1/ @hunterw's report on members of Congress, White House staff and others that coordinated the events of Jan 6 is worth reading.
The story is sourced two anonymous sources who spoke "extensively" to Walker, a rally "organizer" and "planner". rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
@hunterw 2/ These Representatives are named in particular- including many that had been at the White House planning meeting Dec 22 (first reported by Politico) and who Ali Alexander had claimed were involved in the planning.
@hunterw 3/ The sources name Katrina Pierson as the key go between for the protest organizers and the White House.
@hunterw 4/ This is consistent with an earlier report in @propublica (which everyone should go and read by @jbsapien & @js_kaplan) that notably relied on quotes from Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lawrence, two of the organizers of the rally who worked with Pierson. propublica.org/article/new-de…
@hunterw@propublica@jbsapien@js_kaplan 5/ @hunterw mentions that the organizers were interested in the prospect of a "blanket pardon" "n an unrelated ongoing investigation to encourage them to plan the protests."
@hunterw@propublica@jbsapien@js_kaplan 6/ But despite what some organizers may have thought, the Capitol clearly WAS in play for the likes of Donald Trump, and indeed Mo Brooks, who also urged protestors to visit the Capitol after the rally at the Ellipse.
@hunterw@propublica@jbsapien@js_kaplan 7/ Brooks said in his speech, "I've got a message that I need you to take to your heart and take back home, and along the way, stop at the Capitol!"
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1/ Seeing some tweets calling on specific Reps. to be "expelled" or "arrested" for their role in January 6.
A couple of thoughts.
First- it is right to say that any Rep. who played any role in planning violence should be expelled. I am unaware of hard evidence so far.
2/ Second- it may be right to call for anyone that planned to send protestors to the Capitol, with knowledge of the potential for violence, to be expelled. There is some evidence this happened.
3/ Third- calling on anyone to be expelled for participating in the objection is a non-starter. And frankly, counterproductive. Despite the fact that the objection was based on a lie, there was nothing illegal about it.
Background reading 1: @EvanSelinger and co-author Darin Durrant in the Journal Science as Culture, Amazon's Ring: Surveillance as a Slippery Slope Service tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Worth looking back on how Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Bickert and Clegg misled.... How Facebook is Misleading the Public About Its Role in January 6 techpolicy.press/how-facebook-i…
Add another exec to the list of Facebook executives who set up a false scarecrow to knock down on January 6- of course Facebook is not the "reason" January 6 happened. This is no excuse for the abject failures detailed in these reports. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Interesting. In the $5 billion FTC settlement Facebook arrived at after the Cambridge Analytica scandal one condition was that Zuckerberg not be named.