The Afghan fiasco allowed most media outlets to bury this Aug. 21 news item.
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In case you missed it, a couple of weeks ago left-leaning Reuters’s reported that:
Despite months of intense investigation, the FBI has found “scant evidence” of any “organized plot” behind Jan. 6
One agent explained, “90 to 95 percent of these are one-off cases. Then you have 5 percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized.
There was no grand scheme for all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages.”
In other words, the FBI concluded found:
While there clearly were those set upon trashing the Capitol, most people were just milling about in the halls, taking selfies and posting the scene on social media.
A protest became a runaway as insufficient security preparations quickly collapsed.
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Commenting on the Reuter’s report, law prof Jonathon Turley noted that about 600 (of the tens of thousand protesters) have been charged with crimes, but…
After five months of dragnet arrests nationwide, no one has actually been charged with insurrection or sedition.
The vast majority of people face charges such as simple trespass or “parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building”.
Turley concludes:
Many of us remain disgusted and angered by the Jan. 6 riot — it was a riot and a desecration — and people deserve to be punished.
But it was not an “insurrection”.
The question is whether you can have an insurrection without anyone actually insurrecting.
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The Reuter’s report of FBI findings may largely explain why last weekend’s media-hyped protest in DC turned out to be not big deal … and why Pelosi’s Jan. 6 Commission seems to be fizzling out.
The Homa Files 
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