I’m not normally given to darkness and depression. But taking all of this in, even a confirmed optimist or Pollyanna would have a hard time not heading over to the liquor store for a bender.

Congress routinely exempts themselves from the laws they pass. Why should their Police force be any different?

“But Jan 6 was perceived by Congress to have threatened the LIVELIHOODS of Congressmen and Senators…”

I think the sentiment that the Congresscritters are/were scared is true but for a slightly different reason. It’s very probable that the Democrats set up the whole breach scenario and that FBI Informants/Instigators led the charge while the highly-paid and under-worked Capitol Police watched from the sidelines. It was all an effort to tarnish Trump and his voters.

They wanted a small event that they could spin as a riot. Instead, they got a “mostly peaceful protest”. They wanted a group of clueless trespassers, they got a mob. They scripted some political theater where they could pretend to be in danger but they lost control of the narrative. Members of Congress were never in any danger but the events drove home the point that they are not immune from the events that they create. They thought that they were untouchable and all powerful, they learned some reality and Congresscritters don’t like reality. And some of them, in the wee hours of the morning, probably think about the mobs they’ve been encouraging in their districts and whether or not those mobs will turn on them (hint: they will).

RTWT – but here are some of her conclusions, after walking us carefully through the background and the implications.

https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/07/08/license-to-monitor-national-strategies-the-capitol-police-and-tucker-carlson/

The two strategy documents put out by the Biden administration are not just boilerplate. They contain the language and premises to justify moves like deploying an un-FOIA-able police force to look for “domestic terrorist threats” against the U.S. Capitol out in America’s hinterland, and wielding the intelligence collection tools of the federal government against Americans, if domestic terrorism, violent extremism, and/or foreign influence on or through same is said to be at issue.
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There has been well-informed speculation already about what sort of story Tucker Carlson might have been working on to catch the attention of U.S. intelligence. Lee Smith had a plausible proposition at the Epoch Times on 2 July: he pointed out Carlson’s interviews with Dr. Li-Meng Yan, the Chinese whistleblower who asserts that COVID-19 was engineered in a lab and spread intentionally as a bioweapon.

However you come down on that issue, the point from the perspective of this article is that Carlson’s connection with Dr. Yan – or potentially his pursuit of an interview with Putin – might be assessed under the assumptions of the Biden strategies as an enterprise to cooperate with a malign foreign entity in spreading “disinformation.” Such “disinformation” would then be framed as incitement to extremism, likely to lead to unrest and anti-democratic activity, and to culminate in terrorism.

We’ve seen just such fantastic leaps of logic day after day, in mainstream media coverage of every objection to the approved narrative about political events and conditions, from racism to all forms of discrimination, and on to concerns about election integrity (Republican concerns that exactly mirror concerns expressed by Democrats in every election of the last 20 years) and the nature of the Capitol riot in January.

The national strategy documents published by the Biden administration are blueprints for using such leaps of logic to make policy – and to justify using the tools of intelligence and law enforcement for monitoring blameless Americans, based not on probable cause but on theoretical suspicions that come from a political narrative.

And they’ll come for your Legos too.
(Check the comments for D4x’s remarks.)
And this.

https://babylonbee.com/news/fbi-claims-sauron-had-lego-model-of-minas-tirith-in-his-bedroom

It’s suggestive.

Michael Byrd has been on extended leave ever since January 6th, appears to still be on leave, does not return calls, and has rather professionally scrubbed his online social media presence.

Why?

Paraphrasing Holmes, it’s odd that the dog didn’t bark.

I think the Congresscritters really do feel more threatened by what happened Jan 6 than by what happened to Steve Scalise. Certainly they don’t want to get killed by nutters. But the once-in-a-blue-moon attack on individual Congressmen is a much lower threat (in their eyes) than the American people (who I agree with Geoffrey that Congress ought to serve, but rarely has) potentially taking their collective power and perks away.

Does no one read “The Gilded Age” anymore? It’s fiction, yes, but it’s not hard to find the history on which it’s based. Congress protects its privilege of directing tax money and shields its own from accountability. Remember the one caught with cash bribes in his freezer, and both parties worked to protect him?

The raid of Jefferson’s office set off a series of political events: Jefferson immediately challenged the action in federal court. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi issued “a rare joint statement demanding that the FBI return the documents and saying that Jefferson then should cooperate more fully with the investigation”. “Many Republicans and Democrats contend that the unprecedented raid on a congressional office was unduly aggressive and may have breached the constitutional separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches of government that are meant to shelter lawmakers from administrative intimidation.” Tensions escalated to the point where – according to AP – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, his deputy Paul McNulty, and possibly FBI Director Robert Mueller “were said to be ready to quit if the Justice Department was asked to return the Jefferson documents … [while the] House was threatening to go after the Justice Department’s budget”.