Newsweek: The Acting Attorney General of the DOJ Unilaterally Deployed Secret Commandos to the Capitol on January 6 with Shoot-to-Kill Orders

Supposedly, they were deployed to "protect Trump and Pence."

Anyone believe that?

Also note that the DOJ decided to do this themselves, without anyone asking them to.

I believe that Barr had left by this time, leaving Jeffrey Rosen as Acting AG.

Exclusive: Secret Commandos with Shoot-to-Kill Authority Were at the Capitol

On Sunday, January 3, the heads of a half-dozen elite government special operations teams met in Quantico, Virginia, to go over potential threats, contingencies, and plans for the upcoming Joint Session of Congress. The meeting, and the subsequent deployment of these shadowy commandos on January 6, has never before been revealed.

Right after the New Year, Jeffrey A. Rosen, the acting Attorney General on January 6, approved implementation of long-standing contingency plans dealing with the most extreme possibilities: an attack on President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence, a terrorist attack involving a weapon of mass destruction, and a declaration of measures to implement continuity of government, requiring protection and movement of presidential successors.

Rosen made a unilateral decision to take the preparatory steps to deploy Justice Department and so-called "national" forces. There was no formal request from the U.S. Capitol Police, the Secret Service, or the Metropolitan Police Department--in fact, no external request from any agency. The leadership in Justice and the FBI anticipated the worst and decided to act independently, the special operations forces lurking behind the scenes.

The media is pushing every January 6th story they can. It's a full-court press. Flood-the-zone treatment.

posted by Ace at 01:17 PM

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