#SeditionHunters - the Dec. deposition calendar for the @January6thCmte is so packed you may need this guide from @RubyWorms. Kind of the sedition greatest hits: Michael Flynn on Mon., then Eastman & Jason Miller, next week even busier with Rhodes, Tarrio, RPL, Roger Stone.. 1/
..and the biggest fish of all, Alex Jones, gets a Saturday slot on the 18th. But that's not all: Stockton & Lawrence, McEntee, Stephen Miller, Bill Stepien, Taylor Budowich. Researchers working on any of these, best to get results in as soon as you can. 2/ january6th.house.gov/tip-line
Liz Cheney: "We are making rapid progress. We anticipate that next year, we will be conducting multiple weeks of public hearings, setting out for the American people, in vivid color, exactly what happened, every minute of the day on January 6th." 3/
Liz Cheney: "I would urge all of you on this panel to recognize that history is watching. We hold these positions of public trust to do what is right and just. Above all, our duty is to preserve our Republic, not to act for political convenience... " 4/
"... not to attempt to conceal what happened. I would ask each of you, please: do your duty."
"Do your duty" aren't words that are heard much anymore. It's worth watching again so to remember: those words used to seem normal. Maybe next year they can seem normal again. 5/
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#SeditionHunters - three weeks ago the DoD Inspector General released a Jan 6 timeline so discrepant with former statements that it couldn't fit in our timeline. Now a bombshell memo call Lt. Generals Charles Flynn and Walter Piatt "unmitigated liars". 1/ politico.com/news/2021/12/0…
Former DC National Guard Col. Earl Matthews focuses on claims that it took hours to prepare National Guard to deploy to the Capitol, says those statements “constituted the willful deception of Congress.” 2/
Maj. Gen. Walker, former commander of the DC National Guard, had immediately called for the IG report to be retracted - it threw him under the bus, claimed he got a call at 4:35 PM to deploy the Guard and sat on it til 5:08 PM. Walker says that's a lie. 3/ washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
#SeditionHunters - "arrest Friday" is back! Not just in numbers but in importance: the first arrest in awhile of a perp with an "organizational" role on Jan 6. But first, the colorful & violent #PinstripeBoilersuit, FBI #37 and #94, Josiah Kenyon of NV..1/
#PinstripeBoilersuit was ID'd within days of the Capitol attack: a witness told FBI they'd met him on the Washington Metro, gave his motel, ID'd from motel records. Arrests often lag IDs by many months, presumably to not overload the court system. 2/ justice.gov/usao-dc/press-…
And now, the biggest of the big game, hunted for months, the two who ran the breaches on West and East sides of the Capitol - #MaroonPB and #ZZtopPB. The #1 arrest priority for many, not the leaders of the insurrection but on-the-ground executors. 3/
Likely most people have heard how Twitter's new "safety" rules about posting pictures are being used against investigators - see WaPo article. No #SeditionHunters accounts affected yet, but it's safest to archive Tweet histories - tips to follow 1/ washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Twitter lets you download a zip file with all past tweets, replies, videos, etc. In your menu bar, go to the "more" setting, click "settings and privacy", then click "Download an archive of your data". They will prepare a zip file; that takes about 24 hours, then notify you. 2/
To save important threads (yours or other people's), first "unroll" them with an app like the threadreader, then save the result as a pdf (see below). Note- if an account is suspended the thread disappears, the actual pdf is the only safe backup. 3/
A big arrest today, not an organizer but one of the first perps on #SeditionHunters's radar - #Fingerman, who flipped off the police after brutally attacking at the tunnel, notable for his U Michigan sweatshirt. He's Justin Jersey from Flint, Michigan. (h/t @michigantea) 1/
Here's the iconic photo of attackers around a downed police officer that started many people on #SeditionHunting. With today's news about #Fingerman, all hashtags in this Jan 22 post (plus many more) are arrested. 2/
The case is not yet unsealed but Detroit News has a few details. They talk about #HockeystickMan, also from Michigan and also part of that attack, but there doesn't seem to be a connection. 3/ detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…
#SeditionHunters - an urgent project. Last week Q-world melted down after Mike Flynn was caught leading an occult prayer. Now Twitter suspended @jimstewartson, who made the key video. PLEASE HELP - retweet, tag @twittersupport, protect investigators from malicious reporting. 1/
Below is a statement by @jimstewartson - he used a rude word, OK, but nothing compared to the vile stuff #SeditionHunters hear each day. It's manufactured outrage: video is powerful, & some people don't want it to be seen. Fight back by flooding @twittersupport with messages. 2/
The @January6thCmte has put those responsible for January 6 in a panic, and the last recourse of the guilty is malicious reporting to try to silence the conversation. We've seen this before: the Hunting Insurrectionists YouTube channel has been suspended over and over. 3/
#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…
@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/