{"id":687420,"date":"2021-08-26T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=687420"},"modified":"2021-08-26T16:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:23:30","slug":"house-probers-unlike-fbi-seek-conspiracy-behind-jan-6-capitol-incursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-probers-unlike-fbi-seek-conspiracy-behind-jan-6-capitol-incursion\/","title":{"rendered":"House Probers, Unlike FBI, Seek Conspiracy Behind Jan. 6 Capitol Incursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-probers-unlike-fbi-seek-conspiracy-behind-jan-6-capitol-incursion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=687420&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Federal law enforcement officials reportedly think \u201cthere was no grand scheme\u201d behind the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill breach, but House investigators still appear convinced there was a conspiracy involving individuals linked to former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) appointed Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) as chairman of the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol to investigate \u201cthe facts and causes of the terrorist mob attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In announcing the panel, Pelosi told the House during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/63021-3\">floor speech<\/a> that the Jan. 6 attackers \u201cwere out to get me for\u00a0the bullet in the head or to\u00a0hang the Vice President of the\u00a0United States, assault the lives of Members of\u00a0Congress, traumatize our staff,\u00a0disrespect the workers in the\u00a0Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 500 people have been arrested and charged on multiple felony counts in connection with the riot, including many individuals who remain jailed with tight security restrictions in the District of Columbia awaiting trials that aren\u2019t expected to begin until 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of those charged are accused of conspiring beforehand to cause a riot and prevent Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. Many of Trump\u2019s most fervent supporters believe his re-election victory was stolen on behalf of President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>To date, only a handful of the defendants have reached deals with Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors for lighter sentences in return for cooperation with law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>But Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-evidence-us-capitol-attack-was-coordinated-sources-2021-08-20\/\">reported<\/a> Aug. 20 that, after months of reviewing testimony from participants and Capitol Hill police, as well as thousands of hours of videos of the attack, FBI officials see no evidence of a sinister conspiracy behind the events that led to the arrests and detentions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNinety to ninety-five percent of these are one-off cases. Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized. But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages,\u201d Reuters quoted an unnamed law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the FBI conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenior lawmakers have been briefed in detail on the results of the FBI\u2019s investigation so far and find them credible, a Democratic congressional source said,\u201d Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>Asked Thursday by The Epoch Times if the reported FBI conclusion had influenced the investigative work plan of the select panel, a spokesman for the select panel said\u00a0\u201cfederal law enforcement investigations into the January 6th attack are ongoing and, as far as the Select Committee is aware, the findings and direction have not been shared with Capitol Hill. Our members and investigators are seeking answers, and we won\u2019t prejudge anything until we\u2019ve uncovered the facts about January 6th.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 25, Thompson announced a massive request for documents related to \u201ccommunications within and among the White House and Executive Branch agencies during the leadup to January 6th and on that day; attempts to place politically loyal personnel in senior positions across government a\u00adfter the election; the planning, organization, funding, and response to events in Washington, D.C. on January 5th and 6th and earlier; and attempts to subvert the rule of law, overturn the results of the November 3rd, 2020, election, or impede the peaceful transfer of power,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/january6th.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.january6th.house.gov\/files\/20210825%20Exec%20Branch%20One%20Pager.pdf\">summary<\/a> posted by the select panel.<\/p>\n<p>The request was made in letters to seven federal departments and agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The request to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) sought \u201cExecutive Branch records pertaining to strategies and plans to derail the Electoral College vote count; planning for and coordination of the rallies leading up to January 6th; the former President\u2019s knowledge of the election results and what he communicated to the American people about the election; potential plans to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power and challenge the validity of the 2020 election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The request to DOJ asked for \u201crecords pertaining to potential invocation of the Insurrection Act, martial law, or the 25th Amendment; communications between the department and the former President\u2019s campaign legal team and others dealing with the validity of the 2020 election or challenges to the election\u2019s outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson\u2019s requests were also sent to the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of the Interior (DOI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, and the National Counter-terrorism Center and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).<\/p>\n<p>In a related development Thursday, seven Capitol Hill police officers filed a lawsuit naming Trump, Trump ally Roger Stone and various far-right groups, claiming they were responsible for the events on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs this lawsuit makes clear, the Jan. 6 insurrection was not just an attack on individuals, but an attack on democracy itself.\u00a0 It was a blatant attempt to stifle the votes and voices of millions of Americans, particularly Black voters,\u201d Damon Hewitt,\u00a0President and Executive Director of the Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCUL) said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawyerscommittee.org\/capitol-police-officers-file-civil-rights-lawsuit-to-hold-trump-militant-groups-accountable-for-jan-6-capitol-attack\/\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The LCCUL represents the seven officers, five of whom are Black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor months after the 2020 election had been officially called, former President Trump and his associates made coordinated and systematic attempts to lodge their false claims of election fraud, targeted toward major cities with significant populations of voters of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The officers said in the statement that they \u201cjoined the Capitol Police to uphold the law and protect the Capitol community.\u00a0On Jan. 6, we tried to stop people from breaking the law and destroying our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince then, our jobs and those of our colleagues have become infinitely more dangerous. We want to do what we can to make sure the people who did this are held accountable and that no one can do this again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Congressional correspondent Mark Tapscott may be contacted at:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mark.tapscott@epochtimes.nyc\">mark.tapscott@epochtimes.nyc<\/a>. Follow him on Twitter at\u00a0@mtapscott and on Parler at\u00a0@Mtapscott.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/15f88ec04baa9d88_ttl7dayYXc_WEB_Mark_Tapscott.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Tapscott\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Mark Tapscott<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Correspondent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bio\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hillfaith.blog\/\">HillFaith<\/a> Founding Editor, Congressional Correspondent for The Epoch Times, FOIA Hall of Fame, Reaganaut, Okie\/Texan.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal law enforcement officials reportedly think \u201cthere was no grand scheme\u201d behind the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill breach, but House investigators still appear convinced there was a conspiracy involving individuals &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}