In a live webcast Tuesday evening, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, made a startling claim that other members of Congress led groups of people through the Capitol Building on a "reconnaissance" mission one day before the riot that laid a deadly siege on the Capitol northjersey.com/story/news/pol…
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, has requested an FBI investigation into allegations she made above that some members of Congress led ppl in Capitol on a "reconnaissance" tour on 1/5
“We’re requesting an investigation right now,” Sherrill told reporters Wednesday. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
DEC 8, 2020: a foreign account made a simultaneous transfer of 28.15 bitcoins — worth $500,000+ at the time — to 22 different virtual wallets, most belonging to prominent right-wing orgs & personalities news.yahoo.com/exclusive-larg…
“I’d be stunned if both nation-state adversaries & terrorist orgs weren’t figuring out how to funnel money to these guys..Many of them use fundraising sites..that are virtually unmonitored & unmonitorable. If they weren’t doing it, they’d be incompetent.” fmr FBI official
cryptocurrency researchers believe they know who made the transfer, and suspect it was intended to bolster those far-right causes.
WCF’s choice of location, speakers and promotion of anti-gay and fundamentalist rhetoric reveals a budding relationship between Russia’s autocratic government and sympathetic American allies on the Christian right.
Late 2000s: “The WCF ... increased its cooperation with Russia. In 2012, Konstantin Malofeev co-founded what later became the Charitable Foundation of St. Basil the Great with a budget of $42 million—an official partner of the WCF.”
John Horgan, a Georgia State University professor and the director of the Violent Extremism Research Group, has never been more worried. slate.com/news-and-polit…
“You had your gawkers..tourists...instigators, your preachers. ..you had your guys in military fatigues who ...came with a plan. They were organized & they were looking to get their chance at infamy.
Those are the kinds that I think about between now and Jan. 20.”
“It’s a rallying cry.
I’m not worried about the people that were caught up in these arrests.
I’m not worried about the people that were at the protest.
I’m worried about the Timothy McVeighs who are out there now realizing that their time has come.”
“Every person I've ever known about that's been a white supremacist has left the movement through an act of compassion or love. They didn't leave it bc someone convinced them their belief systems were wrong.” nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
Daryl sounded the alarm back in 2009. His report was politicized by the GOP. He warned that white supremacy was on the rise.
He knows of what he speaks.
I strongly advise reading Hateland by Daryl Johnson & Breaking Hate by @cpicciolini to understand
FBI offers chilling details of planned protests, New Jersey asks for public's help 6abc.com/fbi-offers-chi… via @6abc
This is my neighborhood:
The FBI also received a report that an individual located in Manchester, Tennessee, who participated in the US Capitol riot intended to return to January 20 to disrupt and potentially commit acts of violence at the inauguration.
"The individual referenced turning phones to airplane mode and using ground travel to accomplish the disruption," the bulletin said.