(01-07-2021, 05:15 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-at...ice-2021-1

The supporters of President Donald Trump who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday to stop the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory were attempting a violent coup that multiple European security officials said appeared to have at least tacit support from aspects of the US federal agencies responsible for securing the Capitol complex.

The French police official said they believed that an investigation would find that someone interfered with the deployment of additional federal law-enforcement officials on the perimeter of the Capitol complex; the official has direct knowledge of the proper procedures for security of the facility.

"I cannot believe the failure to establish a proper cordon was a mistake. These are very skilled police officials, but they are federal, and that means they ultimately report to the president. This needs to be investigated."
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Conspiracy theories are fun, aren't they?

That one's not a conspiracy theory.
The conspiracy theorist already knows what he thinks happened and is going to drive anyone who listens relentlessly to that conclusion.
This French dude is saying, "Let's investigate.  I believe the investigation will show this, but do the investigation."
Very different from a conspiracy theory. Now if a good investigation takes place and reveals lots of previously unknown facts, but you read it and say "cover-up! Liars!" Now that's back to a conspiracy theory.

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