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DD88 said:

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Gotta punish all those unarmed protestors taking selfies in Congress.

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Everyone knows the secret to violently overthrowing a government is a bunch of tourists waving flags and a guy dressed in a wolf costume.

Classic MacGruber.

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e=mc2 said:

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Not one Conservative is on this committee. All but two are Democrats. The two that aren't are liberal RINOs. It's a shame and only moronic sheep will watch.

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Dated June 4, the report shows sweeping mistakes from the department that include delayed mobilization of specialized civil disturbance units and the dismantling of an intelligence unit that tracked threats on social media, according to the report obtained by Just the News.

The report specifically reveals the Capitol Police had received intelligence reports from agencies like the FBI warning that violence could occur on January 6. But those intelligence reports were not properly embodied into an operational plan before January 6.

"The assessment for 1/6 contained a BLUF [bottom line up front] that did not express the severity of the threat or the fact that USCP [U.S. Capitol Police] actually had knowledge of a plan in place," the report reads. "The statement that protesters may be armed was included, but it was never expressed with the urgency that they planned to overtake the Capitol and target Members of Congress."

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The intelligence failure was made worse by Pelosi's decision to disassemble the police department's intelligence unit that tracked threats on social media. The chatter on social media before January 6 might have alerted the police to the potential seriousness of the protest.

"The social media unit was immediately and essentially dismantled under the new leadership," the report said. "New office reassignments and steering away from the concepts of having subject matter experts may have contributed to the tragedy."

"Individuals with the most experience extrapolating open-source material were not tasked with reviewing social media to glean intel related to the event," the report stated.

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Former Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller testified before Congress in 2021 that Donald Trump authorized National Guard Troops to secure the area around the Capitol. Just the News reported Trump wanted 20,000 troops, but Congress rejected the request.

"Do whatever is necessary to protect demonstrators that were executing their constitutionally protected rights," Miller testified Trump told him.

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Another interestingly timed bit of January 6 news to coincide with tonight's primetime hearing. The Manchins and Collinses in the Senate have been huddling for months on how to reform the Electoral Count Act, the nineteenth-century law that governs how Congress should proceed when certifying the votes of the electoral college. Some reforms are no-brainers, like making it very clear in the statute that the vice president doesn't have the power to singlehandedly overturn a national election. Other reforms are trickier, like fixing the procedures for objecting to a state's electoral votes.

Currently it takes only one member of the House and Senate to force a floor debate on whether a state's votes should be accepted. That's too low in an age when grandstanders like Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley are willing to do everything possible to pander to their base, up to and including forcing a constitutional crisis, because they think it might give them a leg up in the next presidential primary.

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The most difficult questions in ECA reform, though, have to do not with misbehavior by members of Congress on January 6 but misbehavior by state officials in certifying their state's votes.

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What does Congress do if the Democratic nominee wins the popular vote in Pennsylvania in 2024 but Gov. Doug Mastriano contrives some excuse to ignore that result and sends a slate of Republican electors to cast their votes for Trump instead? Can Congress ignore Mastriano's electors? Can they force the courts to intervene? What happens if the state legislature joins the effort to ignore the popular vote?

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The centrists in the Senate have been hashing it out and they're close to a deal, Susan Collins told reporters yesterday. All sides reportedly agree that the VP should have only a ceremonial role on January 6 and that an objection to a state's electoral votes shouldn't be heard unless 20 percent of the House and Senate join the objection. Which is too low, I think

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Requiring one-third of each chamber to object to force a floor debate would have been better. Maybe the negotiators will wise up to that as the bill is finalized.

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The main issue the Senate group hasn't resolved, two sources familiar with its work said, is how to address the "safe harbor" deadline the date by which states must certify their presidential election results to ensure they are counted without interference from Congress. But what if a state misses the deadline? What if it sends an "alternate slate" of electors for a losing candidate?…

The first [option] is to replace the "safe harbor" concept with a clear federal duty for the relevant state official to send timely certification to Congress under the 12th Amendment.

The second is to replace safe harbor provisions with new laws making it clear that Congress can identify the state official lawfully tasked with establishing a state's electors.

The third is to preserve the safe harbor concept and tell states that to qualify for the presumption that their submitted electors are conclusive, they must notify Congress before Election Day which official is responsible under state law for sending electors.

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ECA reform could make the "safe harbor" contingent upon a state resolving the dispute itself prior to January 6, with litigation if necessary, and submitting only the "legitimate" slate of electors to Congress. That would also prevent the scenario imagined by some in which a single rogue governor may be able to tilt an election. Currently the ECA says that if Congress receives two slates of electors from a state and the House and Senate are divided on which to accept, the governor's slate of electors wins.

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CoppellAg93 said:

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https://babylonbee.com/news/miley-cyrus-to-perform-halftime-show-at-jan-6-committee-hearings/

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EKUAg said:

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Being produced by the ABC News guy that spiked the Epstein story.

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The House Democrats' January 6 committee is already selling its final report, due September 13. https://t.co/ETEeILNv0e pic.twitter.com/La7SdGjgax

— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 9, 2022

Ukraine Gas Expert said:

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I hope they have an intro like Dallas. Music and such.

DC, starring....

My gosh I can see it now, or even better maybe an intro like MASH

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