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FBI chief says agency tracking 'extensive' online chatter about potential inauguration threats
By Brett Samuels - 01/14/21 05:26 PM EST

FBI Director Chris Wray said Thursday that the bureau is seeing "an extensive amount of concerning online chatter" about events with the potential for violence surrounding next week's inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.

"Right now, we’re tracking calls for potential armed protests and activity leading up to the inauguration," Wray said at a briefing with Vice President Pence at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, D.C.

"And the reason I use the word potential is because one of the real challenges in this space is trying to distinguish what’s aspirational versus what’s intentional," Wray continued. "We’re concerned about the potential for violence at multiple protests and rallies planned here in D.C. and at state capital buildings around the country in the days to come that could bring armed individuals within close proximity to government buildings and officials."

Wray's comments come after the riot on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol, where Trump supporters stormed the building while a joint session of Congress was meeting to certify the electoral votes affirming Biden as the next president. Numerous people sustained injuries in the mayhem, and several people died, including one Capitol Police officer.

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I hope this clown Wray doesn't start acting like he gives a sh*t about law and order now.

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Debunked: There's no evidence of a planned 'huge uprising' of pro-Trump ‘armed protests’ in all 50 states
The FBI and news media is exaggerating and playing politics.   
Jordan Schachtel
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In the wake of the Capitol Hill melee last week, the news media has been breathlessly reporting on the possibility — citing an intelligence bulletin from the FBI — that there will be widespread armed protests in all 50 states on and leading up to Inauguration Day. If the FBI is to be believed, there is a serious, deliverable plot in motion that involves armed insurrectionists simultaneously storming each and every state capitol.

The hysteria has reached new heights this week, with prominent pundits, politicians, reporters, and other personalities claiming that a wave of pro-Trump right wing violence is right around the corner. ...

After digging deeper into these claims, I found that they are not only incredibly exaggerated and don’t hold up to much scrutiny, but even more disturbingly, seem to be part of an information operation similar to what has embroiled the FBI in many controversies over the past several years.

The reported group behind these planned protests is the Boogaloo movement, which can be understood as a loosely connected contingent of activists, some of which have extremist viewpoints across the political spectrum. Unlike, say, the far-left Antifa organization, the Boogaloo movement has never shown the capacity to organize in every state.

There is hardly anything “pro-Trump” about the organization, whose supporters routinely mock the president and his supporters. ...
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Hoaxed: The FBI continues leaks warning about 50 state ‘pro-Trump uprisings’ that are not actually happening
National Guard deploys across the nation to protect against non-existent threats. Part two of our leak campaign investigation.   
Jordan Schachtel
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Please read my first story on this development, “Debunked: There’s no evidence of a planned ‘huge uprising of pro-Trump ‘armed protests’ in all 50 states.”

The info op continues. Another “FBI bulletin,” which warns of the dangers of claimed imminent pro-Trump revolts, has hit the press.

This latest FBI bulletin — which, similar to the first bulletin, was leaked to the press prior to the FBI even discussing the “urgent” matter — warns of “substantial,” imminent dangers to the public. ...

First and foremost, there are no actual “expected upcoming protests” rife with armed pro-Trump rabble rousers in all 50 states. That narrative is almost wholesale fiction. The kernel of truth in the story is the fact that this movement did in fact want to have armed rallies in all 50 states, but the outfit does not have the capacity nor the resources to do so. Antifa wants to transform the United States into a communist dictatorship. White supremacists want to turn America into an ethno state. There are lots of groups on the periphery of society that want to see things happen their way, but that does not mean that they have the capacity to pull these things off.  ...
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Of course, the usual suspects in the northwest will be protesting the inauguration. (Hint: not Trump supporters)

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"FBI Director Chris Wray said Thursday that the bureau is seeing "an extensive amount of concerning online chatter".....

....and we should all of a sudden believe the FBI....why??
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