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The question is rather why much of what has been made public so far has been heavily redacted.

A blind man on a galloping horse can see that Biden had more staff than supporters, and that's still the case.

just another baseless right wing conspiracy theory.

In an unprecedented act (in the history of the nation) a presidential candidate's campaign committee sought and received material from a foreign government in the hope it could be used in the election.

Redacted by whom, Walter? And for what reasons?

The Club for Growth has supported the campaigns of 42 of the rightwing Republicans senators and members of Congress who voted last week to challenge US election results, doling out an estimated $20m to directly and indirectly support their campaigns in 2018 and 2020, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

About 30 of the Republican hardliners received more than $100,000 in indirect and direct support from the group.

The Club for Growth’s biggest beneficiaries include Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, the two Republican senators who led the effort to invalidate Joe Biden’s electoral victory, and the newly elected far-right gun-rights activist Lauren Boebert, a QAnon conspiracy theorist. Boebert was criticised last week for tweeting about the House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s location during the attack on the Capitol, even after lawmakers were told not to do so by police.

Public records show the Club for Growth’s largest funders are the billionaire Richard Uihlein, the Republican co-founder of the Uline shipping supply company in Wisconsin, and Jeffrey Yass, the co-founder of Susquehanna International Group, an options trading group based in Philadelphia that also owns a sports betting company in Dublin.

While Uihlein and Yass have kept a lower profile than other billionaire donors such as Michael Bloomberg and the late Sheldon Adelson, their backing of the Club for Growth has helped to transform the organization from one traditionally known as an anti-regulatory and anti-tax pro-business pressure group to one that backs some of the most radical and anti-democratic Republican lawmakers in Congress.

Well, someone or some people who published it.
If I'd known the reason, btw, I wouldn't have asked.

Kevin Lyons was arrested Wednesday in Chicago, one of scores of individuals apprehended after having allegedly stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Lyons’s arrest was not exactly a masterpiece of detective work. According to the Justice Department, Lyons posted on Instagram a map of the route from his home in Illinois to D.C., a photo of the exterior of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and provided FBI agents with videos he’d recorded within the Capitol building. Lyons, nonetheless, marveled at the ability of federal agents to scoop up the information that showed his presence in the building, expressing his surprise they’d found the photo of Pelosi’s office because it “was up for only an hour.”

If it’s any consolation to Lyons, others probably have similarly learned about the FBI’s facility with gathering digital evidence that’s posted on the Internet. Two Virginia police officers also were arrested Wednesday after one posted a selfie of the two of them posing inside the Capitol. The enormous volume of photos and videos capturing the events at the Capitol made it fairly easy for investigators either to identify alleged participants or to generate numerous wanted posters highlighting various people believed to have been involved in the riot.

One of the software tools used by some of those who participated in the riot was Parler, a social media site that was taken offline after Amazon, which had been providing infrastructure for the network, cut Parler off for failing to moderate its content. Before that happened, though, a programmer identified as donk_enby managed to pull down and archive most of the site’s content — including videos and photos taken in and around the Capitol on Jan. 6.

After making that data public, an informal collection of researchers has pored over it, organizing it by location and date and sharing videos from the scene. The result is videos like this one, uploaded by Bellingcat.

That is a video of a guy talking about having gone inside the Capitol, holding a shield he clearly obtained from the Capitol Police. He uploaded the video to Parler himself, apparently, ending the clip with the tagline “thanks for watching” — a common sign-off for live-streamers. He recorded a video, in other words, admitting to a crime and shared it online for the entertainment of other people.Like, say, FBI agents.

Using the Parler data (as helpfully collated by Tommy Carstensen), you can see how Jan. 6 unfolded. President Trump gave a speech at the Ellipse south of the White House about noon. As he spoke, people began heading to the Capitol. By 2 p.m., it was being overrun.

As The Washington Post reported last week, the infrastructure of the Capitol itself will make it much easier to identify participants in the riot. It’s a large stone building, constructed well before things like wireless phone signals were something to consider. So it has its own cellular infrastructure, recording pings from nearby phones as they automatically seek to maintain connectivity.

It’s certainly possible that some of those inside the Capitol that day weren’t aware that they were violating the law. But there were any number of rioters who would have been hard-pressed not to know that, given that they were climbing through broken windows or, in some cases, breaking windows to get inside. And they were surrounded by people filming what was going on and uploading what they saw to social media.

In a court filing late on Thursday, federal prosecutors in Phoenix wrote that “strong evidence, including Chansley’s own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government.”

The 18-page memo, which asked a judge to keep Chansley detained before his trial, said the 33-year-old Arizona man left an ominous note for Vice President Pence at his desk in the Senate chamber: “It’s only a matter of time, justice is coming.”