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fightforfreedom

(4,913 posts)
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 01:09 PM Jan 2023

The DOJ is still searching for hundreds, perhaps over a thousand people who stormed the Capital.

The DOJ has already arrested over 900 people. Hundreds have been put on trial, many convicted. Including people who were convicted for sedition. There are more sedition trials taking place right now.

The amount of time, manpower, resources, to track all these people down, indict, put on trial is enormous, unprecedented. At the same time the DOJ started an investigation into the fake elector scheme. Plus the DOJ has to conduct all the other business of the DOJ across the country. They also just received all the evidence from the committee. That is a lot of evidence to go through. The DOJ also had to start an investigation into the secret document investigation.

For me it was no surprise Garland hired someone like Smith to handle part of his large, unprecedented investigation.

In my opinion the DOJ have done a very good job in a short period of time for the amount of people they are investigating, indicting , convicting. For investigations this large, this unprecedented, less than two years of investigating is not a long time. It just seems that way.

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The DOJ is still searching for hundreds, perhaps over a thousand people who stormed the Capital. (Original Post) fightforfreedom Jan 2023 OP
and we dont know what other investigations or long running investigations AllaN01Bear Jan 2023 #1
Have they put that large a number on it? bucolic_frolic Jan 2023 #2
I have heard reports 2 to 3 thousand people may have entered the Capital. fightforfreedom Jan 2023 #4
We need more photos. Baitball Blogger Jan 2023 #3
Woulda been easier arresting them at the time. Kid Berwyn Jan 2023 #5
yep... bahboo Jan 2023 #6
Why didn't the Feds arrest the 1/6 rioters on the spot? Kid Berwyn Jan 2023 #8
The Capitol Police were outnumbered over 50 - 1 Hekate Jan 2023 #7
True. Thanks to planning. Kid Berwyn Jan 2023 #10
The online group Sedition Hunters has sent all the info they can gather (which is tons) to the FBI Hekate Jan 2023 #9

AllaN01Bear

(18,216 posts)
1. and we dont know what other investigations or long running investigations
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 01:15 PM
Jan 2023

that are still going on. its none of our businness. thanks for ur information

 

fightforfreedom

(4,913 posts)
4. I have heard reports 2 to 3 thousand people may have entered the Capital.
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 01:24 PM
Jan 2023

The DOJ is attempting to find all of them. If you entered the Capital that day you committed a crime.

Kid Berwyn

(14,904 posts)
8. Why didn't the Feds arrest the 1/6 rioters on the spot?
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 02:07 PM
Jan 2023

From almost a year back:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216226282

Didn’t understand the, ah, pushback then. Still don’t now.

Kid Berwyn

(14,904 posts)
10. True. Thanks to planning.
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 02:14 PM
Jan 2023
'Absolute liars': Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6

In a 36-page memo to the Capitol riot committee, Col. Earl Matthews also slams the Pentagon's inspector general for what he calls an error-ridden report.


By BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN and MERIDITH MCGRAW
Politico, 12/06/2021 04:30 AM EST

A former D.C. National Guard official is accusing two senior Army leaders of lying to Congress and participating in a secret attempt to rewrite the history of the military’s response to the Capitol riot.

In a 36-page memo, Col. Earl Matthews, who held high-level National Security Council and Pentagon roles during the Trump administration, slams the Pentagon’s inspector general for what he calls an error-riddled report that protects a top Army official who argued against sending the National Guard to the Capitol on Jan. 6, delaying the insurrection response for hours.

Matthews’ memo, sent to the Jan. 6 select committee this month and obtained by POLITICO, includes detailed recollections of the insurrection response as it calls two Army generals — Gen. Charles Flynn, who served as deputy chief of staff for operations on Jan. 6, and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt, the director of Army staff — “absolute and unmitigated liars” for their characterization of the events of that day. Matthews has never publicly discussed the chaos of the Capitol siege.

On Jan. 6, Matthews was serving as the top attorney to Maj. Gen. William Walker, then commanding general of the D.C. National Guard. Matthews’ memo defends the Capitol attack response by Walker, who now serves as the House sergeant at arms, amplifying Walker’s previous congressional testimony about the hourslong delay in the military’s order for the D.C. National Guard to deploy to the riot scene.

“Every leader in the D.C. Guard wanted to respond and knew they could respond to the riot at the seat of government” before they were given clearance to do so on Jan. 6, Matthews’ memo reads. Instead, he said, D.C. guard officials “set [sic] stunned watching in the Armory” during the first hours of the attack on Congress during its certification of the 2020 election results

Continues…

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/jan-6-generals-lied-ex-dc-guard-official-523777

Hekate

(90,690 posts)
9. The online group Sedition Hunters has sent all the info they can gather (which is tons) to the FBI
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 02:11 PM
Jan 2023

They are still working.

Look here
https://seditionhunters.org/

And here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Hunters

And just today

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