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Jan 28 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Last year, as the Capitol attack unfolded, a group of men were lingering just across the river, at the Marine Corps. / Iwo Jima memorial. A truck was running. One had an earpiece.

On the lingering mysteries of the Capitol attack QRFs: huffpost.com/entry/quick-re…
.@jwestcottphoto spotted the group on Jan. 6. He reached out to the FBI, and published some of the photos with faces blurred, but the feds never contacted him.

“I haven’t heard anything. I’ve heard zero,” he said. “It’s unbelievably frustrating…”

huffpost.com/entry/quick-re…
Here’s the story from last year featuring @jwestcottphoto’s photos: arlnow.com/2021/03/01/exc…
“1 if by land… 2 if by Sea, Corner of west basin and Ohio is water transport landing!!”

There was a plan to ferry weapons across the Potomac, which of course you can’t do from a Comfort Inn three miles inland.

Still a lot to learn here.

huffpost.com/entry/quick-re…
“The indictment alleges they used those rooms to store and guard the firearms, although the four men on the North Carolina QRF team ‘kept their rifles ready to go in a vehicle parked in the hotel lot’ according to a court filing.” huffpost.com/entry/quick-re…
“We will have several well equipped QRFs outside DC,” Rhodes wrote on Jan. 6 before leaving his hotel. “And there are many, many others, from other groups, who will be watching and waiting on the outside in case of worst case scenarios.” huffpost.com/entry/quick-re…
The acting head of the Oath Keepers said the blurred images of the men at the Iwo Jima memorial didn’t ring any bells. “Nobody recognized them,” she said, although she said she had “no earthly idea” what other groups Stewart Rhodes was communicating with. huffpost.com/entry/quick-re…
My final splash at HuffPost: huffpost.com/entry/quick-re…

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Jan 29
Court documents give a few hints about the plan to ferry weapons across the Potomac on Jan. 6: huffpost.com/entry/quick-re…
This entire plan seemed premised on the notion that law enforcement would have been more prepared for Jan. 6 and may have cut off bridge access: huffpost.com/entry/quick-re…
There are references to a boat ramp near the Pentagon and a landing spot at West Basin and Ohio, which is in West Potomac Park. There is a landing spot there. ImageImageImageImage
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Jan 28
James McGrew, who was involved in brawl with officers in the rotunda and in the tunnel attack, is going to trial in July.

McGrew rejected a plea to counts 2 and 4 of his indictment.

DOJ tells court that sentencing guidelines under plea would've been 84-105 months (7-8+ years).
If he took that plea deal, McGrew likely would've received the longest sentence in the Jan. 6 investigation to date. He'll roll the dice with a jury instead. He's represented by John Pierce.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Here are the two counts that McGrew would've pleaded guilty to under the deal extended by the government, which could've sent him away for 7+ years due to his criminal history. Link to his superseding indictment: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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Jan 27
Officer Jeffrey Smith died by suicide just days after the Capitol attack. Now, thanks to his body camera video, we know much more about all that he went through on Jan. 6. Watch: huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
A D.C. resident was stressed after the Jan. 6 attack, so she visited her chiropractor a few blocks from the Capitol. Here’s what happened next: huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
Hours after the initial melee inside the Capitol building involving the Capitol Hill chiropractor, Officer Jeffrey Smith was struck by a metal pole outside the Capitol. Here’s the view from his body camera just after that attack: huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
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Jan 26
"The evidence shows Defendant orchestrated a large-scale attack on the federal government with the purpose of intimidating, by violence, federal officials and disrupting official governmental proceedings incident to the transfer of power…”
"Defendant’s authoritative role in the conspiracy, access to substantial weaponry, and ability to finance any future insurrection, combined with his continued advocacy for violence against the federal government, gives rise to a credible threat…”
"Here, the Court is not faced with a peaceable assembly and petitioning, as Defendant’s extraordinary actions and the ripple effects that followed are outside the bounds of protected activities.”

LINK: documentcloud.org/documents/2119…
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Jan 26
Sentencing hearing underway for QAnoner Nicholas Languerand, who repeatedly assaulted cops at the Capitol and claims he feels "lied to and betrayed" by leaders he respected.

Judge John Bates finds that 46 months in prison is the bottom of the advisory sentencing guideline.
"People who engage in terrorism always think they're in the right," federal prosecutor tells the judge.
DOJ quotes Languerand: “If you are ok with fraudulently certifying an election to win, then I’m ok with attacking a government building to stop you”
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Jan 26
“We took the fuckin capital… It was so fun."

NEW: Virginia’s Markus Maly (at right) arrested and charged with spraying officers at the Capitol.

"Online sleuths identified this subject as #JohnSprayne."
“There were lots of pissed off patrios there and we wanted our voices to be heard. I myself one [sic] of them. We were there to support President Trump and the voting process. A voting process that was hijacked and stolen from us.” justice.gov/usao-dc/press-…
"I did have a riot shield but half way back to the bus a cop say [sic] me and took it from me.”
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