Thread by @SethAbramson

(🆚) BREAKING NEWS: New Member of Trump's January 6 Willard Hotel "War Room" Revealed; Discovery Leads to Revelation of a National Security Scandal

The details of this are harrowing, and have not been reported elsewhere. I hope you will share this widely. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…

1/ I am at a loss as to how much I can or should say about this story here. The story is bizarre, complicated, and consequential. There is still much we don't know—and urgently need to know—but there is enough here to require an immediate investigation by Congress and the FBI.

2/ The evidence that we presently have is that Trump organized a "communications command center" at the Willard Hotel to act as a "war room" during the insurrection, which war room saw 25 to 30 people inside it as the U.S. Capitol was attacked. We know 5 of those people so far.

3/ As the article above establishes, it appears that one of the things the individuals in the "war room" were doing—and these were people (a) without security clearances, who (b) had been in *very* recent contact with insurrectionists—was reviewing...classified federal documents.

4/ The "war room" was taking in info from the State Department, DHS, and ODNI (at a minimum) as the Capitol was attacked, and was sending out info (both digitally and face-to-face) to at least two of those entities. But those 25 to 30 people could have been in touch with anyone.

5/ The man discussed at exhaustive length in this article was an associate of Stop the Steal, and appears to have had access to information he *shouldn't have had access to*—by his own statements about what he was reviewing. If the intel got to the insurrectionists, it's serious.

6/ But these revelations also retroactively create a scandal regarding information PROOF previously revealed: namely, that Robert Hyde was in the "war room" at a time when (apparently) classified intelligence was also there. Hyde has been accused of plotting to physically harm...

7/ ...the US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovich, as part of a plot to interfere with the 2020 election on Trump's behalf—in collusion with pro-Kremlin foreign nationals. The idea that he was present in the "war room" as what we now know was happening was happening is scary.

8/ That's all I'll say for the moment, as I'm still hard at work on this and there's so much more in the article than the summary I'm able to provide here. As ever, the article was so long it had to be edited not to violate Substack's memory limit (and there are many links, too).

PS/ Things I'm working on now: more background on Oltmann; trying to identify other Willard "war room" attendees from the Hyde photos (email me with leads if you come across any, and let me know if you want named credit); Stone's shifting stories about his actions in the Willard

PS2/ Other things I'm working on: determining if there was a war room for Stop the Steal at the JW Marriott; getting hotel accommodation info for the key insurrectionists; doing a write-up on the December 21 White House meeting (way, way, *way* under-reported upon, at this point)

PS3/ Long-term investigations: the January 5 dinner party at the VP's mansion (Saulsbury, Pence, and several others present); whether there was audio and video conferencing between the war rooms and the WH; figuring out who attended the O'Handley meeting at the White House on 1/5

PHOTOS/ *Five people* known to have been in the Willard Hotel war room on Insurrection Day remain unidentified. Here are four of them.

PHOTOS2/ And here's the fifth person, along with three additional angles of two of the first four people (see tweet above).

PS4/ A reader sent me some new Oltmann videos, and I'm now transcribing their key elements. There are some additional revelations in these videos. I'm also trying to chase down whether the woman in the Willard pic is in fact the woman hundreds are saying she is here on the feed.

PS5/ I'm not saying it's the same woman. I don't know. But if it turns out to be, the implications are startling. If you read the PROOF article atop this thread, you know the association of DHS to the Willard war room. If you read PROOF, you know Alexander was in touch with DHS.

PS6/ The person people are now saying was in the Willard war room was a DHS employee under Trump, has amplified Giuliani's fabulisms in the past, and...well, other things I won't go into now. If this person was at the Willard, there's a domino effect to the news that is striking.