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U.S. prosecutors: Former FBI official, Navy intel officer 'key figure' in Capitol breach
Just the News ^ | 2/12/21 | Joe weber

Posted on 02/12/2021 10:49:36 AM PST by mac_truck

U.S. prosecutors alleged Thursday that a former FBI official and Navy intelligence officer before the Jan. 6 Capitol breach organized a group of trained fighters and was in contact with self-styled militia groups including the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Three Percenters, making him a "key figure" in the federal probe into the incident.

The revelations emerged as prosecutors asked a federal judge to detain Thomas Edward Caldwell, pending trial, according to The Washington Post.

The allegations appear to provide further evidence that the deadly siege was coordinated and planned months in advance. A police officer and one person who breached the U.S. capitol building died as a result of the siege, as Congress attempted to certify the 2020 presidential election for Democrat Joe Biden.

Prosecutors allege the 66-year-old Caldwell used his military and law enforcement experience to plan an assault weeks ahead of the siege – including possible snipers and ferrying a cache of weapons along the Potomac River.

Caldwell, of Berryville, Va., is charged on counts of conspiracy, obstructing an official proceeding, trespassing, destruction of government property, and aiding and abetting, The Post also reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: caldwell; cointelpro; fbi; intel; oathkeepers; thomasedwardcaldwell
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1 posted on 02/12/2021 10:49:36 AM PST by mac_truck
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To: mac_truck

Bet he is still a Fed asset.


2 posted on 02/12/2021 10:51:15 AM PST by Dartoid
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To: mac_truck

[deadly siege]

Certainly was deadly to the unarmed woman shot by the guy with the pistol.

Oh, never mind.........


3 posted on 02/12/2021 10:51:18 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: mac_truck

Q was arrested?


4 posted on 02/12/2021 10:51:32 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: mac_truck

Sounds like the Democrats have found their Marinus van der Lubbe.


5 posted on 02/12/2021 10:52:28 AM PST by Busywhiskers ("Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy" -Dan Gable)
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To: mac_truck

Just more BS.


6 posted on 02/12/2021 10:52:37 AM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: mac_truck

I’m shocked.


7 posted on 02/12/2021 10:54:16 AM PST by A Navy Vet (No longer liberals. No longer socialists. They are going pure communist.)
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To: mac_truck

The SIEGE was done by LEFTIES! Proud Boys is NOT a conservative group! WHO names themselves PROUD BOYS??? STUPID! What are OathKeepers....is this supposed to sound like PROMISE KEEPERS, which WAS a conservative group!


8 posted on 02/12/2021 10:54:51 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: mac_truck

20 years in Federal prison, no parole, forfeit all retirement, confiscate his home, cars, guns, paychecks


9 posted on 02/12/2021 10:56:28 AM PST by baclava
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Caldwell used his military and law enforcement experience to plan an assault weeks ahead of the siege – including possible snipers and ferrying a cache of weapons along the Potomac River.

Well, as I understand it, a window was broken.
And the government killed a lady.

So this guy's "plan" really sucked.

10 posted on 02/12/2021 10:57:09 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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A police officer and one person who breached the U.S. capitol building died as a result of the siege

There is ZERO evidence that the police officer who died was injured in any way at the "siege". Autopsy shows no sign of physical injury, the body has been cremated.

11 posted on 02/12/2021 10:59:29 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Dartoid

You would win that bet if we did not live in a fascist republic.


12 posted on 02/12/2021 11:00:31 AM PST by xkaydet65 ( )
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To: Ann Archy

Tag line


13 posted on 02/12/2021 11:08:51 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: mac_truck
Class traitor: they will concoct all kinds of false charges against anyone associated with the military or intel, pour encourager les autres.

A favorite tactic of dictatorships is to apply spectacular punishments to any present or former bureaucrat displaying disloyalty.

14 posted on 02/12/2021 11:09:39 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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So now the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are "militia groups."

Enemies of the people! Counter-revolutionaries! Running dogs of cis-white hetero-normativity!

15 posted on 02/12/2021 11:11:31 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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evidence that the deadly siege
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Deadly siege? I suppose that’s a reference to the unarmed young woman who was shot to death, apparently by a police officer, because it’s been confirmed that the other three deaths that occurred during the course of the rally were not directly the result of anyone’s violent behavior.


16 posted on 02/12/2021 11:11:32 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Conceding the result of a fraudulent election is both irrational and immoral.)
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There is ZERO evidence that the police officer who died was injured in any way at the “siege”. Autopsy shows no sign of physical injury, the body has been cremated.
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Given that the MSM is a propaganda arm of the Deep State, it’s not surprising that so many people are unaware of that fact.


17 posted on 02/12/2021 11:17:17 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Conceding the result of a fraudulent election is both irrational and immoral.)
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To: mac_truck

I’m not sure its relevant, but the slain Aschli Babbitt was allegedly an intelligence officer int the Air Force.


18 posted on 02/12/2021 11:19:42 AM PST by myerson
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When is the FBI going to arrest the thousands of BLM/ANTIFA theorists who carried out an insurrection and laid waste to large swaths of the country for MONTHS last year?
19 posted on 02/12/2021 11:24:33 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: mac_truck

This would’ve been a less half-assed news article if it had at least tried to “follow the money” to find the root source of the whole shebang. Otherwise, it may as well have been written in crayon.


20 posted on 02/12/2021 11:36:49 AM PST by Migraine ( Liberalism is great (until it happens to YOU).)
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