From today's indictment,
77. Just before 1:30 p.m., on the Leadership Intel Chat, in response to a claim by an Oath Keepers affiliate that Antifa had breached the Capitol, RHODES replied, “Nope. I’m right here. These are Patriots.” RHODES then messaged the Leadership Signal Chat, “Pence is doing nothing. As I predicted.” RHODES added, “All I see Trump doing is complaining. I see no intent by him to do anything. So the patriots are taking it into their own hands. They’ve had enough.”
Yale Law School graduate Stewart Rhodes in 2009 founded the far-right Oath Keepers, a fiercely antigovernment, militaristic group that claims more than 30,000 law enforcement officers, soldiers and military veterans as members.
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"Yale Law School graduate Stewart Rhodes in 2009 founded the far-right
Oath Keepers, a fiercely
antigovernment, militaristic group that claims more than 30,000 law enforcement officers, soldiers and military veterans as members...."
All any reader needs to know to get up to speed... for 53 weeks now, this PhD. in linguistics has provided some of the best (most accurate) interpretation and predictions of the DOJ's investigation you'll find, anywhere!
Thus far, there have been 4 2/3 times the number of people arrested as one person can meaningfully network. That's a measure, for me, of how unknowable January 6 is, even for someone covering it as a full time job.
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January 6,
2022
"...I think about Dunbar’s number a lot, particularly as I review the
DC court calendar each morning to review which court hearings I should call into on a given day. I can rattle off the names of the January 6 defendants in all the major conspiracy cases and some less obvious key defendants about whom I’ve got real questions. But for other hearings with a 2021 docket number (the January 6 defendants make up the majority of defendants in DC last year), I need to refer back to my master list to see whether those are January 6 defendants, and if so, whether the hearing might be of import. There are five January 6 defendants with the last name Brown, five with some version of the last name Kelly (all quite interesting), three Martins, and seven Williamses, so it’s not just recognizing the name, but trying to remember whether a particular Brown is one of the really interesting ones.
Court filings are the way I go about understanding January 6. Sedition Hunters, by contrast, have worked via faces in photos, from which they effectively
create dossiers on suspects of interest...."
The sedition indictment against Stewart Rhodes may be an important tool to move up the food chain.
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