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FBI has trail of 140,000 images of selfie-loving Capitol siege suspects
Fox News ^ | Jan 17, 2021 | Lee Brown

Posted on 01/17/2021 5:02:40 PM PST by McGruff

Selfie-snapping Capitol rioters left investigators a treasure trove of evidence — at least 140,000 pictures and videos taken during the deadly Jan. 6 siege, according to federal prosecutors.

Startling images quickly emerged of the siege, with many making no attempts to disguise their involvement — like bare-chested "QAnon Shaman" Jake Angeli, who was quickly IDed thanks to his horned bearskin headdress with red, white and blue face paint.

One of the first inside, Douglas Jensen, allegedly said he wanted to make sure the world saw his QAnon shirt so that "‘Q’ could ‘get the credit’" for the siege, according to officials.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: capitolriot; capitolriotsuspects; fbi; haha; idiots; images; itiswhatitis; stoppostingfoxnews; wompwomp
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To: BipolarBob

What if I photoshopped myself in the Capital? reckon they’d hunt me down?
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Personally, I wouldn’t advise doing that. Why even go through the interrogation process?


21 posted on 01/17/2021 5:20:27 PM PST by KittyKares (Trump won the election)
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To: Meatspace
You have the right not to post pictures of yourself on social media.

What they lacked is the capacity.

22 posted on 01/17/2021 5:21:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: everyone

It’s said that the capitol building is on of the most covered by security cameras. Why haven’t we seen any of that?


23 posted on 01/17/2021 5:22:12 PM PST by McGruff (Remain calm, stay in your homes and wear a mask.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Any picture taken by a smartphone is tagged with the date, time, and latitude/longitude coordinates where the picture was taken. If you share that in social media, that meta data is most likely sent along with the picture.

Social media already has algorithms which allow people to match faces to names. Once a use does that for several of their friends, the algorithms can learn to do it automatically.

Moreover, the installed social media apps also scan your phones data, slurping up contacts, meta data from your photos (if you allow it access to your photos, which most everyone does) and even listens for other phones nearby also running the app via Bluetooth/WiFi.

From there and other tools it’s easy to return a list of every picture from a particular geographic boundary from a certain date and time. The social media probably also has names, hometowns and phone numbers already associated. Since the apps know where you are, they can match a spouse to a common location where you spend a lot of time, or where the phone doesn’t change location during the night to get a good idea of your home address.

It is insidious how much personal data is voluntarily given up to social media and other tech companies.


24 posted on 01/17/2021 5:22:58 PM PST by Crolis ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
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To: McGruff

Nice...if only they could do the same for all of those Summer insurrectionists! Failing Bigly Idiots


25 posted on 01/17/2021 5:31:32 PM PST by ValleyofHope
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To: Bayard

What were the rioters attempting to accomplish?
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I think it was a case that they simply got caught up in the moment. I suspect that almost none of those who were actually at the speech had any notion of doing what they did later... and of course most did not get caught up in it and a review of the timeline shows that. It seems that Antifa lead the charge and there were some there (not Antifa) who were not at the speech (or left early?) and thought to themselves when they saw a group leading the charge... “Oh...it’s happening and I guess I’ll get on board” and they did it without questioning what they were actually doing.


26 posted on 01/17/2021 5:33:21 PM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: Crolis

So if we want reality to return, we have to start using real cameras...


27 posted on 01/17/2021 5:36:07 PM PST by ValleyofHope
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To: ValleyofHope
Any picture taken by a smartphone is tagged with the date, time, and latitude/longitude coordinates where the picture was taken. If you share that in social media, that meta data is most likely sent along with the picture.

There are settings on your phone to turn this off. Highly recommend you look at your settings. There are also websites that check your images for metadata.
28 posted on 01/17/2021 5:37:14 PM PST by RBW in PA
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To: McGruff

So how many people went into the Capitol building that day?

Kinda curious, since many said they were directly invited to come in by Security.

How would they know they had broken any law?

Where’s the guilty mind if you were invited in?


29 posted on 01/17/2021 5:37:17 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition!)
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To: gubamyster
Do they have a trail of the BLM & ANTIFA riots over the summer? I’m sure there are ample photographs or the perps to be hunted down.

Antifa is usually careful to mask their faces completely to prevent or at least cast doubt on ID.
30 posted on 01/17/2021 5:37:42 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: McGruff

fbi working hand in hand with their crony information gathering trust: fbook, google, and twitter.


31 posted on 01/17/2021 5:38:00 PM PST by dadfly
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To: McGruff

But they failed to find or prosecute any ANTIFA/BLM rioters burning federal buildings over the course of the past four years


32 posted on 01/17/2021 5:38:35 PM PST by KTM rider (Bracing for the reinstatement of Obamunism....on steroids)
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To: Bayard

“What were the rioters attempting to accomplish?”

The only thing that makes sense is it was a false flag action designed to impugn Trump, his supporters, and totally destroy freedom. It worked wonderfully. Then it was embellished by their new claims that they were trying to capture and kill Congresscritters and Pence.


33 posted on 01/17/2021 5:41:00 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: McGruff

Douglas Jensen will undoubtedly be of of the first inside Federal PMITAP for his stupidity.


34 posted on 01/17/2021 5:41:23 PM PST by Fury (.)
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To: McGruff
With the help of a few fellow idiots from Antifa/BLM, the fantasy-world-dwellers of Q destroyed an event that would have at least brought some focus on Democrat election malfeasance.

In its place, they gifted the Left the propaganda win of a lifetime.

35 posted on 01/17/2021 5:42:01 PM PST by Dagnabitt
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To: McGruff

The FBI had a lot of practice over the summer using social media ‘selfies’ to track down and prosecute violent BLM and Antifa members.

Oh, wait...


36 posted on 01/17/2021 5:48:17 PM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: McGruff
Wonder how many they have of blm/antifa?

IF they moved against those actions as quickly as this it would have saved a lot of problems.

37 posted on 01/17/2021 5:49:13 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ValleyofHope
The culmination of the FBI's four year long coup against Trump, now they are going to blame it on the MAGA's who took the bait and walked in to their trap at the White House.

I would not be surprised after the FBI shot up the concert at the Vegas Massacre. They are rotten to the core

they had no problem shooting Ashli Babbit and sweeping her under the rug along with the stolen election , they would shoot you and me for no reason at all, or just to stir up support for gun confiscation

38 posted on 01/17/2021 5:53:20 PM PST by KTM rider (Bracing for the reinstatement of Obamunism....on steroids)
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To: McGruff

So how did the FBI end up with so many selfies and other pics taken during this event?


39 posted on 01/17/2021 5:55:36 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC and America on election/coup/night, Tues., Nov. 03, 2020!)
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To: RBW in PA
"Any picture taken by a smartphone is tagged with the date, time, and latitude/longitude coordinates where the picture was taken. If you share that in social media, that meta data is most likely sent along with the picture."
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"There are settings on your phone to turn this off. Highly recommend you look at your settings. There are also websites that check your images for metadata."
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I could be wrong, but I'm thinking if you got pics and videos of yourself running around in the US House and Senate chambers and offices, the authorities might have some idea where you were.

40 posted on 01/17/2021 5:55:43 PM PST by LouieFisk
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