by jpitney | Jun 10, 2021 | Congress, Insurrection
Two Senate Committees — Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs and Rules & Administration — issued a joint report on security failures on January 6. Major findings: The federal Intelligence Community—led by FBI and DHS—did not issue a threat...
by jpitney | May 31, 2021 | Civil War, Insurrection, Military
Frederick Douglass, “The Unknown Loyal Dead,” Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1871 — a speech that has new meaning in light of the January 6 insurrection. We are sometimes asked, in the name of patriotism, to forget...
by jpitney | May 12, 2021 | Insurrection
by jpitney | May 11, 2021 | Insurrection
Dan Rather at Steady: The Big Lie must be the context for everything that is taking place in Washington, and political stories across the country. It is not old news. January 6 is not old news. This denial of reality is the animating principle driving the Republican...
