prettylight 3024 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Mikie Sherrill says that some members of Congress led groups of people through the Capitol Building on a "reconnaissance" tour one day before the riot that laid a deadly siege on the government's legislative branch. https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/12/mikie-sherrill-pro-trump-rioters-got-tour-congress-members/6648386002/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
prettylight 3024 Posted January 13 Author Share Posted January 13 ^ "For all of those who refuse to participate in this democracy, refuse to see power turned over peacefully, who refuse to heed the will of the people," Sherrill said, "we are now on different sides of this line." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post prettylight 3024 Posted January 13 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 13 According to Ayanna Pressley’s chief of staff Sarah Groh, the panic buttons in the Congresswoman’s office were all “torn out—the whole unit.” They don’t know why or who did it. “Every panic button in my office had been torn out — the whole unit,” she said, though they could come up with no rationale as to why. She had used them before and hadn’t switched offices since then." https://bostonglobe.com/2021/01/13/nat 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
prettylight 3024 Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 Rep. Sherrill describes how her military training taught her to "look for things that were out of place, look for things that were odd, and look at them with an eye toward security," and how that led her to raise questions about visitors to the Capitol the day before the attack. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
prettylight 3024 Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 MSNBC: Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) just implied that Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO) gave the "reconnaissance tour" of the Capitol building the day before the deadly attacks on the Capitol, showing maps and escape routes to the insurrectionists. https://twitter.com/DCooper_Resists/status/1349479081411182592 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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prettylight 3024 Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 US Capitol Police confirm to @jparkABC that they are investigating the tours of the Capitol conducted by some House members on January 5 after dozens of lawmakers expressed suspicions that they may have been "reconnaissance" tours. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
prettylight 3024 Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 Rep. Steve Cohen confirms that Rep. Lauren Boebert gave a large tour prior to the attack on the Capitol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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