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NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake reports on the letter House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent to her colleagues this afternoon urging lawmakers to appropriate funds for an independent commission to study the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and the bipartisan desire to get to the bottom of the breach. Aired on 02/15/2021.
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Two court filings Thursday in the Justice Department’s efforts to keep in jail affiliates of
, an extremist militant group, rely heavily on text messages and other communications between extremists.
Investigators have now cited direct quotes from the walkie-talkie app Zello as paramilitants coached each other — talking about “executing citizen’s arrests” and “everything we f–king trained for” — inside the Capitol. They’ve found a text message from an alleged organizer among the Oath Keepers discussing an idea to bring weapons into Washington, DC, on a boat
. And they’ve acknowledged finding planning materials, including bomb-making documents, in multiple defendants’ cases.
Extensive searches of homes, private messages and other data trails by investigators aren’t unusual in criminal cases, though the number of arrests and criminal cases following the Capitol riots has become an almost unmatched dragnet among major federal national security investigations — the sort of sprawling nationwide investigation that hasn’t occurred since after September 11, 2001.
In the conspiracy case against
, prosecutors outline how the alleged Oath Keeper wrote to recruits in the months before the insurrection to discuss training. Watkins mentioned basic training in January — a full-week affair that included war games, riot control and rescue operations as the extremists prepared for the presidential inauguration, prosecutors say. And when police visited her house in mid-January, they found an apparent toolbox for rebellion, complete with a mini drone, pool cues cut down to baton size and a recipe for making a destructive device, prosecutors said in a filing Thursday.
In another detail, prosecutors said Watkins was involved in “national leadership calls” for the Oath Keepers before January 6, but they have not revealed how much investigators have learned about the calls. In the indictment of Watkins and two others late last month, prosecutors described that she responded to an invitation for a call on the encrypted messaging platform Signal.
Watkins’ co-defendant,
, has received a similar level of attention from prosecutors, with another court filing on Thursday from the Justice Department zeroing in on what they’ve learned from searches around the Navy veteran. Prosecutors described in the filing messages Caldwell received where another Capitol riot conspiracy defendant, Donovan Crowl, texted him to thank him for hosting a visit as “war is on the Horizon,” Crowl wrote.
Prosecutors also note that Caldwell sent messages about bidding on Ebay for a tomahawk axe called the “Zombie Killer” and maps to walk from Virginia into DC “east toward the target,” according to the court filing Thursday.
Prosecutors have also made clear they’ve obtained many of the defendants’ social media posts, including, in Caldwell’s case, a video he sent and then unsent over Facebook’s messaging app.
Watkins and Caldwell are both fighting for their release from detention, and the Justice Department is pushing in court to keep them detained. They have not yet been arraigned following their indictment in DC’s federal district court.
Building on searching warrants
The fruit of the investigators’ searches adds to an already voluminous record of public posts online, livestreams and even selfies made by participants in the riot.
“All these cases aren’t based upon social media and Twitter and Instagram posts. We also have traditional law enforcement tools — grand jury subpoenas, search warrants — and you don’t get that overnight,” Michael Sherwin, the acting US attorney for Washington, DC, who is leading the Capitol riot cases, said at a news conference in late January.
Sherwin has spoken publicly about having used more than 500 subpoenas and search warrants to sweep in evidence, and federal agents have descended on properties from California to the East Coast.
Some of those searches, such as raids in Orange County, California, in late January, scoured properties of men who haven’t been charged with any crimes. In those raids, the FBI
they searched the properties of men who run a group that co-sponsored a pro-Trump rally the day before the attack.
And in court filings regarding associates of the far-right group the Proud Boys,
prosecutors have described efforts
to raise funds and how — in a search of Seattle Proud Boys leader Ethan Nordean’s home — they obtained “ledgers, notebooks, and other records related to Proud Boys operations.”
Loosely organized extremists
One of the issues facing investigators may be how loosely organized the extremist groups are — essentially collections of groups that at times cross paths with one another over their support for for President Donald Trump or anger with the 2020 election and distrust of government.
In Nordean’s case, for instance, prosecutors have described him marching on January 6 with other Proud Boys members, as well as interacting in the crowd with Robert Gieswein, a Colorado man allegedly affiliated with the extremist group the Three Percenters who runs a paramilitary training group. Prosecutors have revealed little in their case against Gieswein following his arrest in mid-January. Nordean and Gieswein have not yet formally faced their charges in DC, and the Justice Department is seeking to reverse a ruling earlier this week that Nordean could be released from detention. Gieswein is detained, according to court records.
“Thus far, evidence has shown that the individuals and groups responsible for January 6th attack were not part of one cohesive group,” said George Selim, who led programs to counter extremism at the Department of Homeland Security and now is a senior vice president at the Anti-Defamation League.
“Instead what we have witnessed through the release of various charging documents and footage released is several disparately organized groups from different geographic areas, backgrounds, and levels of sophistication attempt to join forces for mutual goals,” Selim said.
Marshall Cohen contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON — One day after former president Donald Trump won his second Senate impeachment trial in two years, bipartisan support appeared to be growing for an independent Sept. 11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol to make sure that such an assault could never happen again.
The end of the trial hardly put to rest the debate about Mr. Trump’s culpability for the insurrection as the political and legal fallout unfolded.
More investigations into the riot already are planned, with Senate hearings scheduled later this month in the Senate Rules Committee.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) has asked retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore to lead an immediate review of the Capitol’s security process.
Lawmakers from both parties signaled Sunday that more inquiries are likely.
“There should be a complete investigation about what happened,” said Sen. Bill Cassidy (R., La.), one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump. “What was known, who knew it and when they knew, all that, because that builds the basis so this never happens again.”
Mr. Cassidy said he was “attempting to hold President Trump accountable,” and added that as Americans hear all the facts, “more folks will move to where I was.”
He was censured by his state’s Republican Party after the vote, which was 57-43 to convict but 10 votes short of the two-thirds required.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), a Trump ally, said he looked forward to campaigning with Mr. Trump in the 2022 election, when Republicans hope to regain the congressional majority.
But Mr. Graham acknowledged that the former president had some culpability for the attack at the Capitol that killed five people, including a police officer, and disrupted lawmakers’ certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s White House victory.
“His behavior after the election was over the top,” Mr. Graham said. “We need a 9/11 commission to find out what happened and make sure it never happens again.”
The Senate acquitted Mr. Trump of a charge of “incitement of insurrection” after House prosecutors laid out a case that he was the “inciter in chief” who unleashed a mob by stoking a months-long campaign of spreading conspiracy theories and allegations that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers countered that Mr. Trump’s words were not intended to incite the violence and that impeachment was nothing but a “witch hunt” designed to prevent him from serving in office again.
The conviction tally was the most bipartisan in American history.
The Republicans who joined Mr. Cassidy in voting to convict were Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Graham spoke with Mr. Trump Saturday night and acknowledged that the former president is “mad at some folks,” but also “ready to move on and rebuild the Republican Party” and “excited about 2022.”
In their conversations, Mr. Graham said he told Mr. Trump, who has threatened to start his own party to punish disloyal Republicans, that the GOP needs him to win.
“I said, ‘Mr. President, this MAGA movement needs to continue. We need to unite the party. Trump-plus is the way back in 2022,’” Mr. Graham told Fox News Sunday.
“My goal is to win in 2022 to stop the most radical agenda I’ve seen coming out of the Democratic presidency of Joe Biden. We can’t do that without Donald Trump, so he’s ready to hit the trail and I’m ready to work with him,” Mr. Graham said.
Several House impeachment managers on Sunday criticized Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), who told Republican senators shortly before the vote that he would vote to acquit Mr. Trump.
After the vote, Mr. McConnell said the former president was “practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day” but that the Senate’s hands were tied to do anything about it because Mr. Trump was out of office.
But the Senate, in an earlier vote, had deemed the trial constitutional.
“It was powerful to hear the 57 guilties and then it was puzzling to hear and see Mitch McConnell stand and say not guilty and then minutes later stand again and say he was guilty of everything,” said Rep. Madeleine Dean (D., Pa.).
“History will remember that statement of speaking out of two sides of his mouth,” she said.
Ms. Dean backed the idea of an impartial investigative commission “not guided by politics but filled with people who would stand up to the courage of their conviction.”
An independent 9/11 style commission, which probably would require legislation to create, would elevate the investigation a step higher, offering a definitive government-backed accounting of events.
Ms. Pelosi has expressed support for such a commission while emphasizing that the members who sit on it would be key.
Such a panel could pose risks of sharpening partisan divisions or overshadowing President Biden’s legislative agenda.
“There’s still more evidence that the American people need and deserve to hear and a 9/11 commission is a way to make sure that we secure the Capitol going forward,” said Sen. Chris Coons (D., Del.), a Biden ally.
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