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☆ Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump allies were 'suppressed'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

An FBI veteran said his superiors suppressed investigations of Trump, Insider can exclusively reveal. Those figures, the statement claims, explicitly included "anyone in the [Trump] White House and any former or current associates of President Trump." The directions he received included a strict prohibition on filing intelligence reports relating to Giuliani or any other Trump associate. Even before the emergence of this new whistleblower, there has been ample evidence of individual FBI agents with pro-Trump partisan sympathies. Some FBI agents were reportedly satisfied by an assertion made by Trump's legal team that he'd turned over all his classified documents, and wanted to close the Mar-a-Lago government records investigation down.

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☆ No shooter, no injuries reported at US Capitol after 'bad call,' police say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Police found no shooter and no one injured after reports of a possible active shooter in the U.S. Capitol complex on Wednesday after a possible "bad call," Washington Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Hugh Carew said. "A call came in for an active shooter. Earlier, U.S. Capitol Police urged people inside Senate office buildings to shelter in place. "If you are inside the Senate Buildings, everyone inside should be sheltering in place as the report was for a possible active shooter. An advisory from the Capitol Police urged people to move inside their offices and take emergency equipment.

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☆ Police Respond to Unconfirmed Report of Active Shooter at Senate Offices
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Luke Broadwater | More About Luke Broadwater | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The U.S. Capitol Police on Wednesday afternoon evacuated staff from at least one Senate office building and instructed others to “shelter in place” after receiving a report of an active shooter on Capitol Hill. A spokeswoman for the D.C. police department said a call to 911 warned of an active shooter, prompting the Capitol Police to launch a furious search of the property. The spokeswoman said no shooter had been found, and no shots confirmed, but the investigation was continuing. Congress recessed last week for a five-week break, but the Capitol complex is full of staff aides who continue to work. In a security alert sent out just after 3 p.m., staff members were told to find a place to hide and to seek cover.

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☆ 'Everybody failed': A new Senate report found the FBI, Homeland Security and other agencies failed to realize Jan. 6 was coming
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The new report concluded officials did not take the intelligence they did receive seriously enough before Jan. 6. "Those agencies failed to fully and accurately assess the severity of the threat identified by that intelligence," investigators concluded. The report found that FBI received a tip in December 2020 that the far-right Proud Boys planned to be in Washington. Peters' committee staffers focused their findings on the "two primary domestic intelligence agencies," the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis. The Department of Homeland Security emphasized that it had already ordered a review of its Office of Intelligence and Analysis.

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☆ $1 Billion Federal Agency Seeks a Boss Who Will Show Up for Work
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Recent inspector general reports document waste, absenteeism, contracting irregularities, workplace misconduct and sexual harassment at an agency with an annual budget of $1.3 billion. Some 17 agency employees knew about Mr. Blanton’s misconduct but did not report it. Failures of the Capitol Police Board (the architect is one of three voting members) and Mr. Blanton’s failed response contributed to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, according to a Senate report. “The report is filled with errors, omissions, mischaracterizations, misstatements and conclusory statements lacking evidence,” he said. “Problem after problem after problem,” Thomas J. Carroll III, a former acting architect of the Capitol, told investigators.

Persons: Blanton’s, Alexandria Ocasio, House Cannon, Blanton, “, ”, ” Thomas J, Carroll III Organizations: Capitol, House, Capitol Police Board, Committee Locations: Cortez, New York

☆ Russia’s Latest Sanctions on U.S. Officials Turn to Trump Enemies
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Russia has expanded its list of sanctioned Americans in a tit-for-tat retaliation for the latest curbs imposed by the United States. But what is particularly striking is how much President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is adopting perceived enemies of former President Donald J. Trump as his own. Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state of Georgia who rebuffed Mr. Trump’s pressure to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election, also made the list. None of those three has anything to do with Russia policy and the only reason they would have come to Moscow’s attention is because Mr. Trump has publicly assailed them. He also refused to commit to supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia if he is elected president again, saying instead he would seek to mediate between Kyiv and Moscow.

☆ Fact-checking Trump’s CNN town hall in New Hampshire
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +26 min

CNN —CNN hosted a town hall with 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night in New Hampshire. 2020 ElectionJust minutes after the town hall began, Trump claimed the 2020 election was “rigged.”Facts First: This is Trump’s regular lie. Trump claimed Wednesday that he got gas prices down to $1.87 – and “even lower” – but they increased to $7, $8 or even $9 under Biden. The Presidential Records Act says that the moment a president leaves office, the National Archives and Records Administration gets legal custody and control of all presidential records from his administration. First, there’s no provision for negotiating over Presidential records at the end of a term.

☆ Mitch McConnell says Tucker Carlson's following in the GOP is 'disturbing'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mitch McConnell recently offered his most blunt remarks yet on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. "At the risk of patting myself on the back, not many Republicans went after Tucker Carlson, but I did," McConnell told Bloomberg. "I think Carlson had developed a coterie of followers in the Congress as well as in the country that I found disturbing." "I do think the party of Ronald Reagan is coming back here," said McConnell. Despite McConnell's comments, Carlson continues to enjoy warm relations with many in the Republican Party.

☆ N.A.A.C.P. Sues Mississippi Over Laws on Policing and the Courts in Jackson
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Neelam Bohra | Eliza Fawcett | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In another sign of the deep rift in Mississippi between white state lawmakers and Black residents of its capital, Jackson, the N.A.A.C.P. is suing state leaders over two new laws that it says create a “separate and unequal” structure involving the police and courts in the city. The laws, passed by the overwhelmingly white and Republican Legislature and signed on Friday by Gov. Tate Reeves, also a Republican, establish state control of policing and the judicial system in much of Jackson, something not done in other cities in the state, according to the N.A.A.C.P. The city’s leaders are mostly Black and Democratic, and 80 percent of its 150,000 residents are Black.

☆ Elon Musk thought it was unfair to jail the 'QAnon Shaman' who broke into the Capitol, but the DOJ says none of the footage was withheld and Tucker Carlson only showed 4 minutes of it
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A Proud Boy wants to dismiss his seditious-conspiracy case based on Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 footage. The DOJ responded on Sunday that all of the footage was already provided during discovery. Elon Musk previously suggested there was a miscarriage of justice by jailing the "QAnon Shaman." Chansley's former attorney, Albert Watkins, also said that he had not seen the footage aired on Carlson's show, The Washington Post reported. "In the weeks prior to the plea repeated requests were made to make sure we had all the video footage," Watkins wrote in an email.

☆ Kevin McCarthy struggles to respond when asked 'what have we learned' about the Capitol riots after his release of the Jan. 6 tapes
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy defended releasing Jan. 6 footage to Tucker Carlson. In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures, McCarthy defended his decision to release 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the January 6, 2021, riot. "And what have we learned from these tapes that have been on Tucker Carlson Tonight?" That it's not 14,000 hours of tapes, there's 41,000 hours of tapes. McCarthy then swerved to saying more of the protestors during the 2020 George Floyd demonstrations should have faced criminal charges.

☆ White House lashes out at Tucker Carlson in extraordinary rebuke
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( David Goldman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —The White House lashed out at Fox News host Tucker Carlson Wednesday in an extraordinary rebuke of the late-night commentator who has been airing false depictions of the January 6, 2021, attack this week. Carlson, given access to about 40,000 hours of US Capitol security camera footage by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, has aired carefully selected clips to portray the pro-Trump mob as peaceful patriots. White House spokesperson Andrew Bates added to the condemnation Wednesday. The Capitol Police has continuously warned that release of all security footage from the Capitol could pose a potential security risk for the building. In one November 2020 exchange, Carlson said Trump’s post-election behavior was “disgusting.” And in another text message conversation, two days before the January 6 attack, Carlson said, “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights.

☆ White House says 'Tucker Carlson is not credible' after the Fox host claimed January 6 was 'mostly peaceful chaos'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The White House lit into Tucker Carlson after he made misleading claims about January 6. The response shows the nerve Carlson has struck with his selectively edited footage of the riot. "Tucker Carlson is not credible," a White House spokesman said of the host. Bates then went after Carlson by name, poking fun at how the network has portrayed Carlson in past lawsuits. Outside of the White House, Carlson's comments and use of footage his show exclusively obtained from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has set off a torrent of criticism in Washington.

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday that Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson "is not credible," after the right-wing commentator showed footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol that portrayed rioters as peaceful. "We also agree with what Fox News's own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: that Tucker Carlson is not credible," Bates added. The Biden White House has tread carefully in its criticism of Fox's coverage of the 2020 election and its aftermath in the past, sometimes citing the Hatch Act that prevents administration officials from speaking about campaign-related matters. Carlson has defended his decision to run the footage, saying it was needed for transparency. Supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was certifying the outcome of the 2020 elections.

☆ Fact Check-Trump did not post edited photo of Jan. 6 protesters with donuts and flowers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A screenshot of a satirical, fabricated post attributed to former U.S. President Donald Trump is being taken seriously by some social media users. The post includes an altered photo from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol where donuts and flowers have been edited into the hands of protesters. The screenshot appears to show a Truth Social post by Trump that reads, in part: “The PATRIOTS were perfect and tried to offer the capitol police donuts and flowers! Reuters found no credible news reports on any such post shared by Trump (bit.ly/3kUha5O). The post does not appear on Trump’s Truth Social page (here), (bit.ly/3yiY6kH).

☆ Mitch McConnell slams Fox News — but spares Kevin McCarthy — over Tucker Carlson's depiction of January 6 footage
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mitch McConnell slammed Fox News for airing Tucker Carlson's misleading portrayal of January 6. He held up a letter from the Capitol Police chief calling the depiction "offensive and misleading." But he notably declined to fault House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for handing over the footage. At the top of his weekly press conference at the Capitol, McConnell produced a print-out of an internal letter from US Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manager describing the footage as "offensive and misleading." But he later declined to criticize House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for handing over 40,000 hours of footage to Carlson in the first place.

☆ DOJ says at least 1,000 Trump supporters arrested for Jan. 6 Capitol riot
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

At least 1,000 people so far have been arrested on charges related ot the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, the Department of Justice said Monday. About 518 people have pleaded guilty to federal crimes so far, the DOJ said in an update marking 26 months since the riot. Around one third of Capitol riot defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding police during the attack, the DOJ said. The department said the approximate financial losses "suffered as a result of the siege at the Capitol" totaled $2.88 million as of Oct. 14. Those losses reflects damage to the Capitol building and ground, as well as costs borne by the Capitol Police.

☆ Protesting against Congress may get you a $50 fine. Disrupting the Supreme Court is a different story.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Lawrencehurley_Pic.Jpg | Lawrence Hurley | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON — When Emily Paterson was arrested for protesting abortion law changes during a Supreme Court hearing in November, she spent the night in jail and now has a criminal conviction on her record. It’s a sore point for Mark Goldstone, a lawyer who regularly represents Washington protesters. Supreme Court protesters are treated “more harshly” in a couple of different ways, he said, referring only to those participating in nonviolent protests and not violent attacks like the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. On Capitol grounds, the police “process you and release you,” Goldstone said, while at the Supreme Court, “you are going to spend the night in jail" and likely face prosecution. Participants have long complained that the right to protest outside the court is limited, pointing out the irony of the Supreme Court imposing its own limits on the right to free speech.

☆ The estate of the Capitol police officer who died after the Jan. 6 riot is suing Trump, alleging wrongful death
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was injured on the day of the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Damages are being sought by the estate and longtime partner of Officer Brian Sicknick, who was injured in the line of duty at the Capitol building. "In his factual proffer, Defendant Tanios admitted to accompanying Defendant Khater to the January 6th rally in D.C. and admitted to purchasing and carrying the bear spray Defendant Khater used on Officer Sicknick," the suit states. The lawsuit also names Trump as a defendant, arguing that violence on January 6 was incited through the former president's rhetoric. "Therefore, when accountability is achieved by Officer Sicknick's estate the recovery will be donated to charity."

President Joe Biden on Friday will mark the second anniversary of the attack on the Capitol by awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to a dozen election workers, officials and law-enforcement officers for "contributions to our democracy" before and during the riot, a White House official said. "These 12 heroes demonstrated courage and selflessness during a moment of peril for our nation," the official said. Other elected officials receiving the medal are Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Al Schmidt, the former vice chair of Philadelphia’s Board of Elections. Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, left, is comforted by her mother, Ruby Freeman, during a House select committee hearing on June 21, 2022. Biden is also posthumously awarding the medal to Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died the day after the riot after suffering two strokes.

☆ As Capitol police became overpowered on Jan. 6, the Pentagon sent security to the homes of military leaders, per the former Capitol police chief
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-02 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund is releasing his book "Courage Under Fire" on Jan. 3. The book will detail what went wrong on Jan. 6 and how it could happen again. "The security and information-sharing policies and mandates put in place after September 11 failed miserably on January 6," Sund said in the book, according to the Post. Help from the military did not come for another three hours, The Post reported, after the building was already clear. The book's revelations come as the Jan. 6 committee released new documents from its final report.

WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 committee found that law enforcement agencies gathered “substantial evidence” of potential violence at the Capitol as Congress met to formalize Joe Biden's election as president, a member of the panel said at its final meeting Monday. But the executive summary of the committee's final report doesn’t address questions of why the FBI, U.S. Capitol Police and other law enforcement agencies didn’t do more to increase security that day. The executive summary, released Monday, avoids criticizing or reaching conclusions about law enforcement and intelligence shortfalls in the lead-up to the attack, which many law enforcement experts have called the biggest intelligence failure since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A representative for the committee didn’t respond to a request for comment about the decision not to include more information about the role law enforcement played ahead of the Capitol attack. The committee's executive summary discusses information that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies received in the days before Jan. 6, saying some of the intelligence was shared with partners like the Capitol Police.

☆ U.S. lawmaker Greene's Jan. 6 remarks a 'slap in the face' to police - White House
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"January 6 happened, and next thing you know, I organized the whole thing, along with Steve Bannon here. And I will tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. A bunch of conservatives, Second Amendment supporters, went in the Capitol without guns, and they think that we organized that? Greene in a statement to CNN on Monday said she was being sarcastic and denied any involvement in the Jan. 6 attack. Greene invited people on Twitter to attend the Jan. 6 event before it happened.

☆ Watch the moment relatives of a fallen January 6 police officer snubbed Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy and refused to shake their hands
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The family of fallen police officer Brian Sicknick snubbed Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy. Sicknick's family filed past McConnell and McCarthy when receiving his Congressional Gold Medal. Sicknick's family was seen greeting Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Brian Sicknick's brother, Ken Sicknick, told CBS journalist Scott MacFarlane that McConnell and McCarthy did not deserve a handshake. A representative for McConnell told Insider the GOP leader had already addressed the matter at his press conference on Tuesday.

In video broadcast of the event, at least two police officials could be seen similarly spurning McConnell and McCarthy. The decision by multiple attendees to spurn Republican leaders illustrates how emotions are still running high over the 2021 attack on the Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, who initially declined to call off the rioters. "They're just two-faced," Gladys Sicknick told CNN. Washington's chief medical examiner ruled that Sicknick died of natural causes following multiple strokes after the attack on the Capitol. Asked about the incident on Tuesday, McConnell did not address the ceremony directly.

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