Makes you wonder what was the FBI doing and whose side are they on. Does not look like the American Constitution side. Useless Christopher Wray at it again.
Conservative social media platform Parler established a working
relationship with the FBI in November and over the following weeks and months
repeatedly alerted the agency to violent threats being planned on the platform,
including violence at the U.S. Capitol, the company claimed Thursday.
In a letter sent to
Democratic Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (N.Y.), chairwoman of the House Committee on
Oversight and Reform Chairwoman, Parler forcefully "set the record
straight" about claims that it didn't do enough to police content ahead of
the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
In the aftermath of the riot, the pro-free speech company was
targeted and effectively de-platformed by Big Tech monopolies for allegedly
failing to crack down on violent rhetoric. Within days of the attack, Parler
was removed by Apple and Google from their
respective app stores and then later removed by Amazon Web Services from its servers.
However, the company says those actions were disingenuous. It
claimed in the letter — offering proof in the form of email screenshots — that
it "took the extraordinary initiative to develop formal lines of communication
with the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") to facilitate
proactive cooperation and referrals of violent threats and incitement to law
enforcement" in the latter half of the year as the platform's user count
grew substantially.
"In the days and weeks leading up to Jan. 6, Parler
referred violent content from its platform to the F.B.I. for investigation over
50 times," the company said in its letter. "Parler even alerted law
enforcement to specific threats of violence being planned at the Capitol."
What else?
The New York Times noted in
its coverage of the news that the letter "raises fresh questions about
whether the F.B.I. took seriously enough threats of violence made ahead of Jan.
6." The outlet reached out to the FBI for comment regarding the
revelations from Parler, but has not yet received a response.
In the letter, Parler included several specific examples of
alerts it sent to the bureau ahead of the riot at the Capitol. Here is a
portion of the letter recalling some of the instances:
In December 2020, Parler
also began to alert the FBI about alarming content that included specific
threats of organized violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. For
example, on December 24, Parler forwarded a post to the FBI from a user who
called for the congregation of an armed force of 150,000 on the Virginia side
of the Potomac River to "react to the congressional events of January
6th." Later that same day, Parler forwarded another unlawful post to the
FBI in which a user stated that he was trying to "find some guys that are
planning on lighting up Antifa in Wa[shington, D.C.] on the 6th" because
he wanted to "start eliminating people."
A few days later on January 2, 2021, Parler forwarded the FBI a series of posts
by a user claiming that he would be wearing body armor and stating that the
planned event in Washington, D.C. on January 6th "is not a rally and it's
no longer a protest. This is the final stand where we are drawing the red line
at Capitol Hill. I trust the American people will take back the USA with force
and many are ready to die to take back #USA so remember this is not a party
until they announce #Trump2020 a winner. . . . And don't be surprised if we
take the #capital [sic] building . . . ." Parler included another post in
this referral to the FBI in which the user made clear that armed people would
be at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and noted that an insurrection would be
necessary because "Trump needs us to cause chaos to enact the
#insurrectionact."
The company noted that the above examples represent "only a
fraction" of the posts that it sent to the FBI for review in the days
leading up to Jan. 6.
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