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12 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
#SeditionHunters were impatient for DOJ to back the Congressional J6 Committee's authority, but here is the hammer, finally - Steve Bannon now indicted for contempt for failing to respond to his subpoena. The precedent is set: answer questions or go to jail. 1/
Bannon of course was indicted and convicted once already, in 2020 for pocketing donations made to the "We Build the Wall" campaign. h/t @emptywheel for pointing out Bannon was pardoned by Trump only AFTER Jan 6, on the day before Biden's inauguration. 2/
justice.gov/pardon/pardons… Image
@NastyOldWomyn points out that Bannon's charges are criminal, not civil contempt: "punitive" instead of "coercive". That is, DOJ is not ordering Bannon to comply; they skipped the step of asking again, jumped to just punishing him for not complying - as a deterrent to others. 3/ Image
And a correction from @emptywheel on Bannon's pardon: he was indicted but not convicted, as he was pardoned pre-emptively before the case went to trail. 4/
cnn.com/2021/01/19/pol…

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4 Nov
#SeditionHunters - one of the first Capitol perps hashtagged in January was finally arrested today - #ProudBoyCowboy, not just a fighter but an organizer. Charging docs (link to follow) suggest FBI is working out how to charge perps who assisted the attack in more subtle ways. 1/
#ProudBoyCowboy is Joshua Portlock of TN, identified in April by a co-worker - but #SeditionHunters helped detail his many activities. Portlock fought on the Plaza - bodycam shows him helping #BullhornLady pull barricades, & pushing police with plywood. 2/
justice.gov/usao-dc/case-m…
Besides new views from bodycam, charging docs show insight in describing Portlock's activities at the tunnel. As one of first to enter, he was at the front of police lines, where his cowboy hat got knocked off, revealing his Proud Boy beanie. But he's not the most violent.. 3/
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31 Oct
#SeditionHunters - a must-read, deeply researched WaPo piece on the lead-up to the Jan 6 Capitol attack. Confirms its origins well before the election. Confirms that EVERYONE KNEW the danger: DHS even alerted hospitals to prep for mass casualties Jan 6. 1/
washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
"While the public may have been surprised by what happened on Jan. 6, the makings of the insurrection had been spotted at every level, from one side of the country to the other. The red flags were everywhere." 2/
The article is hyper-cautious on one point: does not raise even a hint that lack of preparation could mean complicity. But this is the journalism we have been waiting for, for months. Wide-ranging, meticulous, and with the horsepower to grasp the scale of events: 16 reporters! 3/
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21 Oct
#SeditionHunters have worked for months to understand the order & organization under the seeming chaos of the Capitol attack. New analysis suggests: U.S. democracy hung by a thread for critical minutes. And we owe an immense debt to the men and women who fought to preserve it. 1/
New public resources include detailed timelines of the Jan 6 attack, backed up by hours of synchronized video; and a heartbreaking study of the fight for the “tunnel” door, & one of its heroes, by Emmy-award winning director Consuelo Gonzalez. Watch it. 2/
To understand why the tunnel was so important, pull back & consider patterns on Jan 6. Beneath the chaos are ordered motions, directed by people with bullhorns. The seeming plan: to hit multiple entries at once, flood the building, & block police reinforcements. But it failed. 3/
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19 Oct
#SeditionHunters - while the depth of foreign influence on the Jan 6 Capitol attack remains unclear, hopefully will get clearer soon... because FBI just raided the DC mansion of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, connected to Trump advisor and potential J6 figure Paul Manafort 1/
As a reminder, Manafort's company, Event Strategies, arranged the Jan 6 Ellipse rally. Longtime lobbyist and fixer for dubious figures: helped get pro-Russian strongman Yanukovich elected in Ukraine in 2010, then managed Trump's 2016 campaign. 2/
time.com/5003623/paul-m…
After Manafort was convicted of election-related crimes, The Atlantic wrote "That he would be accused of helping a foreign power subvert American democracy is a fitting coda to his life’s story." But it wasn't a coda - pardoned by Trump Dec. 23, 2020.. 3/
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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7 Oct
The Senate Judiciary Committee just released an "interim" report on efforts by the Trump admin. to pressure DOJ to subvert the election. #SeditionHunters findings on PA State Sen. #IamDougMastriano's Jan 6 actions are featured. (h/t @hockeynut0118) 1/
judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… Image
The report - all 400 pages - covers actions by Acting Asst. Attorney General Jeffrey Clark. It includes the shocking finding that on Dec. 28, senior DOJ leaders threatened to resign en masse if Trump carried out plans to use to DOJ to pressure states to appoint new electors. 2/ Image
The report explicitly links Trump's attempts to "weaponize" the DOJ to the January 6 attack: they "created the disinformation ecosystem necessary for Trump to incite almost 1,00 Americans to breach the Capitol in a violent attempt to subvert democracy" 3/ Image
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6 Oct
#SeditionHunters - is this the downfall of Alex Jones, the “king of conspiracy” (CNN), the most famous figure at the Capitol attack? He’d tormented the Sandy Hook parents for years; last week lost by default their multi-$M lawsuit. Will the law come for him for Jan 6 too? 1/
Alex’s reel shows how central he is on Jan 6: VIP section at the rally, marched w/ entourage to the Capitol (trailed by shouts: “Alex Jones!”), speechifed from the E. steps..& then decamped to a rented rooftop overlooking the besieged Capitol. He KNEW. 2/
rumble.com/vndge8-alex-jo…
Alex films himself so much we had to edit to keep the reel to 17 mins - but he must hate our reel since it keeps getting banned from YouTube. It's on Rumble now; hope to repost on the ‘Hunting Insurrectionists’ YT channel (itself shadowbanned -use link) 3/
youtube.com/channel/UCboWX…
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