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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:22 PM Jan 2021

FBI report warned of 'war' at Capitol, contradicting claims there was no indication of looming

violence

A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an internal document reviewed by The Washington Post that contradicts a senior official’s declaration the bureau had no intelligence indicating anyone at last week’s pro-Trump protest planned to do harm.

A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and South Carolina and head in groups to Washington.

“As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”

BLM is likely a reference to the Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice. Pantifa is a derogatory term for antifa, a far-left anti-fascist movement whose adherents sometimes engage in violent clashes with right-wing extremists.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/capitol-riot-fbi-intelligence/2021/01/12/30d12748-546b-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html
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FBI report warned of 'war' at Capitol, contradicting claims there was no indication of looming (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2021 OP
Chris Wray needs to go Wellstone ruled Jan 2021 #1
 

Wellstone ruled

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1. Chris Wray needs to go
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:36 PM
Jan 2021

and be charged with dereliction of duty. Sad to say,our FBI resembles their image back in the Nixon era.

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