The intelligence community is investigating any links between lawmakers and riot police who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, a U.S. official he told CNN.
The investigation so far has shown that some alleged riot police had associations with lawmakers or had direct contact with them before Jan. 6, but there is no evidence that lawmakers were involved in the riot or that they personally helped any of the riot police, he said. the official.
Authorities have been investigating pro-Trump riot police who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 months ago and have been able to arrest hundreds of those involved in the riot that killed five people.
Officials continue to arrest those who stormed the Capitol, but will begin to focus on those who planned the attack, who funded them, and what connection lawmakers had, if any.
Rep. Steve Cohen
Stephen (Steve) Ira Cohen Missouri man accused of allegedly threatening two congressmen Tim Ryan: prosecutors review video of Capitol tours made by lawmakers before riot house subcommittee debates black American reparations law MORE (D-Tenn.) He accused Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) Of making a “big” tour of the Capitol to people a few days before the attack, but no concrete evidence has been released that the his tour was related to the riot.
Authorities are now looking at video footage of the tours to see if there was any connection between the tours and the riot police. If connections are found between riots and lawmakers, authorities could obtain an order to view the communications, CNN reported.
His. Sheldon Whitehouse
FBI Director Sheldon Whitehouse pledges to provide information to the Senate after Democratic nominee Biden’s candidacies have a preview of the post-Trump trade agenda. Tucker Carlson scrubs CNN and claims it’s “more destructive” than QAnon MORE (DR.I.) told CNN that he asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the connections as well, as he believes it will be easier to get the information, as congressmen can stop the FBI’s work. with the protection of the speech or debate of the Constitution for legislators.
Republican lawmakers who supported the ancients President Trump
Arrested by Donald Trump’s State Department nominee in connection with the Capitol’s riot intelligence community investigating links between lawmakers, Capitol riot police Michelle Obama called the “partisan actions” to “limit access at the polls “MOREAllegations of electoral conspiracy theory have been punished, and Democratic lawmakers believe they had some involvement or helped incite the riot that ensued.
So far there is no evidence that a lawmaker has had any involvement in the riot and officials are not looking at any lawmakers at this time, the official told CNN.