By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-06 03:42:13 | Updated at 2025-01-07 16:44:28
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How MAGA’s Rewriting of the 'Fedsurrection' Narrative Exemplifies a Dangerous Trend
Philling In The Gaps ^ | January 2, 2025 | Phillip HoSang
Posted on 01/05/2025 7:26:52 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
On Dec. 12th, 2024—the D.O.J Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report evaluating the FBI’s role in intelligence gathering and handling of Confidential Human Sources (CHS) leading up to certification day for the 2020 presidential election.
The report touched on several aspects in which the FBI was both functionally successful and in which it failed to adequately meet its own standards of due diligence. It also made clear that there was no evidence of undercover FBI agents being present within the Capitol crowd, and that none of the CHSs who were at the riot were authorized by the FBI to (or encourage others to) break any laws.
In a saner information environment, this disclosure might have been seen as a decisive counter to the "fedsurrection" narrative—a conspiracy theory claiming that federal operatives orchestrated or incited the events of Jan. 6th. Then redirecting attention toward the report's legitimate critiques of the FBI’s intelligence practices.
Unfortunately, we don’t exist in that saner space, but there are still things to be learned in analyzing how this conversation became hijacked by MAGA affiliate attempts to rewrite the story on their own conspiracy.
(Excerpt) Read more at phillinginthegaps.substack.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: epps; federalrioters; fedgovriot; fedgovrioters; fedsurrection; philliphosang
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We still want to know how Ray Epps could incite an insurrection, and get only probation and avoid jail time while others had their lives ruined.
Now Jan. 6 is being referred to as a riot. I don't recall it being called a riot; I thought it was an insurrection.
To: The_Media_never_lie
And since that report we learned there were over 26 from the FBI alone who were at the Fedsurrection. We still haven’t learned how many there were from various other federal agencies.
2 posted on 01/05/2025 7:28:39 PM PST by FLT-bird
To: The_Media_never_lie
So correcting the verdict of a kangaroo court managed by left-wing woke radical activists is now a "dangerous trend" ?
Riiight.
Meantime, the Democrats are tearing down statues of their slave-owning forebears.
3 posted on 01/05/2025 7:31:33 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: The_Media_never_lie
The truth is always a dangerous trend for the left.
4 posted on 01/05/2025 7:31:51 PM PST by xp38
To: The_Media_never_lie
Actually at the beginning they did call it a riot.
Until someone reminded them that earlier that year they had declared that calling something a riot was racist.
It was only six months ago, a year was enough time for people to forget but not six months.
So they switched to insurrection.
5 posted on 01/05/2025 7:33:59 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
We are not rewriting anything HoSang. We are exposing what really happened. Take your lies back to whence they came from, that spot where the sun never shines.
To: The_Media_never_lie
Antifa like groups train to incite riots. 2020 was full of such moments. Anyone paying attention during the “Summer of Love” knew. I refer you to the good people of Englewood Il who ran off outside agitators before their 2020!protest march. Even they knew
7 posted on 01/05/2025 7:37:26 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
To: FLT-bird
“26 from the FBI alone”
That’s the number they told us. I don’t believe that for one second.
8 posted on 01/05/2025 7:41:21 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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