Posted on 12/25/2024 6:36:16 AM PST by MtnClimber
Despite airing concerns that explosives might disrupt the proceedings on January 6, Liz Cheney did not investigate the presence of two pipe bombs found near the Capitol that day.
Former Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) will be best remembered for her role as vice chair of the Democratic Party’s January 6 Select Committee, a position that emerged as part of what she described as her mission to “intervene and stop” President Donald Trump.
Cheney's vote to impeach Trump a week after the events of January 6, 2021 resulted in her ouster as Republican conference chair in 2021 and a decisive 40-point defeat in her 2022 primary race. But Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi temporarily saved Cheney from the political wilderness by giving her a top spot on the committee in contravention to House rules; by doing so, Pelosi buried a longstanding hatchet between herself and the Cheney family.
Instead, Dick Cheney’s daughter became Pelosi’s hatchetman.
In another odd turn of fate, Cheney now finds herself in the hot seat following shocking disclosures by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (GA-11), chairman of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee tasked with conducting a separate investigation into the J6 committee’s work and overall events of that day. A recent report issued by Loudermilk detailed Cheney’s misconduct and influence over the J6 committee, prompting some GOP legislators and the incoming president to call for a criminal investigation into Cheney for potential witness tampering and other offenses.
Cheney’s behavior before January 6, however, also merits scrutiny. Oddly, she appears to have been the first official to predict that a bomb could disrupt the joint session that day—a scenario she had contemplated on at least three separate occasions leading up to that day.
Her fears proved accurate, but she inexplicably dropped the matter during her committee’s 18-month long investigation into the events of Jan 6.
Cheney’s Uncanny Clairvoyance
Cheney’s earliest vision occurred on December 12, 2020, while watching coverage of pro-Trump rallies in Washington, D.C., from her laptop. According to The Washington Post, Cheney’s thoughts "flashed forward to January 6," as she "imagined a bomb threat halting the count to certify the election.”
Her concerns intensified in mid-to-late December as House Republicans discussed plans to contest the election results. During this period, she claimed she was reading Ted Widmer’s Lincoln on the Verge, which documented President Abraham Lincoln’s trip to Washington for his inauguration. In her memoir, Oath and Honor, Cheney drew parallels to 1861 when pro-Southern militias gathered in the nation’s capital potentially to invade the Capitol and halt the certification of President Lincoln’s election. She reflected on the tense atmosphere—heightened by fears that Vice President John Breckinridge, who was to preside over the proceedings, might not acknowledge Lincoln's victory—and compounded by nightly bomb searches in the Capitol's basement.
“This made for chilling reading in December of 2020,” Cheney remarked. "What did President Trump expect to do with the crowd of supporters he was summoning to Washington? Would they try to disrupt or delay the electoral count on January 6? How? Would there be a bomb threat? If someone called in a bomb threat and the Capitol was evacuated, were arrangements in place for Congress to meet somewhere else?”
Soothsayer Cheney once again proved prescient; lawmakers were evacuated to Fort McNair Army base after protesters entered the Capitol on January 6.
Cheney also raised the possibility of explosives near the Capitol during a January 2, 2021, phone call with then-Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen. She and her husband, Philip Perry, an attorney and alum of the George W. Bush administration, called Rosen to express their concerns that "a bomb threat or some other tactic might be used to halt the count.” During the conversation, Perry cited post-9/11 security measures around the Bush White House; Rosen reassured the couple that additional security resources would be available at a nearby military base if needed.
Newsweek later reported over that very same weekend, Rosen, without formal requests from law enforcement or external agencies, unilaterally activated long-standing contingency plans designed to address a terrorist attack involving a weapon of mass destruction—the exact scenario Cheney had warned him about. Elite government special operations teams, including the FBI’s Hostage Rescue and “Render Safe” teams, an ATF Special Response Team, and the U.S. Marshals Service Special Operations Group, were pre-deployed and on alert over the weekend of January 2-3 staging at the FBI Academy complex in Quantico....SNIP
But no National Guard for crowd control.
Dan Bongino claims he knows the name of the person in the photos, yet he won’t name who it is.
If he knows 100%, just say who it is and let’s get this going. As far I’m concerned, he’s enabling this corruption.
Bongino has been all over this from day one.
Kind and of like the firefighter/arsonist, always has a “sense” about an upcoming fire . . . .
Respiratory diseases have been coming out of Asia since forever - Plague of Justinian, various Medieval\Renaissance Plague outbreaks, etc. In modern times all the “flus”, so not hard to predict a bad “respiratory” disease to come out of Asia. Difference with COVID is the “hype”, the constant drumbeat by everyone it’s “civilization ending” when it wasn’t. Then add in their the desire to wreck Trump and you have a perfect storm. Yes it’s possible there’s a Dr Evil scenario here but far less likely an explanation then one of greed, ego and taking political advantage. Remember the infamous Rat quote - “ Never let a crisis go to waste!”.
She was a good little puppet for the left. That is why Kamala liked campaigning with her.
Sounds to me like setting the stage.
Odd. Very odd, those Cheneys.
It’s almost like Liz could predict the future.
That’s probably why she’s been behaving so erratically of late. She knows her future isn’t so bright.
“”lawmakers were evacuated to Fort McNair Army base after protesters entered the Capitol on January 6.””
I thought all the “lawmakers” were IN the Capitol building and feared for their lives with the attack that took place by Trump supporters!!!!!
How would they have gotten anyone to another location through the crowd that was outside? Do we know this actually was what happened?
It sounds as if Cheney and her husband were concerned about their own safety to have consulted with a former advisor to GWB...
Cheney needs a strait-jacket..maybe she’ll get one for Christmas..
If she doesn’t get the pardon this could get very interesting
Predicted ?
More likely, helped plan it.
One of my biggest regrets is getting behind Bush, Cheney, Romney, McCain, etc. and all of those other RINO bastards. I sure was snowed about those anti American warmongers.
Not sure where this sits, but there’s been talk of Bongino becoming head of the Secret Service. Could a SS Director launch an investigation into a 2021 bomb plot that endangered the Vice President? Perhaps he doesn’t want to out what he knows prematurely. More likely, he doesn’t have 100% proof, and fears getting sued.
Bongino knows who it is but he’s not going to come out and say who until he has the “receipts.” I don’t blame him, he’s working smart. I’m sure his sources are working on this behind the scenes, but they’re dealing with corrupt agencies who want the facts suppressed. Hopefully the truth will come to light soon.
Bongino has some dirt on him. The deep state knows that dirt. Bongino knows the rules of the game.
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