Thread by @SethAbramson

Just heard Juliette Kayyam say on CNN that so far the Capitol conspiracy cases have been weak, involved 1 to 3 people, and established only that some people conspired to meet "at the Trump rally."

Uh, no.

WSJ reports that 30 to 40 Oath Keepers plotted to murder all of Congress.

I think CNN doesn't understand how many hours of research one has to put into the events of January 6 to speak competently about them on-air. Kayyem is very smart and also very qualified. Those facts have nothing to do with whether she knows much about the January 6 insurrection.

One of the many problems we have with cable news today is that analysts are selected for their credentials and their general expertise rather than their research and their specific expertise.

So we end up with very smart people saying very stupid things on very important topics.

(PS) Sorry for the typo in the first tweet. It's Juliette "Kayyem," not Kayyam.

(FURTHER READING) wsj.com/articles/first…

(WSJ) "During the breach, one of the members allegedly communicated: 'We have a good group. We have about 30-40 of us. We are sticking together and sticking to the plan,' the new complaint said."

I can't imagine that anyone aware of this pending case would say what Kayyem said.

(WSJ2) "Prosecutors filed conspiracy charges related to the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, saying that three rioters had acted in an 'organized and practiced fashion' and at one point appeared to suggest the possibility of gassing lawmakers in the tunnels below the building."

(NOTE) For chrissake, we're just now learning about *large caches of weapons* being stored in Virginia with a plot to *ferry them across the river* at a certain time on January 6.

We have plotters who worked on this for weeks. This is not a bunch of people meeting up at a rally.