• norbert
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      Nope, it says “unofficial” in the article.

      This fuck was an Oath Keeper himself.

      • Bernie Ecclestoned
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        Yeah, I was thinking of the FBI

        WASHINGTON — An F.B.I. informant who was embedded for months in the inner circle of Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, is likely to testify as a defense witness at the seditious conspiracy trial of Mr. Rhodes in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

        The informant, Greg McWhirter, served as the Oath Keepers’ vice president but was secretly reporting to the F.B.I. about the group’s activities in the weeks and months leading up to the Capitol attack, according to two people familiar with the matter.

        https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/us/politics/oath-keepers-trial-january-6.html

  • @[email protected]
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    232 years ago

    Well, colour me surprised 9 ways to Sunday and fuck me sideways. You don’t say that police attend to associate with right wing terrorists. /s

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        Oh boy, that guy that’s real fun at parties. The hero we need…

        It’s a rage reference man. If it was used on Reddit previously, okay, but you’re reaching to write your own narrative. Reddit sucks. Move on.

  • @[email protected]
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    552 years ago

    Shouldn’t background checks for Top Secret clearances that involve employees in closer contact with important government officials screen out those with links to radical ideologies?

  • @[email protected]
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    142 years ago

    The degree of rot keeps getting more and more astounding. I say this as someone who is completely unsurprised. Contradiction? Yeah. Both are true at the same time.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate
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    It feels like one of the flaws in the system is that, while we’d want the agents who surround the president to be vetted more than almost anyone else, it’s the executive branch that’s responsible and apparently the president can give the okay for someone who doesn’t otherwise pass, as we saw happen for his kids. What’s to stop a corrupt president from having corrupt USSS agents?

  • @[email protected]
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    362 years ago

    Do you guys not remember how the SS “accidentally” deleted all the texts from SS agents on the day of Jan 6th? “Whoops! Our bad!” Heads should have rolled big time!

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      the Secret Service unironically is the reason the insurrectionists didn’t reach the senators/reps

      • Roboticide
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        232 years ago

        Why are they getting credit? It was capital police who finally opened fire when the rioters got to the hallway with the congressional offices.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          the Secret Service were the ones inside, who for example shot out into the hallway from the door of the senate when the MAGA traitors tried to storm the senate chambers

          • Roboticide
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            12 years ago

            Unless you’ve got a source I’m not familiar with, the only time anyone opened fire on the protestors was in the hall where Ashley Babbitt died, and that was confirmed to be Capital Police.

    • @[email protected]
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      I thought the same thing, these guys had a lot of confidence in doing what they did. They must have had that confidence for a reason,. It also explains the appearance of not having an end plan, if they believed the next stage was not their part of the coup. The next part of the plan we may never actually learn but damn we need to find out where the government has been compromised.

      • Guy Ingonito
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        32 years ago

        I wonder if they would have used ‘the VP has been kidnapped by Antifa!’ as justification for the insurrection act.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 years ago

          They were chanting “hang Pence” and literally, physically building a gallows. The intentions were quite clear.

    • Guy Ingonito
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      472 years ago

      Remember Champ biting specific members of the secret service?

      Dogs know. Dogs always know.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 years ago

        That was actually Major, their younger dog at the time. Champ was their elderly dog who died a couple years ago. They since got a younger pup, Commander, and he too, has been biting staffers, but I don’t know if they revealed which agencies the victims work for. Maybe Commander is copying what his elder brother does, but iirc Major doesn’t live in the White House too often nowadays. He might just have the same intuition.

    • athos77
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      152 years ago

      Do we have any proof that the messages were deleted on the instruction of the White House? I’ve always thought they arranged the mass-deletion on their own - but it was a very busy time and I might well have missed the bit about them being ordered to delete them.

        • athos77
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          62 years ago

          All true. However, there’s a difference between being told/ordered to do a thing, and thinking (on your own), “Hey if I do this thing it’ll cover my ass and help my side”. OP is claiming they were told to do it - and that may be true, but I’d like some proof toward that.

          • @[email protected]
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            What’s more likely? That they all independently had the same idea to commit the same crime at the same time, or that their ringleader told them to do it, so they did it?

              • @[email protected]
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                This is likely bullshit, your milage may vary…but I though they used encrypted black berries. Its on a private network/vpn separate from civilian traffic.

                It seems like Trump threw a fit about it at one time.