Was the Capitol raid an "inside job"? Some Democrats think so — and evidence is mounting

[Rogue Valley]

Was the Capitol raid an "inside job"? Some Democrats think so — and evidence is mounting

1/14/21
More than 30 House Democrats sent a letter to the acting House sergeant-at-arms on Wednesday calling for an investigation into "suspicious" groups of visitors inside the Capitol building the day before the Jan. 6 attack. Some of the lawmakers, the letter says, had encountered tour guests who later appeared connected with the next day's Stop the Steal event at the White House. Some of the signees are military veterans "trained to recognize suspicious activity," the letter says, who witnessed "an extremely high number of outside groups" in the building on Jan. 5. "This is unusual for several reasons," the letter continues, "including the fact that access to the Capitol Complex has been restricted since public tours ended in March due to the pandemic," prompting top staff to question the sergeant-at-arms about the activity that same day. "The visitors encountered by some of the Members of Congress on this letter appeared to be associated with the rally at the White House the following day," the members wrote, adding: "Members of the group that attacked the Capitol seemed to have an unusually detailed knowledge of the layout of the Capitol Complex. The presence of these groups within the Capitol Complex was indeed suspicious."

Speculation about the existence of a coordinated has been simmering online since the attack, but on Tuesday Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., sent it viral, claiming in a Facebook video that she saw unnamed fellow representatives guiding what she characterized as "reconnaissance" tours in the Capitol the day before the attack. Though Sherrill did not explain why she described the alleged Jan. 5 tours as "reconnaissance" for the deadly siege that played out the next day, Sherrill said on Wednesday that she had passed her information to authorities. Some officials have suggested that the attackers displayed uncanny knowledge of the Capitol complex, perhaps indicating advance access to the building. Sarah Groh, chief of staff to Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., told the Boston Globe on Wednesday that panic buttons in the congresswoman's office appeared to have been ripped out of the wall. "Every panic button in my office had been torn out — the whole unit," Groh said, explaining that the panic buttons had been installed because Pressley, one of the group of four Democratic congresswomen of color known as "the Squad," had received a number of death threats. On Friday, House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina told CBS News that he believed "somebody on the inside" had helped the insurrectionists.

The US Capitol is a labyrinth of corridors, niches, and rooms. The insurrectionists managed to find the nondescript office of the Senate Parliamentarian (who stores the Electoral votes) and ransack it, knew where to find the office of Nancy Pelosi, someone destroyed the panic buttons in the office of Rep. Ayanna Pressley (one of the "Squad"), and Trump seditionists also managed to locate the secret unmarked second office of House Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina.

Insurrection by Congress people and/or their staffs? This possibility needs to be investigated fully by the FBI and officially either debunked or verified.

 

[Fletch]

Insurrection Truthers

 

[Excast]

Given the level of radicalism we see from Republican members of the House and their willingness to appease those who attempted to murder one of their party's supposed leaders last week, I think it's perfectly reasonable to investigate if any of them had some advance knowledge of a possible attempt to breach Capitol security. Hell, these animals can't be counted on to walk through a metal detector or put on a mask during a pandemic, but I am supposed to just outright reject the notion that they might have been involved?

 

[Cardinal]

With actual qanon serving as elected members in the House now, this can't be discounted out of hand.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Was the Capitol raid an "inside job"? Some Democrats think so — and evidence is mounting

Not "think so"...they know so.