This, from former Capitol Police Chief Sund, is baffling. It's like USCP intelligence wrote off much of what was being publicly reported about the rally beforehand—and the online posts from people who were openly saying they were planning to attend and were willing to be violent.
We may hear the former officials suggest today that there wasn't enough intelligence to indicate there were plans to attack the Capitol.
I can only say—beyond the fact that this was being organized openly online—that I was concerned enough by the online chatter about mobbing the building I had casually seen shared on Twitter in the weeks beforehand that it played a large role in my decision to stay home that day.
anyway I shouldn't be more paranoid about security threats based on seeing a few tweets about the potential for violence than the people whose jobs are to prepare for and deal with security threats

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23 Feb
Sen. Roy Blunt is asking about this. Sund and Irving are both doubling down on their versions of events.
(and we're moving on. Because Blunt's questioning time ran out. Congressional hearings are the worst way to establish facts.)
Sen. Rob Portman requests that Irving and Sund provide their phone records to clear up the discrepancy. Portman doesn't seem to be pressing the issue any further for now
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23 Feb
pro snack tip: if you want a strawberry milkshake but don't want to leave the house or consume 60 grams of sugar you can throw some frozen strawberries in a blender with some milk and a little bit of vanilla and it will taste good
it is not ice cream but it also does not taste like a ~smoothie~ smoothie either. it tastes more like a strawberry milkshake than a smoothie in my opinion
i'm going to get roasted for these tweets. "congrats on inventing smoothies," they will say
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22 Feb
"Mitt Romney or Lisa Murkowski please confirm our OMB nominee, it would be very punk rock of you" is so funny to me
"maybe Mitt Romney or Lisa Murkowski will split with Collins and Manchin on an unpopular nominee simply to assert petty dominance over Manchin" fundamentally misunderstands their relationship and goals in this 50/50 Senate
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2 Feb
Just to reiterate for members of the press: AOC seems to have had a truly frightening experience on January 6th, but members of the mob did not break into her office. The man she hid from was a Capitol Police officer who told her to go to a different office building.
She raised valid concerns about the officer, saying he didn't announce himself and she perceived him as hostile. I want to emphasize again that I'm not discounting the fear she must have felt in those moments. But accuracy about how we describe it is important.
I posted this detail bc a lot of my colleagues in the press were sharing part of her story but not this info she also shared. Its not a partisan attack. It’s important to establish the facts if we’re going to have a discussion about the officer’s behavior

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2 Feb
(deleted my tweets about AOC's story about January 6th because she's still telling it and my initial tweets didn't include very key details she's sharing now)
This is what I tweeted about—took it down because she said after describing this that the man was a Capitol Police officer. She said he didn't announce himself first and that she feared for her life. He told her to go to a different office building.
I am not discounting the terror she must have felt, and she raises valid concerns about how the officer acted. But a lot of coverage is going to get this wrong bc of her initial portrayal of what she thought was happening. Members of the mob didn't actually break into her office.
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1 Feb
(It's really worth emphasizing in all of the news coverage about the rift within the House Republican Conference that one side has maybe 10-20 people on it and the other side has... basically everyone else.)
(I mean this is an oversimplification of the group who didn't object to the Electoral College results, so most generously it's like about 1/3rd versus nearly two thirds. But most of those members aren't super involved in this public debate over, like, the future of the party.)
(So it's really like three groups: the nearly two-thirds who objected to electoral college results, the folks who quietly disagreed and stayed out of it, and the small contingent of people like Cheney and Kinzinger who have been very vocal about splitting with the majority)
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