Posted on 04/30/2024 5:59:07 AM PDT by RandFan
A deep unease trickled through Jacob Glick’s entire body. He had started a virtual deposition of Jim Watkins, the large, scruffy QAnon conspiracy theorist who runs 8kun, a website filled with hateful, racist content that included calls for violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Glick, then an investigative counsel for the House select committee probing the Jan. 6 attack, made the customary introductions of his colleagues. Watkins jotted down all the names.
“It already felt creepier — and I’ve been in some creepy ones,” Glick said.
Glick was among the staff on the now-disbanded Jan. 6 panel who say their work exposed them to threats, raised doubts about their safety and required additional safety precautions. Their experiences, recounted in interviews, serve as a high-profile example of concerns among Capitol Hill staffers about whether their work could make them a target for political violence.
At one point during the deposition, Watkins told Glick that his website typically got 300,000 to 3 million visits in a day, but it would spike the day of the deposition. Glick asked why and got a chilling response.
“Because they know I’m talking to you,” Watkins said with a grin.
Glick calmly responded, “Got it.”
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“As a gay Jewish lawyer who works for Jamie Raskin, am I all of the sudden going to become this linchpin of QAnon?” Glick said.
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Members of the select committee and staff were exposed to a unique barrage of threats as they were conducting their work. The chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., had a police officer stationed outside of his home and still travels with security.
“Obviously since Jan. 6 and my tenure on the committee it has continued to escalate,” Thompson said. “There’s a constant beat of threats.”
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8 democrats and Liz Chaney, if memory serves, made up the committee.
They are all traitors. They deserve the death penalty for what they did on that committee. Just like the people who pushed the vaccines who knew it killed people. They are traitors.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger was a republican. He did not run for re-election. He was one of those CIA shills. Very anti-Trump. He would give your rights away without thinking twice.
After over 3 years of investigating, prosecuting, persecuting, and incarcerating Jan 6 targets, HOW MANY gay Jewish lawyers (or non-gay, non-Jewish equivalents, but GJLs seem to be disproportionately acting out the Democrat jihad) been assaulted or killed by rightwing thugs because of their J6 “work”?
Not talking about threats or mean tweets — real assaults only.
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Critical mass has been reached...will those who still have a mind of their own, see the tyranny being brought forth, and step up to stop this insanity?
If history is any lesson, the answer (unfortunately) is usually, NO.
The rest is...history.
What a bunch of pure speculation to promote the narrative of the author of this article.
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