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AZProgressive

(29,322 posts)
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 09:57 PM Jan 2022

Jan. 6 Panel Seeks to Debunk Unfounded Theory About F.B.I. Role in Riot

WASHINGTON — The House committee examining the Jan. 6 attack disclosed on Tuesday that it had interviewed the man at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory about who provoked the violence, noting that he had denied reports he urged protesters into the Capitol at the behest of federal law enforcement agencies.

The committee said its investigators spoke in November with the man, Ray Epps, who was seen on video urging people to march into the Capitol. Some Republican members of Congress and other supporters of former President Donald J. Trump have promoted a theory that Mr. Epps was working for the F.B.I. and encouraging the attack at its direction.

As evidence, they have cited the fact that Mr. Epps was at one point listed on the bureau’s wanted list but was then removed from it without being arrested or charged with any wrongdoing.

In a statement, the House committee said Mr. Epps told the panel he is not an F.B.I. informant and was not working at the direction of law enforcement agencies when he encouraged protesters to enter the building.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/us/politics/ray-epps-january-6-committee.html

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Jan. 6 Panel Seeks to Debunk Unfounded Theory About F.B.I. Role in Riot (Original Post) AZProgressive Jan 2022 OP
Here's how to do it MagickMuffin Jan 2022 #1

MagickMuffin

(15,950 posts)
1. Here's how to do it
Wed Jan 12, 2022, 12:06 AM
Jan 2022


First they said it was Antifa

Then they said it was BLM

Then it was tourists

Then it was the Feds


Keep reminding everyone that their story their narrative keeps changing. How can the sort the narrative keep changing which ever the wind blows.

If the story changes that much there is something wrong and it should be broadcast near and far.


People you are being GASLIGHTED!



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