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In the 86 minutes after Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund first asked the National Guard for help on January 6, police had to release two violent rioters -- Hunter Ehmke and Mark Ponder -- rather than arrest them, and Brian Sicknick got sprayed with the "bear shit" that may have led to his death.

The Intelligence Report on foreign interference in the 2020 election--which finds that Russia tried to attack Joe Biden--might as well have named Rudy Giuliani personally.

DOJ has arrested two men on charges of assaulting Brian Sicknick and two other officers.

Good friend died from Covid in the last couple of days. Had all the money and best healthcare America possibly had to offer. None of that was enough. Go get vaccinated.

Judge Amit Mehta ordered Thomas Caldwell be released on bail today. He did so because Caldwell's lawyer succeeded in pretending that Caldwell was charged with conspiring to storm the Capitol, rather than charged with conspiring to prevent the vote count.

With the kind of database the FBI must have put together on the Oath Keepers given their promiscuous use of social media, they are at this point picking and choosing who to focus on.

Christopher Wray admitted the other day that the FBI is only coming to understand right wing militias behind the January 6 attack as they arrest and then continue to investigate them.

Assistant Director Jill Sanborn could only think of one person the FBI already had under investigation who had been arrested by last week. That's particularly damning given that one of three people who was on the FBI radar is almost the only January 6 defendant with an Arab name.

On Wednesday, a DHS witness responded to Mark Warner's suggestion that DHS and FBI avail themselves of experts on right wing extremism by explaining the agency is looking to contract for such skills. On Friday, HuffPo published its second story about FBI failing to act on open source tips about January 6 culprits.