Reaction & Commentary
About potential violence on january 6. and you know there were lots of stories about people that were here at the capitol on january 6 that may have carried a confederate flag may have had red and maggar trump but the capitol police had told me the day before hey
We’ve heard there’s going to be people that hate trump that are going to be trying to blend in and there is going to be violence and we’re concerned about it but the chief of capitol police said they got no intel like that from the fbi an article a few days ago
From revolver says unindicted co-conspirators in the january six cases raised disturbing questions of federal foreknowledge that’s june 14th and i saw a friend tucker carlson covered this uh last night but this is really disturbing and this is something that i know from my time here in congress has disturbed democrats and republicans alike
Across the aisle because we don’t like to see government agents stirring up trouble or find that there are criminal acts that would not likely have occurred had not the federal government been participating whether they were actual agents or un undercover agents or informants that were working for the federal government
But this is scary stuff this is this is kind of third world stuff this is not only third world stuff but this is like putin kind of activity you know so if there were federal agents that were involved on january 6 we really need to know
What the fbi knew and when they knew it and not only that we need to know how much participation did any of our federal friends either at doj fbi or any of the intel community what kind of role were they playing because there’s information that came out about the effort to
Kidnap the michigan governor and there were federal agents so it’s been said there were federal agents that were involved in that and it would seem if you have 14 people that are involved in a conspiracy to commit a crime and over a third of them including people in leadership are federal agents
Or undercover agents or people that are working for a federal entity that we’ve got some serious problems and we have not done adequate oversight and it disturbs me greatly that there was not more information forthcoming from our federal law enforcement intelligence doj than was received here on capitol hill because surely
If they had known the level of planning by a small group to actually commit violence and break in to our u.s capitol they would have been better prepared and i know some of us have had extreme differences with the speaker but i just feel sure if she had known the level
Of violence that was being talked about and planned and monitored by doj fbi surely she would not have allowed the sergeant-at-arms to turn down national guard support on january the 6th now this article it it pulls from documents legal documents that have been filed by the federal government
In some of these different cases this article says it wished to address the matter directly in the following three questions in the year leading up to january 6 and during january 6 itself to what extent were the three primary militia groups oath keepers proud boys and the three percenters
That the fbi doj pentagon and network news have labeled most responsible for planning and executing a capital attack on january 6 infiltrated by agencies of the federal government or informants of said agencies question two exactly how many federal undercover agents or confidential informants were present at the capitol
Or in the capitol during the infamous siege and what roles did they play merely passive informants or active instigators and third finally of all of the un unindicted co-conspirators referenced in the charging documents the official federal pleadings of those indicted for crimes on january 6 how many worked as a confidential informant
Or as an undercover operative for the federal government fbi army intelligence etc in the narrative about january 6 or if the narrative about january 6 does not conform to the questions above the american people will never learn the most important truth about what january 6 is and what kind of country
They’re really living in it turns out the federal government did in fact have undercover agents or confidential informants embedded within the so-called militia groups indicted for conspiring to obstruct the senate certification on january 6. the implications would be nothing short of seismic especially if such agents or informants enjoyed extremely
Senior level positions within such groups and the thing is like i say they’ve got documentation the federal pleadings that the united states government has filed in some of these cases that really raised serious issues yeah there’s no question there were radical groups there uh and those three seem to be
The most prominent but from the pleadings from the department of justice itself it appears that they had significant presence and participation in what went on and and they’re really we do need to see the 14 000 hours of security videos uh seeing ashley babbitt killed by an officer standing off to the side
There were officers in in front of the window but then there were officers on the other side where ashley was and it appeared it was john sullivan and trump hater that told him if they will move out of the way they won’t get hurt and the officers appeared well they
Moved out of the way and they broke these guys broke through the glass and yet with all of the people that the fbi has sought information on and put up pictures and it appears they were probably wearing masks but there’s other at 14 000 hours of video these guys were around
In the capitol around the capitol they didn’t have their masks up at all times but it doesn’t appear that the fbi has asked for assistance in identifying those people that broke through the glass or that were right there at least when ashley was shot in the neck and killed
And that normally means if they’re not asking for help in identifying somebody that they know who they are and maybe they’re person 1 person 2 person 3 person 15 that are referred to in the pleadings uh of people that were working with the fbi or federal authorities of some kind
But this is very unsettling stuff it was bad enough to have our capital attacked and as a former felony judge i would have no problem sending people to prison that broke into this capital that literally broke in or that did damage or that stole things here
There’s no place for that and they do need to be severely punished but were some of those people doing those things working for the fbi were they egged on by federal authorities because it sure looks like from some of these legal documents they filed and the the masking of names and referring to
Them as something other than their real names that we have a serious problem with some of the people that were involved that day that peers were either working for federal authorities or were informants for federal authorities and had leadership positions in those groups and and quite possibly
Some cases probably it helped egg them on this article says many cases the unindicted co-conspirators appear to be much more aggressive and egregious participants in the very so-called conspiracy serving as the basis for charging those indicted the question immediate immediately rises as to why this is the case
And forces us to consider whether certain individuals are being protected from indictment because they were involved in january 6 as undercover operatives or confidential informants for a federal agency so another place further on in the article it points out this would be far worse in the already bad situation of the government knowing
About the possibility of violence and doing nothing instead this would imply that elements of the federal government were active instigators in the most egregious and spectacular aspects of january 6 amounting to a monumental entrapment scheme used as a pretext to imprison otherwise harmless protesters at the capitol and in much larger sense
Used to frame the entire maga movement as potential domestic terrorists and some of the uh there’s there’s so much more let’s see further on i guess it’s page 626 in one of the plots climactic scenes in the main van driving up to look at governor whitmer’s vacation home and that’s of
Course the plot to kidnap the governor three out of the five people in the van 60 of the plot senior leaders were federal agents and informants uh fbi infiltrators comprised at the very least talking about overall in that plot 26 of the plotters that’s at least five fbi operatives
Have been disclosed against just 14 suspects indicted so looking at some of the and these are the pleadings by the doj themselves but just to give an idea of what we’re dealing with um says on december 30th 2020 watkins and caldwell exchanged the following text messages
Watkins looks like a green light to come to d.c on the 6th the rally’s point still at your place caldwell not that i’m aware of i have been contacted by no one typical person one here’s the rub person two and i will be in a hotel within striking distance
Of the city starting on the 4th so we won’t even be here there will be some stuff going on during the 5th and we want to be part of whatever it shakes out well person 1 and person 2 apparently working for the federal authorities some federal agency another place it references
Person 2 person three person one and they seem to be significant leaders in what’s going on uh another place person three emails person three several maps along with the message these maps will get you from the hotel into dc i mean person 10 checked into hilton garden inn in vienna um person three
Another reference person 15 and person 20 are referenced these are people that they’re covering up their names because they’re working for the federal authorities and if you look at some of the video on january 6 there were a lot of people walking around they had no business being in the capitol
But it’s quite concerning that people that were extremely active at all should have been were working for federal entities such that they have to cover up their names because of their complicity with the federal authorities during that day so that’s uh united states versus caldwell crowl and then there’s one government’s
Opposition to defendant’s motion for reconsideration of detention they’re holding some of these people still one some with 23 hours 24 hours a day in solitary were just walking around they did no damage they should not have come into the capitol but it remains to be seen why the government has their stinger out
So much for people no matter how mild their participation on january 6 and yet the biggest damage done to the united states in protest was last summer and those folks aren’t being treated the same way that others are so there’s some very serious questions that need to be answered
We do need the answers we need to know how many federal agents how many informants had given information to federal agencies and why in the world all of that information was not provided to people that needed to protect capitol hill so we need an investigation we don’t need one
That has an entire democrat staff it needs to be truly bipartisan to get to the bottom of just what happened that day and who caused it to happen and with that i yield back
