January 6th agent provocateur?
[Hat tip: commenter “Griffin.”]
Questions abound. The following is an excerpt from Thomas Massie’s exchange with AG Garland:
Rep. Massie: As far as we can determine, the individual who was saying he’ll probably go to jail, he’ll probably be arrested, but they need to go into the Capitol the next day, is then directing people into the Capitol the next day, is then the next day directing people to the Capitol. And as far as we can find. You said this is one of the most sweeping in history. Have you seen that video, or those frames from that video?
AG Garland: So as I said at the outset, one of the norms of the Justice Department is to not comment on pending investigations, and particularly not to comment on particular scenes or particular individuals.
Rep. Massie: I was hoping today to give you an opportunity to put to rest the concerns that people have that there were federal agents or assets of the federal government present on January 5 and January 6. Can you tell us, without talking about particular incidents or particular videos, how many agents or assets of the federal government were present on January 6, whether they agitated to go into the Capitol, and if any of them did?
AG Garland: So I’m not going to violate this norm of, uh, of, of, of, the rule of law.
[Looks down and away]
I’m not going to comment on an investigation that’s ongoing.
The Revolver article goes on to say:
After months of research, Revolver’s investigative reporting team can now reveal that Ray Epps [the man actually being referred to in that exchange between Massie and Garland] appears to be among the primary orchestrators of the very first breach of the Capitol’s police barricades at 12:50pm on January 6. Epps appears to have led the “breach team” that committed the very first illegal acts on that fateful day. What’s more, Epps and his “breach team” did all their dirty work with 10 minutes still remaining in President Trump’s National Mall speech, and with the vast majority of Trump supporters still 30 minutes away from the Capitol.
Secondly, Revolver also determined, and will prove below, that the the FBI stealthily removed Ray Epps from its Capitol Violence Most Wanted List on July 1, just one day after Revolver exposed the inexplicable and puzzlesome FBI protection of known Epps associate and Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes. July 1 was also just one day after separate New York Times report amplified a glaring, falsifiable lie about Epps’s role in the events of January 6.
Lastly, Ray Epps appears to have worked alongside several individuals — many of them suspiciously unindicted — to carry out a breach of the police barricades that induced a subsequent flood of unsuspecting MAGA protesters to unwittingly trespass on Capitol restricted grounds and place themselves in legal jeopardy.
Much much more at the link.
We have become a banana republic.
The best place to find FBI agents? In a group of neo-Nazis. Or white supremacists or Oath Keepers or…you get it.
LGB!
Well, those right-wing riots aren’t going to happen by themselves, after all.
I actually plowed through that very long Revolver article. It lays out an extremely strong case for Epps as a federal agent provocateur. Of course the article will never see the light of day beyond us few here at Neo’s and maybe a few other places.
It’s already on Zerohedge.
Not on the NY Post, though, disappointingly. (At least not yet.)
Lee Smith, Sean Davis, Julie Kelly, Darren Beattie mention it on their twitter feeds.
Probably many more…
The thing should snowball.
Dorsey is probably going to have to “swing into action”….
Not yet on Fox or Newsmax, though. (Sigh…)
But this is an “interesting”—if unsurprising—development:
“Biden FEMA Denies Texas Appeal for Border Crisis Emergency Funding”:
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-fema-texas-abbott/2021/10/25/id/1041897/
I don’t always agree with Massie’s votes (against funding Iron Dome, for instance), but he’s always consistent and up front about his reasons. He’d make a great prosecutor and I’m always happy to vote for him.
Whitmer-closet.
LET’S go Brandon!
No reasonable doubt remains that the Jan 6th “insurrection” was a carefully planned, Deep State false flag operation.
One that has resulted in our first American gulag.
If Tucker Carlson picks this story up – and I think he will – then we’ll make some progress.
The FBI instigated the 1-6 riot.
Sickening. They’re not even trying to hide it any more.
I sent this to my best friend. He is more of a Libertarian a Rep. He steadfastly asserts that Jan 6 was Trump’s fault, an insurrection, and that the cop was killed by a demonstrator. Nothing on Ashli Babbitt though. Not sure what his reaction will be.
From the few clips of Jan6 I have seen immediately after, and the Ashlii killing a few times as well as others it is obvious the leaders trying to get people to invade the capital were not anywhere around shortly after their jumping on the stage so to speak.
It is known in a riot the first few to break into a store are all it takes to turn into a full scale looting. I still think the Ashlii killing was supposed to start a riot.
Well…Tucker picking up on this story in his second segment right now. I’m a bit amazed, but still doubt it will have legs
The Revolver piece is an excellent example of what investigative reporting really looks like. It provides a lot of explanation for something that most conservative pundits have pointed out from the beginning: Why are all the people being arrested the peaceful crowd, and NOT the ones who were actually attacking the police and causing trouble?
The MSM outlets elide the two, by showing pictures of the violence rioters along with the peaceful ones, and not ever admitting they are different people.
Revolver News makes a strong circumstantial case for he stage management of the Jan 6th “insurrection.” The question remains: whose assets were these many characters?
Repeatedly, it points out that the FBI uses these patterned techniques. But in the end, it leaves the ultimate agency open.
Then, late in the conclusion, it circles back to AG Garland’s past, so eerily and rancidly reminiscent of Robert Mueller and Weismann the Team.
I think this observation suggests more investigative details to be reckoned with going back to the Clinton dirt from the 1990s:
“…going it all back to AG Merrick Garland, it all makes sense. The 1/6 prosecutions are not the first time Garland oversaw high profile militia prosecutions from a lofty perch in the DOJ. More specifically, Merrick Garland oversaw the Oklahoma City Bombing prosecutions, which are riddled with so many disturbing unanswered questions that it would be outside the scope of this report to address them. Suffice it to say here that Merrick Garland was the top domestic extremism prosecutor for the Justice Department, who worked with the FBI on several key right-wing militia cases, right as the Justice Department was kicking its militia infiltration operations into high gear.”
More patterns to be probed. Can Senator Rand Paul get on this, too?
“…But in the end, it leaves the ultimate agency open…”
That’s not at all the impression the article left me with.
– When a person such as Ray Epps is placed on an FBI “Wanted” list and then suddenly disappears from that list immediately after certain question-raising revelations are made about him in the media;
– When a person such as Stewart Rhodes essentially disappears from view (though many others, including those who did not even enter the Capitol get the book thrown at them while their right of “habeus corpus” mysteriously disappear);
– When a curious individual such as John Sullivan—who both incites the violence AND films it with a GOPRO camera (which film somehow finds its way immediately to major media networks)—is allowed to walk (not to mention the description of his attempt to join/infiltrate antifa and their extreme distrust of his antics);
– When exploitation of the media to fulfil its “special role” of selective coverage (AKA lying) in order to gin up maximum outrage towards the so-called “insurrectionists”;
– When the methodology of incitement, entrapment and COVERUP is almost identical to the Whitmer kidnapping and the Idaho incidents;
– When maximum propaganda value of this “insurrection” is generated from President “Biden”—AKA President “Unity”—Garland and all the way on down to Pelosi, the media et al., who don’t miss an opportunity to repeat the lies and innuendo, most egregiously, the DIRE ATTACK that was “WORSE THAN PEARL HARBOR”, etc; the ignominious “THREAT” that such insurrectionists continue to pose. (Even AOC gets into the act, drama queen that she is…)
– And when the tried and true government machine of MASSIVE COVERUP is working 24/7…etc., etc.,
Then what sort of agency is missing exactly?
Besides, regarding “these many characters”, I don’t believe that they needed too many to instigate this, especially with Epps prompting people to enter the Capitol (and the Capitol Police letting them in!!) A dozen maybe?–or probably less than that—to “get the ball rolling”, whereupon the crowd and the violence perpetrated upon it would “do the rest”. (I could be wrong about this to be sure….but the “methodology” and “tactics” angle is key here.)
^^^ Damn Right. Walks like a Duck. Quacks like a Duck…
Oh no, not another duck thread…
Goats have been sighted of late, too. Guess that leaves sheep and geese. Apologies to all New Zealanders and all people named Abdul.
Speaking of Goats, there was this time in Jakarta when after eating some supposedly aphrodisiac and insanely spicy goat curry, instead I came down with Giardiasis for the remaining week+ in country. Decidedly not what it said on the box. Sure-fire weight loss plan though.
DEFUND THE FBI, CIA, DEPTS OF EDUCATION, ENERGY.
Got your goat, I guess…
Have you tried marketing it? (I.e., as a weight loss program. You know, results guaranteed or you get another go at it, etc.)
(On the bright side that could definitely go a ways in explaining Indonesian foreign policy…. Anyway, thanks for the tip. I’ll have to remember that next time I’m in Jakarta….)