Posted on 08/20/2021 5:15:54 AM PDT by tatown
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.
Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations.
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And any prosecutor or investigator who hunted down people for simple trespassing offenses (which I can’t see how you can actually be charged with after being waved into the building) should be charged, disbarred and imprisoned. All police involved in the Jan 6th incident should be questioned thoroughly at hearings at to why they let the protesters in.
Good question but I’m guessing soon.
Kinda kills the whole ‘insurrection’ argument.
Completely
But the ferrules will make an example out of those they’ve arrested and locked up with scant or no charges.
They sit in jail for months on end, lose their jobs, homes, savings, autos and so forth. Then they are cut loose without being prosecuted.
Ok boyz and girlz...have you learned your lesson about playing in a sandbox you don’t belong. Now, go back home and never ever rise up again or you’ll get another dose of Uncle Sugar.
No equal justice, no due process, no rule of law.
This is absolutely unconstitutional.
I guess they want to get this one out of the way now - it has served its purpose.
Sherlock perplexed.
Nothing like “crowder gates” at the slaughterhouse or any place where you are managing the movement of animals.
That’s because they didn’t bother to look at any Democrats
maybe they are coming out with this as a way to avoid having to address the issue of FBI involvement in the instigation of the mostly peaceful protest.
Yes they know because they assisted them.
That's my thinking as well. The agents provocateur that we thought were ANTIFA were probably working for the FBI.
Nah. Some libs might’ve been trying to put an ugly face on it, but they were likely too few and failed except for breaking outer windows.
To not believe it was mostly conservative types is purely fantasy conspiratorial.
It’s perfectly realistic that conservative Trump nuts would press in. That includes the fact that this was one of the lamest “riots” ever, much less “insurrection”. Only leftists know how to do pure hostile violent destruction.
It would seem they can only create one really large event at a time?
So are they finally going to put the word “insurrection” in its grave as pertains to the events of Jan. 6?
“...I guess they want to get this one out of the way now - it has served its purpose....”
That’s why everyone calls em “the FIB”
In other words, “FBI Finds Itself Innocent”
Of course it wasn’t.
Only Dems and NeverTrumpers ever claimed otherwise.
That doesn’t mean there weren’t any Trump supporters there like some suggest, but the big lie pushed by so many - that there was some planned conspiracy to overthrow the government - is completely false. And that was obvious almost immediately.
Reality is that you had a few violent right-wing folk, some counter-protestors from the left , and then a huge, unfocused mass of (admittedly right-leaning) people caught up in the moment and just following the crowd. That’s it. And the vast majority of people arrested deserve very light sentences if any punishment at all if we are playing by traditional American rules.
The FBI PLANNED IT!!
Fibs Botched Investigations.
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