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What Did Nancy Know & When Did She Know It?

https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/26/what-did-nancy-pelosi-know-and-when-did-she-know-it/

https://www.scribd.com/document/615773838/Jan-6th-Security-Failures-Final-Report

The January 6 select committee never intended to act as a
truth-seeking mission but rather perform a cover-up for what actually
happened...

The January 6 select committee finally released its long-delayed
report late on December 23 after most Americans had happily turned
away from politics to enjoy the Christmas weekend with family and
friends. The Friday night news dump, a common tactic when government
officials want to bury something controversial, was not exactly a vote
of confidence in the panel’s ultimate work product.

As expected, the bulk of the 845-page document spun a well-worn tale
that portrayed Donald Trump as the sole villain in a so-called
“insurrection” the committee wants us to believe was engineered to
keep him in the White House. Page after page included dramatic
interpretations of snippets from witness testimony intended to bolster
the committee’s preconceived conclusions.

Analysis of how law enforcement and intelligence services failed to
prepare for the “attack,” a promise made by the committee in its
original sell job to the public, is buried in a relatively brief
appendix at the end. And despite confirmation the government was aware
violence might occur—the FBI used a threat tag, “CERTUNREST2021,”
purportedly to categorize in advance information related to January
6—federal and local agencies did not prevent what the Biden regime
branded a terror attack comparable to 9/11. (FBI Director Christopher
Wray’s name is not mentioned once in the report and it appears
unlikely he sat for a transcribed interview.)

Even so, in the face of extensive evidence that those agencies were on
high alert, committee members still faulted Trump: “Few in law
enforcement predicted that the President of the United States would
incite a mob attack on the Capitol, that he would send them to stop
the joint session knowing they were armed and dangerous, that he would
further incite them against his own vice President while the attack
was underway, or that he would do nothing to stop the assault for
hours,” the report dishonestly stated.

Another official who escaped accountability in the report is House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the lawmaker mainly responsible for
protecting Capitol grounds. Committee members avoided any criticism of
Pelosi, instead allowing her to write the foreword. (It’s also unclear
whether committee investigators interviewed the speaker.)

For two years, Pelosi has played the role of victimized bystander in
the events of January 6 rather than being recognized as the
incompetent steward of public safety she is—or worse, someone who was
complicit in manufacturing the entire spectacle. After all, her
filmmaker daughter just happened to be on site as the historic event,
one usually considered a pro forma ceremony, went down.

But a competing report also released last week by a handful of
Republican House members did not let Pelosi off the hook; to the
contrary, “Security Failures at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021”
presented new disclosures about how Pelosi’s staff spent weeks
ostensibly preparing for the electoral certification vote that
afternoon.

    “[Then] House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving—who served on the
Capitol Police Board by virtue of his position—succumbed to political
pressures from the Office of Speaker Pelosi and House Democrat
leadership leading up to January 6, 2021,” the report authored by
Representatives Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), James Banks (R-Ind.) and others
revealed.

    “He coordinated closely with the Speaker and her staff and left
Republicans out of important discussions related to security. Irving
only provided information to Republicans after receiving instruction
from the Speaker’s office. In one case, Irving even asked a senior
Democratic staffer to ‘act surprised’ when he sent key information
about plans for the Joint Session on January 6, 2021 to him and his
Republican counterpart. The senior Democratic staffer replied: ‘I’m
startled.’”

(Jordan and Banks were appointed to the January 6 select committee
before being bounced by Pelosi.)

According to records obtained by House Republicans, Irving maintained
constant communication with two of Pelosi’s top aides—Terry
McCullough, her chief of staff, and Jamie Flood, a shared staffer for
Pelosi and the House Administration committee—about January 6 in early
December 2020.

On December 11, 2020, McCullough emailed Irving’s team to request a
meeting to discuss “choreography and safety for the opening day and
electoral college events.” That meeting took place four days later; no
Republicans were present.

Irving and his office met three more times with Democratic staffers
before January 6 and once on the morning of January 6 without
Republican lawmakers in attendance. Now, perhaps there’s an innocent
explanation as to why Irving intentionally prevented Republicans from
being involved in those discussions—except for more alarming
disclosures in the report.

On Monday, January 4, 2021, Irving met with Pelosi in her office.
While the specific nature of the meeting isn’t addressed in the
report, Pelosi and her aides were furiously working on new COVID
protocols to strictly limit the number of lawmakers and staff on the
House floor on January 6; a letter to Congress explaining the new
rules was sent out the afternoon of January 5.

But that’s not all that happened on January 5. The day began with a
“walkthrough” for the joint session attended by Irving, Stenger,
Capitol Police, McCullough, and Democratic staffers at 8:30 a.m..
Irving scheduled another walkthrough for his staff at 1:15 p.m..
Shortly thereafter, Stenger, who reported to Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) conducted a separate walkthrough, apparently
without inviting Republican lawmakers or staffers.

And in one of the oddest events of the day, despite repeated
assurances the threat for violence was “remote,” Irving led a
walkthrough of Congress’ evacuation plan with unnamed participants at
2:30 p.m.; almost 24 hours later to the minute, the joint session
recessed and lawmakers were evacuated from the Capitol creating one of
the most dramatic images of January 6.

This also happened at the same time Irving and Stenger repeatedly
brushed off requests by Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund for extra
protection in the form of National Guardsmen, a process both
sergeants-at-arms continued to hamstring throughout January 6. (Sund
later testified that Irving expressed concerns about the “optics” of
guardsmen surrounding the Capitol.) The guard did not arrive until
after 5 p.m., shortly after the disturbance ended.

The exchanges detailed in the House GOP report contradict the
narrative that congressional security officials were unprepared for
the events of January 6. So, too, does the appendix buried in the
January 6 select committee document. Not only was the FBI allegedly
collecting scary posts before the Capitol protest, Pelosi’s underlings
engaged in deep discussions and planning efforts weeks beforehand
without the involvement of Republicans. What exactly those
conversations entailed, the public still does not know.

Regardless, as of January 7, 2021, Irving, Stenger, and Sund were out
of a job, forced to resign at the demands of irate lawmakers. Were
they the fall guys in a carefully “choreographed” operation to
permanently oust Trump from office and subsequently criminalize his
movement? Did they willfully participate or were they duped? Why
didn’t the January 6 committee cover this as extensively as House
Republicans?

The answer is obvious. The January 6 select committee never intended
to act as a truth-seeking mission but rather perform a cover-up for
what actually happened, which is becoming more obvious every day.
House Republicans produced a more serious report that requires
rigorous follow-up next year.