American Thinker by Monica Showalter 3/4/2021
An FBI official had some bad news for Democrats at a congressional hearing Wednesday on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Here's the
Daily Caller:
“How many firearms were confiscated in the Capitol or on Capitol grounds during that day?†Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson asked Jill Sanborn, the FBI official, during a Senate Homeland Security hearing.
“To my knowledge, we have not recovered any on that day from any other arrests at the scene at this point,†replied Sanborn, who serves as FBI assistant director for counterterrorism.
“I don’t want to speak on behalf of Metro and Capitol police, but, to my knowledge, none,†she added.
Which rather ruins a Democrat narrative.
Democrats for months have been dining out on about how the mobbing of the Capitol last Jan. 6 was really an "armed insurrection," and "an assault on democracy," rather than a crowd that had a few fringe players of no discernable politics who rarely voted, who managed to invade the Capitol due to poor policing, made worse by intelligence from the FBI that was never passed on to them.
But that's a little reality Democrats and their media shills would prefer to ignore.
They've invested a lot in the phony narrative that the Capitol was subject to an armed insurrection. They've started by going third world on us, encircling the Capitol with ugly razor-wire fencing along with thousands of poorly fed and highly disrespected (among Democrats) armed National Guard troops. That's all because of the supposedly amazing threat that these fringe players have purportedly posed to the republic. Capitol cops have already demonstrated that there are ways to control any such out of control situation if they want to -- one of them shot dead a protestor at close range against all standard police practices and managed to keep his name out of the papers, no second-guessing thus far there.
The problem at the Capitol was poor policing, not entirely the fault of the Capitol Police, given that they seemed to lack critical intelligence, but also did not take steps for basic crowd control. Some even invited the protestors in, which shows some amazingly crossed communications. The crowd, which at Trump rallies, is historically peaceful, was not a great cause for suspicion.
More:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/so_much_for_armed_insurrection_fbi_official_says_no_guns_confiscated_at_jan_6_capitol_riot.html
