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While hacking is a serious criminal offence, it is somewhat ironic that those who, for years, have been calling for the imprisonment of Hilary Clinton on the basis of information obtained from a hack of her email accounts, should now be at risk of prosecution as a result of this hack.

Trump notoriously invited
Russia to hack American email systems and the goons who signed up on Parler applauded. They shouldn't complain when local talent gets involved.

How certain can we be that the hacked Parler info is safely stored somewhere? What if a Parler employee realised how much incriminating shit there is on there and just erased it themselves?

The reports are that it was a distributed attack that stored the harvested information in multiple online locations.

Destroying evidence wouldn't be a great look, would it? Bit late anyway, presumably the people capable of performing such a hack would have it stored in various locations.

Saw another name earlier, the boomerwaffen.

Yeah I also found that very odd. Officers kitted out with riot helmets pushing bike cops into protestors. Even if they had all been riot police, it seems like a terrible, half-hearted tactic?

I'd guess the bike cops are there because they can hold bikes in front of them, which makes it just that little bit harder to advance over them?

Trump Officials Rush to Keep Him From Sparking Another Conflict—at Home or Abroad

“There is no one to tell the truth to him at all anymore,” another former senior national-security official said. “That’s the problem. Even if they did, he wouldn’t listen.”

When you hack a website, you don't just open a door to the data and invite people to take a look; you copy as much as you can off the site. If you're going to publicise the hack, you wait until you have the data.

A diversionary tactic. Its mostly white males so they're bound to pause, come over, kick the tyres, want to pick up an weigh 'em, possibly get into some componentry chat, likely forget what they were up to 5 minutes earlier.

Any more info on the Trump appointees at the Pentagon who denied/delayed sending in the National Guard? Surely that's as close to treason as you are going to get?

Is it as cut and dried? I hadn't seen much to make it seem that they were more than under prepared due to the optics of it being a presidential event... Not saying for a minute it wasn't negligent, but outright treasonous enabling has yet to be confirmed no?

The chief of the Capitol Police is a Trump appointee, who is reported to have turned down requests for more officers to be on duty.

Sedition covers conspiracies, so if he did this that counts as a crime.

I see. Thanks.

I guess that's why I'm asking for more info. The timing of requests and decisions will be key, but we know there were multiple requests for the National Guard to be deployed as the police were being overrun, but the actual decision to deploy came very late in the proceedings.

Current reporting here

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/sund-resigns/2021/01/10/f3a9ceca-5365-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sund-riot-national-guard/2021/01/10/fc2ce7d4-5384-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

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What is this/how's it done?

Google Chrome incognito mode or whatever your browser of choice has as equivalent. Bypasses certain gated access on certain sites.

Also calls now to court martial both current and retired military personnel engaged in the events.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/capitol-insurrection-court-martial/

I am all for that. Fuck every single one of them.

edit: doublepost

A thread of Tory MPs who were on Parler

https://twitter.com/AlfonsoBonzo/status/1348404788615143428?s=19

From BBC breaking news:

The New York State Bar Association is launching an inquiry into President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.

The inquiry will determine whether Giuliani should be removed from the membership rolls of the country's largest voluntary state bar association.

In a statement on Monday, the NYSBA "strongly condemned" the president and those who had aided his efforts to overturn the election.

Mere hours before the invasion of the US Capitol, Giuliani told the assembled mob of Trump supporters: “Let’s have trial by combat.”

Citing these words and the "hundreds of complaints" it had received about Giuliani's "baseless" legal efforts to contest Joe Biden's election victory, the NYSBA said the inquiry would give him an opportunity to explain himself.

"This decision is historic for NYSBA, and we have not made it lightly," the statement concludes. "We cannot stand idly by and allow those intent on rending the fabric of our democracy to go unchecked."

Also the US Army Captain who was at the event has resigned her commission

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1348619052139175936

They've dropped the impeachment hammer for what it's worth.

Psy-Ops!

JFC