[JustTheNews] FBI intelligence warning that Jan. 6 protesters might violently storm the Capitol, target lawmakers and blockade Democrats in tunnels was never sent to frontline police commanders and officers, but was quietly emailed the night before to a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, according to documents that raise new concern that politics trumped security preparedness in the fateful hours before the riot.
Capitol Police Deputy Chief Sean Gallagher emailed top Schumer aide Kelly Fado, now the Senate's deputy sergeant of arms, at about 9:40 p.m. on Jan. 5, 2021 saying he wanted to "provide you visibility" to new intelligence that an FBI threat analysis center had received from a website owner, according to documents obtained by Just the News.
The information explicitly warned that demonstrators had detailed maps of the tunnel systems around the Capitol frequented by lawmakers and their staffs and they were plotting to create a "perimeter" for potential violence and to find "Democratic members early to block them from entering the Capitol." One point of entry the rioters were targeting was the Library of Congress, he warned.
"The owner of the website submitted an online tip to the FBI NTOC (National Threat Operations Center) stating that he has noticed a significant uptick in new visitors to his website," Gallagher wrote.
How many of them would be identified as FBI agents provocateur or Antifa if someone actually tracked them down to identify them? Or Russian/Iranian/Chinese/Romanian trolls trying to cause trouble? Because as far as I am aware, none of that happened in real life.
"We have identified numerous open-source comments indicating groups intentions of finding the tunnel entrances and confronting/blocking" members of Congress.
"Additionally," he said, "we have seen a huge uptick with reporting via open source of the groups intentions of forming a perimeter around the campus (indicated in image #5 above) from 0600-1000 hours in order to block all MOC's from getting inside our perimeter to the Buildings with spots identified for direct action."
The Gallagher-Fado email is part of a tranche of documents obtained by Just the News from Capitol Police and congressional sources that show widespread security and intelligence lapses before Jan. 6.
An internal after-action report by the Capitol Police Department identified 53 major failures, while the department's official timeline of the tragedy revealed the Trump Pentagon began offering Congress a deployment of National Guard troops on Jan. 2, 2021, four days before the tragedy, but it was turned down, first by police and later by aides to Pelosi and Schumer.
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Out of the thousands of people that went to the protest very few would have considered storming the Capitol. All of those few were instigators. It seems that the FBI intelligence gathering is limited to their own instigators and surveillance of innocent Americans that they disagree with.
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If everyone there took a 15 minute tour it would have been a 24 hour affair.
Schumer? Thought this was a House affair. Anyways, better theater if they don't tell people. Maybe even have a shootout.
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None of these a$$holes grandstanding this should ever have the words "The Peoples' House" pass their lips again, unless it's right before they hang.
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[ET] Paywall busted
Recipients of secret royalty payments who hold key roles at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) have been revealed by nonprofit government watchdog Open the Books.
Through the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Open the Books has discovered that payments totaling more than $134 million were paid to more than 1,600 NIH executives, scientists, and researchers by outside firms, thought to be primarily from the pharmaceutical industry, between 2010 and 2014.
Royalty payments also went to at least three of the top echelon of NIH leaders, including Dr. Francis Collins, the immediate past director of NIH, who got 14 payments. Dr. Anthony Fauci received 23 payments and his deputy, Clifford Lane, received eight payments.
"When an NIH employee makes a discovery in their official capacity, the NIH owns the rights to any resulting patent. These patents are then licensed for commercial use to companies that could use them to bring products to market. So what "rights" does the NIH retain, having given away the monetary rights?
"Employees are listed as inventors on the patents and receive a share of the royalties obtained through any licensing, or ’technology transfer,’ of their inventions. Essentially, taxpayer money funding NIH research benefits researchers employed by NIH because they are listed as patent inventors and therefore receive royalty payments from licensees." But the NIH has 'safeguards', to prevent conflicts of interest, it says somewhere in the middle of the long article, so it's no big deal. Unexpectedly.
#2
While the overall amount of cash flowing in is determined, how much going to whom is redacted. Fauci supposedly agree to donate all his royalties to charity. Because the specific cash flow to recipients we are expected to trust him that he is actually donating the cash. Americans are short on Fauci trust at the moment.
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What? You mean they copyrighted covid?
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Apparently it is normal for public research (government and academia) that the royalties be shared between the scientist and the employer. It is only in private/corporate research that the work product belongs entirely to the employer.
[JustTheNews] Babbitt, an unarmed 14-year veteran of the Air Force, was fatally shot by USCP Lt. Michael Byrd on Jan 6, 2021.
Legal watchdog group Judicial Watch says it has received 102 pages of new Justice Department records related to the fatal shooting of Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt.
Included in the documents is a memo recommending that the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia "decline for criminal prosecution" the fatal shooting of Babbitt.
The documents also state U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, the shooter, "did not create a police report or documents" related to the incident.
Babbitt, an unarmed 14-year veteran of the Air Force, was fatally shot and she attempted to climb through a broken window and into the lobby of the House chamber during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Congress and the Justice Department did not reveal the identity of the shooter until about eight months after the riot – until Byrd was ready to go public himself and defend his actions.
Judicial Watch filed its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, the Civil Rights Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation would not provide the requested records following two Freedom of Information Act requests from the organization.
The memo recommending not to prosecute Byrd justifies that decision, "based on a review of law enforcement and civilian eyewitness accounts, physical evidence, recorded radio communications, cell phone footage, [Metropolitan Police Department] reports, forensic reports, and the autopsy report" for Babbitt.
The memo also states that "after a thorough review of the facts and circumstances in this case, there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Lieutenant Byrd violated [Babbitts'] civil rights by willfully using more force than was reasonably necessary, or was not acting in self-defense or the defense of others."
The report also sets out the federal government's timeline of events: "Once the demonstrators broke the glass, Lieutenant Byrd took up a tactical position to the immediate right of the barricaded entry doors, [Capitol Police Officer Reggie Tyson] took up a tactical position behind Lieutenant Byrd on the right side behind the third pillar and Sergeant McKenna took up a tactical position behind Officer Tyson and behind the fourth pillar on the right side of the Speakers Lobby."
The memo also states that officers repeatedly instructed the "mob" to stand back, a request protesters ignored while continuing to break the glass on the doors to the lobby.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says that the department memo suggests that Byrd was given "special treatment by the Biden DOJ and that there was a miscarriage of justice in the half-baked shooting death investigation of Ashli Babbitt."
He also said "Lt. Byrd, who works for Congress, shot an unarmed woman for no good reason. I suspect that this unjustified shooting isn’t of much interest to the Pelosi rump January 6 committee."
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The notion this is all water under the bridge and will create no repercussions is probably wishful thinking on the part of some, understandable cynicism on the part of others.
There may not be a reckoning for this specific misdeed, but it will be somewhere there under the straw that finally breaks the camel's back.
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Ref #1: You will of course, understand my cynicism.
#3
The "flap of a butterfly's wing in Africa leads to a hurricane in the southwestern Atlantic" is both a fable and an aspect of the chaotic nature of reality. I don't rule it out, even in the political sphere.
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Juanita Broderick has been very expensive for the Clintons over the years through a determined effort not to go away. The family does need to figure out what their message is and who they plan to haunt.
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Some people make you viscerally angry, and you want to pop'em.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Through the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Open the Books has discovered that payments totaling more than $134 million were paid to more than 1,600 NIH executives, scientists, and researchers by outside firms, thought to be primarily from the pharmaceutical industry, between 2010 and 2014.
