrection attack, Trump and his supporters have continued to try to cast doubt on the 2020 election, including through a number of bogus election investigations in various states.

The Post also cited records we obtained about the Arizona Senate’s sham election “audit.” We uncovered an email Karen Fann sent to a constituent who complained that Fann wouldn’t say that the “audit” would result in the election’s decertification.

“Our only goal is to get this audit finished before they try to shut us down again,” Fann said. “Sometimes honey does better than vinegar when you want to get something done. The vinegar will come at the end.”

We’ve filed multiple lawsuits to shed light on the deadly Jan. 6 attacks. Learn more about our investigation here:
americanoversight.org/investigation/…

And to learn more about our investigation into the sham ballot review in Arizona, click here:
americanoversight.org/investigation/…