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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a middle class nobody, been working in DC for about 30 years.  I have - in writing - texts with my family that I was worried about what was going to happen downtown on 1/6.  If a dummy like me knew it, Nancy Pelosi etc. should have known it.

I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but, how did an idiot like me express fears of pretty much this exact scenario and no official law enforcement body was prepared?

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Police knew, too.  FBI had numerous tips, as did many other agencies.  But, they failed to prepare, and failed to act.  The question is why?  Are they really that incompetent?  And if so, they should be investigated, and incompetent individuals removed.  Or, were they secretly hoping it would succeed?

And, they knew at the Pentagon, too.  But rather than defending the Capitol, Pentagon sent troops to guard military facilities and military officials' homes while REFUSING to send help to defend the Capitol.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-01-01/fbi-dhs-pentagon-capitol-riot-8609065.html

Why?  Again, we need an investigation, and we need answers.[/quote]

Part of the answer is very simple: legislative branch and executive branch. There are strict rules and protocols on information sharing between the two branches of government. I also suspect that the political appointees would have suppressed the information for Trump. I also believe there are members of LE who fully supported the insurrection.[/quote]

On January 5 military aircraft flew over our house (east coast but not in the DC area), and I commented to my husband that maybe they were preparing for potential problems.  So there's zero chance that the agencies that exist for these purposes had no idea of the possibilities.[/quote]

Ok but it doesn’t mean they voiced their concerns to Congress. It doesn’t necessarily mean that information was shared with Capitol Police and the House and Senate SAA. Everyone thinks there is this Deep State or cabal running government. There isn’t a deep state. It’s a bunch of silo’ed organizations that wouldn’t know who to contact outside their org.[/quote]
No, I don’t think it’s the “deep state” or a cabal running the government. But it was very clearly and very obviously right wingers who have infiltrated the government, probably posing more or less as normal Republicans - practically the default in some agencies - and hiding their extremism. I’m sure it comforts you to think it’s just incompetence, but we have way too much evidence that this was malevolent and political in nature and in giving cover, people like you are giving aid to the extremists. [/quote]

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