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Jan. 6 panel gets 1M Secret Service docs

New evidence from Secret Service reveals Trump was warned about potential for violence unfolding on Jan. 6

Salon

White House says ‘outcompeting China and restraining Russia’ top Biden foreign policy aims – as it happened

National security strategy reveals president’s resolve to build international alliances to strengthen democracy

The Guardian - US

What the Jan. 6 committee could learn from the failures of truth commissions to bring justice and accountability

The U.S. congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attacks is resuming its hearings on Oct. 13, 2022, and is expected to produce a report before the November midterm elections about rioters’ attempted coup and efforts to prevent President Joe Biden from assuming office.

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The disillusionment of a reporter in DC

I moved to DC in 2006 to work for a senator. I left in 2022 in the prime of my journalism career. I had seen enough

Salon

Essay: The education and disillusionment of a young Texas reporter in D.C.

I moved to Washington in 2006 to work for a senator. I left in 2022 in the prime of my journalism career. I had seen enough.

The Texas Tribune

January 6 was planned in broad daylight

The far right groups who attacked the Capitol recruited and radicalized openly, as we warned repeatedly

Salon

McCarthy claimed Trump didn’t know about January 6 violence, book reveals

A new book by former DC police officer Michael Fanone reveals Mr McCarthy downplaying Mr Trump’s knowledge of the violence at the Capitol that day

The Independent UK

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Kevin McCarthy claimed Trump had no idea his supporters carried out Capitol attack – as it happened

Top Republican House made claim in meeting with police officers despite ex-president having urged supporters to ‘fight like hell’

The Guardian - US

Doyle McManus: Right-wing militia leaders, on trial for sedition, continue to threaten democracy

Five leaders of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia that played a leading role in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, went on trial last week in Washington.

Los Angeles Times

Who are the attorneys for Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes at his sedition trial?

DALLAS — Two veteran Dallas attorneys are embarking on an “extremely novel” defense in the biggest criminal trial of their careers.

Tribune News Service

Capitol rioter who attacked journalist should get prison time, prosecutors say

Alan Byerly of Fleetwood, Pennsylvania went to the Capitol and joined other rioters in using a large metal Trump sign as a battering ram against barricades and police officers, prosecutors said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Prosecutors seek prison for rioter's attack on AP journalist

Federal prosecutors have recommended a prison sentence of approximately four years for a Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to assaulting an Associated Press photographer and using a stun gun against police officers at the U.S. Capitol

The Independent UK

‘We must defeat them’: new evidence details Oath Keepers’ ‘civil war’ timeline

Testimony from government’s first witness showed militia group’s leader had planned resistance well before election results were out

The Guardian - US

Jan 6 Capital Riot defendants in 'medieval' jail request transfer to Guantanamo Bay

Over 30 inmates facing trial over the Capitol Hill riots have requested the transfer due to the 'medieval standards of living' at D.C. Central Detention Facility

Daily Mirror

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The Independent UK

Lindsey Graham told former police officer that Capitol rioters should be shot in head, new book says

“We gave you guys guns, and you should have used them,” the GOP Senator reportedly told Michael Fanone

Tribune News Service

Lindsey Graham wanted Jan. 6 Capitol attackers shot in the head, book says

A former Washington, D.C., police officer who was nearly killed on Jan. 6 claims South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told cops they should have killed Donald Trump loyalists who raided the U.S. Capitol.

WEKU

Jan. 6 detainees say a D.C. jail is so awful that they'd like a transfer to Guantanamo

A letter signed by 34 people held on charges related to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol complains of inhumane conditions behind bars, including mold, abusive guards, bad food and filthy laundry.

Reuters

Oath Keepers founder spoke of 'bloody' war ahead of U.S. Capitol attack

Prosecutors in the trial of five Oath Keepers members on Friday showed a jury fresh evidence that the right-wing militia group's founder Stewart Rhodes told his followers ahead of last year's U.S. Capitol attack there would be a "bloody" war if then-President Donald Trump failed to reverse his 2020 election…

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Al Jazeera

US Capitol riot: Proud Boys member admits to seditious conspiracy

Several other members of far-right group face seditious conspiracy charges over their alleged roles in January 6 attack.

Chicago Tribune

Suburban woman gets 2 weeks in jail in Jan. 6 attack on US Capitol; second Chicago-area defendant sentenced to custody

A west suburban woman was sentenced to two weeks in federal jail Thursday for illegally entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot before texting with a friend the next day who allegedly told her, “Don’t be sad. Be Prepared. We are all (expletive).”

Al Jazeera

US ‘Dreamers’ demand action as court ruling fuels uncertainty

Dozens rally outside US Capitol after an appeals court upheld a decision that deemed DACA programme ‘unlawful’.

Tribune News Service

Jan. 6 riot defendant from Northern California wants out of DC jail, citing mental decline

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A week after rejecting a plea agreement from federal prosecutors, accused Jan. 6 rioter Sean Michael McHugh is asking a judge to release him from custody pending trial because his mental health is deteriorating and he is facing abuse inside a Washington, D.C., jail.

Tribune News Service

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Congress taking big step toward fixing elections

The House committee hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, invasion of the Capitol performed a useful educational service by detailing how former President Donald Trump incited the insurrection and rejected pleas to stop it.

Tribune News Service

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson says Jan. 6 attackers ‘did teach us how you can use a flag pole’

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., downplayed the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 on Tuesday, saying the violent attackers “did teach us how you can use a flag pole.”

The Independent UK

Lawyers: Arizona GOP chair pleaded Fifth to Jan. 6 panel

An attorney for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol told a federal judge in Phoenix on Tuesday that Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward refused to answer the committee’s questions at a deposition

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