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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

‘Their plan is to literally kill people’: Newly released emails show Secret Service was aware of plans for violence on Jan 6

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Emails and messages among members of the US Secret Service at least 10 days before the attack on the US Capitol reveal that the agency was well aware of violent threats and plans to occupy the halls of Congress, according to the House select committee investigating the assault.

A Secret Service field office relayed one tip sent to the FBI warning that members of the far-right nationalist gang the Proud Boys planned to march, armed, into Washington DC.

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