Posted on 01/14/2021 5:53:43 AM PST by Red Badger
A new report claims that the Federal Bureau of Investigation knew one day prior that extremists were planning to infiltrate the Jan. 6 protests in Washington, D.C., that ended in rioting at the U.S. Capitol.
According to The Washington Post, a report from the FBI office in Norfolk, Virginia, contradicts claims that there had been no warnings of the violence that seemed to take Capitol police by surprise.
The FBI warning was reportedly contained in an “internal document” that was issued out the day before the Capitol incursion.
“As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington, D.C.,” the document allegedly said.
According to The Post, the internal memo reported an online thread that discussed violence at the Capitol building.
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“Be ready to fight,” the thread reputedly said. “Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
The document reportedly quoted one online comment that said, “if Antifa or BLM get violent, leave them dead in the street.”
Another comment cited in the alleged document said there would be a need for “people on standby to provide supplies, including water and medical, to the front lines.”
The outlet claimed the document noted that before the riots, individuals were sharing the layout of the tunnels connecting various buildings in the Capitol complex. It was also reported that there were conversations about potential locations in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and South Carolina where those planning violence could meet before heading to Washington.
The purported document hedged on its warning, noting that potential extremist activity was also part of “activities that are protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
“However, based on known intelligence and/or specific historical observations, it is possible the protected activity could invite a violent reaction towards the subject individual or others in retaliation or with the goal of stopping the protected activity from occurring in the first instance,” it said, according to The Post.
Steven D’Antuono, the assistant director at the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said last week the FBI had no information that the protests planned for last Wednesday were anything more than a peaceful march.
He said in a Tuesday news conference that the document was shared “with all our law enforcement partners” through the joint terrorism task force, including the Capitol Police and D.C. Metropolitan Police.
D’Antuono claimed that at the time, there was not much to be done based on that one warning.
“That was a thread on a message board that was being attributable to an individual person,” D’Antuono said at the news conference.
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“When my Washington field office received that information, we briefed that within 40 minutes to our law enforcement partners, federal [and] state.”
The Post reported that former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who resigned amid criticism of police response to the rioting and security failures at the Capitol, said he never knew about the warning.
“I did not have that information, nor was that information taken into consideration in our security planning,” Sund said.
The FBI issued a statement in response to the report that said, “standard practice is to not comment on specific intelligence products.” The bureau added, however, that field offices “routinely share information with their local law enforcement partners to assist in protecting the communities they serve.”
The Post report spurred a rare bipartisan effort to get to the truth of who was warned about the Capitol incursion and when.
On Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California called for a House Judiciary Committee investigation into the matter on Twitter. The @HouseJudiciary Committee needs to hold oversight hearings on @TheJusticeDept & @FBI asap. You know why we can’t? Because the Republicans won’t provide us their GOP Judiciary Members until after Jan 20. Why are the Republicans stonewalling hearings about the Capitol attack? https://t.co/aqIev5tfTK— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 12, 2021
Former Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman of Virginia also said an investigation is plainly needed, according to CNN.
“There is a clear breakdown of communications and operational chain of command,” he told the outlet.
“It would be interesting to see what the internal intelligence memos were for Capitol Police and support elements. My guess is that the intelligence reports would have had a possible Capitol incursion.”
Well, FBI isn’t known for swift responses - they sat on Hunter Biden’s laptop for a year.
Setting the stage so that a gathering of more than one conservative is declared an insurrection.
Funny how if antifa infiltrates BLM, it is still “mostly peaceful”, but in this case the whole thing is a siege of our government.
Retconning.
They need to change the story to justify what comes next...
“they sat on Hunter Biden’s laptop for a year”
And will continue to do so until the signal is given to depose Biden. Which will come soon.
95% of the FBI agents give the other 5% a bad name.
The democrats and the justice department have barely started. Wait until after inauguration. The conveniently emptied out prisons will be filled back up.
they had to get full enjoyment of the rape tapes
they collected and would NEVER USE (reasons unclear)
from Weiner, Hunter, and probably THOUSANDS of other
FIB-protected politicians and their FIB-protected kin.
very sad. very criminal. makes Americans hate them.
Wow, they look like Antifa.
The false flag operation was certainly successful in this case.
The FBI probably assisted with recruiting violent thugs... they like to help prop up the insanity of the SPLC...keep the hate burning against conservatives.
The FBI did the same crap against civil rights workers in the 60’s... Same ugly tactics - different targets of their hatred.
Puppets of whatever Washington group has the power.
If there was no FBI infilitration of the KKK, there would not even be a Klan today. there’s reportedly only a couple thousand people in it nationwide.
When a wife or child go inexplicably missing, the first suspects are the husbands/fathers.
When riots and bombing occur, the first suspects are the FBI and ATF. Agents provocateur are their standard operating procedure. The second is radical leftist groups like Antifa, BLM, and the Democrat Party.
So who did the FBI put up to this?
Did they do it on their own, or were they instructed to orchestrate the attack? (I have no doubt that other idiots, including MAGA true-believers, joined in.
Or did Antifa/BLM/Democrats put out the story ahead of time as a smear operation and to cover their own tracks?
Which FBI LARPer posted that threat?
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that’s how they roll
Of course they knew. Half of the “agitators” were FBI informants.
If the FBI had warnings of potential violence and stood down, it is one more sign that they are utterly corrupt. It makes you wonder if this whole impeachment scam was scripted from the start to permanently discredit not only Trump but the movement he started.
“Wow, they look like Antifa”
Exactly. Watch some of the videos showing these guys going up against docile Capitol Police outside standing behind the simple barriers. Hats on backwards, daypacks, probably had SDR comms in their ears. They lunge at the cops just enough to upset them and then back off. Straight outta Portland. ANTIFA SOP.
Those weren’t Trump Rally people. Those were rent-a-rioters.
We’ll see soon enough if Harris / Perez backchannel fixers can get them off the hook, because they are definitely on the monitor videos. Now that they really have the levers of power, I’m sure their handlers can quietly make sure the actual Trump people who went along with this crap get screwed while the instigators get off.
Ya think?.........................................
“Report: FBI Reverses What It Told America, Confirms Agency Knew People Were Coming to Capitol ‘Ready to Fight’ and Cause Trouble”
Translation:
The fbi is as stupid and incompetent as it looks, but we’ll order the worms in the Nazi media to throw out this lie to try to convince you otherwise.
” It makes you wonder if this whole impeachment scam was scripted from the start to permanently discredit not only Trump but the movement he started”
You have to ask?
Remember what happened to the Tea Party, courtesy of Mitch McConnell. Investigated by the IRS (Free Lois! Oh Wait! She never went to jail!), people they elected got arm twisted in the Senate (um, cough, Ted Cruz), etc.
It was a set from the get. The amazing part is that Trump didn’t see it coming - he was simply worried that ANTIFA would attack his supporters and terrorize the crowd.
Nope. They had marching orders: breach the Capitol gates and create a spectacle that could be blamed on Trump.
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