Posted on 06/12/2024 5:31:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The FBI released a new batch of heavily redacted Capitol Hill protest records on its website Friday, showing that the bureau executed “disruptions” inside MAGA groups ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, Stop the Steal rally.
In the context of FBI operations, the term “disruption” was made famous in the 1970s, when the FBI’s controversial Counterintelligence Program, or COINTELPRO, was revealed to the public. “Disruption operations” can include criminal arrests, but in the COINTELPRO era they referred to undercover FBI agents and informants infiltrating political groups to sow discord—employing tactics such as spreading rumors, sleeping with other members’ wives and attracting unwanted attention.
The FBI continues such tactics to this day, as has been documented in recent podcasts such as “Alphabet Boys.” Moreover, Newsweek has revealed that the bureau plans to disrupt MAGA groups ahead of the 2024 election—reporting last October that the FBI will resort to “infiltration of political circles and other controversial government activity. (emphasis added)”
When it comes to Jan. 6, the FBI’s disruptions are revealed in a Jan. 13, 2021, email. Senior FBI officials were apparently scrambling for information on what the FBI did before, during and after the Capitol Hill breach.
It’s not clear whether the FBI’s pre-Jan. 6 disruptions entailed actual arrests, or classic COINTELPRO-type tactics. That part of the email is redacted. The email also included post-Jan. 6 disruptions, listing the arrests and self-surrenders that occurred after the riots. That part of the email is redacted, too.
The latest batch of FBI records do include several reports that indicate what agents were investigating ahead of Jan. 6. One of the reports from Dec. 2020 indicates the FBI was looking at an Antifa member who might have planned to attend the Capitol Hill rally. That report is almost entirely redacted, but it does identify the case type as “anarchist extremist”—FBI parlance for Antifa.
Another report from the FBI’s latest J6 records shows the bureau opened an investigation before the 2020 election took place. The date of that FBI report is redacted, but it says the investigation was probing someone or some group that was “likely planning to conduct acts of violence related to the upcoming 2020 elections.”.....
More planned prior to the 2024 election.
BTTT
That issue still does not make Ray Epps innocent.
Tough duty, but someone's got to do it...
What are you wearing ‘Jake’ from the fbi?
Saw it with my own eyes. When I stood and started singing a hymn, lots of people left. I like to think it was the hymn...
Next time, instead of MAGA flags, everybody should bring a large cross and hold it up. Federal Agents can't copy this because they can't touch a cross. It will burn them. :)
I read this and thought how remarkable it would be to get the real truth about jan 6th and the coup that happened that day.
If we ever did, it could be made into the “movie of the
century”.
THANKFULLY the FBI is only ‘disrupting’ MAGA groups, because if they were disrupting Leftist groups, there would be HELL to pay in this country, led by the media and Congress (both parties).
...but since it is just MAGA, then no problem!
I’d like to know who the guy was that went around the entire Capitol building rattling the bicycle-rack barriers and shouting, “Get ready to go inside! We’re going inside!”
The FIB are the domestic terrorists that the meritless Garland is looking for.
It sounds like election interference to me.
I’m sure they monitor this website too.
No doubt they do. And probably try to prod people to say something that could be construed as a threat or other type of crime. Always something to be aware of.
“It sounds like election interference to me.”
Of course. They have no fear of prosecution anymore, so why not. Our side could have nipped this crap in bud in 2001, but Bush Jr. instead chose to set a ‘new tone’ and thus the interference only increased...now to the point that literal Banana Republics have CLEANER ELECTIONS than the US.
“...Alphabet Boys...”
Something about that phrase seems quite apt.
Rudimentary thinking, adolescent behavior, misplaced power/authority—Hannity is way too easy on the rank and file of these organizations. They’re subject to indictment as the unquestioning enforcement arm of an out-of-control, drunk-with-power, deranged brain trust at the top of the hierarchy.
That’s funny.
Warped. Morally defunct.
But funny.
Uhh...khakis!?!?
Epps was one of their disruptions
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