The Aftermath, Part 9

Given the revelations in a Revolver News article (linked here) about the 6 January riot in Washington, it is becoming pretty obvious what really transpired in the run-up to, during, and after the storming of the Capitol. The feds, flush with their success in the Governor Whitmer kidnapping case, decided to cast a large net far and wide to see just who they could snare in it. The undercover operatives and confidential informants (CIs) involved in this scheme, were most likely under the direction of someone at the upper levels of FBI management. Their mission, I suspect, would be to gin up as much interest as possible in storming the Capitol in conjunction with the Trump “Stop the Steal” rally being held on January 6^th.

Some of the communications between the conspirators took place on Parler, but the platform notified law enforcement about these conversations in real-time, but that information was never acted on. This put Parler in a difficult spot when it was publicly revealed that these communications had been occurring. Again, law enforcement knew that Parler was playing the role of good corporate citizen, but maintained radio silence, while it was de-platformed by Amazon, Apple, and Google for supposedly being a means for white supremacists and right-wing extremists to converse with each other.

Did Parler stumble across something that it wasn’t supposed to have knowledge of when it reported on these communiques? If so, then this bears an eerie similarity to what happened to Adam Lovinger. Mr. Lovinger was a security analyst who questioned large financial outlays to Stefan Halper by the Department of Defense (DOD) Office of Net Assessment. Halper turned out to be a central figure in the effort to spy on the Trump campaign, using George Papadopoulos and Carter Page as unwitting proxies. For his actions, Mr. Lovinger had his security clearance revoked over trumped-up charges and lost his job, as a result of doing his job (if you see something, say something, or not).

There are thousands of hours of closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage of the crowds in the Capitol and what they were doing. The government continues its steadfast refusal to release that footage to the public, or at the very least, to the lawyers of those who have been charged in the breach of the Capitol. There is no valid reason that I can think of for them not to release this information to the lawyers of those who have either been charged, or are about to be charged. Unless, of course, the footage would “out” the undercover operatives and CIs, by giving the riot participants the ability to identify these individuals by face and/or name.

This set of circumstances could prove to be particularly embarrassing to the government, since a case could be made by any competent lawyer that this was actually entrapment. Per the Revolver article, the movers, shakers, and inciters of the siege, had their ranks infiltrated by a significant number of undercover operatives and CIs. This would also destroy the political left’s narrative about what happened, and would put egg on the faces of quite a few folks, both Democrat and Republican. More importantly, it would vindicate the claims of former President Trump and his supporters that this had been a peaceful rally and that all exhortations made by Mr. Trump centered around the attendees peacefully making their voices heard in Washington that day. Based on what most likely transpired, the second impeachment will go into the history books as another sham. This one being designed to keep a political candidate from being able to ever again seek elected office at the federal level.

Between the Russia collusion hoax, the two sham impeachments, the ongoing revelations about the 6 January riot, the distinct probability that they have been intentionally misled about the origins of the COVID 19 pandemic, and the role multiple federal agencies may have played in it, Americans will most assuredly abandon what little trust and faith they had in their federal government.

There will be those who try to keep as tight a lid on this as possible, claiming that these stories are either conspiracy theories or have already been debunked. Of course, none of this could be further from the truth. We watched this happen with the Russia collusion narrative over the course of the first three years of the Trump presidency. We saw it more recently when Senator Tom Cotton penned in an op-ed in the Washington Post that there was a possibility that this virus may have escaped from a nearby lab, and when President Trump echoed a similar opinion based on the intelligence assessments he was being briefed on.

What gets lost in all of the noise is the fact that a report from the Minority staff of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, commissioned by Ranking Member Michael McCaul of Texas, was released on 12 June of 2020. This interim report (there is a more detailed final version that was recently released):

• 1.       Gave even more credence to the lab leak theory.
• 2.       Showed how poorly the World health Organization (WHO) managed the early stages of what would become a global pandemic.
• 3.       Highlighted the involvement of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Allergic & Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and other organizations in the funding of gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
• 4.       Examined the role of the Chinese military in the operation of this lab. One of a handful of Biosafety Level IV (BSL-4) labs in all of China.

It’s well worth the read, in terms of understanding the roles of the various individuals and organizations involved. Pages 23 through 29 of this report, in my opinion, are the hardest hitting, when it comes to the sheer volume of information available to the general public.

Denial may not be a river in Egypt, but it is most certainly the path that quite a few politicians, unelected bureaucrats, and media types seem to be taking in the face of mounting evidence that we, the American people, have been shorn like a bunch of sheep, by the very individuals and institutions whose job it was to help keep the homeland and its citizenry safe, or at the very least, expose the fact that this wasn’t happening.