FBI/DOJ are actively investigating the possible complicity of members of Congress in insurrection

[kpete]

Breaking News by
@MacFarlaneNews: FBI/DOJ Investigating Possible Complicity of Members of Congress in the Insurrection. Slowly we creep toward justice.

Washington DC NBC News Reporter Scott MacFarlane broke some really consequential news this evening: FBI agent's are interrogating defendants in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol abut their contacts/relationships with members of Congress. This is perhaps the first concrete information that shows the Department of Justice is actively investigations the possible complicity of members of congress in the insurrection. This video discusses the important implications of this new development.

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[lark]

1. Not as happy about this as I should be.

"Asking" the terrorists who supported your operation doesn't seem like a fruitful tactic to me. Get their cell phones, see which congresscritter has been in contact with them prior to 1/6, how often, and what they were saying. Go all out and get the truth and quit letting rw investigators cover up the truth like happened with Gosar. Sideline the drumpf political appointees, put them in meaningless jobs where they can't fuck us over or fire them where at all possible.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. would like to see them go after the kingpin t----.

[MerryHolidays]

5. Most investigators would already have this before speaking to a target

Glenn also mentions this in the video.

[StarfishSaver]

8. Perhaps DOJ or the FBI has a suggestion line

that people can call to tell them how to conduct investigations.

[stopdiggin]

14. +1 -(nt)-

[uponit7771]

12. +1

[msfiddlestix]

13. Won't argue against your point, exactly how it hit me..

But then I considered what Kirshner reminds us, is that the investigator generally puts a question like this one, when they already know the answer and generally in possession of evidence in hand.

Lying would add to the charges. Hell, if I recall accurately, Martha Stewart ended up serving 5 years in fed prison for Lying to the FBI on a question regarding insider trading. The reports at the time, suggested that was the only crime she was charged, prosecuted and sentenced with.

Not a big fan of "insider traders" , but it did appear to me she was low hanging fruit, sort of both a trophy and a PR type of prosecution. Look at the sea of insider trading they could/should have gone after, but didn't.

FBI has perplexed me since the days of Hoover.

[Sherman A1]

3. Believe it when I see it

not a moment before.

[empedocles]

4. 'The Process' keeps grinding away. Getting ever closer to the top.

Just like they do with the gangsters.

[gab13by13]

7. It all makes sense now, or sort of,

why the GQP are now blaming the FBI for 1/6. They use projection very skillfully.

[CousinIT]

9. More video (MacFarlane was on with Joy Reid)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215541533

[triron]

16. MacFarlane says "potential for complicity". WTF!?

[Takket]

10. here's the problem with all this...

I don't know how you get past them saying in court "we were just organizing a protest with our followers. We never had any idea or intent on them getting violent."

How do you prove that isn't true? Right up until the first punch was thrown this is just some people in Congress helping people exercise their first amendment rights. At some point they will need evidence that they either asked the followers to attack OR got wind there was going to be violence and did everything they could to "help it along" (by doing things like giving our Capital floor plans, actively lying to Capital police about the threat so the police would be understaffed), that sort of thing.

What it is going to take to bring down Congress critters is flipping a lot of "proud boys" and "oath keepers" against them. And then the question also becomes, how do you bring down drumpf? In the mafia, and drumpf knows this, the guy at the top doesn't tell the guy at the bottom who to kill. The guy at the top filters that order down through two or three levels before some putz makes the kill.

I know we all want drumpf taken down for this but it will take a LOT of investigating, a lot of deal making to "flip people" and a lot of time.

[MissMillie]

11. That investigation will take all of 30 seconds (n/t)

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[kimbutgar]

15. Is this why those white terrorists in the repupikkklan party are saying the FBI was behind

The terrorist act of January 6th on our capitol?

Blame those investigating for what they did.