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17 Jan, 7 tweets, 5 min read
NEW FOOTAGE from Senate: "you have to understand, it's an IO [information operation] war"

Male who appears to be be Lt. Col Brock Ret. (aka second #ZipTieGuy talking to others on the Senate floor.

Essential new video Luke Mogelson @newyorker 1/

Video: newyorker.com/news/video-dep…
2/ .. continued

"...there's gotta be something in here we can f**ing use against these scumbags..."

-men seen rifling Senate desks, photographing contents

Source: newyorker.com/news/video-dep…
3/ "...I think Cruz would want us to do this so...I think we're good"

-Men rifling Senate desks, photographing contents.

Vid Source: newyorker.com/news/video-dep…
4/ "You are outnumbered. There's a f**ing million of us out there and we are listening to Trump, your boss."

-Man tells police to stand down inside #CapitolBuilding

Source: newyorker.com/news/video-dep…
5/ They find a document that they identify as by Ted Cruz, and after momentary confusion conclude "he's with us, he's with us"

Video: newyorker.com/news/video-dep…
6/ "...thank you for allowing the United States of America to be reborn"

A prayer is led by Jacob Anthony Chansley aka 'Q Shaman.'

Video: newyorker.com/news/video-dep…
7/ Calls to violence against the media:

-Man encourages people to head to @CNN's DC HQ

- Another encourages people to copy the names from journalists' abandoned equipment, hunt them down one-by-one.

-'Traitors to the Guillotine!' someone responds.

Vid: newyorker.com/news/video-dep…

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18 Jan
BREAKING: Robert Gieswein of Colorado was picked up per @SeamusHughes. Individual holding a bat next to #SPAZZO.

Identified by several, but all refrained from naming him until the Affidavit was unsealed.

Militia connections, both to Nat'l groups & v. small local ones.
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Here's a pic of Gieswein outside of Rep. @laurenboebert's gun themed Bar.

Source: @arawnsley, who found it. Here's his piece on him in the Daily Beast: thedailybeast.com/baseball-bat-w… Image
Highly recommended thread: @arawnsley walks through OSINT that led us to finding Gieswein.

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17 Jan
NEW: 41 minutes of fear. Must-watch video timeline of #CapitolBuilding siege.

Excellent work by the team @washingtonpost.
washingtonpost.com/investigations…
The @washingtonpost team's v. helpful maps of rioters' movements within the #CapitolBuilding
GREAT news, this @washingtonpost video timeline of the #CapitolRiot is also on YouTube.
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15 Jan
🚨BREAKING: window-breacher #Spazzo arrested & charged. He is Dominic ‘Spazzo’ Pezzola.

By: @arawnsley @pbmelendez @thedailybeast, which has done great work sleuthing on him.

Source: thedailybeast.com/feds-track-dow…

Don't forget! Investigative reporting & sleuthing on #Spazzo previously got a major boost when @MackLamoureux & @misstessowen @Vice identified #Spazzo in pictures & online forums as a Proud Boy.

vice.com/en/article/epd…
.#Spazzo was a focus of much effort b/c of obvious situational awareness, earpiece & way of moving.

Reinforced by an apparent Infantry Assault Marine MOS tattoo on his R. bicep. @arawnsley & @bellingcat were esp. tenacious diggers. Many others too!

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13 Jan
BREAKING: Man who breached capitol window w/riot shield identified as Proud Boy by @MackLamoureux & @misstessowen at @VICE.

He caught the attention of many of us for first-in action, situational awareness...and apparent communications earpiece.

Source: vice.com/en/article/epd… Image
@MackLamoureux @misstessowen @VICE Many ex military reached out and privately suggested that his actions read as military-trained.

In footage of him moving inside he would peek and pull back before advancing. When other early breachers were yelling at police, he was looking at exits. Head on a swivel... ImageImageImage
URGENT: Moderate-confidence pic of #Spazzo on a different day spotted by @downtowndemgirl w/Tattoo that may include "0351" which is MOS for Infantry Assault Marine.

Can you identify? Please DM me or @arawnsley @thedailybeast who recognized the Tattoo ImageImage
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12 Jan
IMPORTANT: These 2 bombs didn't instagram their day on the 6th. So we have mostly focused on the rioters we can see. However.

What if they weren't discovered... and instead exploded and diverted officers & tactical teams away from the #Capitol at a predetermined moment.

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2/ This was not lost on outgoing #CapitolPolice Chief Sund per @mateagold 👇

Was there a plan for the #Capitol that did not happen because nothing blew up?

I keep thinking about Anders Breivik, Norway's far-right terrorist.

Here's why.
3/ I don't know what the plan was, or if the devices were intended to be discovered. Either way they would be a diversion.

But I am haunted by how Breivik, a lone wolf, successfully diverted the authorities, then carried out a primary plan of mass murder.
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10 Jan
NEW FOOTAGE: a long, disciplined line of men in body armor moves as a unit up the #CapitolBuilding steps.

We need to identify this group.

Grateful to @lehudgins for the find.
Source: instagram.com/p/CJ10So2MqpF/…
Have military training and experience? SWAT & police experience? Working on a candidate group. Please weigh in on:

-Equipment
-Movement
-Hand gestures at 0:05 secs in between 2 ppl.

If you don't, please surface links to high resolution close up footage.
Can you identify this radio worn on the back of one of the men storming the steps? The antenna is semi-rigid and long. Its seen at 0:05-0:07 seconds in the footage at top of thread.

Please circulate with those who know military comms gear & #hamradio folks.
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